Hofficer Hater
Well-Known Member
The Treasury Department’s Temporary Regulations would let the Central States Pension Fund (and others) conduct the vote of Teamsters and retirees on proposed pension cuts by telephone poll!
Hoffa’s trustees want to phone in their vote pertaining to the cut on their pensions. It’s bad enough they want to cut pensions, but now they are too cheap to send a paper ballot. This is another way to keep members from voting.
Accordingly next Wednesday, at a hearing in DC, affected Teamsters will speak out against this proposed denial of basic voting rights.
Would anyone tolerate voting for Congress by internet voting or telephone poll, instead of a ballot?
Under federal law—The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act—Teamster local unions conduct elections every three years by secret ballot. A ballot comes to you in the mail, and you return it by mail, postage paid.
The IBT and the trustees of the Central States claim they can't afford the postage for return ballots, but can pay Thomas N $662,000 per year, and numerous other execs fat salaries? That’s what the temporary regulation actually claims. Unreal!
Maybe Thomas N could take a pay cut.
The Central States spends $38 million per year in administrative expenses. A fair vote would not increase this figure by even 1% for one year!
This regulation is outrageous and must be changed. But it is worse than that. It shows the thinking behind this outrageous pension-cut law. Slash earned pensions and now conduct a bogus “vote” to justify it is criminal!
http://www.tdu.org/pension_by_phone_call
Hoffa’s trustees want to phone in their vote pertaining to the cut on their pensions. It’s bad enough they want to cut pensions, but now they are too cheap to send a paper ballot. This is another way to keep members from voting.
Accordingly next Wednesday, at a hearing in DC, affected Teamsters will speak out against this proposed denial of basic voting rights.
Would anyone tolerate voting for Congress by internet voting or telephone poll, instead of a ballot?
Under federal law—The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act—Teamster local unions conduct elections every three years by secret ballot. A ballot comes to you in the mail, and you return it by mail, postage paid.
The IBT and the trustees of the Central States claim they can't afford the postage for return ballots, but can pay Thomas N $662,000 per year, and numerous other execs fat salaries? That’s what the temporary regulation actually claims. Unreal!
Maybe Thomas N could take a pay cut.
The Central States spends $38 million per year in administrative expenses. A fair vote would not increase this figure by even 1% for one year!
This regulation is outrageous and must be changed. But it is worse than that. It shows the thinking behind this outrageous pension-cut law. Slash earned pensions and now conduct a bogus “vote” to justify it is criminal!
http://www.tdu.org/pension_by_phone_call
