Discussion | 4 Comments on "NEW VIDEO: Wisconsin Union Bosses, Mo Money Causin Mo Problems"

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   Mandrake said

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   Feb 22, 2012 at 4:42 AM

   Marty Beil makes that much and he still apparently believes that he cannot afford a tie.
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   tellfred said

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   Feb 24, 2012 at 5:42 PM

   Holy Crap. I almost feel like I’ve found the mother-ship….for at least conservative reporting of a lack of transparency and accountability for union officers. Will you be outing ALL overcompensated union bosses, even one that supports Republican Gov Walker? Why doesn’t your video http://youtu.be/ZSc_RTkzZVs reflect local 139 boss McGowan’s nearly $250,000 a year in comp? I am a rank-and-file local 139, Operating Engineer, whose boss…well please read the following:

   OPEN LETTER TO WISCONSIN LABOR

   Union boss Gooch McGowan of Wisconsin’s local 139, Operating Engineers, supports Gov Walker. But take a look at the way boss McGowan is repeating the same bad decisions that local 150 (N. IL, N. IN, parts of IA) Operating Engineer union bosses have made.

   Rachel Maddow recently had a local 150 “leader” on her terrific show, telling her audience how terrible it was that IN Gov Daniels was supporting a Right to Work for Less in Indiana. PLEASE READ FURTHER.

   Local 150, Operating Engineers “leaders” stand out as hypocrites and anti-union, union decision makers. Why do they stand out? Because they began supporting anti-union Republican Mitch Daniels for Gov of Indiana in 2005 and continued to support Daniels as Gov. until very recently.

   And when did the “leadership” of local 150 get outraged and stop supporting Gov Daniels? When their stupidity was exposed. When Daniels could finally follow thru on his anti-union beliefs and pay back his radical right supporters by signing an Right to Work for Less law as he prepares to walk out the door of the governor’s mansion for the last time.

   By the way they describe events, Daniels’ R to W support was inconceivable to Local 150′s union’s 2 successive bosses. Their unfaltering, myopic, self-serving support of a self described anti-union Republican, could NOT possibly go bad. What are the odds…..that it wouldn’t be a train wreck? Of course this thinking is NOT atypical for an Operating Engineer’s local “leadership”. Just look at local 139, just across the Illinois border.

   Local 139′s (all of Wisconsin) union boss and 20 year politician, Gooch McGowan, is repeating this psychotic pattern of supporting an anti-union Republican governor expecting different results, with one minor exception. Local 150 bosses – the former Bus Mgr Dugan, Ret. and convicted felon (for stealing from the members) and current Bus Mgr Sweeney – have a SIGNED LETTER from anti-union career politician Daniels, PROMISING no Right to Work laws.

   Local 150 recently paraded that letter out to the media while acting surprised and angry saying that they were betrayed … by an avowed anti-union Republican “truth” telling politician no less. No one could have known that this politician would ever lie to them. They had it in writing Damn it. From a former W Bush staff politician Damn it.

   And the minor exception between local 150 and 139- Local 139′s self-serving Bus Mgr Gooch McGowan. McGowan has confidently informed his union members and media, that he has a VERBAL PROMISE from WI Gov Walker of no Right to Work laws.

   That’s much, much, more better than a signed letter, right? And there is no reason to doubt Walker even after Walker signed a Right to Work law for PUBLIC UNIONS just as Gov Daniels had done his first year in office.

   No reason to doubt Walker even as 6 more Republican governor controlled states are taking up Koch bros. Right to Work for Less laws, right? No reason to doubt Walker as one after another of his former and current staff plead guilty, and or, are granted immunity to inform on other Walker staff member’s lawbreaking, during the current Milw County John Doe investigation of at the very least, illegal Walker campaigning … for Gov, right?

   And for this kind of political head up somebody’s ass savvy, McGowan takes about $250,000 A YEAR as compensation from the union dues of rank-and-file members of local 139.

   Raise your hand if you think that Republicans and the most powerful anti-union lobby in the US, the Chamber of Commerce, do NOT have a good read on self-serving union bosses. All those with your hands raised, step to the front to get sworn in as union “leaders”. Grab as much as you can as fast as you can “leaders”, cause when the rank-and-file stop paying the union member tax, aka dues, you’ll have to retire to one of your homes and try to live off your 2 pensions, 401k, and fully prepaid health care benefits.
   tellfred
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     Betteroff said

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     Feb 24, 2012 at 7:06 PM

     Tellfred
     Are you upset with most of the union leadership – based on your letter above?
     You should also be upset with Democrats who state they are working for “you” as well.
     I hardly think Obama, Pelosi and Reid really care about unions or minorities – as long as they get their vote.

     Funny thing that Mr. Walker is helping to bring much of this to light.
     Couple questions:
     Why do you think you personally need a union for your line of work?
     You seem intelligent – couldn’t you negotiate your own wage and benefits?

     And yes politicians lie we all know that. Nothing new about them saying one thing and doing another.
     What really maters is, that they do what is best for the “majority” of constituents.