SEIU/ACORN/NAGE propaganda machine responding to membership anger over obscene increase in dues imposed without membership approval.
Take a look at Comment # 3 below. Wherein Prez Sorozan doles out advice to NAGE/ACORN stewards for mollifying members who are understandably pissed off about the NAGE/ACORN scum stealing half of their stinking 3% raise (after the long drought with no raise and constant give-backs on benefits.)
From: Greg Sorozan [mailto:gsorozan@nage.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 6:34 PM
To: Sorozan, Greg
Subject: Salary Increase/Dues Increase
Dear Steward of Local 282,
The thought occurred to me, on my way home, that I should send you the same email I sent to our Executive Board Members about the recent 3% Salary increase and the new dues increase. You are on the front line in our representation of our membership. These next several days may be difficult.
Dear Executive Board Member,
I’m already dealing with calls and emails about dues increases. Below are some talking points that may answer some small part of the frustration of members you may also be dealing with.
I suggest that you listen to the complaint(s) and not challenge the anger, but simply offer that the increase was necessary to the rising costs of doing union business, i.e., that of providing representation to our membership, some of which are:
· Negotiating the pay raises and benefits we currently have (really Greg? how much does it COST to roll over and take whatever concessions are demanded..... we can determine how much it costs for Holway and his toadies to party down at Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, etc.... but really what's the marginal cost of a couple of phone calls with OER?)
· Protecting those pay raises (What BS! protecting raises by taking them back in the form of dues?)
· Protecting jobs and helping find ways to problem solve the State Budget in ways other than by laying off state workers! (Really? do you have a specific example and can you tell us what it cost in dues money?.... no of course not.... it's a crock of bleep)
· Improving benefits, including dental and eyeglass- these have gotten better but have not kept pace with inflation of medical/dental charges! (Benefits have gotten Better??, cut the crap Greg.... we're not all that stupid..... our health benefits are so bad that the municipal unions turn up their noses at the thought of having to settle for GIC health plans, while they consider which sweet ERIP plan they will avail themselves of....
SPEAKING OF ERIPS.... NAGE has been totally ineffectual in delivering ERIP options to it's own members..... why would they, they'd just be losing our DUES.... they don't want YOU sheeple to have an ERIP, they'd rather keep shaking you down for a percentage of your gross salary
· Collaboration with other unions to keep people working in jobs that offer hope and meaning. (Translation: this is the million$ in dues stolen from Mass State Employees each year and transferred to ACORN for ultra-left-wing agenda's like amnesty for illegal aliens, and huge political donations to out-of-state left-wing political campaigns..... and we're supposed to feel good about being robbed by these scum?)..... I'll spare you the rest of the bullshit, but you can read it in post number 3 below.
Well you idiots deserve it..... Remember that 3% "raise" you Thought you had coming on July 1st?
Well Guess what?
Those thieving SEIU/ACORN SCUM (aka SEIU/NAGE 5000) have decided they'd rather keep half of your long anticipated raise for themselves ..... by shoving a massive dues increase right up your keister without so much as smooch on the cheek..... OUTRAGEOUS!.....
What a laugh, I was just speculating the other day how Deval or the Legislature were going to figure out a way of reneging on the promised 3% raise..... well NAGE beat them to it, you'll never see the 3%, because NAGE is going to keep half for themselves and ACORN!......
Hey they weren't just drinking themselves silly at that "convention"down in Atlantic City .... they were plotting to screw the membership out of 1.5% of their wages!!!
That's right, SHEEPLE...they are changing the dues from a fixed amount per week to PERCENTAGE of YOUR GROSS Wages!.....
The more you make the more they take!.
Here's another way to think of it.... your taxes just went up by 1.5% per year.....
.....and you didn't get to vote for either the dues increase or the dirty lying scum that voted themselves a big fat dues increase....a percentage of your wages for Christ's SAKE!!!!......
HOW MUCH MORE CAN YOU SHEEPLE TAKE FROM THESE BANDITS????? ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID?
This an UNBELIEVABLE OUTRAGE!!!!
What can you do?..... here's one man's opinion:
1) Withdraw from the union and pay only the "agency fee"..... the scum still have to defend your collective bargaining rights....and process your grievances (not that there is any evidence that they do any of that anyway).... thats what the agency fee pays for.... what's not included in the agency fee is all the political money they kick up to SEIU/ACORN for their ultra left-wing BS like amnesty for illegal aliens, political donations to out-of-state politicians who don't have a damn thing to with Massachsuetts or your interests....etc..... in other words all of the million$ they steal from poor Mass State Employees to squander on their own whacked out communistic political agendas....
2) Put these jerks on notice that at the next opportunity, you'll vote them out as your bargaining representative..... that may have gotten a lot easier with the recent court decision declaring evergreen clauses illegal...... so the next time the contract runs out, and the scum have no contract for us.... they are vulnerable to a de-certification action..... Hey one can hope, right?
Call, them and write them to let them no WE WON"T STAND FOR TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!!!
Get nominated for the next NAGE ELECTIONS, I WANT TO SEE A SLATE THAT WILL GET IN THERE AND RESCIND this slimy lowdown sneak attack on the rank and file membership!!!!
JUST WHO DO THESE SNEAKY TURDS THINK THEY ARE?????
Before you know it they'll increase the dues to 5% of your wages, or why not 10%..... once they've broken the ice the sky is the limit..... or you can just keep taking up the keister from NAGE/SEIU/ACORN.... sheeple you've got the "union" you deserve.
