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.....

House W&Ms to Holway: "Get out of here you bum!"

That's my take..... Allegedly, Holway met with unnamed members of the House Leadership on or about March 3rd..... (if he met with anyone it was probably some twenty-something low level staffer).... If he actually had a meeting with DeLeo he'd be crowing about it right?

Anyway the gist of the meeting, if one even took place...(remember unanswered and un-returned phone calls are enough for NAGE to claim they had "high level meetings")..... what a joke....

They have "positive indications"..... they have "every expectation".... WHAT LOW-LIFE WEASELS!.... just like the "positive assurances they had that they'd get and ERIP package right?.... For Christ's sake why can't you lying weasels at NAGE just man-up and admit you can't even sell a Give-back Contract...... you are hopeless.....

Well the gist of the meeting was obviously  "DON"T CALL US, WE'LL CALL YOU"...... NAGE remains a totally ineffectual advocate and collective bargaining representative..... we should join our brothers and sisters in the trial courts in calling for an election to throw these scum out..... they do nothing for us.

Here's the vague BS posted on the official NAGE web site..... these dopes are a joke.

CONTRACT FUNDING UPDATE

 The following email was sent out to all NAGE Members today:
In a meeting last week with  House leadership, National President David Holway received positive indications that the House Ways & Means Committee intends to report out favorably in the next week or two the bill to fund our state units’ contracts.
NAGE has every expectation that the bill will be advancing to the full House in the next couple of weeks, but will notify members on the web site of any delay. If it appears that the bill remains stalled in committee, we will be asking NAGE members to call and email committee members to urge them to take action.

Trial Court Officers hope to throw SEIU 5000 (aka "NAGE") out ...

Well, it seems many of the Court Officers and Probation Officers currently  (un)represented by NAGE want to throw the scoundrels out.

That's about 2,400 members, or up to $1.3 million in NAGE swag at stake (aka dues.)

They, like a lot of us, are sick and tired of seeing their dues collected and squandered by those high-living frauds, the Burgin Parkway Bandits and seeing what's left transferred the ultra-left-wing nut cakes in SEIU/ACORN.... while getting nothing in the way of services, and one shitty contract after another.

Unlike Units 1, 3 & 6, they are doing something about it.... they are signing petitions for  an election to decertify NAGE and select NEPBA to be their bargaining rep. http://nepba.org/mass_trial_court_blog

Good luck brothers and sisters, I sincerely hope you succeed in throwing out these dues sucking do-nothing SEIU/ACORN bums.... maybe you can be an inspiration for us sheeple in units 1 3 & 6

I have often wondered how anyone in law enforcement or the courts could stand by and see their hard earned dues being transferred to SEIU/ACORN for use in lobbying for amnesty for illegal aliens, and other ultra-left-wing scams....

Apparently a lot of them can't, here's what this fellow has to say (sound familiar?:)

What really bothers me the most is that NAGE thinks we are naive and willing to settle for it’s inadequate representation.  Negotiations have dragged for over two years.  Only after interest from another union does NAGE awaken.  Have you ever seen so many faxes, mailings, etc... from NAGE before?  Now they want to know how I feel????  Are you kidding me?  Recently, NAGE resumed contract talks with the Trial Court.  Should I be excited about this?  Hello, can anyone hear me?  Our contract expired JUNE 30, 2007!!!!  WHAT HAS NAGE BEEN DOING?   

 We need a union that will represent us.  We are in law enforcement and need to be represented by those who have the experience and skills necessary to get us a contract with clear and unambiguous language.  Please take advantage of this opportunity and sign the petition in order to promote positive and meaningful change.  You and I deserve better. 

 In solidarity,

Andrew S. Blatus,Probation Officer,Lowell District Court

SEIU 5000 Politcial Action Committee... a joke

On a rainy afternoon, I'm sitting here contemplating the reasons why I think NAGE is so totally ineffectual in getting getting anything even remotely approaching a fair contract for Units 1, 3 & 6 members.....

