Ex-Cincinnati Union Prez Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $757,000

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From Labor Union Report:

Posted September 22, 2011

Union President Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Funds
Ohio News Network
Sept. 21, 2011

CINCINNATI – A former Cincinnati union leader has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from employees in the Cincinnati Organized and Dedicated Employees union.

Diana Frey, 51, entered the plea Wednesday morning of one count of wire fraud and admitted that she embezzled union funds between 2005 and June 2011.

Frey faced charges of embezzling more than $757,000 from the people she was supposed to represent. Frey was the head of the CODE union and an employee with the City of Cincinnati.

Read the rest @ Ohio News Network.

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The Five Million Dollar Man

How government unions rip off the taxpayer

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From the president’s hometown comes an example of what he is actually supporting. The Chicago Tribune reports that an investigation it conducted with WGN-TV found “23 retired union officials from Chicago stand to collect about $56 million from two ailing city pension funds.”

That’s an average of $2.4 million each, and some will rake in even more. Dennis Gannon, a former president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, stands to collect some $5 million. In line for $4 million apiece are Liberato “Al” Naimoli, president of the Cement Workers Union Local 76, and James McNally, vice president of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150.

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WHO actually benefits from Obama’s giveaways to the Unions?

The members?

OR the bosses?

Money distributed throughout Unions Cosa Nostra style?

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Cosa Nostra Chart

Consigliere (Italian consigliere “counselor”, pronounced [konsiʎˈʎɛːre]) is a position in the American Mafia. The word was popularized by Mario Puzo‘s novel The Godfather(1969), and its film adaptation. In the novel, a consigliere is an adviser or counselor to the boss, with the additional responsibility of representing the don in important meetings both within the don’s crime family and with other crime families. The consigliere is a close, trusted friend and confidant, the mob’s version of an elder statesman. He is devoid of ambition and dispenses disinterested advice. This passive image of the consigliere does not correspond with what little is known of real-life consiglieri.^[1]

A real-life Mafia consigliere is generally the number three person in a crime family, after don (boss) and underboss in most cases.^[2] A crime family normally has only one consigliere at a time, but bosses have on occasion appointed more than one. The boss, underboss, and consigliere constitute a three-man ruling panel, or “Administration.”^[3]

When a boss gives orders, he issues them in private either to the consigliere or directly to his caporegimes as part of the insulation between himself and operational acts.

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A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to just a capo, is a term used in the Mafia for a high ranking made member of a crime family who heads a “crew” of soldiers and has major social status and influence in the organization. Caporegime is an Italian word, which is used to signify the head of a family in Sicily, but has now come to mean a ranking member, similar to captain or sergeant. In general, the term indicates the head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate who commands a crew of soldiers and reports directly to a boss or an underboss.

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Worker Advocate Challenges Obama Labor Board Overreach in Federal Court

Mon, 09/19/2011 – 11:07 — Anthony Riedel

Worker Advocate Challenges Obama Labor Board Overreach in Federal Court

National Right to Work Foundation attorneys fight Labor Board’s decision to promote monopoly unionism in virtually every workplace in America

Washington, DC (September 16, 2011) – Today, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed a federal lawsuit challenging the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new rules governing the notification of employee rights in the workplace.

The new rules require every employer to post incomplete information about employee rights online and in the workplace, even if they’ve never committed a violation or been accused of unfair labor practices. However, these rules do not require union officials to issue information about workers’ rights to refrain from union membership or opt out of union dues. Until the rule changes, which were implemented in late August, employers were required to post notices of workers’ rights only if a violation of labor law occurred.

National Right to Work Foundation attorneys believe the NLRB has exceeded its authority granted by Congress and violated free speech guarantees of the First Amendment.

More here………….

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Fatcats: Becoming Rich Means Becoming a UNION BOSS

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By Warner Todd Huston

July 17, 2011

Working stiffs. That is what most people think about when they think of the word “unions.” But a peek inside the salaries of the union bosses at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) tells a different tale. In fact, it shows that “fatcats” aren’t just in businesses anymore. It looks like all one need do to become a member of the wealthy upper class is to become a union boss.

I wonder if the rank and file, the real working stiffs — you know, the ones out of work these days? — I wonder if they know how much their own union bosses are making?

Check out these extremely high salaries of the union’s highest officers (and this is just salary, too, not all benefits, double dipped offices, and other compensation):

• Gerald McEntee, International President of AFSCME = $555,367
• Diane B. Burke, Director of Conference = $345,198
• John Seferian, Chair of Judicial Plan = $250,738
• Paul R. Booth, Exec. Assistant to President = $244,384
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See the full list of AFSCME officer’s salaries at LaborUnionReport.com.

