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Massachusetts MCOFU Union issues Message board

Massachusetts MCOFU Union issues

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Massachusetts Correction Officers, Union Issues Board

This Board is for the men and women who do what most won't some can't and what is pretty much a thankless job to most. We deal with negativity day in and day out, So if you’re not one of the blue that walks the beat and have nothing good to say, Please keep your comments to yourself.

The moderator of this board does not guarantee that anything posted here is factual or accurate. So read this board with that in mind. You might also find postings that could be offensive. So if that bothers you, please do not continue.

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Subject: reposted from http://www.voy.com/218630/


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Date Posted: 15:13:30 12/07/08 Sun

Is "working to the rules” against any laws or rules? -- Soon to be a Candidate, 07:01:21 12/06/08 Sat [2]
Is "working to the rules” against any laws or rules?

Doing what the rules/laws say to do to the letter. No more and never less than what is written on our job duties/ post-orders/ State-Fed laws and other SOPs.

If it is o.k., like common sense tells me it is, how do we as Sworn Officers protect our public, charge and selves from bad orders from bad managers?

Do we write reports, file safety grievances thru the Union, sue in open/closed courts, plus other things not to be shown here or do we do all of the above?

Tell me what you think but don't spill any beans.


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PLEASE file safety grievances thru the Union. -- OG, 07:20:47 12/06/08 Sat

Subject: new forum for the mcofu election,, http://www.voy.com/218630/


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Date Posted: 20:14:47 12/01/08 Mon

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Subject: Still hurts.


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Date Posted: 11:09:50 11/20/08 Thu

The Boston Globe
November 20, 2008

Pension fund sags 13.3% in October
But Massachusetts' losses for year are in line with other states'

By Ross Kerber
Globe Staff

The Massachusetts public pension fund lost 13.3 percent of its value as
stock markets plunged in October, officials said yesterday, crediting its
diversification with preventing deeper losses.

The state's Pension Reserves Investment Trust was worth about $40 billion as
of Oct. 31, after one of the worst months for stocks in history.

The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index fell 17 percent in October.

For the first 10 months of the year, the state fund is down 26.9 percent
from its starting point of about $53 billion.

"We are in unprecedented economic times, and no investor is immune," said
Michael Travaglini, executive director of the pension agency.

The funds pay for the retirement benefits of thousands of state and local
government employees.

As stinging as they are, Massachusetts' losses are in line with others.

The average hit so far this year to large public pension funds is 28
percent, according to figures from the pension advisory firm Cliffwater LLC
that the state provided.

In a recent report, Moody's Investors Service estimated state and local
systems have seen a 35 percent decline in their stock investments alone this
year.

Travaglini said losses for the Massachusetts system on US stocks are 37
percent for the year so far, while international equities are down 42
percent.

Together, those two categories make up about half of the system's total
investments.

Offsetting those losses were better performance from bond holdings, down
only 5 percent for the year, while private equity investments were off 2
percent and hedge funds were down 15 percent.

The results come as the state system approaches a regular three-year review
of how it allocates money among asset classes.

Travaglini said it is too soon to estimate how the allocations might change.

The fund's total holdings also affect how much money the state must
contribute from taxpayers each year to be sure it has enough money to pay
for future retirement benefits, which now cost about $1.5 billion a year.

Like the funds of other states, the Massachusetts fund isn't fully funded;
the roughly $53 billion it held at the start of the year represented about
79 percent of its obligations.

The state will invest $1.47 billion into the fund during the fiscal year
that ends on June 30.

Nationwide, defined-benefit pension plans, including those offered by
corporations, lost more than $120 billion in October, dropping their funding
ratio to 92.7 percent, a 12-point decline since the start of the year,
according to a study by the consulting firm Millman Inc., of Seattle.

Ross Kerber can be reached at kerber@globe.com.

Subject: bo


Author:
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Date Posted: 01:11:00 11/06/08 Thu

Summary of the Employee Free Choice Act

1. Certification on the Basis of Signed Authorizations
Provides for certification of a union as the bargaining representative if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds that a majority of employees in an appropriate unit has signed authorizations designating the union as its bargaining representative. Requires the board to develop model authorization language and procedures for establishing the authenticity of signed authorizations.

2. First-Contract Mediation and Arbitration
Provides that if an employer and a union are engaged in bargaining for their first contract and are unable to reach agreement within 90 days, either party may refer the dispute to the Federal Mediation, and Conciliation Service (FMCS) for mediation. If the FMCS has been unable to bring the parties to agreement after 30 days of mediation the dispute will be referred to arbitration and the results of the arbitration shall be binding on the parties for two years. Time limits may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties.

