Brothers and Sisters, this should make every Union Goon swell with pride!!

On 12/12/05 at the Union meeting I was debating the failure of Ron Dejuliis  to abide by the motion the assembly voted on and passed unanimously at the November meeting where we wanted to be allowed to ask questions, without restriction about the infamous Target fund. Or is it a Slush Fund I ask you? We also specified in that motion that we wanted a detailed financial report from the day the Target fund was adopted in 1992. I mean we didn’t ask what was in your wallet now did we? The financial report we wanted in the form of a handout. I mean after all isn’t it “our” money?  Don’t we have the right to know where it is going to whom and why. How much money has been collected over the years? What’s the deal?  After all why would we  think something was amiss? There’s nothing to hide is there? Funny DeJuliis shows up with a report for the last fiscal year. We wanted a report on all the years and we wanted to question the expenditures. Uh-Oh here he comes  with an auditor and a lawyer. The auditor wants to give us a report on the year 2004 the lawyer tells us if we don’t like it file a complaint. Wade Hamel the Parliamentarian kept ruling me out of order, Bobby Wooten, who took the role as enforcer, yells vulgarities at me and tells me to sit down. The poor ladies invited to the meeting for the Christmas party are cringing and their husbands are livid and embarrassed. Are you starting to get the picture? Not Pretty is it? Well, knowing I’m within my rights I want an answer as to why DeJuliis  isn’t doing what the members demanded. Here we go again, Wooten jumps up uses some MF’s again but this time he threatens to F-me up. Of course Hamel who has totally lost control by now must be confused because he rules me out of order. Hey Wade it’s Wooten who’s using the vulgarities and threatening a Brother Operator!! Hello, anybody home??? I guess he was too busy playing the drums with the gavel and calling me out of order. He didn’t know our by-laws where after the second use of vulgarities the violator should be escorted out of the meeting, not the poor guy asking questions. Now keep “escort” in your thoughts. OK I can’t get by the rhythmic pounding of the gavel, so  I’d better sit down and regroup. So our BM, (bm has a lot of connotations, like in a hospital setting), gets up and starts this long, boring oration on how he’s not going to put up with the rumors, insults and innuendoes that are being spread around about him and his family.  He’s not going to tell us what they are because he doesn’t want to dignify them! Got ya.  OK I’m convinced now, somebody must have said something unmentionable.  My Grandmother use to say that about her underwear!  Move on Boss. Mind you I’m timing him now. According to our by – laws a member isn’t supposed to speak more than 5 minutes without 2/3 approval of the members. Boss man starts telling us how he “LOVES” Operating Engineers Local 37, the greatest local in the country. Of course he doesn’t mention the sub-poverty level pension that allots us the generous amount of $45.00 per credit that we are supposed to be happy with, yes-indeedy! 30 years of service and you and your lady can stand in the soup line with the rest of the retirees. OK, onward and upward. Another couple of LOVE this local 37, expressed with deep feeling too. Had tears in my eyes he did. I was so touched I had to blow my nose on the sleeve of the guy sitting next to me. I think he was sniffling too!

So here he is 10 minutes into his insult and love speech and I’m getting antsy. Finally he starts on the Target Fund, guess what he loves that too!!

Enough is enough ,love, hate, insults, innuendoes, rumors, hey Dude you just went over by 8 minutes. Time for me to show I know the Rules of Robert, they give you 10 minutes, Yo, hey up there, Mr Pres, Point of Order please. It’s in our by-laws,page 15 –rules 7and 8, read em weep.

Oh No, Geeze, I hear the drummer again, and those dreaded words

“you are out of order Brother” Wooten wasn’t doing anything right then and nobody else was standing and talking, Yup he was pounding away, pointing and talking to me. Kinda mean looking too. He looked unhappy to me.

Oh well, after about 9 or 10 “you’re out of order Brother” I figured it was time to bring out the big guns and called for an “appeal from the decision of the chair”. Poor Pres, he looked stupified, you know, blank, non-compas-mente, Duh, huh, what? Appeal? There’s no appeal sit down or I’ll have you escorted out of here. Here’s that escort word again, put it in your thought banks. Hell I wasn’t going to sit down because according to the By-Laws, the constitution and several Federal laws, I got rights, oh yeah.

How in the hell did I know they didn’t know about the by-laws and the rest of that stuff that we are supposed to abide by. No indeed they have their own laws which say “do as I say knave or be gone”. Now the BM was fed up with the drummer and all the Points of Order and Appeals and decided he would take control and told the now totally confused Pres “he’s out of order get him out of here”.  Poor Pres with stuttering authority he commanded in a loud squeaky voice “sssomebbody escort him outta here” I guess he couldn’t think straight and forgot to tell the guard to, here we go with that word again, “escort” me out. Now this word “somebody” is enough to make any GOON drool. Somebody, Grrr, erah, yes there is a Satan!! Uh-Oh I hear this nasty, ugly mean familiar vulgar voice saying “god-damned right I’ll escort the MF outta here”. He comes Wooten crashing through three rows of chairs, yes indeed he is going to “Escort” me. By now you should have looked up the word escort. If you haven’t, here it is according to Webster:

One (as a person or a warship) accompanying another especially as a protection or courtesy).

