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Subject: Union Dues Rising.


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Inflation.
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Date Posted: 17:20:21 06/25/11 Sat
You may not be happy with the 1% you're about to receive, but the Union E-Board is very happy - $250,000 a year more happy.

That's right. With about 4,000 members, the MCOFU rakes in about $2.45 million a year in dues before the 1% kicks in. With the 1%, the MCOFU will be raking in about $250,000 more from you. What do you get in return? About $7 a week take home. Oh, and don't forget the health insurance increases that are here, and those that are coming. Plus the pension attacks, the whittling away of bargaining rights, increased costs to you for eye and dental, the selling out by certain e-board members, etc.

Be happy. Be very happy. Better days are coming for the e-board and their suckups. More trips to parts unknown, more casino trips, more tropical trips, more, more, more. All on your dues.

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Subject: Contract funding


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SBG
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Date Posted: 16:39:05 06/20/11 Mon
Now that we got our raise, what are you guys gonna bitch about?

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Subject: When are going to get a real union?


Author:
CO
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Date Posted: 20:00:07 06/17/11 Fri

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Subject: WHATS UP W/ THE 1% RAISE AND CONTRACT ?


Author:
NEED TO KNOW
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Date Posted: 19:01:18 05/18/11 Wed
Any info on anything,supplemental budget,something ?

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Subject: The current acadamy?


Author:
uncle (???????????????)
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Date Posted: 10:00:54 05/31/11 Tue
Did a bunch of people flunk out for testing ddirty?

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Subject: Group 4


Author:
Group 4
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Date Posted: 14:27:35 06/11/11 Sat

Section 3 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws subsection (g) as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition shall be amended in Group 4 by adding in line 298 after the words “county correction facilities” the following:-

Employees of the trial court who hold the position of assistant chief probation officer, probation officer in charge, probation officer and associate probation officer or assistant chief court officer court officer I , court officer II .

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Subject: Court Officers get 10%


Author:
Do we even have a Union
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Date Posted: 13:37:14 06/04/11 Sat
HIGHLIGHTS
WAGE INCREASES TOTALING 10%

Memorandum of Agreement (Effective July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008)
3% increase effective 01/01/12*

Memorandum of Agreement (Effective July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2012)
1% increase effective 6/30/10 with retroactive payment of the increase
3% increase effective 01/01/12*
3% increase effective 06/30/12

* The 3% and 3% increases (total 6%) effective January 1, 2012 could be made effective sooner than January 1, 2012. As with all contracts, the timing of increases is heavily dependent on supplemental funding. If we are successful in lobbying the legislature to pass a supplemental funding bill, we will receive the 6% increase sooner than January 1, 2012. It will take all of us lobbying our legislators to make this happen. We will contact you as soon as possible with information about lobbying for the supplemental budget bill.

INCREASED UNIFORM ALLOWANCE
Employer agrees to increase the uniform allowance by $25 effective February 2012.

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Subject: Cards


Author:
Tim Stir
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Date Posted: 21:20:20 06/01/11 Wed
4 Weeks until the cards are out. Sign on the dotted line
Tim Stir

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Subject: Decertified their union and filed lawsuit


Author:
Sounds like an option (Addios MCOFU)
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Date Posted: 15:24:32 05/26/11 Thu
NDIANAPOLIS -— Everybody has a story at a time like this.

NFL players claim they offered to make more than $500 million in concessions before walking out of negotiations March 11 following what they considered a backpedaling, bombshell “offer’’ from NFL owners that they took as the straw that broke the linebackers’ backs. They immediately decertified their union and filed suit in federal court charging the league with a host of anti-trust violations

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Subject: ANY WORD ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY


Author:
curious (happened last week)
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Date Posted: 12:16:29 06/01/11 Wed

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Subject: I want my raise


Author:
And I want it now !!!
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Date Posted: 06:58:55 05/31/11 Tue
Text size – + Mass. tax collections up 43 percent in April
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Associated Press

BOSTON—Massachusetts revenue officials say a surprisingly large increase in tax collections from investment income helped fuel a 43 percent increase in April tax collections compared with a year ago.