3. Stronger Penalties for Violations While Employees Are Attempting to Organize or Obtain a First Contract
Makes the following new provisions applicable to violations of the National Labor Relations Act committed by employers against employees during any period while employees are attempting to organize a union or negotiate a first contract with the employer:

a. Mandatory Injunctions: Provides that just as the NLRB is required to seek a federal court injunction against a union whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that the union has violated the secondary boycott prohibitions in the act, the NLRB must seek a federal court injunction against an employer whenever there is reasonable cause to believe the employer has discharged or discriminated against employees, threatened to discharge or discriminate against employees or engaged in conduct that significantly interferes with employee rights during an organizing or first contract drive. Authorizes the courts to grant temporary restraining orders or other appropriate injunctive relief.

b. Treble Back Pay: Increases the amount an employer is required to pay when an employee is discharged or discriminated against during an organizing campaign or first contract drive to three times back pay.

c. Civil Penalties: Provides for civil fines of up to $20,000 per violation against employers found to have willfully or repeatedly violated employees’ rights during an organizing campaign or first contract drive.

Subject: Where are buget cuts going to hit the DOC


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Subject: Cedar juntion now a level 4


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Coomish sent letter
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Date Posted: 12:54:59 10/04/08 Sat

Walpole is now a level 4, industries will be moved and lets see how they reorganize things
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Subject: Danny Oneil is a lying bastard, proofs in the facts.


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Date Posted: 23:17:43 06/04/08 Wed

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Subject: Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union board up and running, link above


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Subject: ? was the VP taking care of after his departure


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Date Posted: 11:52:36 08/03/08 Sun

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Subject: Two lawsuits against Dept. of Correction to go to trial


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WILMINGTON -- Two lawsuits alleging retaliation by the Delaware Department of Correction against union members will be going to trial in federal court.


The Neuberger Firm, which is representing the plaintiffs in both suits, declared the separate rulings handed down this week to allow both cases to go forward to be significant victories for union members.

Attorney Stephen J. Neuberger said the decisions showed the judges regard union activity as protected by the First Amendment and are a "fundamental right" that has not been altered by recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings.

DOC spokesman John Painter said Wednesday that the department does not comment on ongoing litigation.

In the first case, Wilbur Justice, the former president of the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, alleges he was denied promotion in 2004 by superiors who intentionally misplaced his application for advancement in retaliation for his involvement in the union.

District Judge Sue L. Robinson this week denied a request by attorneys for Delaware to dismiss the case. The civil action, which was filed in 2006, is now expected to go forward to trial. A date has not yet been set.

In the second case, also filed in 2006, the family of corrections officer Cpl. John Balas alleges he was retaliated against for refusing to cross a picket line in 2004 and that harassment by a superior officer led to Balas' suicide in 2005.

In that case, District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. threw out some parts of the plaintiff's case, including dismissing the Department of Correction as a defendant, but allowed the central retaliation claim against the officer who allegedly harassed Balas to move forward.

That case is set for trial in September.

Subject: What is wrong with the other site.. Why is this site not used alot?


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Date Posted: 17:00:27 07/14/08 Mon

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Subject: Updates anyone..........?


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Union misrepresented
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Date Posted: 20:28:39 06/17/08 Tue

Any info. on the staffing issue at Shirley that was slated to be heard on June 3rd.? For that matter, is there any information on anything ever? The flashlights from MCOFU are pretty cool for about 5 min., but what's important is getting stuff done and filling in the line staff that elected these baffons. Flashlights and Spinners tickets are nice, but come on already. In fact, Spinners tickets are 2 free, but each extra are $23.00.....the highest group ticket is $8.00??????? What a bunch of crooks! Next time everyone should think twice about reelecting MCOFU.
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Subject: from the Telegram


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Date Posted: 22:21:39 04/02/08 Wed

Jail guards may switch unions

Decertification vote set for tomorrow

By Shaun Sutner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ssutner@telegram.com


WEST BOYLSTON— Correction officers at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction are set to vote tomorrow on whether to leave the union that has represented them for the last dozen years and join an upstart new union that has up to now mainly been associated with police officers.

The decertification election is from 2 p.m.— 5 p.m. at the jail complex’s training center.

The vote among the 360 officers and sergeants will decide whether they leave the Massachusetts Correction Officer Federated Union and join the New England Police Benevolent Association, according to Peter Boyd, chief steward of the MCOFU local.

