Millions in Massachsuetts Tax dollars going to SEIU causes via NAGE UNits 1,3 & 6 Dues

That's right think about it..... that $5.4 million per year in dues that NAGE/SEIU is shaking down you down for..... that's TAXPAYER money..... who do you think pays your salary?

Those dues, paid for with taxpayer money.... that $47 bucks every month per employee are being shunted right into the NAGE National Treasury, where SEIU toady David J Holway then is able to transfer directly to the National SEIU...at his whim (well there may be some rubber stamps along the way from his hand picked toadies.....) but you poor rank & file SAPS, while getting virtually nothing in services for those dues..... you don't have a damn thing to say about it.

I'd say that the tax dollars are being laundered (through you sheeple,) but it's more like a "light rinse"..... you never really touch that money.....

After Holway and his merry band of Burgin parkway bandits have their fill of traveling and living the high-life at various resort destinations , and after they pay for the occasional million dollar legal judgments against them as a result of losing lawsuits filed against NAGE by  their own employees and those they allegedly represent.....
..... well much of what's left,  hundreds of thousands of dollars per year(often,) is transferred,to the SEIU for their ultra leftwing political agendas......... like amnesty for illegal aliens.

Check it out.....

Democrat introduces SEIU-backed illegal alien amnesty bill

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 15, 2009 11:15 AM

The SEIU needs more dues-paying members.
The open-borders lobby needs something to do.
Voila! Meet the new illegal alien shamnesty push via the Washington Times (readers: note that this is an excerpt from a NEWS story from the Times, NOT a Times editorial endorsement of amnesty!):

Democrats on Tuesday begin their new push for an immigration bill, hamstrung by the image of legalizing millions of illegal immigrant workers at a time when the unemployment rate stands at 10 percent — more than twice what it was the last time Congress tried to act.
“It certainly will confuse the debate a lot more, but at the end of the day what we have to understand is fixing this system will be good for American workers,” said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, which is one of the major advocates for legalizing illegal immigrant workers.
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat who has taken over leadership on the issue after the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, plans to introduce an immigration legalization bill Tuesday, and backers are planning a strategy to avoid repeats of the failed attempts of 2006 and 2007.

The bill would torpedo the joint federal-local deportation program known as 287(g) and opposes beefing up our land borders with more Border Patrol agents or fencing.
SEIU has been lobbying for illegal alien amnesty as a massive membership booster all year. In May, the Purple Shirts held a pro-illegal immigration rally from Malcolm X Park to the White House to put pressure on homeland security officials to call off workplace raids (not that Janet Napolitano needed any convincing):..... to read the rest click this link

Update #1...NAGE shaking you down for $5.4 million per year?

Wow, the NAGE national is taking approx $5.4 million dollars in dues out of our collective pockets every year! (based on published January 2007 FTE counts.)

oh, they MIGHT be kicking back ("per capitas") a small portion of OUR dues to OUR actual unions (the locals)....(MAYBE around $114K per year....and that's a big maybe).....

So the National pockets 98% of our $5.4 million per year in check-offs.... to do with as they please..... that's what I would call a nice racket!

Seriously folks, do you think our units 1,3 & 6 members are getting anything even remotely approaching that value in services from the Burgin Parkway Bandits? No?, well I don't either......

Instead, it appears to me they are living the hi-life of high rollers...with our money!,
....that is attending "meetings" held in resort settings,
....jetting around the country staying in nice hotels while on union "business"
....enjoying lavish Christmas parties for themselves-(no members invited....) and
.....duking hundreds of thousands of our dues money to their favorite charity the national SIEU, an orgainization that probably wouldn't know a mass state employee if they fell over one.....

.....Now, such largess shown to these ultra -leftwing causes might be commendable (to some maybe, personally I find it obscene...)... except they are spending your money!.....AND THEY CAN'T EVEN GET YOU A STINKING ONE PERCENT PAY HIKE SPREAD OVER TWO YEARS!!!!!