.....why is it that the Legislature just keeps crapping on NAGE unit members?

I think the SEIU 5000 would like us to believe that Holway and McGrath are these big-shot power brokers on the Beacon Hill, and with the Million$ in dues they collect each year from us members, there is certainly reason to believe that they have plenty of money to spread around to make sure our concerns and interests are getting represented on Beacon Hill.... RIGHT?

Well, NOOooooo....guess again.... you can download the reports from the office of campaign and political finance....
.....so i downloaded the year end report for the NAGE PAC (Political Action Committee).... whose treasurer is none other than Raymond McGrath the defunct cop with the retired firefighter brother who recently had to withdraw his application for disability retirement under very curious circumstances.....

WOW! No wonder we are getting completely screwed over by the Legislature.....
....look at the NAGE PAC fund.... its got, wait for it...

.... a grand total of $7.46....
Seven Dollars and forty-six cents! ...
Ha, ha, ha..... you've got to be sh*tting me
They spent it, but I hope they didn't spend it all in one place.
What a warchest!!!!
These scum refuse to spend any of your money on Your behalf!!!!

For a comparison I took a look at the fabled MBTA Carmens union PAC.... you don't think they had $7 bucks..... 
NO, they had $105,450.... 
and they spread around about $40,000 of it..... 
 here's a partial list of those recipients of Carmen's Largess.... 

Pay attention McGrath YOU IDIOT.... learn from the masters.....

Galluccio Committee,Galvin Committee,Glodis Committee,Hart Committee,Hedlund Committee,Hennigan Committee,Hogan Committee,Howard, Brian C.T.E.,Jones Committee,Koch, Thomas C.T.E.,Lorusso, Leonard,Mangan, Michael CTE,Marcus, Jason CTE,MBTA,McAuliffe, James,Miceli,James C.T.E.,Montigny, Mark   CTE,Moore Committee,Morrissey Committee,Murphy Committee,Murphy, Stephen CTE,Murphy,Charles C.T.E.,O'Connor, Patrick CTE,O'Day Committee,Pacheco Committee,Pedone Committee,Petruccelli Committee,Powers, John CTE,Richardson, Pam CTE,Rogers Committee,Rush Committee'Sage Systems,Sandlin Committee,Simmons, Denise,Smart, Michael, C.T.E.,Smith Stat, Stephen C.T.E.,Timilty Committee,Tisei, Richard CTE,Tolman Committee,Wallace Committee,Walsh Committee

I kid you not..... where are those million$ of your dues dollars (withheld from Mass State Employee paychecks) going?.....

.....besides lavish salaries, parties and junkets for Holway and his toadies.....

...... hundreds of thousand$ of your dues every year transferred to SEIU/ACORN so they can lobby for amnesty for illegal aliens and other ultra-leftwing pursuits, while they spend nothing on you, the dues paying members.....

....these frauds are laughing at us..... we need a real union..... other locals around the country are throwing these SEIU/ACORN scum out and taking back their unions.... and if SEIU 5000 (aka NAGE) continues to refuse to allow members any say in governing their union and how their dues are spent..... then that's what needs to happen here......

Here's the PAC report:
Report Type:
Year-end Report (PAC)
Filer Name:SEIU NAGE Local 5000 PAC
Reporting Period:1/1/09 - 12/31/09
CPF ID: 80674
Committee Name: SEIU NAGE Local 5000 PAC
Treasurer Name: Raymond McGrath
Committee Address: 159 Burgin Parkway Quincy
Beginning Balance: $7.46
Receipts: $0.00
Subtotal: $7.46
Expenditures: $7.46
Ending Balance: $0.00 R
In-kind Contributions: $0.00
Total Outstanding Liabilities: $0.00
Total Savings: $0.00
Name of Bank(s) Used:

Who is Ray McGrath?

He is the SEIU 5000 (aka NAGE) legislative lobbyist...the guy who year after year has been unable to secure legislative approval for negotiated and ratified contracts.... including the current concessions contract amendment...also he is....

