NEA - AFL-CIO Solidarity Partnership Agreement

Let's us enjoin this thought.  In 2006, said agreement was put forth.  According to the pact, "it will allow our organizations to combine strengths, resources, and talents at the local level and put forth a unified voice on behalf of our communities."  Now, where did the spirit of this agreement go?  Well, nowhere.  In spite of said "solidarity partnership," Local 14 did just the opposite.  It attacked its own brothers and sisters in ESEA and CCEA.  In fact, the Nevada State AFL-CIO jumped in the fight to "welcome CCSD Support Staff to our family.  I urge each and every one of you to vote for Teamsters Local 14 in your upcoming election."  Signed Fraternally, Danny L. Thompson, Executive-Secretary Treasurer of the Nevada State AFL-CIO.  (March 31, 2006)  Mr. Thompson waxes on that "Teamsters Local 14 is a member in good standing....strong, financially, vibrant, and progressive."

Wait a minute.

The same Local 14 that Ed Alvarado, former Teamster Business Agent, blasted for stagnant membership, for economic problems, and on and on.  Local 14 shows no solidarity to the labor movement, no loyalty to union brothers and sisters who already have a Union and collective bargaining.  Within a couple years of the said agreement, the Teamsters left the AFL-CIO for the Federation.

Talk about lacking loyalty to union members.  Always shifting sands in Teamster-Land.

Sham Contracts in California

MAUGER

Gary

Sec.Treas.

14

Las Vegas

Nv

10/30/2000

FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT

Entered into a sham collective bargaining agreement with Local

75 day suspension from holding office & a $10,000 fine pursuant to agreement

An Insider's Own Words...About Local 14

Even Ed Alvarado, former Local 14 business agent, had had enough. Local 14 was not a good fit for teachers, and still isn't for support staff:  In his own words, Ed had this to say:

"Teamsters 14 has had flat membership numbers for years.  Their own Healthcare Trust Fund has had serious revenue shortfalls for most of this decade, continually “redefining” member benefits and even having to go to the membership for an additional payroll deduction of $100 a month to prop up the coffers of the Trust Fund to keep it from going broke."

And what do School District employees offer to Local 14?  Again, Ed lays it out:

"Your dues revenue and healthcare premiums would help Local 14 more than anything that they could do to help you.  The vast majority of their represented members work in blue collar, non-professional occupations.  Local 14’s representatives, beginning with Mr. Mauger, don’t speak your language and they don’t share your values."

Spot on.   Local 14 needs to step...on out of the picture.

Source:  http://ccea-nv.org/images/stories/pdfs/Monday_Report/Oct%2008-07%20Monday.pdf

Fearless Leader Now Gone, Was Man of Infamy

U.S. District Court
Southern District of New York (Foley Square)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:88-cv-04486-LAP

United States of Ame v. Int'l Bhd of Team., et al Assigned to: Judge Loretta A. Preska Referred to: Demand: $0 Lead Docket: None Related Cases: 1:98-cv-00517-LAP-AJP                         1:98-cv-01137-LAP-AJP                         1:99-cv-01988-LAP                         1:00-cv-08254-LAP                         1:01-cv-03885-LAP                         1:00-cv-04230-LAP                         1:90-cv-01226-DNE                         1:01-cv-08620-LAP                         1:03-cv-00073-LAP Case in other court: None Cause: 18:1962 Racketeering (RICO) Act

#3595.  June, 13, 2001.  Application 97 of the Independent Review Board Agreement between the Independent Review Board and Gary Mauger. (jp) (Entered: 06/14/2001)

#3596.  June 13, 2001.  MEMO-ENDORSEMENT on Affidavit and Agreement of Gary Mauger; application #97 granted ( signed by Judge Loretta A. Preska ); Copies mailed. (cd) Modified on 06/15/2001 (Entered: 06/14/2001)

http://www.thelaborers.net/teamsters/civil_docket_usa_v_teamsters.htm

Seven million dollar Teamster insurance shortfall revealed publicly.

It was scheduled as yet another news conference for Teamster leader Gary Mauger and teacher front man Ron Taylor to thump their chests and make yet more empty allegations about CCEA and the Teachers Health Trust.  But when an R-J reporter asked about an IRS document showing that Local 14 lost 7 million dollars in its insurance fund there was an embarrassing silence, Gary Mauger couldn’t explain the deficit. “We’ll look into it,” he said. “Right now I’m not sure what that means.” (Documents A & B) Have to look into it?  Gary, YOU SIGNED IT!  (Document C)  

Then you charged your members over $100 a month to try to fix it.  Even more troubling is the fact that it appears the Teamsters’ insurance fund played the stock market/securities with members' insurance contributions and lost another $51,119.   (Document D)  Unlike the Teachers Health Trust, the Teamsters insurance fund and Local 14 are both run by the same person — Gary Mauger.   (Document E)  With the Health Trust there is a clear separation between CCEA and the Trust.  While CCEA negotiates dollars needed for the Trust it is the Trust Board of Directors and management staff who determines expenditures and investments.

Welcome aboard, everyone!

This blog is bound to be entertaining, revealing, and a tad informative.  You see, what we have here, "is a failure to communicate."  From all angles, Local 14 thinks its stuff does not stink.  Its two-decade long attempt to raid another Union, specifically National Education Association affiliates ESEA and CCEA, has been a futile effort.  First, in all their calls for solidarity among working men and women, Local 14 has done exactly the opposite.  What Local 14 has done is invade another Union and infect their labor brothers and sisters.  When ample opportunities to bring workers into the labor movement existed, Local 14 chose instead to divide and conquer.  Local 14 chose to insert itself in school districts not transportation companies.  Second, we all know the history of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.  While Mr. Hoffa and Mr. Mauger may have been in the trenches, they certainly lived outside of the means of the common man and woman.  The charges of racketeering are well known. Neither labors for $10 to $15 an hour.  Local 14 is invading territory, creating turmoil where there are enough problems already, and failing the labor movement by not bringing in non-union employees into the fold.  That is not solidarity!  That is treason!