Mr. Boyd said he will run for president of the new union if members vote to decertify. He maintained that members have been dissatisfied with MCOFU’s representation for some time, and with the local’s 5-year contract expiring June 30, want to go with a union that will help them get better wages and benefits and safer working conditions.

Mr. Boyd noted that the Worcester County MCOFU chapter got total raises of 6 percent over the five years, while state correction officers also represented by MCOFU got 14 percent raises during the same period.

“We feel like we’ve been doormats of the administration for far too long,” Mr. Boyd said. “We’ve been saying for a long time that we want to make the same pay as the state correction officers.”

In recent months, both sides have been campaigning to win the jail employees’ votes.
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Subject: Nice we don't even have a union board that works..


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Whats up with that
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Date Posted: 21:23:41 02/11/08 Mon

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Subject: When are we negotiating again?


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Date Posted: 23:58:53 01/23/08 Wed

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Date Posted: 01:45:10 01/16/08 Wed

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Subject: Happy Holidays


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Date Posted: 12:30:09 12/23/07 Sun

A moment to say Hi! And thanks to all who do this job, and for doing what you do. Unfortunately some won’t be able to be there in the morning or at night with their families during these holidays, As we have to secure the rest of society from these convicted felons. To all out there no matter where you are be safe and have a happy, Holiday season and be thankful for what you have and what you get. Hope all look forward to a better year in 08.

Bless all of you for doing such a thankless job.

Subject: let the blame begin


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Date Posted: 15:09:44 12/09/07 Sun

PRISON CHIEF BEGINS PROBE ON TAVARES
Alleged Assaults on Guards Under Scope.
by Ken Maguire The Associated Press

The new chief of the Massachusetts prison system said yesterday he has launched a probe into how the Department of Correction handled allegations that a convicted killer assaulted two prison guards.
Commissioner Harold Clarke told the Associated Press he wants to know why it took more than a year to file charges against Daniel T. Tavares Jr.
The alleged assaults were in late 2005 and early 2006, but charges weren't brought until the days before Tavares was released from prison in July after serving 16 years for killing his mother.
Authorites tried to have Tavares held on bail on the charges, but a judge freed Tavares on personal recognizance and he fled to Washington state. He now is charged with killing a newlywed couple in rural Graham, Wash., where he fled to live with his girlfriend.
"We're going to be taking a look at the length it took to file the charges," Clarke said in an interview at his office. "We're going to be taking a look at roles that individuals played in this process, taking a look at whether or not there's anything that we failed to do or we need to improve upon."
Clarke, who resigned last month as head of prisons in Washington state, said he ordered the review last week--his first on the job.
He said the review was separate from the probe being conducted by Public Safety Secretary Kevin Burke, although they likely would touch on the same issues.
Steve Kenneway, president of MCOFU, didi not return messages left by The Associated Press.
After completing his manslaughter sentence, Tavares was kept behind bars on assault charges. But Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman released Tavares on personal recognizance after the killer's lawyer challenged the bail.
Tavares, 41, now is charged in the Nov. 17 fatal shooting of Beverly and Brian Mauck.
Republican presidentail candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani used the case to criticize former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's record on crime. Romney, who appointed Tuttman, has called on her to resign.
However, the state's two chief judges said Tuttman was only following the law when she freed Tavares.
Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and Robert A. Mulligan, the state's top trial court judge, have said the state's bail statute requires judges to only consider whether a suspect is a flight risk.

End of the Article

As a Rule the Department's Policy has been to push the blame and the shit downhill, But if the new Commissioner is genuine in his probe and reports an honest and thorough investigation, he will uncover the good-ole-boy network and that the shit has truly risen to the top
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Date Posted: 12:10:20 12/03/07 Mon

When the new Commissioner starts expanding parole, the Doors of MCI Gardner will finaly close. The rank and file from there will be sent all over the state like what happend to SECC. This will save a ton of OT. and sure up the staffing in other prisons. Well E-Board your realy doing a bang-up job protecting our posissions..

Aren't they reopening Shirley minimum.if so how can you justify closing Gardner?

Subject: Christmas Party


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Date Posted: 18:35:17 11/28/07 Wed

Thanks for a great time at the Christmas Party. The Entertainment Committee deserves an atta boy

Subject: do the math everywhere.


