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Date Posted: 03/25/09 10:12pm
Author: No name
Subject: maps

To whom it may concern:
As a part-time employee in the Union and working for several different companies here in Southern California I personally and many other part-time co-workers have been the product of Discrimination by the Teamster Local 986 and the Tradeshow Companies as well. Part-Time employee's forced associaton in Union dues payments does not guarantee any Labor rights or privileges,ie.. medical, grievences, etc.. etc.. but instead only grants the Part-Time employee the right to work in that division. So in essence I have to pay to go to work.
Pay To Work
I cannot think of another work industry in the United States of America that does. I would hope our American goverment would not allow a( Company, Union) to hold for ransom a American citizen who is only trying to earn a proper living without being Discriminated, Exploited and have wages garnished and ransom payment made to a union that exploits its Part-Time workers with no services rendered. This scheme (Union Dues, Taxation without Representation) closely resembles The Head Tax of the Chinese Immigrants who had to endure this type of Discrimination if they wanted to work (1885-1902) This Head tax if you will started the day I first started working. You notice I did not say when I joined the Union The Union has a very special clause that stipulates you can work if you let them take Garnish your check For $6.00 a day The con being they will put that money towards your membership fee. When that figure is met and you become a bonafide member you will then be allowed to make a monthly payment of $50.00 that starts out being Garnished from your payroll check. Now then in my case I finally realized that figure was met when I recieved a Sea World discount pass in the mail from the Union and a fellow slave, (excuse me i met fellow Teamster) told me I must be in the Union becuse only members could get that card............ That following week I went to a Union meeting and told the Fat man with a cigar sitting at the podium what had happened he declared that impossible until fellow members spoke up and and said essentially the same thing. He said he would look into that. (And did). As it turned out I was about 6 or 7 hundred dollars ahead as was many other guys in the Industry.... So rather then give the money back they credited us with future dues in my case about a year and a half........
Freedom Of Association
I know our Bill of Rights states that every American has the right to Freedom of Association so would you also assume you also have the right to Dissociate yourself as well. I would say that I was Dicriminated against due to the fact that at the time employment was offered to me I was not given that choice. It was either join up and pay to work or not work be unemployed, sleep on the street, and be hungry....Tell me what would you choose?
Union Dues
You would think a Part-Time company employee and Local 986 member who pays dues would have the right to Union representation by means of a Union Shop Stewart in concern to disciplinary or other? I know by means of the contract that this is not the case. Though they say they represent me they only care about the full time company employee.The treatment that Part-time Union employees receive is unfair compared to our Full time company employee Union members. Neglected and used, lied to, extorted for work hours and work hours not equally divided, Part-Time have little or no advancement no health benefits are never told of thier rights we pay to much in Union dues for no results or representation and more often then nought are never told anything.
Request of Union Information Rights
As Part-Time dues paying member does a Union member have the right to request Union information and or financial statements? Should I have the right to know where my Union dues go? How much money is invested, Bank Account, interest accumulated, stocks and bonds or other investments do i have the right through interest or capital gains or through investment , entitlement to these gains. They take my dues hold me for ransom taxation without representation and will not even allow me a little piece of the pie. Try to get a answer to these questions by phone, e-mail or regular mail and they will not respond or skirt the issue. Why would they choose not to respond?
Collective Bargaining Agreement
A company who signs in to a collective bargaining agreement with a Union association where as the rights of a Part-Time worker and Union member are being violated by the Union should also be

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 03/28/09 7:52pm

sounds about right

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 03/29/09 10:01am

Holy shit. You are so long winded that you reached the limit of this website.

I will respond to one of your points. No, you can't get a share of the Local's investment gains.

What you CAN do is look at the Local's financial report. Go here:
http://kcerds.dol-esa.gov/query/getOrgQry.do
In the dropdown menu to the right of "Union Name", select IBT-Teamsters. Then in the box to the right of "Designation Number" type 986. Then click on "Submit". The latest report that is up is for 2007. The 2008 report is supposed to be posted by March 31.

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 11/15/09 8:14am

no wonder they need our dues to pay perry salary

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 03/29/09 7:09pm

yeah he's right

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 03/29/09 10:19pm

Good luck. Take a good look at a Wall Street Journal and then talk to everyone you meet and ask them if they wish they could have a union job with a decent pension? ......The contractors are getting by.......Patience might reward , or move to Vegas and Quiturebitchen....

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 04/ 1/09 10:26pm

yea union jobs with a great, big, fat pensions ( all of our raises over many years) that most people think is something to look forward to.............THAT IS, UNTIL THEY FIND OUT THAT FUNDS HAVE BEEN INVESTED WITH THE LIKES OF BARNEY MADDOFF!!!!!!!!!

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 04/ 2/09 11:30am

Not Barry?
If you can't get the name right should anyone believe anything else you scribble?