A defunct Worcester cop....
a defunct Worcester city councilor
a defunct member of the Worcester retirement board
paid $135,000 in hard earned dues money (2009 LM-2)

Being a defunct cop Probably explains why he spends a lot of time lobbying for the Quinn bill (those sweet salary bonuses for cops  with higher education degrees from such diploma mills august institutions as the Anna Maria Allbregetti College and the "Close cover before striking" university....) (hey I don't begrudge them.... I'd like a 25% salary bump for my Masters Degree too.... hey it makes me a better bureaucrat!....really)

..... and, Why he lobbies against civilian flag men....

He is also interested in legislation that prohibits retirement authorities from conducting surveillance on disability retirees.... this of course protects the privacy of those with legit injuries, but perhaps more importantly (to them), it protects the privacy of malingerers with phony bad backs and the like....

So if you're thinking you might file a phony disability claim, then I'm thinking that Ray McGrath is probably your kind of guy.... he's got your back.... so to speak....

.... if on the other hand, you'd simply like to see your stinkin' 1% raise (over 2 years!) get funded.... then not so much, Ray has been disgustingly ineffectual in securing the even the puniest raises from the legislature...... Hey, he can't even get the legislature to approve the latest round of give-backs that Holway gave them!

Ray's younger brother Dave, would surely have liked to have seen Ray's legislation (prohibiting surveillance go through)...... his attempt to sweeten his retirement by turning it into a "disability" (for a bad neck).... was scuttled when surveillance video (showing him doing heavy yard work and moving furniture) was shown to the retirement board (of which brother Ray was a member) ....

The matter was referred to Marsha Coakley for investigation.... I'm sure she's all over it.... as soon as she gets done with Garden Clubs, who are a menace to society, she look further into this alleged scheme...

this based on reports in the Worcester telegram:
Friday, December 19, 2008

AG asked to probe pension case
After video, retired firefighter withdrew claim


By Shaun Sutner TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
ssutner@telegram.com
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WORCESTER —  District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. has asked the state attorney general to pursue the case of a retired firefighter who was shown on video doing heavy yardwork and moving furniture at his Cape Cod home while he was on sick leave.

The former city fire lieutenant, David P. McGrath, 56, retired in June and later applied for a tax-free disability pension. He withdrew the application, however, after the city Retirement Board commissioned a private investigator to tail Mr. McGrath and produce a 13-minute video that was shown to the board at its Nov. 20 meeting.

The board voted 4-0 yesterday to accept Mr. McGrath’s withdrawal of the disability pension request. The retired firefighter’s brother, board member Raymond F. McGrath, abstained.

Meanwhile, in a related development, state Rep. John P. Fresolo, D-Worcester — a close associate of Raymond McGrath who filed a bill in the Legislature that would have effectively barred public boards from conducting surveillance on active or retired employees — told the Telegram & Gazette that he made an honest mistake when he entered the private executive session of the Retirement Board in which the video was viewed last month.

David McGrath, who applied for the higher pension claiming he had injured his neck on the job, receives a regular annual pension of $55,200. His lawyer, Paul T. Hynes, did not return a call seeking comment for this story.

Timothy J. Connolly, a spokesman for the district attorney, said state law assigns to the attorney general all alleged abuses of public retirement systems, and that his office, after talking with the city manager and the police chief, referred the matter to Attorney General Martha Coakley.

“The commission that believes the laws have been violated must represent the facts to the AG,” Mr. Connolly said. “They presented some information to the DA, we looked at it and determined that this is really a contributory retirement issue.”

Melissa Karpinsky, spokeswoman for Ms. Coakley, said the attorney general’s policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations.

Retirement Board officials said that while Mr. McGrath could technically re-file his application for the disability pension, it is unlikely.

“He would have the same hurdle to overcome that he has now, the evidence,” said Elizabeth A. Early, executive director of the five-member board, as well as a member of the panel, which administers the city retirement system and pension fund covering 6,500 people.