Author:
be smart
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Date Posted: 10:30:39 11/19/07 Mon

Union dues are 1% of maxed out C.O.I's pay. I have never in my 19 years had retro dues taken out of any retro pay. If the body is going along with this ,lets make sure they crunch the numbers right. They can reasonably call for 1% of the 8% from Oct.1,2006 thru July 7,2007 and 1% of 11% from July 8,2007 thru Oct.27,2007. That's 1% of the new maxed out C.O. I's pay. Not Our OT or Holidays. Not the $3000 dollars which is still not clear if it counts for our retirement. This will still be about $60.00 a head. Am I looking at this wrong? Is this just a money grab by the E-Board?
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Subject: Gardner will close


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Date Posted: 15:17:03 11/24/07 Sat

It's going to happen right? Well let's see what uncle Tom will do when he gets here. Let's see what's going to happen with hiring and trasfers. Lets see what staffing levels are and the budget is. Then we will talk.

Subject: right


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Date Posted: 04:18:48 11/20/07 Tue

CORRECTION OFFICERS’ CREED
To speak sparingly…to act, not to argue…to be in authority through personal presence…to correct
without nagging…to speak with the calm voice of certainty…to see everything, know what is
significant and what not to notice…to be neither insensitive to distress nor so distracted by pity as
to miss what must elsewhere be seen…
To do neither that which is unkind nor self-indulgent in its misplaced charity…never to obey the
impulse to tongue lash that silent insolence which in times past could receive the lash…to be both
firm and fair…to know I cannot be fair simply be being firm, nor firm simply by being fair…
To support the reputations of associates and confront them without anger, should they stand short
of professional conduct…to reach for knowledge of the continuing mysteries of human
motivation…to think; always to think…to be dependable…to be dependable first to my charges
and associates, and thereafter to my duty as employee and citizen…to keep fit…to keep forever
alert…to listen to what is meant as well as what is said with words and with silences…
To expect respect from my charges and my superiors yet never to abuse the one for abuses from
the other...for eight hours each working day to be an example of the person I could be at all
times...to acquiesce in no dishonest act...to cultivate patience under boredom and calm during
confusion...to understand the why of every order I take or give...
To hold freedom among the highest values though I deny it to those I guard…to deny it with
dignity that in my example they find no reason to lose their dignity…to be prompt…to be honest
with all who practice deceit that they not find in me excuse for themselves…to privately face
down my fear that I not signal it…to privately cool my anger that I not displace it on others…to
hold in confidence what I see and hear, which by the telling could harm or humiliate to no good
purpose…to keep my outside problems outside…to leave inside that which should stay inside…to
do my duty. Bob Barrington, Correctional Officers' Creed, The Keepers’ Voice, 19(2), 1998: 8
Unlike public safety officers such as police and fire fighters who interact with the public on a
daily basis, Correctional Officers and staff operate behind the walls and are, essentially, out of
sight and out of mind. Their problems and concerns are rarely a matter of public interest. They
find it difficult to lobby for improved salaries, benefits, and working conditions and are often
viewed with the same disinterest as the inmates they supervise.
Globally, the correctional occupational field is hungry for professional development and a
respected and legitimate identity as a public safety occupation. As in the United States, the
inherent political character of prisons in any society both compounds and enlightens these
comparisons. In 1979, Foucault noted, the formidable right to punish “concretely” continues to
fully influence the management of prisons in all societies. So, too, does the need to establish a
principle of moderation for the power of punishment through on-going professional training and
the establishment of programs for ensuring the well-being of Correctional Officers and staff.

Subject: new kid on the block


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What will happen
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Date Posted: 11:52:18 11/02/07 Fri

Patrick to select new chief of prisons
Washington official seen as an agent for changing focus
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | November 2, 2007

Governor Deval Patrick today is expected to appoint as corrections commissioner Harold W. Clarke, the top corrections official in the state of Washington, who has built a national reputation for improving prisons despite encountering controversy.

Officials who know Clarke, who previously ran Nebraska's prison system, said his appointment would mark a shift in Massachusetts away from the hard-nosed policies established during 16 years of Republican governors.

Clarke is at the "top of the heap" among national penal experts, with a record of reducing violence in prisons and professionalizing staff, said Martin Horn, New York City's top prison official and a specialist on prison reform.

Clarke has been criticized after incidents in which felons on post-release supervision killed police officers, and also for a controversial release of felons from overcrowded jails, but his reputation remains high, Horn said.

"He is a true professional with rock-solid integrity," Horn said.

Officials in Patrick's administration said Clarke accepted Patrick's offer to take the post late yesterday, making him the second African-American to lead the Massachusetts Department of Correction. His mandate, the officials said, will be to revamp a corrections department that has focused for years on tough-on-crime policies while cutting to a bare minimum training and reentry programs.

