NAGE Xmass party---not worried about an extravagant image....

Here's the type of invitation YOU WILL NEVER GET....because you are in NAGE...... the Burgin Parkway bandits choose to spend your dues money on Christmas Parties for themseleves only!...... none for you low-life members..... But MOSES, an real democratic union for state employees actually does invite their members......

The Globe has an article about companies worried about the extravagant image projected by holding expensive holiday parties.....
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/12/16/work_party_no_longer_so_hearty/

Not NAGE..... why?,

In my opinion it's becasue they do manage to keep it a secret from the vast majority of members..... only the in-crowd toadies get an invite.....everything on the LOWDOWN.... they don't dare to tell the members they are squandering thousands ($17k in 2008 and $13k in 2009) on catered affairs, for themselves, at the World Famous Jasper White's in Cambridge.... this info is the bare minimum they are required to report to the DOL in LM-2 report.

Even when you find out about, what the hell can you do about?..... nothing, these decisions are the sole prerogative of President for Life Dave Holway, his toady Jim Farley, the "treasurer".... merely rubber stamps everything..... The MEMBERS?..... they don't get to have a single word to say about.....

How nice for the Burgin Parkway Bandits....another fancy Christmas party coming up..... if you know when, post it here........... Bet you didn't get an invite..... they don't want to hear from the membership, they just want you dues.....

Speaking of Holiday Parties.... Jasper White's Summer Shack

....its Dave Holway's favorite watering hole here in the frozen North ( the land of the endangered cash-cow Mass State employee.)


Yes I'm sure the Burgin Parkway Bandits will be having their annual Christmas Party at Dave's favorite: Jasper White's Summer Shack.....
 
..........once again paid for with your dues (no members need apply for admission) ....they don't want anything to do with you, except your dues money.

Last year they spent $17,987 dollars on their private little X-Mass party.... or the "Childrens Christmas Party" as they've taken to reporting it on the LM-2..... RIGHT?!!!!..... 

........AND they have the sheer gall to CATEGORIZE THIS $17,897 Christmas Party EXPENSE as a "REPRESENTATIONAL ACTIVITY".... you've got to be kidding me!  

.......and here I keep complaining that NAGE doesn't spend any of our dues actually representing the interests of State Employees.....OH, I guess I never thought of a dues funded  drinking party as having anything to do with representing my interests.... 

......especially when the Commonwealth is cutting our pay, cutting our benefits, and flouting our signed contract..... 

.......NAGE accomplishes nothing about any of that, but you bet your bippy they'll be having their Christmas party....and we pick up the tab!.....

......and they'll still be sporting those tans they worked on while down at Disney land last week.... what a good life these folks have at our expense..... zero accountability must be nice....for them!


While we settle for gathering around the conference room table at lunch time to share dutch-treat pot luck snacks and pizza and to discuss our impending NAGE engineered furloughs....

.......the "officers and employees" at NAGE will be enjoying another sumptuous Christmas Party at the world famous Jasper White's in Cambridge......
......for $17,987 I think it's fair to assume it also includes OPEN BAR.... Whooo- Hooooo! Party hardy dudes!

Does anybody know the DATE?....POST IT Here, maybe we'll crash and have Dave by us a few drinks with our own money!

NAGE Holiday at Disney World

Wouldn't you love to be able to enjoy an all expenses paid vacation at Disney?....Maybe bring the family along?..... can't afford it?..... Too bad you're not one of Holway's toadies, they've been living it up with your dues money!

Their Motto must be.... "I don't have to BE A MILLIONAIRE, I JUST WANT TO LIVE LIKE ONE.... on those sweet Units 1,3 6 dues..."
Check out the OASIS BAR AND GRILL.... I'm sure our fearless leaders spent a fair share of their time pounding them down at this "watering hole"......

NAGE fat cats live it up at Disney World Resort

....While we sit around ringing our hands about how in the hell we are going to pay our bills, make ends meet, send our kids to college, and praying that no one gets sick so we don't get whacked with new deductibles..... year after year NO COST OF LIVING RAISE!.....these lucky devils live like kings on our dues money.

The Burgin Parkway bandits had themselves a NICE, ALL EXPENSES PAID VACATION at DISNEY.... thanks to you dues paying dopes.

They collect your dues to the tune of $13.5 million per year, and  YOU GET PRACTICALLY NOTHING IN RETURN

Check out the phony-baloney "Agenda" .......... you have got to be KIDDING me.....

They HAD to go to Disney World to have this self-serving mutual admiration society confab?..... RIGHT!?.   Oh, and our broken contract?.... not even on the agenda

NAGE thumbs nose at LMRDA Annual Report Deadline .... again

The NAGE LM-2 (Financial Disclosure) report is due at the Department of Labor 90 days after the close of the reporting union's fiscal year.