Since last month’s viewing of the DVD footage, the retired firefighter’s brother, Raymond McGrath, who can be seen on the video helping David McGrath move furniture into a pickup truck, has been unseated from the Retirement Board.

Raymond McGrath, 60, a Westboro resident and longtime board member and former Worcester city councilor and police officer, is a Statehouse lobbyist for the Massachusetts affiliate of the National Association of Government Employees union.

Mr. McGrath, whose latest three-year term on the board expires Dec. 31, was defeated in a mail-in election by John Mahan, a city police officer. With the votes tabulated on Monday, Mr. Mahan defeated Mr. McGrath 1,367 to 1,063.

Mr. McGrath said in an interview that he thought Mr. Fresolo was looking for him when he briefly poked his head into the closed board meeting in a City Hall conference room a month ago.

“He didn’t bust into anything. He opened the door. He wanted to speak to me. He didn’t know it was an executive session,” Mr. McGrath said. “I told him it was a closed meeting and he couldn’t be in there.”

Mr. McGrath added that he asked Mr. Fresolo to file the bill in 2005 that would have severely restricted municipal officials’ ability to conduct surveillance on employees or retirees such as his brother who are suspected of pension abuse.

He did so, he said, “to protect the rights of our members.”

Mr. Fresolo’s bill, which would have required the person under suspicion to be notified of the investigation beforehand, received a rare “ought not to pass” vote from the House Committee on Public Service, a clear signal that it should not be refiled.

As for his role in the video, Mr. McGrath said he had no comment.

“It’s his right to file for a disability pension,” Raymond McGrath said of his younger brother. “I’m not going to answer questions about my brother.”

For his part, Mr. Fresolo’s story about his encounter with the Retirement Board meeting differed from Mr. McGrath’s.

Mr. Fresolo, who has filed dozens of bills for Raymond McGrath over the years, said he was looking for the License Commission session but mistakenly walked into the Retirement Board session.

He said he was told by a clerk that the meeting he wanted was in Room 310, but that he went into adjacent Room 310B, where the Retirement Board was meeting in private, executive session..

“I opened the door and there’s this conference table full of people,” Mr. Fresolo said. “I shut the door and went out.”

Mr. Fresolo said he had no comment about David McGrath’s disability retirement application.

“I don’t even know Ray’s brother,” he said.
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Byline: Scott J. Croteau
WORCESTER - The city's Retirement Board, at its meeting last month, watched a DVD presented by city officials.
On it, they saw footage of a man working earlier this year in a yard at an East Dennis home. The man bent down to gather leaves and chopped at a tree stump. Other footage in the roughly 13-minute video showed the same man moving furniture with his brother and taking items to a Cape Cod transfer station.
The man, Fire Lt. David P. McGrath, was on sick leave at the time.The 56-year-old, who is now retired, was sitting before the board that day, Nov. 20, seeking a disability retirement. The footage was taken by two private investigative firms hired by the city to document the retired firefighter's injury.
Nothing on the DVD indicated the former fire investigator had problems moving his neck - the injury he said he suffered while working for the city and the basis of his disability claim.

Several city officials said they could not discuss the disability claim, citing the confidentiality of personnel and medical records. Referring to suspected fraudulent claims in general, City Manager

Michael V. O'Brien said they are taken seriously and law enforcements officials are notified.
"When we assemble a case and we believe we have all the documentation, data and facts to prove fraud, I have an obligation to pursue that to the full extent of the law," he said. "I can't cite this case specifically for it is a matter that is under investigation and I suspect further action.
"What I will say is before we take action, as a city we will assemble the facts, the data and the documentation so when we do proceed forward we will be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that fraud is involved."
Mr. O'Brien and Police Chief Gary J. Gemme met with District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. and his staff to review the case to determine whether there is criminal liability and, if so, how it would be handled.
Timothy J. Connolly, spokesman for Mr. Early, yesterday confirmed the meeting took place.
A couple of weeks after the Retirement Board meeting, Mr. McGrath withdrew his disability retirement claim.
His lawyer, Paul T. Hynes, sent the letter. The Retirement Board discussed the matter in executive session. Mr. McGrath's brother, Raymond F. McGrath, sits on the board but recused himself from the meeting when his brother's case came up.
A woman who answered the phone at Mr. Hynes' office yesterday, said, "It is the firm's policy not to talk to the media." Mr. McGrath could not be reached for comment. No one answered the door at his Grafton home. His East Dennis home has an unpublished number.