The Department of Revenue said Tuesday the state collected $2.5 billion in taxes last month, $758 million more than in April 2010. Last month's total was also nearly $600 million above revised monthly benchmarks.

The state had expected increased April income tax payments due to the improving economy. Also, severe flooding delayed the April 2010 filing deadline until May in several counties.

Officials were not as quick to explain the hike in revenues from interest and dividends and capital gains. They say it appears many taxpayers chose to cash in some of their investments during 2010 and are now paying taxes on those gains.

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Subject: Thanks for the clock!


Author:
Jimbo
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Date Posted: 17:18:20 05/23/11 Mon
I set the timer so when it expires the Eboards time is up! Counting down assholes, thanks for the raise!

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Subject: Has the DA or IPS done anything about the vote rigging scam?


Author:
cu
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Date Posted: 23:18:42 05/21/11 Sat
Is it true some scumbags rigged the union's vote and got onto the eboard due to their handy work?

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Subject: remember when


Author:
we had a union
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Date Posted: 15:41:38 05/06/11 Fri
them were the days

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Subject: How's that PAC money working out?


Author:
Suckers!
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Date Posted: 00:23:00 04/28/11 Thu
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.

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Subject: Collective Bargaing -Benefits


Author:
Lance Boyle
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Date Posted: 19:28:53 04/27/11 Wed
Did we just lose our rights to bargain for health benefits? If so what are the cowardly lion e board members doing about it? Haven't we lost enough with these mental midgets representing us? Vote of no confidence is needed then de certify this pussy union.

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Subject: 1%


Author:
Jack
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Date Posted: 09:42:49 04/28/11 Thu
Heard that our vote to get our 1% is still not funded !!
What's up with that ?

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Subject: Duck


Author:
xco retired
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Date Posted: 08:47:31 04/27/11 Wed
"You look like you've been shot at and missed, shit at and hit!"

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Subject: The End Is Near


Author:
The Future Is Uncertain
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Date Posted: 05:49:04 04/22/11 Fri
E-mail|Print|Reprints|Comments (0)Text size – + New Hampshire, fueled by an influx of Republicans inspired by the Tea Party movement, could become the first state in the Northeast to allow workers who opt out of a union to stop paying union fees.

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Yahoo! Buzz ShareThis .On Wednesday, the state Senate passed a so-called right-to-work bill by a veto-proof margin, joining the House, which passed a similar measure in February. Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, has vowed to veto the bill, but legislative leaders say they have the votes in both chambers to override a veto.

If the measure becomes law, New Hampshire would join 22 other states — most of which are in the South, the Midwest, and the West — that have adopted similar laws. Supporters say the measures encourage businesses to locate in the state, while opponents call them an assault on labor and the middle class.

New Hampshire’s bill, which applies to private and public sector unions, advances amid a nationwide battle over the role of organized labor in the workplace. In Ohio and Wisconsin, Republican governors pushed through measures that severely limited collective bargaining rights.

New Hampshire Republicans have been flexing their muscles since the November elections, when they gained 124 seats in the 400-seat House of Representatives and picked up nine seats in the state Senate, where they outnumber Democrats 19 to 5.

Many of the newly elected Republicans were inspired by the Tea Party’s call for limited government and lower taxes and have helped push the right-to-work legislation into the spotlight. Supporters and opponents of the bill both point to their influence as a reason the bill, after years of circulating in the Legislature, may now become law.

“It’s always been attempted every single term, and now we just have a change in attitude in the state of New Hampshire’s Legislature,’’ said Senator Russell Prescott, a Republican who supports the bill and leads the committee that reviewed the legislation.

New Hampshire law currently allows workers to opt out of a union, but those workers can be compelled to pay fees in lieu of dues, if the union contract mandates those fees. Unions argue that even workers who opt out of the union benefit from the union’s bargaining for higher wages and better benefits.

