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MFC CANDIDATES CORNER
According to German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860): Truth is Violently Opposed Before it is Accepted as
Self Evident through the shifting of human views. All truths goes through three steps:
1. First, it is ridiculed.
2. Second, it is violently opposed.
3. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident
MFC's mission, reach the final stage where the compelling self-evident truth is accepted.
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Message to Larry Cohen, President CWA:
After many years of attempting to resolve this matter internally, tt is very unfortunate that the state of affairs at Local 1033 and the National Union has to be taken to the
street.
This has gone to far! Given the economic climate, internal union strife is imprudent. A show of solidarity within the ranks is imperative. We all must step back and reassess
our positions to; enforce the constitution; stop member dropout and anti-union bad press; wipe the war paint from our faces and meet at the mediation table to discuss and
resolve this Local's concerns, without airing our dirty laundry in public view.
Our demands are very simple. In return for our union dues we demand representation: National Union oversight and enforcement of the CWA Constitution; a democratic,
representative Local Union where members have a right to know exactly how their dues are being spent; compliance with the CWA Constitution in establishing standing
committees for member participation in the governance of their local; a means of keeping members informed of union activities, and; a third party election vendor to conduct
officer elections to ensure members' right to secret ballot voting.
As the Chief Executive Officer having administrative and/or managerial oversight of this organization for putting into effect this Union’s Constitution and the administering of its
function, we merely ask in the spirit of solidarity, that the National Union deploy a competent representative to mediate Local 1033 basic concerns.
The question becomes solidarity or mutiny of a street fight in the struggle for change? We again extend the olive branch for solidarity.
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MFC has begun a mass media solicitation of our story. Trentonian Reporter, Jeff Edelstein having read our story was the first to request and was granted exclusivity to our story.
Click on underlined links below
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE of Roeder's invitation in her response in the Trentonian "...that not only is there a penny-by-penny report, but that Averhart can 'come and see it.'”
A meeting date of July 19, 2010 at 5:30 pm has been proffered. All members and Mr. Edelstein are invited to this historic event.
A PETITION will be circulated or members can print a copy for member signatures to overrule Roeder and the Executive Board on outsourcing the officer election from
the present in-house format to a third party vendor. Why? Because The local 1033 Executive Board, led by Roeder, is strongly opposed to outsourcing the officers election
to a third party vendor, rejecting a proposal to do so. Without oversight, Roeder is entrenched as President of this Local and will remain so as long she desires by
manipulating and controlling the in-house election process through the following tactics:
• A Local employee with a vested interest under Roeder as the Election Chairman, who does what he is told;
• Ballots are printed by a company with a vested interest to maintain the status quo;
• Ballots are maintained at the Local in a (sic) secure, vertical filing cabinet prior to mailing. This filing cabinet is also the source of replacement ballots.
• Ballots are accessible by Roeder after the election, see next bullet;
• In 2005 this printer (sic) in error printed identifying/serial numbers on the ballots. Combining the three latter bullets provides the basic technique of a vote rigger, noting
names of people who never seem to vote and whose votes are stolen, resulting in an unprecedented surge in voting for Roeder in 2005 and 2008;
• The Election Committee Co-Chairperson - with a key to ballot secured areas - was abruptly taken off the Election committee in the midst of the campaign in 2005 to run
for Vice-President of the Local, which is strictly prohibited by the by-laws.
• The Post Office ‘selected’ to receive the ballots was approximately 35 miles from the Local, where members could not observe comings and goings;
• Returning and undeliverable ballots were maintained in one P.O Box requiring daily access and tampering, when the return ballot P.O. Box should have been accessed
only once, when ballots were picked up for counting.
• During the 2008 election, members were taken off for state paid leave en masse for purported contract training---the contract came out 2006---and treated to free
movietickets...a violation of a basic election tenet---use of union or employer funds and equipment
• Many members have first hand knowledge that Roeder knew who did or did not vote in previous elections, because we were asked. Which means she had access to
the to the ballots.
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THE UNION
Reject the Roeder Solution by sending her back to the Negotiation Table by downloading
and circulating this PETITION for signatures.
OUT STANDING COMPLAINTS BEFORE THE NATIONAL
THIRD PARTY ELECTION VENDOR TO CONDUCT LOCAL 1033 OFFICER ELECTION PROPOSAL
LETTER OF APPEAL to Local E-Board rejection of third party election vendor proposal.
LETTER OF APPEAL to Exec Bd requesting an amendment to the Bylaws for elections to be conducted by a third party vendor.
Of course the Board rejected the proposal.
LETTER OF APPEAL of some third party vendor bids. The highest bidder was $15,000. Local 1033 spent $23,000 in the previous
election. Basically on reading our proposal to the E-Board, Roeder illegally appointed a sub-committee to feign or fake a third
party vendor election cost study. Fake, because when Roeder became aware of the cost estimates as submitted by MFC, she
immediately bypassed the E-Board and had one of her minions contact one of the vendors and advise that this Local conducts
only in-house elections and their services would not be needed.
The National Union upheld both the 2005 and 2008 elections, approving Roeder's election rigging.
Roeder crows on and on about how the National Union has reviewed all complaints and charges and dismissed them. Portraying MFC as disgruntled/sour grape members. We are
not. We believe passionately in unionism and what it stands for. To that end we will continue our fight for change of returning this local to the members, to do the work of a local union.
It is preferred that we clean our own house internally with the National Union reconsideration of the fact that constitutional violations has no limitation period, to wit, the National Union
can enforce the constitution at any time it becomes aware of such violations or we see how Roeder's antics fares against a street review.
7/14/10 - Speaking of Roeder's reaction antics to a street review. At the Executive Board Meeting, Roeder, in pathological liar mode, advised E-Board members that MFC passed out
flyers and obtained signatures on petitions to bring in the Right To Work Org. to DISBAND the Local and the National Union. Please be advised it is just another Roeder FIB. One of
the petitions garnered signatures to overrule this Executive Board and demand a third party vendor be engaged to conduct all future officer elections. See above.
MFC is transparent, if any E-Board member need clarification or confirmation on what we are doing please feel free to give me a call at 609-865-5431.
SOLIDARITY OR MUTINY
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