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Remember this is JUST THE AFSCME.

What about the other big union bosses from AFL/CIO, SEIU, AFGW, UAW, etc.?

What would happen if ALL the union MEMBERS (the working stiffs) demanded a report of WHERE their union dues went, including the higher echelon (bosses)?

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Those union members seeking help against union intimidation and abuses by your union, go HERE

AND HERE.

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Obama Surrogates Skirt Transparency:Union Bigs don’t need no stinkin’ disclosure

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From UnionNews

“Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” — Barack Obama, during his remarks when welcoming senior staff and cabinet secretaries, Jan. 21, 2009.

Obviously Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis chose to ignore this part of her boss’s speech.

The Department of Labor has made no effort towards making labor unions more transparent. In fact, it has made them less transparent while holding up transparency laws for private businesses and corporations that choose not to unionize.

Just last week the Department of Labor made another move confirming its labor union favoritism. The department rescinded the T-1 form requiring labor unions to disclose information about their trusts to their members and the general public.

(from netrightdaily.com)

This gives labor unions another way to hide behind their collected member’s money.

“Union employees don’t want their members to know how much they’re making even though the members are the ones paying their salary,” says Don Todd, former Department of Labor official and current research director at Americans for Limited Government (ALG).

Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2010/12/labor-union-employees-find-favor-with-the-obama-administration/#ixzz186BKT9CA

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Home-Care Providers Take Case Challenging State Unionization Scheme to Federal Appeals Court

Chicago, IL (December 13, 2010) – A group of home-based personal care providers have filed a federal appeal against Governor Pat Quinn and union officials for their agreement to force Illinois’s home-based personal care providers under unwanted union boss control.

With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, the personal care providers filed their appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after a district court judge ruled against them.

The appeal stems from a class-action lawsuit filed by the providers after Quinn signed an executive order designating 4,500 home-based personal care providers who care for individuals with disabilities as “public employees” and susceptible to unwanted union boss political “representation.”

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union bosses have been competing to force their monopoly control over the workers, even having out-of-state union organizers making “home visits” attempting to organize the providers through coercive “card check” unionization tactics. Not coincidentally, Quinn received the SEIU union bosses’ political endorsement and support during his closely-contested primary campaign earlier this year.

Quinn’s executive order mirrored one issued by disgraced former-Governor Rod Blagojevich, later codified, in which over 20,000 personal care providers were designated as state workers for the purpose of granting union bosses monopoly “representation” and forced dues privileges over them. Quinn’s executive order expanded Blagojevich’s to cover the additional 4,500 providers who were not included in the first executive order.

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Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges

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Labor union officials enjoy many extraordinary powers and immunities that were created by legislatures and the courts. Union officials claim to rely on the support of rank-and-file workers. Yet, they clamor in the political arena to secure and expand their government-granted powers, including the powers to shake down workers for financial support and even to wage campaigns of violent retaliation against non-union employees.

The following list of special privileges reveals the extent to which union bosses have rigged our nation’s labor laws in their favor.

Privilege #1:	Exemption from prosecution for union violence. The most egregious example of organized labor’s special privileges and immunities is the 1973 United States v. Enmons decision. In it, the United States Supreme Court held that union violence is exempted from the Hobbs Act, which makes it a federal crime to obstruct interstate commerce by robbery or extortion. As a result, thousands of incidents of violent assaults (directed mostly against workers) by union militants have gone unpunished. Meanwhile, many states also restrict the authority of law enforcement to enforce laws during strikes.
Privilege #2:	Exemption from anti-monopoly laws. The Clayton Act of 1914 exempts unions from anti-monopoly laws, enabling union officials to forcibly drive out independent or alternative employee bargaining groups.
Privilege #3:	Power to force employees to accept unwanted union representation. Monopoly bargaining, or “exclusive representation,” which is embedded in most of the country’s labor relations statutes, enables union officials to act as the exclusive bargaining agents of all employees at a unionized workplace, thereby depriving employees of the right to make their own employment contracts. For example, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935, the Federal Labor Relations Act (FLRA) of 1978, and the Railway Labor Act (RLA) of 1926 prohibit employees from negotiating their own contracts with their employers or choosing their own workplace representatives.
Privilege #4:	Power to collect forced union dues. Unlike other private organizations, unions can compel individuals to support them financially. In 28 states under the NLRA (those that have not passed Right to Work laws), all states under the RLA, on “exclusive federal enclaves,” and in many states under public sector labor relations acts, employees may be forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment, even if they reject union affiliation.