......you never got to vote on whether these LAVISH expenditures of your dues should be undertaken, DID YOU?

(GIVEN THE MISERABLE TRACK RECORD OF FAILURE BY NAGE IN ADVOCATING FOR YOUR INTERESSTS...WOULD YOU HAVE VOTED TO SEND THEM TO DISNEYLAND FOR SOME MEANINGLESS CHIN MUSIC CONCERT SESSION?, neither would I.....

I would have said "HAVE A CONFERENCE CALL".... maybe if you can get me some kind a pay raise we can talk about you having a conference in DISNEYLAND.....NEXT YEAR....

Hey Burgin Parkway-ites.... if I'm wrong about any of this, why don't you entlighten me by posting some financial reports or activity reports showing exactly what the hell you are doing WITH OUR MONEY AND EXACTLY HOW IT IS BENEFITING units 1, 3, 6 members?

It's not easy to figure out how NAGE operates, and my guess is that's NO ACCIDENT!....
In my opinion NAGE is WAY TO SECRETIVE about itself....here's why I say that:
....they provide no financial reports of any kind to the members, ....
....no minutes of meetings,
.......no operational statistics on greivances processed, arbitrations undertaken,
......they rarely ever hold a meeting for members,
.......they provide no on-line open forum for discussion or participation by members in union business..... ........in other words they go out of their way to keep us in the dark, and as a result they deny us MEANINGFUL PARATICIPATION in UNION BUSINESS.... ( AND $5.4 MILLION PER YEAR IS ONE HELL OF A LOT OF BUSINESS WE SHOULD BE HAVING A SAY IN!!!!)

(oh sure, I know they conduct these super-short-notice "quickie" mail in ballot "elections" from time to time, ....
....where you don't know who the hell is running, or
....what they do or are going to do,
....you never have an opportunity to meet the candidates and assk questions... and
....you never hear from them again after they are elected....
that's what i call meaningless participation, if you ask me........ maybe it meets the bare bones requirements of the LMRDA, but it ain't meaningfully democratic thats' for sure.

NAGE publications?.....
..... generally limited to very occaisional self serving puff pieces LONG ON BS AND VERY SHORT ON FACT in which they cast themselves as white knights coming to the rescue of some poor beleageuerd employees.....
.....Indoor air quality seems to be their favorite theme of late...... hey how many more DOR employees must DIE! at the that toxic waste dump/office in Salem.....
......what a joke....

Back to the NAGE/SEIU shakedown (uhh, I mean dues collection)

As a member of UNit 6....For example, you belong to either Local 207/McGoldrick or to Local 282/Sorozan.... these are your unions (Not SEIU "Local 5000/aka NAGE National")..... but they don't get your dues money!!!! uhhh....No.

Your dues money goes directly to the NAGE National Union (aka SEIU Local 5000) headquarters at Burgin parkway. NAGE national is itself a "local"(SEIU Local 5000) within the SEIU .... (viewed by many as an ultra-leftwing organziation.....allegedly with ties to that wonderful organization called ACORN.)

Signifcant sums of dues money are transferred from NAGE NAtional into the coffers of SEIU... which they use to promote their politcial agenda (for example, according to their recent LM-2,  NAGE transferred $125,000 to SEIU for their political fund called the "American Dream" fund....(some would argue that a better moniker would be the "American Nightmare Fund".....)
.....The single largest expenditure on the 2005 LM-2 was for a "charitable donation" for a boondoggle called "SEIU FIGHT FOR the FUTURE!"....$363,0000!!!!!

You've got to be kidding me!..... Mass State Employees, who are being milked for a lions share of the $19 million in dues collected each year by NAGE, and they are funding these dopey experiments in social engineering by the SEIU international union? (oh and by the way, along with rubber-staamping this absolutely egregious transfer of your dues money, Sorozan & McGoldrick also  voted to increase your dues)

Hey, I'm sure the SEIU are spending our money wisely on those worthy and gnarly issues like immigration reform/amnesty and healthcare "reform", etc...and I'm sure they are having a heck of a good time while doing it.....