According to records obtained by the Telegram & Gazette through the Freedom of Information Act, Mr. McGrath was placed on injured leavefrom July 30, 2007, to Feb. 23, 2008. Currently there are 15 to 18 police or firefighters out on injured leave. The average annual cost to the city is $2 million. While on injured leave, state and federal income taxes are not deducted from pay.
From Feb. 24 to June 17, Mr. McGrath was on sick leave and taxes were deducted from his pay. According to records, Mr. McGrath retired from the city June 19 and his superannuation retirement became effective.
The former lieutenant, who had 33.8 years of service, applied for disability retirement on Aug. 4. City records also show he received $7,663 for sick leave buy back. Originally Mr. McGrath retired on June17 with 39 sick days left, then changed his retirement to June 19 - leaving him with 37 sick days, which is the maximum days that can be bought back.
The city hired two private investigative firms - NWI InvestigativeGroup Inc. in Woburn and Summit Investigations Inc. in Weymouth - ata cost of $3,928 to follow Mr. McGrath. The investigators tracked the former firefighter from his home in Grafton to his summer home at 67 Indian Field Drive in East Dennis.
According to their reports and several copies of surveillance footage, Mr. McGrath was seen at his Cape Cod home doing yard work, shoveling, swinging an ax and filling and pushing a wheelbarrow.
One investigator reported seeing Mr. McGrath ride his motorcycle with his wife on April 19. Another report from May 23 said Mr. McGrath carried bags and luggage and three or four cases of bottled water from his vehicle into the garage.
"Claimant moved with ease and Investigator saw no visible medical aids or devices," the report said.
Another report from June 8 said Mr. McGrath hauled trash bags intohis truck and then took them to a transfer station in Dennis. "On all observations the claimant moved with fluid movements and showed no visible signs of pain or discomfort," the report said. "He appeared to move his head freely from left to right."

Surveillance occurred in March, April, May and June and included footage of Mr. McGrath moving furniture into a truck with his brother's help. A phone message left at Raymond McGrath's office - he is a legislative lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers - was not returned.
Raymond McGrath's three-year term on the Retirement Board ends Dec. 31. The working and retired city employees had until Dec. 5 - including mail postmarked that date - to vote for Raymond McGrath or his opponent John Mahan. The votes will be tabulated by an outside agency Friday.
When asked about the roughly $4,000 the city spent for the private investigators, Mr. O'Brien said again without specifically citing Mr. McGrath's case, "We know the cost is far greater if the fraud is real. Hundreds of thousands of dollars could be paid out over time based on any fraudulent claim."
The city will use a private investigator when authorities believe there is probable cause to use those services for further fact finding, the city manager said.
City Auditor James DelSignore, chairman of the Retirement Board, declined to discuss Mr. McGrath's case because medical records were discussed and the issue was handled in executive session. No action wastaken by the board on Nov. 20.
Retirement is funded through employee contributions and the board's investment portfolio. Retirement under normal circumstances calculates years of service and the employee's age. Under superannuation retirement, the maximum one can receive is 80 percent of the employee's three-year annual average rate of regular compensation, which Mr. McGrath was eligible to receive. Federal, but not state, taxes come out of superannuation retirement.
With disability retirement, one receives 72 percent of the annual rate of compensation which the employee earned on the date of the injury. That could put a retirement pension beyond 80 percent because it is tax-free.

