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3-8-2010 Retired IUOE VP Faces Federal Charges Former union boss Bill Dugan charged with violating federal labor law.
July 2009 Local 324 members suffer with bonehead investments Take the Operating Engineers. The pension fund for top officials in its Washington headquarters has $85 million for 401 participants, or $209,000 apiece. It is 108% funded. Local 324's $1.4 billion rank-and-file fund has 18,000 participants, or $79,000 per head, and is 81% funded. Some of the difference can be explained by boneheaded investments like the $60 million Local 324 put into AA Capital or the $28 million it sank into rebuilding a Detroit office building that it sold for $4.5 million in 2004. 7/1/09 Appellate court upholds IUOE bullying tactic against rank and file! IUOE President Giblin pledges to stop IUOE bullying tactics against contractors, but continues open season on his own rank and file. Members who rail against the union establishment during local union elections will continue to have the draconian practice of having their election web site locked up with password protection. This is the decision of the appellate court in Washington DC. The IUOE claims unbearable harm will befall the union because information from these sites could leak into the hands of unscrupulous contractors. The same contractors who are members and can get the same information on the job or at the hall. A member can start a web site and put anything he wishes in his site but if he supports a candidate it must be locked, what a load a crap. This is more of the transparent policyVince Giblin bragged about after he was anointed President of the IUOE. Dennis Giblin son of Vince Giblin the President of the IUOE was arrested for doing what seems to be taken as a right for anyone in union office these day's. Dennis the President of IUOE Local 68 is also the nephew of New Jersey state Assemblyman Thomas Giblin, Thomas Giblin just happens to be the Business Manager for Local 68. Dennis was charged today in an alleged kickback scheme as federal prosecutors continued to investigate what sources have called a corruption probe into a union local and the politically active family that has run it for decades. Club Fed Ahead for another Giblin buddy and former IUOE VP The leader of Springfield N.J.,based IUOE union local 825 was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in federal prison for participating in a bribery scheme tied to the building of the Goldman Sachs office tower in Jersey City. Kenneth Campbell, of Basking Ridge, had risen from a crane operator to the business agent of Local 825 of the International Union of Operating Engineers. He admitted in October to taking more than $250,000 in kickbacks and spending workers' money on televisions for himself and a Lincoln Town Car for his father. "I wish I had stayed a crane operator," Campbell said, his husky voice cracking as he stood before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler. Chesler ordered Campbell to pay a $40,00 fine and about $247,000 in restitution to the union. The crime, the judge said, was not simply a lapse in judgment. "It was sheer unmitigated greed," Chesler said. In exchange for the kickbacks, the contractors were allowed to circumvent their collective bargaining agreement obligations, including using non-union labor on some jobs and having fewer than the required number of operators on certain pieces of equipment. |
General President Vince Giblins Son indicted and cuffed appears before judge Federal authorities in New Jersey today charged the nephew of a state assemblyman with skimming union funds to pay for work on his condo. Dennis J. Giblin, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 68 and administrator of its Education Fund, could face several years in federal prison if convicted of the counts contained in a federal indictment. Giblin's father, Vincent J. Giblin, is national president of the union and chairman of the board of directors of Horizon Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New Jersey. His uncle is state Assemblyman Thomas Giblin, an Essex County Democrat who ran the union for decades and now serves as its business manager. Dennis Gilbin turned himself in this morning, then was brought in handcuffs before a federal magistrate in Newark. He was released on $25,000 bail.....(Read Here) GOOD NEWS Construction workers in Portland, Ore., have come up with a unique way to help children with a serious disease. It all began about three weeks ago when Roger Bullock, a 12-year member of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 701, found a penny on the floor of the elevator he operates five days a week at a downtown Portland construction site. (Read Here) Local 150 Member Scott Harl is the new Mayor of Peru Illinois The 44-year reign of Peru Mayor Don Baker has ended because of what he called "dirty politics" and the first term of challenger Scott Harl is about to begin on his campaign message that "it's time for a change." "It's very fulfilling to see the hard work that we've done in this campaign has paid off," Harl said. "I truly believe it was not because of me. It's because they wanted it and they felt they needed it. Let's face it. No one would have worked this hard for one single person. I just want to let the city of Peru know that if I'm not living up to their expectations - theirs and (read more) Almost half of top unions have underfunded pension plans. Eight of the largest unions have underfunded plans, according to the most recent 5500 reports, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Laborers International Union of Northern America, theInternational Association of Machinists, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, the International Union of Operating Engineers, and the National Plumbers Union. (read more)
Local 139 Union Brother provides forum for fearful membership. I'm proud to be a member of the IUOE Local 139 so I'm not going to hide. 3/2/2010 No good greedy bastards According to the latest LM2 from IUOE Local 14 It pays its Business manager $315,498. It has 4 business agents each of them make at least $270,000 and year. It has 1475 members with 124 members with over 50 years service. Thats means each agent has to represent 370 members. I have had single jobs with that many members on it. Who the hell are these greedy bastards? Check out the LM2 here. |
Money manager screws Local 324 Members pleads guilty to $24M pension fraud John Orecchio, 44, said in a signed plea agreement he also used money that was supposed to be invested on behalf of union members to pay for a horse farm, luxury automobiles and chartered airplane travel.One of the pension funds belonged to Michigan Local 324. There are invenstigations still ongoing in that Local. http://www.rrstar.com/news/x925448978/Money-manager-pleads-guilty-to-24M-pension-fraud Indiana Governor and Republicans screw Fagan and Indiana Membership Senate Republicans presented a bailout that bites both employers and workers, but the initial plan -- now in negotiations with House Democrats -- is drawing loud complaints from labor. David Fagan, the Merrillville-based financial secretary for International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, said the 4,500 Indiana members of the union earn an average of about $65,000 a year. He considers the Senate plan a "bad economic policy" that "singles out the construction industry." Local 150 in the past has backed Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, who calls the Senate unemployment plan "an excellent effort." (read article) Related links below Mobbed-up Union Teaches Crane Safety Classes In NYC After two tower crane accidents last year that killed nine people and injured dozens of others New York City began requiring "a 30-hour class for crane operators and other workers on the safest way to raise and lower a tower crane"; however, it is "conducting no checks on the individual instructors to determine their qualifications or background," and "some sessions of the city-mandated class are being taught by a union official who has admitted that he helped unqualified people, including organized crime figures, get into his union, according to sworn testimony and investigative reports": Governor Quinn Signs $31 Billion “Illinois Jobs Now!” Capital Construction/Economic Recovery Plan Means Over 439,000 Jobs CHICAGO - July 13, 2009. — Governor Pat Quinn today signed into law bills that create the $31 billion Illinois Jobs Now! plan, which will revive the state’s ailing economy by creating and retaining over 439,000 jobs over the next six years. At a bill signing ceremony, Governor Quinn stressed this is the first statewide capital construction effort to become law in over a decade. IUOE Screws Lifelong IUOE Member Life long operating engineer shunned by his Local and International union after passing away last month. Here's a guy who believed in labor unions all his life, he was a card carrying member of Operating Engineers Local Twelve since the middle of the last century. But when he passed away three weeks ago, union leaders turned their back on him and his family. And now they're refusing to pay for his funeral, all because of a fifty dollar mistake! |
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