.....but what does any of that have to do with our local collective bargaining issues?...or for that matter with Massachsuetts local politics---- which does affect our interests....(getting repeatedly screwed by the legislature when they renege on negotiated contracts comes to mind...) anyway, I thinks it's fair to say that whatever it that SEIU is doing with our hard earned dues money has little or nothing to do with our intersts and it certainly is not helping us one damn bit....

Look, Do you think SEIU/NAGE is going to spread any of that "political walking around money" here in Massachusetts??? (a significant portion of which has been taken from Mass State Employees dues) 

... I don't think so, here in the bluest of blue states, do you think SEIU has to spend any money convincing local pols that giving amnesty to illegal aliens would be a good thing?, that taxing "Cadillac health insurance plans (like ours) to pay for free insurance for millions of illegals is a good idea?....... I don't think so either, they'd just be preachin' to the choir.....

AND.... it ought to be obvious they are are not spreading any of that largess around the halls of Golden Dome in order to help get us our stinkin' 1 % raise (spread over two years!)..... No way Jose'.... Your concerns, your livelihood are obviously of little concern to NAGE/SEIU.....

NAGE would rather you settle for more level funding of your salary, and take a few Furlough days while you at it...... it is sickening I tell you.....


This excerpt form the National Constitution lays out the dues collection process

SECTION 3.
Local Units meeting the requirements of voluntary dues allotments (Dues Check-Off)
will sign an agreement with their Agency whereby the Agency will deduct the specified
dues and make all payments directly to:

NATIONAL TREASURER, FISCAL OFFICE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
159 BURGIN PARKWAY
QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS 02169-4213

or such other address as the National Treasurer shall designate to each Local Unit by
written notice.

SECTION 4.
The dues structure of the Union and any division thereof shall not be changed except by a
majority vote of duly constituted delegates to a regularly scheduled or special National
Convention, or by a seventy five percent (75%), or more, vote of the National Executive
Board. (this is another "FEATURE" of the NAGE structure.... they can increase you dues, and you don't get to vote on it.... they jsut do it to you while they are being wined and dined at some tropical resort....)

SECTION 5.
Between National Conventions, the National Executive Board shall have the authority to
take such steps it determines are needed to insure that the NAGE shall be able to meet its
obligations.

SECTION 6.
Upon receipt of said dues, the National Treasurer will return to said Local (every month
for the previous month) the Local’s Per Capita. Per Capita shall be paid at the rate of
$3.00 per member, per month, based on full-time-equivalents.
Any Local Unit may notify the National Treasurer to suspend Per Capita payments to
said Local Union. (WHy the hell would anyone do that?..... who know maybe McGoldrick has done ?.... who knows?)

Enough for this post..... thinking about this situation is making me sick.....

NAGE wins retro pay raise---zero percent! Dues increase pending!

NAGE continues their role as leader in the race to the bottom. They just settled a contract for zero percent and it's retro active for one year.
The latest contract is a disgrace.... merely continuing a long history of selling out the members by "leadership."

How long have the NAGE shills been feeding us the same tired old litany..... "Well, it's not a GREAT contract, but its all we can get during these tough times....." Whether the Commonwealth is racking up record surplus revenues, or as now when the economy is in the crapper.... it's always the same from NAGE..... there's nothing for you.....but from you we expect your dues
How long can it be before NAGE is looking for yet another dues increase, everytime they sellout on a lousy contract they raise the dues.

Wake up Mass State Employees..! Vote NO on 3

NAGE is STEALING your dues money!
Stealing it and giving it to these SEIU assholes, these Social Engineers in Washington DC who wouldn't know a Mass State Employee from a hole in the ground....