Obama appoints another SEIU slug to a "do-nothing job".... sickening

Obama appoints none other than our own President David Holway, SEIU 5000 (aka NAGE)  to a do-nothing Council created by executive order .....

It really is enough to make you sick. Holway and his toadies continue to shake down poor NAGE Mass State employees for millions in dues each year while providing virtually no services to them. The only thing NAGE seems to be doing for state employees is making concessions, rendering already shitty contracts ever more insulting....

Now he's got a "prestigious appointment" to give him another excuse do nothing for Mass State Employees. He'll be participating in endless "chin music concerts" about the "plight of Federal Employees...."

Hey, they already have it a lot better than we do....if you ask me. For one thing Federal employees won't have to suffer the increased costs and reduced medical coverage we'll all get when we get put onto Medicaid when Obama crams Obamacare through the House without vote ....

You think the GIC is gettig crappier by the minute?.... wait till ObamaMedicaid for all....

I for one can't wait to see Obama end his "one and done term".... the biggest "bait and switch" in the history of the USA...

President Obama Appoints National President Holway to Federal Labor-Management Relations Council
February 26, 2010

President Barack Obama on Thursday announced his appointment of National President David J. Holway to the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations.

The Council was created in December 2009 by an executive order of the President. Its purpose is to establish a non-adversarial forum where employees, labor unions, and management can discuss ways to improve government operations and the effectiveness of government services.

"This Council will allow those who best know the workings of federal government—federal workers—the opportunity to use their experience and expertise to improve agency productivity and efficiency," said Holway. "With meaningful participation by union members and management, we are closer to achieving our joint mission of delivering consistently superior services to the public."

The Council is expected to advise the President on labor-management relations in the executive branch and to develop innovative ways to improve the federal government’s delivery of services to the public while cutting costs.

The executive order also requires federal agencies and departments to submit written plans to the Council describing how they will implement labor-management forums and how they will measure and monitor improvements in areas such as labor-management relations, productivity gains, and cost savings. A small subcommittee consisting of President Holway, AFGE President John Gage, and two management representatives was appointed and tasked with providing the first review of these implementation plans. The subcommittee will make recommendations to the full Council regarding certification of the plans.

The first meeting of the Council takes place today in Washington, D.C.

Obama appoints Andrew Stern head of SEIU/ACORN to "deficit Commission"

Soon-to-be-one-term President Obama has appointed Andrew Stern of SEIU and ACORN fame to the newly created (by executive order) "bi-partisan commission" called the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform .... this would be laughable if it weren't such a disgrace......

Stern's vision for American Labor seems to be to have everyone (particularly those non-complaining easily manipulated illegals) in crappy paying jobs, with crappy contracts, who pay  a percentage of every stinking gross paycheck they collect as a tithing to Andrew stern and his ACORN cronies.... the man is sickening.....in my humble opinion...

Shows how completely out of touch with reality this President is.... bringing this ultra-leftwing nut onto the commission shows just a what joke it will be. They are supposed to report back to the President by December 2010.

Here are some tips for the President on how to bring the deficit under control.... and I won't need till next December to offer them....

1) End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.... that's why most people voted for you.... not to destroy our health care system. Stop dumping trillion$ of dollars into to these third world cesspools.... their people don't want, nor do they deserve any more financial and military support from the US.... we've given enough. Your policies on Iraq and Afghanistan are no different from those of your predecessor, George Bush.

2) Secure the borders and prosecute employers who hire illegal aliens in order to suppress the market for legal American labor.

3) Review all foreign aid expenditures with the aim of reducing them..... we can't afford to borrow money only to give it away to other countries.

Item number one alone will go along way to stanch the bleeding of our tax dollars....

Here's Something NAGE will never give the members... Financial reports

When it comes to the lowly dues paying members...NAGE practices "mushroom management" .....they keep the members in the dark and feed them bullshit.