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 04/ 2/09 2:28pm

hint...Weekend At Barney's.

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 04/ 5/09 6:44pm

Barney

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 04/ 6/09 7:44am

Bernard?

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 04/10/09 9:42pm

so true

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 05/ 2/09 9:53pm

thank you

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 05/ 4/09 11:17am

who wrote this is a genius

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 05/ 5/09 12:24pm

A Chinese Immigrant, thats who!
Head Tax, if you will?

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 05/10/09 2:56am

calvin wrote this

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[> [> [> Re: maps -- Calvin (whoa), 05/10/09 12:08pm

no ise didnt dont yu tri an poot thes on me

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 05/22/09 3:08am

who r u?

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 05/28/09 11:41am

hey jim its okay to delete yours leave mine up

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 05/28/09 8:01pm

alright teamster porno

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 07/ 6/09 2:10am

so go get a lawyer

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 07/ 7/09 7:34am

"Union Dues, Taxation without Representation"
You do understand that the union is not the same as the government? Try not paying your taxes and see what happens.

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 08/11/09 1:58am

fu

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 08/15/09 6:35am

right here

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[> Re: maps -- No name, 08/19/09 2:22am

hAPPUY

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 08/23/09 8:48am

ok

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[> [> [> Re: maps -- Calvin (amazed), 08/23/09 3:47pm

ONLY A COCK SUCKING WANNA BE A SCAB WOULD KEEP THIS PIECE OF SHIT POST AT THE TOP OF THIS WEBSITE EVERY FUCKING DAY!
MAYBE J.B. WILL GROW A PAIR AND DELETE IT, BUT I DOUBT IT!

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[> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 08/25/09 6:02am

fur you

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 08/29/09 9:04am

did thomas envision this?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 08/29/09 4:12pm

chapaquidick

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- You Know Who, 08/29/09 11:04pm

Give it a rest already with this fucking post

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/ 4/09 3:38am

fuck you

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/12/09 1:01pm

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/15/09 6:32am

who wrote this

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/18/09 11:44pm

calvin

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/21/09 6:47pm

stop the madness this post has to go

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/25/09 8:41pm

y

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[> Re: maps -- WOLF, 09/25/09 10:41pm

As hard as you try nobody gives a shit about this this pal!!!

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[> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/26/09 1:56pm

eat shit wolf you care

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[> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 09/26/09 8:34pm

Dude, The lead WOLF is right. No one cares about this shit!

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[> [> [> [> Re: maps -- No name, 10/ 4/09 2:06am

fuck you too asshole

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: do something about it -- No name, 10/ 4/09 9:48am

no one may care about this issue (except the few c's left in this industry) but it is all ture. i remember when we were 389 switching to 986, Ray Frankowski sitting up in front of the room (smoking that cigar) telling us how this switch was a good thing and then Al Gongales standing up and telling the same story. how the union takes $5 (the amount back then) and never tells you that you are in the union after you reach the amount owed for full membership. after reaching that amount and when you don't pay the monthly dues for three months (because you don't know you were a member to begin with) they boot you out and you have to start all over again. I can still see Frank Sheckton sitting behind Frankowski looking like the cat that swallowed the canary.

if you are one of those that do care about this issue, you need to look into something that was going on a few years back. aparently you can opt out of the union but you still need to pay the part of the dues that goes towards the collective bargaining process, (which can't be all that much as they now only get together every 5 years). if the situation is still the same where this is possible, the union will have to come up with a reduced dollar figure for you to pay. instead of bitching here (where it will obviously do you no good), look into this and get back here after you have researched the issue to tell the rest of the c's that care how to save themselves from paying the full monthly dues.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: do something about it -- No name, 10/ 5/09 6:38am

your living in the past, try to live in this century. or at the very least this decade since it too is almost over.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: do something about it -- No name, 10/ 5/09 7:45pm

when the past is the same as the present, we are all living in past. try telling this to all those that are still in the same boat. since you must have yours, i guess your thoughts are "to hell with everyone else"??

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: do something about it -- No name, 10/22/09 6:21pm

is this the place to agree

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: do something about it -- rick t, 10/29/09 5:54am

at least it has to do with teamsters

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: do something about it -- No name, 10/29/09 11:20am

YOUR A FUCKING DICKHEAD!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> re. -- No name, 11/ 3/09 7:39pm

i am rubber your glue what ever you say bounces off me and sticks to you......

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: re. -- No name, 11/ 5/09 1:41pm

what does this mean refund?

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: re. -- No name, 11/ 7/09 8:49am

OUR WE OHED A REFUND OR NOT

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: re. -- No name, 11/ 7/09 8:52am

NO

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: re. -- No name, 11/ 7/09 12:55pm

YNOT?

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