OPEIU Trial Court Pros & Clericals win huge arbitration...$30million in Retro PAY! ....NAGE and 509 losers by comparison

WOW.... this is huge.... some very interesting and important issues are highlighted in this arbitration award..... I'll be getting to them in future posts.... 

OPEIU union makes NAGE SEIU 5000/ACORN and Local 509 look like the pathetic do-nothing dues sucking losers that they are..... Grunko and Holway you pathetic dopes..... take a look at how a real union operates....

(meanwhile here is how Holway is squandering Massachusetts employees hard earned dues by transferring our dues to SEIU for use in out-of-state political ads...sickening

Politico story on SEIU Pennsylvania ad buy)

....among other things the arbitrator cites the BTU case as the " wellspring of the law regarding funding of collective bargaining agreements under G.L.c. 150E, § 7.

In BTU, the Boston School Committee advanced essentially the same contention that the Trial Court makes here:

......contends that the salary increases for the second and third years of the collective bargaining agreement are unenforceable in the absence of an appropriation by the city council to fund those increases. It argues that in enacting G.L.c. 150E, the Legislature intended to preserve the annual appropriation process so as to require an appropriation by the city council as a condition precedent to the enforceability of any part of a collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to c. 150E that would require an appropriation of funds.
We disagree. 
We think that the requirement in § 7 (b), that the employer submit a request to the appropriate legislative body for an appropriation sufficient to fund the cost items of the agreement, applies only to funds needed in the first year of the agreement, and that an appropriation funding the first year of the contract constitutes an approval by the legislative body of the entire agreement. The context of this provision suggests that this is the proper interpretation. Section 7 (b) states that a request for an appropriation is to be submitted "within thirty days after the date on which the agreement is executed by the parties." It further states that if the legislative body rejects the request, "such cost items shall be returned to the parties for further bargaining." We conclude that these terms are intended to apply only to the first year of the agreement. In order for § 7 (b) to be construed consistently with § 7 (a), authorizing contracts of three years' duration, the statute must be read as contemplating an initial approval of the contract by the legislative body, followed by appropriations as a matter of course in the succeeding years of the contract.

AWARD
The Trial Court violated the collective bargaining agreement by failing to pay certain salary increases described in the July'07 to June'10 collective bargaining agreements.

• (And by the way, this was no NAGE-like giveback contract....it called for 1st year 3% plus new step 8, 2nd year 3%, and 3rd year 3%....while NAGE keeps telling you 0% with Furloughs... "is not a great contract, but a good one, or the best you can hope for.... you pathetic dues paying sheeple!....ws)

As a remedy, the Trial Court shall make affected employees in both bargaining units whole for all contractual wage increases,including those attributable to the new Step 8 where applicable, retroactive to June 1,2007,the effective date of both collective bargaining agreements.

The Trial court shall also make affected employees whole for all benefits that are directly contingent upon wage rates,such as retirement contributions.

It'll probably take me several posts to go through them.... but off the top of my head here are few comments:

1) This is what can be done for employees that have a real union working on their behalf
(unlike the lazy, shiftless, self-serving scum at SEIU/Acorn 5000 (aka NAGE)

2) Is Deval Patrick planning the same Farschimmelt rotten trick on us that he tried (and still may) to pull on the clerical and professional employees of the trial court?

• ....Patrick tried to argue that the legislative funding bill, that the Legislature enacted and HE SIGNED.... funded only the initial year (and not subsequent years of the contract).... exactly the kind of low-down trick I thought might be raised when I posted it here.....

3) Congratulations to Mary Mahoney President of Local 6 OPEIU Office and Professional Employees International Union on stunning victory for your members....

Fellow NAGE members.... do you think OPEIU is considering a decertification campaign to throw out these useless self-serving dogs at SEIU/ACorn 5000 (aka NAGE)???....

• hey there are millions of dollars in dues up for grabs.... most of the poor NAGE members would welcome the opportunity to have a successful, democratically oriented union take over as bargaining agent!!!!

That four-flushing Polecat Holway tried to raid the OPEIU  shop!!!!
Turn about is fair play.....most members would love it!

4) How does this look to other Trial Court employees still stuck with NAGE/ACORN?.... 

While the OPEIU was successfully negotiating a fair contract, and in an understated and professional manner seeking to vindicate the rights of the members in face of a double cross by the Deval Patrick administration.... 

What was David J. "Lonesome Polecat" Holway doing for his members?... well he had a guy in a chicken suit dancing and raving, in a totally ineffectual manner outside the offices of Justice Mulligan..... unbelievable.

David J. Holway an A-Hole for our times......

More to follow......