Before I could blink, Wootens on me, he strikes me on top of the head staggering me backwards and knocking my glasses of then he grabs my arm and spins me around and starts dragging me towards the exit. Hey Goon, the Pres said ‘escort” not “eject”. Now according to Webster “eject” means:

Unhorse, unseat, dethrone, evict, kick out, throw out, oust, eject etc. you get the idea.

Of course this caused a melee. The good guys pulled the Goon off of me and I was properly escorted out by Brother Reggie and I left. Their Goon was finally told to leave only after numerous complaints otherwise he stays at the meeting. Come on now don’t leave there’s more. There should have been a newspaper headlines saying GOON GOES ON RAMPAGE!!! We’re not that lucky. Well after he hurt me and had to leave much to the dismay of his bosses, he went up to the bar and tried to start a fight up there with a defenseless drunk and got himself and a couple of other good operators thrown out. He didn’t want any part of them he wanted the drunk, easy pickings there.  A hero for sure, first a disabled Brother, me, (100% too, sad thing is he knows it, we even discussed it) then the drunk. He heads back down to the meeting place looking for some pats on the head I guess. Not there, people hate him. Hell the people he works with don’t like him!

He bumps into George Moon and moon tells him he’s an idiot. Oh Boy! Wooten attacks Moon, but like the usual goon he has help, he don’t have the testicular fortitude to fight somebody that’s able. Some fat cowardly low life tackles Moon from behind and when Moon went down a couple other cowards jumped on him and punched and kicked him. I’m told one was a cop, a twin, I bet his fat daddy is proud. That’s my BOY, beaming like only a proud father could.

Somebody called the cops, so like a good BM DeJuliis walked Wooten  the attacker down the side of the building and away from the law. Probably didn’t want any Brothers to get locked up. Now that’s what I call looking out for the members.  I ask you could there be another reason?  A lot of us feel Poor Wooten not realizing the seriousness of his actions, was planted to keep us from asking questions about what in our opinion amounts to a slush fund. That’s what happened, after I left Brother Mark Harkins asked a couple of questions and the rest sat on their courage. DeJuliiss suck ups asked some “Ronnie” questions and of course applauded him, their hero. It’s funny in a way because when this all gets straightened out, those guys will be looking for another hero to suck up to. Goons, cowards, bobble heads and suck ups sleep good because they have no conscience. I’ll bet some even go to church.  We lost they won. Wooten done an outstanding job. Guess what BM we’re still here and we still have a lot of question YOU ARE GOING TO ANSWER and you are going to be held accountable if and when we find what we're looking for. Time is on our side. Your wife is suing Tommy O’Donnel for slander, you issued and then rescinded a lay – off  letter to Quinton Anderson after he owed a lot of money, you violated the ERRISSA

Laws by giving him his annuity before he should have received it.  Brother Mark Harkins received a lay off coincidental to a meeting you had with Grubbs Bob Burgee. Funny a couple of weeks ago he couldn’t wait to get Mark back, according to Burgee , to take the pressure off the other two mechanics who are inundated with work. Not to mention the new shop they are building because of the extra work they are expecting from Virginia. Gee Ronnie, you wouldn’t do anything like that, WOULD YOU Brother, you wouldn’t hurt another Brother operator, you know like CRUSH them, one of your signature sayings when someone angers you?  Hey don’t forget me, look what happened to me, attacked by a guy who just a month before was wishing me luck with my injury and told me he didn’t know anything aboiut the Target Fund. What is your part in all of this?  I know you said you were embarrassed about all of this. You didn’t say that because I sent copies of the charges to three Officers in the IUOE headquarters did you? I understand you took your man Wooten to the Little Italy Christmas Party on the 22 of December reserved for local37s officers and the politicians. You did introduce him as “your man” didn’t you? Is he going to be your next “operator of the year’?  I’ll bet you’re thinking about some kind of reward for him, I mean you didn’t do your duty as the BM and charge him with any of the many violations he committed, so it would appear you were happy with his performance at the meeting. A lot of opinions are you set it up, even you’re old friends are saying it’s so. What little respect you had amongst the members was left on that floor and outside on the street. What do you care right?  You still have the power you can do what you want, according to the DeJuliis Doctrine. Are you a fair and honest BM or a self serving TYRANT?  Don’t get mad at me BROTHER I’m asking what everybody feels you are and of course it’s the latter! You know you’re so important to yourself you can’t believe anybody could think such thoughts. Wake up fool, 95% of the members hold you in contempt as well as fear you.  Fear breeds contempt.  Did I mention the rest of the industry, Iron Workers, Carpenters, Boilermakers, Laborers, etc. yeah man, you’re infamous. Where in the hell did they get that?  Hey King, I heard that’s what the controller calls you, just another rumor I won’t dignify, I’m done with this one. I have more, keep your eye out. Of course this is all conjecture, opinion, just sitting here thinking with my fingers, don’t pay any mind to me I like the idea of getting beat at the meeting and having my friends sued and screwed because they care about the mess you have made of our local, pensions and welfare.

All they want is an honest and reputable Local 37, we’re tired of being ridiculed because of you by the other IUOE local not to mention all the other unions. Thanks for all you’ve done!!! Remember me, we used to be friends until I woke up and started asking question.

Jim Archey