Maybe I'd think it was commendable for SEIU to be spending millions to organize janitors, and hotel housekeepers, and illegal aliens.... if they weren't spending MY DUES to do it! (My dues are suppposed to be fiancing the interests of my professional state employee bargain unit.... not the interests of private employees in other states...) Hey good luck to them, but let them raise their own dues!

You state employees get NO REPRESENTATION of your interests at the state bargaining table. Holway and his minions are only interested in stealing your dues so they get to be heroes to their SEIU masters by transferring MILLION$ of your dollars.....

Watch how quickly Dave "Judas goat" Holway sells you all down the river when the talks begin for the next contract. What will we see, another 2%?, 3%?..... how much further erosion will we see in health insurance benefits?

DID you get that full color, over-sized, glossy postcard with the generic SEIU propaganda? With the little "customized-fill-in-the-blanks" section asking you to vote for Deval & Question 3? What a joke.... your dues are paying for these generic mailers that are being sent all over the country.... don't let them fool you, they don't give a shit about state employees in Massachusetts .....

By the WAY...... please vote NO on question 3

Campaigns(Like Question 3) have nothing whatever to do with your interests and will not benefit you in any way..... this bullshit is completely beyond the scope of the Mass public employee collective bargaining law, Chapter 150E..... why the hell is NAGE spending our money on this twaddle?

We, as state employees, have absolutely no stake in whether home-based day care providers can organize unions..... they are not state employees and they never will be.....

The best I can say about Question 3 is: I don't give shit one way or the other, and the worst I can say is that NAGE/SIEU/Holway arrogance will ONCE AGAIN piss off the Legislature

..... (you don't think the legislature is going to appreciate an attempt by carpetbagger out-of-state union-shitheads to foist a change in the general laws on their constituents, do you?),
and we, the poor members, will be punished again by being screwed in the next contract!.... wake up folks, these NAGE assholes have to brought to heel.


NAGE is stealing your dues to pay for this campaign while they give you shit for service..... For God sake, don't do anything to encourage them to keep raiding our bank account!!!

VOTE NO ON Question 3.... let them raise their own money.

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.

Dave Holway--- Judas Goat of the State Unions, Romney Shill

The NAGE spin on the lack of funding for contracts screw-up is that "NAGE was a victim of it's own success!! What a laugh....

TheNAGE line of crapola goes like this:

NAGE was the first Union to cave in to Willard Romney and meekly accept a contract for a measly 3% raise during a time of record high revenue surpluses and when inflation is running at 4.15%.... and they're PROUD of that???? (not to mention increases in health insurance premiums and co-pays.....more on that later.)

By doing this they set up the other unions....to be played both sides against the middle:

Romney won't negotiate, because his trained "Judas Goat" Dave Holway has already settled for 3%..... Romney just points to that as says:, "They settled for 3% and that's all your going to get"

Even if a decent union such as MOSES, is inclined to fight for a better contract for their membership, they're in trouble because --they have Sheeple too [Sheeple are humans with the brains and temperament of sheep.]

If MOSES leadership hangs tough looking for a fair contract, eventually the Sheeple will begin to whine and bleat..."NAGE got their contract, why can't we settle?"..... the pressure on the other unions to throw in towel after Judas goat NAGE does, is irresistible.

This has been the pattern for a number of years.... NAGE settles for an insultingly unfair contract and leads the other unions to their slaughter...... this is SHAMEFUL..... and if NAGE membership fails to step up, it will be repeated again this year.....

Dave Holway/NAGE is a Judas Goat and a Shill......

"Judas goat" is the official slaughterhouse term for a trained animal used to lead others down the ramp to their death.

(This may apply to "Sheeple" as well....) Sheep can not be readily driven to their death, especially in modern slaughterhouses where they may have been trucked beforehand for as long as three days, wide-awake and without food or water (Or for years without a decent contract for the case of Sheeple).

Judas goat is also a term that is occasionally used to refer to the shills at crooked carnival games who attempt to convince observers that the game is not only winnable, but easily so.