KING LYONS.....How Holway took over the NAGE collections racket from Lyons.....a Play in two acts

KING LYONS...... installment # 1

A tragedy in two acts, ....... where three varlets, Holway, Farley and Bernard, those deceitful, unreliable, and disloyal rogues.... brought about the un-doing of a failing, increasingly demented and bigoted, but once noble (according to some) , King of NAGE  ......

How three midget Machiavellis helped stage a tragedy of palace intrigue, treachery, betrayal, and trumped up charges, that led to the SEIU/ACORN engineered coup/trusteeship and the Holway take-over of the NAGE multi-million dollar , no-heavy-lifting, dues collections racket from the late and un-lamented founder Ken Lyons......... with a little help from his disloyal varlets, Farley and Bernard.

What follows is how it came to pass that the self-serving Holway now collects million$ in dues each year from unwitting Mass State employees, while providing little too nothing in return, lives like a King, and transfers hundreds of thousands of our dollars each year to his master Andy Stern.... the evil genius behind SEIU/ACORN.....

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS!!!

The Players

Fool, .....yours truly Winston Smith....one of many fools (also know as "members") who have to stand helplessly by while Holway collects their dues, and delivers nothing in return but one excrement laden contract after another....

James J Hartnett ..... was the Commonwealth's Personnel Administrator
in charge of the Human Resources Division ("HRD"). His appointing
authority for G.L. c. 268A purposes was the Secretary of the Executive
Office for Administration and Finance ("A & F"), under whose
jurisdiction HRD falls. In spring 2002, he "retired" from the HRD.

 The HRD administers a civil service merit system to fill certain state and municipal positions. One HRD office, the Office of Employee Relations, is responsible for state employee union issues, such as collective bargaining contract negotiations, benefits and other contract
interpretations, and grievances. 
 His duties as the Personnel Administrator and head of HRD included meeting with union leaders to address union issues. He also served on several collective bargaining teams and was the chief negotiator for the state when he did so.

KING....Kenneth T Lyons was founder and president of NAGE (also a megalomaniac, a bigot, and a misogynistic legend in his own mind)...... but he didn't deserve what he got from the back stabbing and equally ethically challenged (in my opinion,) Holway.....

The National Association of Government Employees was created July 16, 1961 at a convention of the Federal Employees Veterans Association (FEVA) in Dedham, Massachusetts by Kenneth T. Lyons. FEVA had been formed by World War II veterans working for the federal government to secure higher wages, better benefits and improved work rules. FEVA's primary base of support were workers at the Charlestown Naval Shipyard.

Varlet #1, David Holway.... former mid level Mass DOC manager, NAGE lobbyist and "whistle-blower", who reaped great rewards after making self-serving allegations (apparently never proved or acted upon) that King Lyons was stealing from the Dental and Optical Trust funds that NAGE runs on behalf of members.

Here's what Steve Bailey of the Globe had to say:If state workers represented by the National Association of Government Employees are unhappy with their new contract -- pay increases that average less than 2 percent a year -- they can do what their overpaid union boss does: work a second job.

David Holway, the gruff 6-foot-3 president of Quincy-based NAGE, is becoming a model for working stiffs everywhere. If CEOs can get overpaid for running their places into the ground, then why can't the working man? Be like Dave and you can get yours, too. Holway is doing it not once but twice -- and at the same time. Where do I sign up?

As previously reported here, Holway made $240,147 last year as head of a union with just 46,000 members. That is slightly more than the president of his international, Andrew Stern, made for running the entire Service Employees International Union, which has 35 times the members that Holway's SEIU local has. Stern is one of the labor movement's most dominant players; under Holway, NAGE has lost $3.7 million over the last two years.

Holway calls himself a reformer, but he got his job the old-fashioned way: by helping to depose his predecessor and onetime pal, NAGE founder Ken Lyons, a union man with his own considerable baggage. If Holway is a union reformer, it is a better bet than any you'll get at Suffolk Downs that he is the only union reformer anywhere who runs a horse breeders association on the side -- and gets paid handsomely for it. NAGE and the Massachusetts Thoroughbred Breeders Association, an unlikely pairing, do have at least two things in common: Both are run by Holway, and both are hurting financially.

Neither Holway nor the SEIU will talk about his second job. ''Have fun," Holway told me, and hung up. ''Good luck on your story," says SEIU spokesman Ben Boyd. ''I'll have no comment from a SEIU perspective on Mr. Holway."

Let's go to the records then. According to the organization's website, board minutes, and the state auditor's office, Holway is the executive director of the breeders association, a group designed to encourage thoroughbred breeding in Massachusetts. The group's website lists Holway's home -- the one in Cambridge, not the one in Martha's Vineyard -- as its mailing address. Suzanne Swaim, who answers the phone at the association, at first confirmed that Holway is the executive director, but then called back in a panic to say he was only ''covering" for his sick brother who is executive director. Not so, says the state auditor's office, which earlier this year completed an audit: David Holway is the executive director -- even if he doesn't want to talk about it.

To be Continued.....