But Republican lawmakers contend that workers in the “live free or die’’ state should not be forced to pay fees if they do not join a union. Their bill would bar employers and workers from including “fair share’’ agreements in union contracts. Those agreements allow unions to charge fees to workers who are not in the union, to help the union cover the costs of bargaining and administering the contract on the workers’ behalf. About 10 percent of New Hampshire’s workers are union members, compared to about 12 percent nationwide and 15 percent in Massachusetts.

“This isn’t a matter of going after unions,’’ said Senator James Forsythe, a freshman Republican from Strafford who identifies as a Tea Party member and is a cosponsor of bill. “For me, this is a matter of personal freedom.’’

William O’Brien — the recently elected speaker of the New Hampshire House, who is also aligned with the Tea Party — echoed the sentiment.

“It’s a liberty issue,’’ he said. “We’re also trying, in ways big and small, to make it clear that New Hampshire is the state you should be expanding into, and I think this is an important step in making that absolutely true.’’

But Democrats and union officials, who have been protesting the bill at the State House, say the measure will drive down wages and weaken workers’ ability to bargain for better wages and benefits. The bill is all the more unusual because New England has historically been more friendly to unions than states in other regions.

David Lang, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, accused Republicans yesterday of bowing to a hard-core conservative viewpoint that he said is out of step with the state’s moderate traditions.

“You’ve got the advent of some folks who were elected in November that really went past the bounds of normal, Republican conservatives in New Hampshire,’’ he said. “The election in November was about the economy and jobs. But the passage of this bill will put a significant crack in the economic foundation of New Hampshire.’’

Republicans in both chambers expressed confidence that they will be able to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bill and put the measure on the governor’s desk. The House bill included a provision that would limit collective bargaining rights for some public employees. The Senate rejected that provision.

Lynch’s office renewed his veto threat again yesterday.

“The governor has been clear that he would veto this legislation, because the governor believes the state should not be passing laws dictating the terms of contracts between private employers and workers,’’ said the governor’s spokesman, Colin Manning.

O’Brien said that even though the House did not pass the bill with a veto-proof majority, he can find enough votes to overturn a veto.

“We’re going to override the governor’s veto,’’ he said. “We were only 14 votes shy, which in a 400-member House is not substantial.’’

Michael Levenson can be reached at mlevenson@ globe.com.

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Subject: Promotions and transfers. Anybody hearing anything?


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Date Posted: 13:32:14 04/15/11 Fri

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Subject: Where's Fox 25 when a bigshot administrator gets a D.U.I?


Author:
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Date Posted: 11:00:20 04/16/11 Sat

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Subject: All I want is 1%


Author:
Geez
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Date Posted: 14:05:54 04/11/11 Mon
Life is good at the top of corporate America. CEO pay rose 12% last year, bringing the average compensation to $9.6 million in 2010, based on a report and study done by NY Times. That's definitely a lot of money at a time when middle class wages haven't increased for a generation and unemployment remains near 9%.

The highest paid CEO in the U.S. last year was Viacom's Phillipe Dauman who raked in $84.5 million, thanks to one-time stock awards. Ray Irani of Occidental Petroleum follows on the list with $76.1 million, a 142% pay increase over 2009. Oracle's Larry Ellison, who was displaced at the top of the list this year, took a pay cut but still brought home $70.1 million. (He also remains the third-richest American, with a net worth of $39.5 billion, according to the Forbes annual list of billionaires.)

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Subject: Luggers


Author:
c.o.
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Date Posted: 16:07:47 04/11/11 Mon
Whats up with the Norfolk staff cell phones galore in that place. Must be alotta dirty mother fuckers in there. Now we see where the E-Board got it from . after all most of them dopes are from there.

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Subject: Worth a try


Author:
Just a thought
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Date Posted: 11:12:38 04/05/11 Tue
State workers should file a lawsuit challenging the right of GIC to switch your health insurance without you chosing to do so .

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Subject: Quick Earn Money Online & Jobs Careers


Author:
Janifer Leeza (happy)
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Date Posted: 08:57:27 04/08/11 Fri
http://www.quickearnmoney.com/

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