The NAGE fiscal year closed on August 31, 2006 making the LM-2 report due by November 29, 2006.

It's filed electronically, on-line and can be downloaded on the DOL Public disclosure web site.

The NAGE Report is not yet available.... what a surprise. I'm sure they've been too busy getting ready for this year's staff Xmas party...to bother with the federally mandated reporting... The Burgin Parkway Bandits didn't get around to filing last year, until May......... what's that? six months late?

Let's see what the scoff-laws do this year, how late will it be?..... well, you'd almost think they have something to hide....

What Things may we find out from the LM-2 (when it's finally filed)...hmmmm?

1) What did it cost us in hard earned dues to throw a good time for the "hardly -workin" NAGE HQ staff at THEIR (as opposed ot OUR) Xmas party ?...., (it was $12,400 for a good time at Jasper White's in 2005..... do you think Cambridge Dave was able to out-do that soiree in 2006 ?)

2) What was the Tab for the NAGE support of Level 4 Reilly, the NAGE endorsed candidate for governor in the democratic primary.... how much did we dump supporting Reilly while idiot Holway was going out of his way to insult Governor-elect Deval Patrick..... way to go Holway, you dope....
....by the way, would you please confine yourself to worrying about getting me a decent contract for a change and leave things like who's going to be ambassador to Netherlands up to the real big-shots in Washington.... you tomato-nosed fly-weight! And don't pull your usual Judas Goat Act, low-balling the NAGE members and leading the bargaining units in race to the bottom....

3) How much did it cost us to pay for Holway's defense in DC as result of that fracas started by the wronged local?.... no award of legal fees to NAGE because the Judge couldn't really conclude that that the charges made by the aggrieved local were frivolous (unlike the some of the cases filed by NAGE HQ)

4) How obscene were the raises Pres for life Holway granted to himself and his cronies (I'm gonna stick my neck out here and guess he didn't sell himself and his toadies down the river for 2% raises, with off-setting cuts in Health benefits and increases in premiums to boot.... like he did to the State Employees)

5) How many more settlements (pay-offs) did NAGE have make in response to lawsuits like the mystery of the $100K it cost us for a pay-off to Celia Olaes and William F. Sink in Honolulu, HI in 2005.....

6) More general financial evidence proving that NAGE is operated for the benefit of of Holway and his merry band (at the expense of the membership), and that the interests of the dues paying members are the furthest things from their minds and their expense accounts.

I'll keep you posted........

Livin' Large at Burgin Parkway....

Here are the top pay-outs for the NAGE luminaries at Burgin Parkway. While these fat-cats spend your dues money like drunken sailors on crapola like transfer payments to the SIEU Fight for Future!.....

You MEMBERS are ignored, cheated out of fair representation at the bargaining table, and insulted with a constant stream of give-backs, below the cost of living salary adjustments, and health-care benefit cuts....

All the while, at NAGE HQ, they are living large at your expense....

They have been laughing at you for years.... it's time to start paying attention...... vote these miscreants out!

Keep checking in, I've got plenty more opinion and information articles to be shared.... some you'll see here soon:

From the Files of the BullShit Police
In this column I'll be reviewing past issues of the the NAGE Reporter (the rag that is the preferred propaganda sheet for NAGE ).... I'll be pointing out the BULLSHIT that NAGE likes to publish and pass off for the truth .....

....... I was Working the weekend-shift out of "bunko", and I was musing on the role BS plays in our lives... We all know bullshit is a way of life in the public sector... the thing is, it's usually harmless and even entertaining... it works out because no-one is able to monopolize the discussion, BS naturally attracts those who speak up for the other point of view, people can hear both sides and make up their own mind....BS is neutralized....

........ but once in while an outfit comes along, that is so self-serving, so cowardly and corrupt..., that they have to monopolize the discourse by making sure all communication is one-way-only, via in-house propoganda organs.... They are too gutless to face the membership in an open meeting.... where they'd have to answer for what they've done..... such an outfit is NAGE.

When I see that, I have to step in and call it for what it is , that's my job, I carry a badge.

NAGE FINANCIAL Reports for DOWNLOAD
Here I'll provide all the DOL reports in convenient Excel format so you can download them and perform your own analysis.

NAGE Contract salaries adjusted for Inflation

I'll be applying the Massachusetts Implicit Price Deflator to the history of NAGE contract salary adjustments... I have a strong suspicion that I'll find we are a lot worse off today than we were 15 or twenty years ago.... since NAGE contracts just keeps getting worse under David "Judas Goat"Holway.....
.....we'll see what the NAGE give-backs have done to us in "constant dollars".... just how far down the river have you been sold?

