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Buffalo Chips fly as Federal Agents Raid the Maryland Empire of IUOE 2nd Vice President William E. Dugan
Friday, May 30, 2008
Well the chickens are finally coming home to roost at the buffalo ranch of William E Dugan. Federal officers armed and with search warrants swarmed over Hancock Maryland searching for clues in the ongoing federal criminal investigation. The Chicago Sun Times reported today that Dugan owns a combination hunting/fishing shop and tavern in downtown Hancock -- a town of about 1,700 that's 100 miles northwest of Baltimore near the Maryland-Pennsylvania state line. His buffalo ranch is on the outskirts of town. Dugan continually sued his election opponent Joe Ward and accused him of wrongdoing with the members money only to find himself the only one under federal criminal investigation. To add to the IUOE 2nd Vice Presidents woes 2 separate lawsuits were filed in federal court on Wednesday May 28th, 2008. One against Local 150 and another against the Local 150 apprenticeship program accusing Local 150 and Chief Counsel Dale Pierson of refusing to hand over documents relevant to an ongoing USDOL investigation into election fraud by Dugan and the United Engineers Party. These documents were subpoenaed by the USDOL in March of this year and were continually refused by Local 150. What comes around goes around.
Giblin request meeting over IUOE Local 825 International Supervision.
May 20, 2008
Letters went out to the members of IUOE Local 825 on May 7th to alert them of a hearing to be held by the IUOE over the scandal plagued union. The hearing is to be held on a Thursday at 9AM, wow talk about member inconsideration. I'm pretty sure most members work during those hours, except of course for Kenneth Campbell's ghost patrollers. I believe this is the usual procedure Giblin uses to cover his ass when trouble erupts and he needs to protect control over any given local. He claims the Local executive Bd. pleaded for his intervention. When all the top cats are arrested or indicted does he expect the membership to believe that the remaining executive board is squeaky clean? IUOE watch have received many letters from good hard working members of 825 asking for help and guidance. The unfortunate thing is that they have to be told that the IUOE constitution and their bylaws protect the top of the IUOE food chain not the bottom. The rules are written for absolute control not Democratic unionism. For all you good and hard working members of 825 keep the faith and give em hell. (click here to read Giblins letter)
IUOE Local 324 Pension Fund on shaky ground? from mq April 14, 2008
The USDOL is suing Fifth Third Bank on behalf of the members of IUOE Local 324 to recoup approximately 25 million dollars in a bad investment on the 1001 Woodward building in downtown Detroit. Members should be asking where were our pension fund trustees? Why was this travesty allowed this to happen and no one said anything until the D.O.L. stepped in years later. Where is the transparency, the honesty, the truth? There is also another case with AA Capital that screwed the fund for millions. Were the heck were our trustees? While President John Hamilton says in his Business Managers Report, all is well with 1001 Woodward. Members need to be asking who is AA Capital Partners, Inc. and who are they related to in the local union or international? Then ask who is managing our funds now? All the while Mr. Hamilton claims all is well, the Pension Plan for local 324 does not look very good from the members standpoint. As one members tells it, the monthly payment was based on 3.3 %of what was paid in. For example if a member paid in 100.oo the member would receive $3.33 per month on retirement at 3.3% Under the new formula the member would only receive 1.5% credit for money paid in to the fund, IE. 100.00 paid in = 1.50 per month. As you can see members now have to work twice as long to get the same benefit we used to have. Its a shame that its always the member who suffers when the ones on top screw up. You would think that President Hamilton would donate his $60,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield board of directors salary to help the retirees with their $810. per month self payment for health Insurance. I thought when we elected our union leaders they were here to run our local and our union business full time, not get paid thousands upon their already hundreds of thousand in salary from the local (LM2 324-2007) and the International (LM2 IUOE 2007). Hamilton received $78,556 from the IUOE as VP and Executive Board Member, $198,578 from local 324 and another $60,000 from Blue Cross Blue Shield (oh by the way can you name another IUOE officer that was on the Blue Cross pay role while drawing a full salary from the members?), that's a total of $337,134 not bad. You see even while the members continue to struggle they never do and unfortunately our IUOE leaders never seem to go down with the ship, just the members. Check out the links below to see what's really going on with 1001 Woodward.
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/07-1958-CHI.html http://www.planadviser.com/article.php/2052 http://cbs2chicago.com/local/investment.firm.pensions.2.698314.html http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/METRO/710160369 http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2006/lr19826.htm
Freedom of speech stolen with IUOE members own dues money.
