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wm pasz	Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:01 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	Canadian Teamsters and corruption-watchers are keeping an ear to the ground after news earlier this week that Toronto-based Teamsters Local 847 has been placed in trusteeship by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. More. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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SharynS	Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:48 am
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2939 Location: the 'puter	Quote: Davis and his executive board have been relieved of their responsibilities following an internal investigation that revealed misuse of the Local's health and welfare fund including: It's called stealing, theft, fraud! The bastards should be facing jail terms and relieved of their freedom. What a friggin' injustice - not only to the thousands of victims but to unionism as a whole. I say that like there's something left to be saved. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie
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newguard	Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:44 pm
Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 88	Quote: The bastards should be facing jail terms and relieved of their freedom. While we strongly agree with your sentiment the problem we have with this case is that it is not unlike many others within Teamsters Canada. On the surface it appears that this would be a great coup for the members, but alas it is another in a series of Empire Building for Hoffa via MacDonald and Ed Hawyrsh. The GARDA employees were ready to vote their own path which would have seen a changing of the guard voted in who does not support Hoffa and his cronies ways. The GARDA employees carry the weight in 'election voting' because the remaining members are apathetic etc.. Actually the GARDA members swithched Locals from 938 to 847 as an alternative to de-ceritying because of the corruption within 938. The situation is now that MacDonald has enabled himself with the blessing of TC Pres Bouvier to also assume the position of Join Council Pres for JC 52 he is eliminating any opposition to Hoffas reign. Gil Davis is a Hoffa man, (staring out with Hoffa Sr) but the threat to the Local being swept away from Hoffa to Democracy fighters is more than Hoffa can risk. Oh yes, Davis is in his 70's and was involved in some interesting situations in the 'bad old days - 40 plus yrs ago'. Let's not judge this book by it's cover, just yet...Let's not forget this is an 'internal investigation' being conducted by the very same people who will not allow for democracy within their own Locals. Quote: Since Bouvier has become TC President he has put different locals in trusteeship. Local 938 Local 880 Local 230 Dissolved JC79 He also tried to put other locals in trusteeship without success. Is this a pattern or not,in each of these locals he now has his supporters. Don't know yet what the charges are but do know that the local was audited not so long ago when Bouvier was trying to put it in trusteeship.It got a clean bill of health then. The pattern seem to be if you don't support the Dictator then he sets out to destroy you.
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SharynS	Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:44 pm
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2939 Location: the 'puter	My point was that crimes against union members are tolerated (encouraged) by the system. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie
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wm pasz	Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:11 pm
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto	I don't think it's a coup for the members by any stretch newguard. The trusteeship is an interesting development and that's why I called it that rather than a coup. There's no doubt that there's some kind of power struggle among the heavies of the Teamster organization that's going on and the interests of the heavies - rather than the members - are what's motivating Hoffa et al in this. That said, Gil Davis's removal is a pretty big event in Canadian labour land. A lot of people believed he was untouchable as were his crew of execs. The allegations are just allegations at this point that's true. If they are untrue then presumably Mr. Davis will have an explanation for whatever the auditors found during their examination and will be able to establish that health and welfare funds were not used for any of the improper purposes as alleged. If he doesn't, and the allegations are true, then the more exposure the better. Misuse of these kinds of funds is rampant and with Canadian law enforcement not interested in pursuing it, the only way of discouraging it is to put the fear of the Internet into the troughers. As for Local 938, they were trusteed weren't they - to get rid of another big trougher named Bartolotti, if I recall correctly. The trusteeship was extended longer than it should have been and I think that there was controversy about the President who was installed to take over (fill us in on the details if you have few minutes, it's been a while since we've heard anything about 938). Is Bart still floating around? _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X
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weiser	Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:44 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 190 Location: Chilliwack	Local 938 was really special. That's where Botolotti came to power allegedly with a loan from Tommy Corrigan that was allegedly repaid by the purchaser of two of Tommy's locals and his fine union mansion on Madision Avenue in Toronto. The International did dick when bartolotti was in power. Once he got his pumped up pension, they appear to have then trusteed it and now Larry boy is runnin' the show. There was a fine piece about the 938 crap on the MFD site:http://www.m-f-d.org/article/teamsters/c22cy3zuuub.php
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newguard	Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:31 pm
Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 88	Quote: I don't think it's a coup for the members by any stretch I couldn't agree more but to those who may be reading the article in the Post or those who may be veiwing this site for the first time, they may make the assumption that Hoffa via Bouvier and/or McDonald are the saviours (or creators)of democracy within the Teamsters. For example how did McDonald become Pres of JC52? The joint council looks after all of the Locals within Ontario? Bouvier/Hoffa gave it to him to secure these money making Locals from any opposition. It all strted with closing Local 141 (london) because it was ripe for a takeover and amalgamating 141 into 879 Hamilton which takes in this huge area. After the last UPS contract (which was dismal) the UPS'ers rose up in meetings and declared vengeance on the Local (Mclean)and the Teamsters. Then the former Pres of 879 Mclean declared his intentions to run for Pres of Teamsters Canada when Bouvier retires? But who would he be running against???? Well we guess it would be McDonald since he appears most eager to be the 'keeper of the key to the big piggy bank'. As soon as word gets out that McLean is considering this run... amazingly an internal investigation occurs at 879 and Mclean is quietly ousted and a hand picked succesor dropped in while the investigation continues. McDonald becomes Pres of JC52 and the lock is fortified on the opposers......., temporarily. Whether Mclean and/or Davis are/were guilty of wrong doing or not are simply by-products in this relentless march by the Hoffa lap dogs to secure Ontario from any reformers. Quote: "This is really the continuation of the reforms at work in the Teamsters union," said Larry McDonald, president of the Teamsters' joint council, who is the designated spokesman for the trusteeship of Local 847. "Whenever we think there are any improprieties whatsoever, it is investigated and looked into. These are serious allegations. We have forensic auditors going through it and until they get through it" Lets not lose sight of the fact that this is an internal investigation being conducted by??????
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