And more......

Remember last year's Agency Xmas Party?

I remember mine.... I had to pony-up ten bucks of my own dough for the privilege of attending a lunchtime "holiday party" (in the conference room) ....

.... where I was treated (at my own expense)to cold pizza, flat soda, and a few "pot luck" dishes brought in by those too cheap to spring for the ten bucks..... sound familiar?
(Oh and not a beer or drop of alcohol to be had....)

Well that ain't a Xmas party befitting the kings of NAGE .... no sir-ree!
The members of the NAGE Ruling class at Burgin Parkway.....

Treated themselves (at your expense) to a $12,442 Xmas party for themselves (and their families?) at a posh, chi-chi, restaurant called Jasper White's Summer Shack in Cambridge , MA.....
No members invited (unless you think all OUR invitations were lost in the mail)

I'm sure they were able to have a good time for that tidy sum of YOUR DUES!!!! (no wonder they just passed a dues increase) Hey, they still have to book THIS year's party!

I'm sure Dave Holway knocked back a few drinks at that posh soiree'! Ya Think!

I bet You didn't even know you were buying rounds at Jasper's for good ole Dave.... and his court jesters Farley, Sorazon, and McGoldrick....

Do you think they had a few laughs at our expense over our stinking' 2-3% raises during a time of record high state surpluses??.... I'm guessing they did.
(I'll be calculating and posting their own astronomical rates of salary increases here soon....)

Anyway, this tidbit and many more financial details will be posted here soon for your enjoyment and downloading..... salaries, expenditures for consultants, breakdown of NAGE members by Local, Xmas parties!, etc...... all the details, in easy to analyze form!


NAGE, apparently, doesn't want you to have this info (or they'd provide it to the members in Financial Reports, right?)


I DO want you to have it....
Stay tuned Folks..... more to come.

Holway's salary obscene....

By Steve Bailey, Boston Globe Columnist  |  April 15, 2005
...from LaborNet news...

ANDREW STERN IS PRESIDENT of the Service Employees
International Union, the fastest-growing union in
the United States with 1.6 million members.
Ambitious and intense, Stern wants to radically remake
the labor movementby consolidating it into a few megaunions
that could have a chance of standing up to consolidating
Corporate America. "Can this man save labor?" Business Week
asked in a recent cover story. Stern's compensation,
according to the union's most recent regulatory filing: $239,511.

David Holway is president of the National Association of Government Employees, a Quincy-based SEIU local with just 46,000 members spread out over 41 states. Last year Holway's local spent about $2.3 million more than it took in, according to its annual report. That followed a net loss of about $2.2 million the year before according to minutes of a board meeting. The union's assets fell by 40 percent last year, and the union took out a $2 million line of credit, using its headquarters as collateral.
Holway's compensation, according to the union's most recent regulatory filing: $240,147.

A gruff-talking former lobbyist for NAGE, Holway sees himself as a reformer cleaning up the excesses of his predecessor, Kenneth T. Lyons, who ruled the union for 40 years before being forced out nearly four years ago over the matter of a few lunch tabs for a state official at Anthony's Pier 4. Few, though, would argue that change was overdue.

As for his compensation, Holway adopts the standard CEO defense: The board sets my salary, I don't. "My salary is set by the national executive committee. They set the benefit level," says Holway, who took over NAGE in 2002.

And a friendly committee it is. Holway makes $229,455 as president of NAGE and another $10,692 for sitting on the SEIU executive board, or $240,147 in all. By comparison, Ronald Gettelfinger, who heads the United Auto Workers, with 625,000 members, makes $151,630. Morton Bahr, who heads the Communications Workers of America, with 557,000 members, makes $195,137. John Sweeney, who heads the AFL-CIO, with 13 million members, makes $277,785. And SEIU's Local 509, which also represents state workers in Massachusetts, paid its president $65,724.

In all, 11 NAGE employees make $100,000 or more, including the union's lobbyist, who makes $193,692 in the job Holway had. Holway makes no apologies. "I am not afraid to pay for talent," he says. "I need hard-working people as smart as the people we are going up against."

Holway, 57, who has homes in Cambridge and Martha's Vineyard, says the union's deficit stems, in part, from defending lawsuits brought by Lyons and his family, a cost he said was approaching $2 million. Rather than raise dues, the board decided to "spend down the surplus," Holway says. The local's cash position shrunk from $2.4 million to less than $100,000 in the last year, according to the annual report.

There's another option: bringing NAGE's compensation in line with its peers.