Update #2....509 sheep vote for concessions ... count so close Union won't disclose it....update

Boy-oh-Boy!...... poor old Dave "Judas Goat" Holway must have a RED FACE...... for the first time in recent memory he got beat in a race to the bottom.... that is...to sell out his membership in a concession contract..... 

I hereby declare the new ruling champion in the "Judas Goat Derby" to be Mike Grunko!..... President of local 509  ......congratulations Mike..... a dubious distinction if ever there was one.....

Hello, Local 509 members.... You've been PUNKED!..... ha, ha.....
 
.............................................the Sheeple from NAGE would like to WELCOME YOU TO THE FOLD!....(as in an "an enclosure for sheep or, occasionally, other domestic animals.")

The 509 web site says only that the concessions contract amendment was ratified....nothing about the count of the yays and the nays..... Why? I'm guessing the vote was so close it was an embarrassment to the union bosses..... if it was so close, it diminishes their credibility when they claim to be able to deliver th votes....

Well, well well..... I guess that concession vote did have something embarrassing about it!.... Presto Change-O....Now you see it now you don't.... 
Mike Grunko must have found the lukewarm voting margin a little, well if not outright embarrassing, then at least NOTHING TO BE VERY PROUD of!..... 
They've taken the vote count down off the 509 web site.... don't worry, we'll leave it up here.....

Meanwhile, narry a whisper from the Burgin Parkway Bandits about their "agreement...ALL BUT Written!"..... how pathetic.

OK.... here's the update from 509 giving the count, they must have been shamed into it.... but only 74% voted in favor, hardly what I would call "overwhelming".... especially when one considers how the union had gulled them into thinking the contract was going to avert 509 lay-offs....obviously 26% of the members were not fooled..... we'll see.....

.......Oh and one can't help but notice how 509's numbers are dwindling...... the administration is cutting them down like wheat...... and it hasn't stopped yet..... the administration's sinking ship is desperate to fund fat raises for the municipal unions..... in an attempt to curry local favor in the upcoming election....

Contract Ratification

On December 17, 2009, state workers voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contract. The agreement: delays a cost of living increase, authorizes a modest furlough program and applies these savings to prevent layoffs.(Really??....no where in the agreement does it mention averting 509 layoffs.... oh and the non-binding "side letter?"..... that doesn't mean anything, and it doesn't say anything..... nowhere are the "averted layoffs" identified, specified, or quantified.... you folks have been punked!......) 

Members of Local 509 provide support to persons with disabilities, at risk families and others in need. These vital services now will not be disrupted as a result of this vote. (Oh really?..... based on what?.... got ay actual facts to back that up?) 

The ratification results were:
Unit 8:

YES: 2369

NO: 619
Unit 10:

YES: 257

NO: 15509 declares that the concessions made will save jobs (yeah maybe they'll save the 1,300 new hires done by the governor in the last year)....

BUT JUST LIKE THE NAGE CONCESSION MOU, THERE IS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT SAVING 509 JOBS, nowhere are the "to be saved" jobs, identified, quantified , or specified..... Notice how carefully parsed the wording is on the website.....

Members of SEIU Local 509 voted on December 17 to ratify an agreement with the Commonwealth to save jobs, protect services,.....blah, blah, blah (yeah, but whose jobs, if it was agreed they'd be 509 jobs why doesn't the agreement say that...in fact the agreement makes no mention of any jobs at all...)

At least it has a requirement that the Legislature funds the contract prior to the furloughs taking affect..... the NAGE plan seems to be to take the furloughs and then get contracting funding later.....

IF the legislature does pass a funding bill (and that is a BIG IF, based on their recent actions).... then you'd beetter pay real close attention to the language to make sure it is specifically authorizing payment of the future 3% raises.... if there is no specific intention that it funds the future 3% raises then that leaves it an open question of interpretation..... you ought to no how that will go..... you'll never see the two 3 % raises.

Well.... I thought the 509ers had a little more intelligence and back-bone than the NAGE Sheeple, well.... I guess I was wrong about that..... welcome to the fold... fellow sheeple!

Here's a comment lifted from the Globe story:

jgattijr wrote:

Shame on SEIU 509 and AFSCME

Once again the so called public employee union bosses continue to sell out to their endorsed political candidate at the expense of the career state employees struggling to provide services with taxpayer dollars. The union bosses continue to promote by inaction of starving state agencies and allowing their membership to dwindle. The Union Bosses are too allied with consultants, vendors, and providers that have raped the taxpayers, legislature for too long and are unaccountable trying to organize them while the delivery system fails. Apparently dues are dues for the union bosses to play politics and their dedicated membership are expendable.

Governor Deval Pattrick Threatens State Employee Cuts While insuring His Political Appointments Are Safe! That is an outrage. The place where there are the real Savings which could be at least $750 million to $1.5 billiuon+ Alone In The State Budget. .....Massachusetts Non Profits, Not For Profits, and Foundations Must Now Clean UP Their Own Management Greed As What Was Exposed In The Banking And Insurance Industry.


Government,Foundations, and Citizens all struggling in our nation's failed economy caused by unmonitored corporate financial greed and failed government oversight must show additional compassion and dig deeper into their pocketbooks. Compassion, Care, and Concern are needed to guarantee what is funded is precisely spent as intended.

However, the time has come that the non profits and not for profits be held to a higher standard also. Greed CEO salaries.golden parachutes, fat expense accounts, and interrelated sweetheart contracts must be addressed. Direct care services advertised must be maintained with need sincerity and actually being provided as funded.

Estimates not taking in consideration the $$$$billions in private giving accounts in the state budget alone if waste, fraud, abuse corruption and doing proper oversight could recover $750 Billion+ to $1.5 Billion + alone in State budget Expenditures by holding the non profit and not for profit Human Services Industrial Complex were properly audited and monitored.

I challenge to be corrected.

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