Former attorney general Scott Harshbarger, a member of Patrick's six-member selection panel, said Clarke is up to the job of overhauling a system that has been supervised under harsh policies articulated in 1991, when former governor William F. Weld vowed to "reintroduce Massachusetts prisoners to the joys of busting rocks."

"It will be a major shift in philosophy and approach, one that will balance top-flight professional leadership and public safety with effective reentry of inmates," Harshbarger said. "This is a major-league selection."

Until Clarke's name surfaced recently, the seven-member panel, headed by Secretary of Public Safety Kevin Burke, had struggled to find a replacement for Kathleen Dennehy, who was let go last spring. Clarke is expected to be paid about the same salary as Dennehy, $140,000 a year.

Clarke will manage a system that has 11,000 inmates, a $500 million budget, and about 5,000 staff members while dealing with one of the toughest public unions, the Massachusetts Corrections Officers Federation Union. The system has 18 facilities.

Clarke, a native of Panama who headed Nebraska's prison system for 14 years before taking over Washington's system in 2005, will be Massachusetts' first black commissioner in 33 years, since John O. Boone.

Clarke has come under fire in Washington since being appointed by Governor Chris Gregoire two years ago.

He faced a crisis this year when two freed felons under post-release supervision killed two Seattle police officers in separate car accidents, and another shot and killed a county sheriff.

In addition, a work-release program in Seattle this year faced an investigation after six workers were accused of sexual misconduct and falsifying drug tests.

At the same time, an infuriated Gregoire said that she was "outraged" when Clarke's department released 90 felons from county jails because of overcrowding.

Last summer, the leadership of the Washington Federation of State Workers called for a no-confidence vote in his management. Gregoire headed off a vote by the union membership.

Harshbarger said the selection panel looked at those issues and found nothing that would alarm its members about his management abilities.

He said he expects the same sort of resistance to change in Massachusetts, but that the state needed to move beyond the legacy of Willie Horton, the convicted murderer who, while on a weekend furlough in the 1980s, went to Maryland where he raped a woman and stabbed her male companion. National Republicans used the issue to help defeat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.

"Is Willie Horton going to dominate our correctional philosophy forever?" Harshbarger said. "Some risk is always inherent. But the risk we have now is more expensive and more dangerous than a policy of being tough but with support programs for reentry."
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Subject: Coming to mass soon


Author:
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Date Posted: 15:42:01 11/07/07 Wed

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Subject: When will we receieve the 3000 and the retro?


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Date Posted: 11:15:47 10/19/07 Fri

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Subject: wtf


Author:
coIII
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Date Posted: 16:27:51 11/01/07 Thu

I was checking the Union section on the intranet--what the f+*&!! Our balloon head leaders are still up Brian Dawes ass a mile--putting that garbage ACOIN stuff on there. Didn't Brian TAKE enough of our money already??With NOTHING to show for it but a bunch checks cashed by his group. There goes our hard earned half ass raise--right into Dawes national coffers again.Isn't it nice to know that Kenneway & buffalohead will have jobs bought for {w/ our $} w/ Dawe when their sorry asses are voted out?!?

Subject: State making money on us again.


Author:
Let's give us our 3000
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Date Posted: 11:08:15 10/26/07 Fri

and let the state collect intrest on our raise while they calculate what they owe everybody. Theymade over 100.00.000 on us with the lack of retro and now they will make more as they calculate the raise.. Boy are they making a killing on us.
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Subject: Kenneway why don't you do the union body a favor, resign


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Date Posted: 16:54:16 10/17/07 Wed

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Subject: message


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Date Posted: 10:22:43 10/22/07 Mon

On Friday October 19, 2007 Governor Deval Patrick signed into law the supplemental budget to fund our collective bargaining agreement. We will keep you informed as to when the monies will hit our paychecks via intranet, hotline and this web site. As of this posting there is NO DATE scheduled to receive the money. DO NOT BELIEVE THE RUMORS. Stay safe.

On Behalf of the Executive Board,

Ken Ferullo, Vice President

Subject: I'll try it.


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Nothing to lose.
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Date Posted: 16:05:00 10/12/07 Fri

Where is our bill at and does the fact it say 4A cause any issues. I would think not since it say's MCOFU before it. am I correct?
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Subject: Little too no moderation here.


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Enjoy
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Date Posted: 12:48:56 10/12/07 Fri


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