More privileges listed HERE……

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The UNION bosses  profess to be for the “workers” and the “workers families”

Are they fighting FOR the workers?  OR for their own privileges, $$$ and POWER?

Union members:  Do You GET IT YET?

HAD ENOUGH…….YET…..AMERICA?

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VERACITY….INTEGRITY…TENACITY.

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Union Members are Peons While Obama Gives Big Labor Bosses and Stewards A Gift

 

First, the definition of a Peon:   1.  A worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor     2.  A menial worker; a drudge.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Peons

 

Obama Gives Big Labor Another Gift in Final Days of 2009

by Don Loos

In November BigGovernment.com, sounded the warning – here’s the update.

As 2009 fades away, President Obama has decided to let disclosure of hundreds of millions of dollars in forced-union-dues disclosure fade away too. Under current law and regulations valid until December 30th, union bosses were supposed to carefully document the billions of dollars they extract from workers as a condition of employment that they in turn pour into front groups and other “funds” each year. [Emphasis added]

A large part of the billions were about to be made public and reported on a Department of Labor disclosure form known as the Form T-1 Annual Report. But, that won’t happen now!

According to Bureau of National Affairs, Inc, “The Labor Department is issuing a final rule that extends for one year the deadlines for unions to file Form T-1 Trust Annual Report Reports.”

After allowing only 11 days of comments from the public, the Obama Administration postponed requiring reports for another year. During 2010, the Obama Administration states that it intends to completely eliminate the financial disclosure.

Again, the Obama Administration is blatantly paying back union bosses at the expense of rank-and-file workers.

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End note:

I am not against unions, I am against the Union bosses and stewards taking advantage of its members.

Andy Stern of the SEIU has bilked millions from his worker’s coffers to insure the election of Obama.

The AFL-CIO has been trumpeting Obama’s greatness and has endowed Obama will their member’s dues.

The AFSCME has started to join these ranks too.

 

And WHAT if anything have these Union members received in return?

Is this WHY we have heard rumblings within the SEIU lately?  Infighting between its members and the heads of their Union?

WHEN will union members say “ENOUGH”?

Do Union members realize their “Cadillac” healthcare plans may be heavily taxed?

Do Union members realize that IF Obamacare passes, those that don’t already have a “Cadillac” plan may have to pay taxes from 2010 to 2013 until the Obamacare actually begins?

WHAT EXACTLY is the relationship between Andy Stern and Obama?

Obama Administration Announces Not Enforcing Union Reporting Laws

 

 

 

From Canada Free Press:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14252

 

 

Don’t expect Obama and Labor Secretary’s office, Hilda Solis, to help you uncover any illegalities perpetrated by your union bosses

by Warner Todd Huston

August 30, 2009

Are you a union member trying to find out information of the criminal actions and shady financial dealings of your union?

Well don’t expect Obama and his toady in the Labor Secretary’s office, Hilda Solis, to help you uncover any illegalities perpetrated by your union bosses.

Solis’ department has just announced that it is suspending the stringent reporting requirements that labor unions must by law satisfy to assure that their financial dealings are legal and above-board.

That’s right, unions have just been given a free pass for criminal actions by this president.

This is proof that political donations are the key to get away with crime. So, yes Virginia, crime does pay… at least in Obama’s Washington.

Here is the notice that recently appeared on the website of the U.S. Department of Labor:

NOTE:… Accordingly, OLMS will refrain from initiating enforcement actions against union officers and union employees based solely on the failure to file the report required by section 202 of the Labor-Management and Reporting Disclosure Act (LMRDA), 29 U.S.C. § 432, using the 2007 form, as long as individuals meet their statutorily-required filing obligation in some manner. OLMS will accept either the old Form LM-30 or the new one for purposes of this non-enforcement policy.

Solis’s office is claiming that the previous LM2 form was just too hard on those innocent, kindly union thugs and criminals, so she’s decided to just forget the whole thing. Capone’s Chicago couldn’t have had better friends in high places.

… Oh, and guess where Obama and most of his closest advisers are from? Could it be… mmmm… CHICAGO?

My end note:

Does this mean the hostile takeover attempt by Andy Stern of SEIU is just “water under the bridge”??

HOW DO YOU UNION MEMBERS FEEL NOW????

No OVERSIGHT, CRIMINAL ACTIONS or SHADY FINANCIAL DEALINGS of your UNION is now under the “control” of your Union boss…..and any “events” or “misappropriations” about pension funds, healthcare, etc. will have the Obama Administration turning a blind eye.  

 

No oversight is = Union corruption.