From mq April 11,2008
IUOE General President Vince Giblin and his anointed executive board spent well over $200,000 in members dues money in 2007 to take away union democracy and quietly threaten and coerce union members. Using a high powered Washington DC law firm that touts on it's web site the "we have been characterized as “the voice of labor,” sure as hell doesn't know what an operating engineer life is all about. Isn't it amazing how a small group of letters or numbers can have such a brutally chilling affect on people, a password, a simple password that a person enters, yet never ever knows whose watching chills one to the core. How many members passed on clicking enter instead of choosing to be informed because they were scared? How many members didn't vote in a local election because they had to sign one of the ballot envelopes? They say justice is blind, but I didn't realize it was stupid too. In what I believe to be an insanely dumb and reckless decision the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of big brother union taking away the rights of members to surf the internet freely and without coercion simply because big brother international union is scared to death of new and emerging technologies that tell the truth at the speed of light, and light up the dark, dank think tanks of the anointed not elected leaders of our international union like never before. In a one page statement the court found in favor of the IUOE in what I believe was a travesty for every union members in this country. The internet is the last free space where a citizen member can criticize, challenge, and possibly even win an election against the forces of evil that exist in every bylaw and constitution in the IUOE international or local. Brother and Sister members the deck is stacked against you unless we start challenging what is going on around us, if we don't we will forever be slaves to the IUOE and they will forever use your dues as their personal piggy bank. This union belongs to the membership, not the dictatorship, yet if you take the time to read the rules, you lose. Let your voice be heard, fight back. One member, one vote!
How much should a IUOE General Executive Board meeting Cost?
From mq April 10,2008
That’s a simple enough question. I think its so simple I dare Vincent Giblin to give the 400,000 members of the IUOE a simple answer. In fact I challenge every one of these Vice Presidents and Executive Board Members, William C. Waggoner, William E. Dugan, Jim McLaughlin, Brian E. Hickey, Gary Kroeker, John M. Hamilton, Allan B. Darr, Kenneth Campbell (indicted), Patrick L. Sink, William K. Duffy, Gerald Ellis, Jerry Kalmar, Philip Schloop, Russell E. Burns, and these trustees Mark Holliday, John T. Ahern, Mike Gallagher, Rodger Kaminski, Kuba Brown to give every member of the IUOE a simple answer on how do you spend $898,303 on a Executive Board meeting? The meeting I am referring to happened in March of 2007 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa one of the most expensive hotels and golf courses in all of the Phoenix area. Hasn't anyone ever heard of conference calls, Teleconferencing? Email? I know for a fact the IUOE has a conference room, and could build a bigger one for that kind of money. Why in the sam hill should the members pay these incompetent nincompoops for this exorbitant lifestyle? Did they tear down all the Red Roof Inns in Phoenix? This is the most incredible waste of members dues resources I have ever seen, all the while these boobs are in Phoenix the scabs work around every corner in DC, the bastion of the International Union is a cesspool of scabs and non-union contractors, maybe that’s why they got out of town.
How much more corruption can the IUOE stand?
From mq April 9,2008
IUOE Local 68 office raided by Federal agents. Local 68 is the local of Tom Giblin and brother of IUOE President Vince Giblin. IUOE 2nd Vice President and President of Local 150 Dugan under investigation by the FBI, Ex Local 3 Business Manager Doser being sued by members to recoup improper payments, 8th IUOE Vice President and Business Manager of Local 825 Kenneth Campbell was indicted along with others, Emeritus Frank Hanley under investigation for suspicion of selling a VP spot, and yesterday 4-8-08 12 union officers and members of IUOE Local 17 were indicted in New York for extortion. How much more can we stand. When the hell is Vince Giblin going to do something about this stink that smells all the way to 1125 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. The members of this great Union deserve better. We need one man one vote to get rid of the dictatorship that continues to pass the job to the next guy. We need to change the constitution to reflect real union democracy not protectionism. We need for the newly elected delegates to this 37th IUOE convention in Las Vegas to step up and vote these IUOE non leaders out of office now!!!
The IUOE Transparency fantasy
From mq Date 25 Jan 2008
First we are going to have change and transparency at the IUOE, now it looks like all we are going to get is a changed minds. Read this.
Unprecedented greed at the iuoe. From mq Date 17 Jan 2008
Click here to see what the IUOE hogs are feeding on.
New Townhouse in DC, everyone invited? Probably not! From: mq Date 17 Jan 2008
Imagine my surprise when perusing through the latest LM2 2006 from the IUOE. We have a brand new Townhouse located in Washington DC, valued at $1,610,495. I am sure that must mean that the next time a brother or sister is in DC he or she has a place to stay for free? Or will it only be for our elite leadership that already make hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries and cant afford a cheap hotel in DC. Oh well I am sure all the Operators sitting on the out of work list this spring will be happy our overpaid leadership will have a nice place to lay their head. Oh by the way if any of you members saw the news of this new purchase in any of our open and transparent publications please let me know, I could have missed it.
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