Have any of you members ever received a financial report?, or any other accounting of what they do with the million$ in dues they collect from you poor suckers?

NOOooooo! They don't want to you to see how they spend your dues jetting around the country, and living it up at Disney World and Jasper Whites...... They don't want you to see the million dollar judgment$ against them in civil lawsuits brought by former member and employees.

Well, what NAGE refuses to share with the dues paying members I will provide:

In this 1st installment I'm providing a spreadsheet which consolidates many of the sections of the 2009 LM-2, the report that NAGE must file every year with the Department of Labor pursuant to the LMRDA...

In future postings I'll be providing all the LM-2s going back to FY 2000....

Here the FY 2009 LM-2, you can download it and view it for yourself... payer/payee reports, officers and employee salaries...etc..... all in one convenient package

House of NAGE going to Wrack & Ruin?....Holway Emptying NAGE Coffer$?....

What's going on with NAGE Finances under Prez for life David Holway?
The net asset value of NAGE under Holway's Rule is dropping like a Stone!

Hey, you can say what you will about the late and mostly unlamented NAGE President and Founder Ken Lyons...

• that he was a megalomaniac mental case?....
  
• a bigot...
  
• an anti-Semite?....
  
• a serial practitioner of Nepotism with half his family "on the pad"
• .... a legend in his own mind.... Ole Kenny "the Challenge guy" (How I miss that vanity TV show of his...even though it was dues money paying for it .... watching him foaming at the mouth and spewing hatred and bigotry.... what a laugh.....)

.....well whatever.....  anyway, before Lyons got stabbed in the back by Holway, Farley and other SEIU/ACORN sniveling quislings....in their coup.... (so Holway could take over the legal racket NAGE has going of collecting millions in dues and providing next to nothing in services..)

........well old Kenny, he had run the NAGE balance sheet up to quite a respectable net worth.... around $12million

Looks like Holway has been taking out sub-prime mortages ....the way the net asset value has been dropping (driven by huge increases in Liabilities.....)

During Holway's  short reign  he has presided over a loss in "share value" that would even make the pirates at AIG look like prudent stewards...it even went negative by almost $1million in FY 2006!

Take a look for your self, at the spreadsheet below (you can download it yourself if you want)

I'll be posting more historical NAGE LM-2's in easy, convenient spreadsheet format for your viewing and downloading enjoyment

Here's a preview of coming attractions:

MOSES holds out for better deal and gets it ..... 7.36%

Their hands were tied by the early and easy concessions that SEIU and NAGE eagerly gave to Deval (at members expense).... but MOSES was able to do little better for their members, with some shrewd bargaining. 

They got a slightly better raise (7.36% vs NAGE's 7%).... hey think how this will continue to pay dividends when the contract runs out and we go year after year without a raise or a contract.... the pattern that has been established as the norm by NAGE shill Prez for life Holway..... oh, that's right NAGE didn't get the 7.36%, they settled for 7%.


And they didn't concede to stop payments into the Dental and Optical Trust funds (like NAGE did)....


I'm sure this is due to the fact that MOSES is an independent democratic union, that has to answer to the membership.....

Not like NAGE  which is only in business to clip your dues for their own high-living salaries and junkets, and transferring what's left  to Andy Stern at SEIU so he can fund his campaign to give amnesty, welfare, free healthcare, housing and college tuition to illegal aliens, or as our Governor calls them "new Americans".

NAGE  does not have to answer to the membership, they answer only to the handpicked "executive board members at all expenses paid vacations in Disney World resorts..... these cowardly scum never have to face the membership.

These NAGE cowards won't even provide a discussion board on their web site....COWARDS!

Anyway, MOSES was able to negotitate 3.36% increases in the final year fo the concessions contract (compared to what NAGE and 509 settle for--3%)


And NO AGREEMENT to reduce optical and Dental Benefits (that NAGE gave up without a fight)

KUDOS to MOSES for a job done well (as good as could be gotten under the circumstances I guess....with NAGE and 509 having already given away the store...)