Laborers for JUSTICE
May 21,1999

Paul:

Here is what is going down on local 2:

 

On May 11, 1999 reform minded members of local 2

refused to pay the bills , (meaning legal bills), and demanded
via motion an opportunity to reject the minutes of the local's

executive board wherein it rejected the offer of supervisorship

made by the GEB Attorney, (Robert Luskin-202-625-1200) knowing

full well it could then expect to receive a complaint for trusteeship,

which it did on April 28, 1999 at the nomination meeting being held

at a VFW hall down the street from the local (6607 S. Archer, Chicago)  

 

John Matassa, jr. told the members there were no minutes to read because there was no
meeting. I was outside the local giving parliamentary advice to laborers not familiar

with Robert's Rules of Order. Instead of putting a motion to the floor to

accept the offer (we had the votes) there was so much disorder at being

deprived of a union member's right of self governance, that the honest members

of the local motioned to suspend the meeting to Sat. May 22, 1999 at noon in a bigger
hall. the minutes of the meeting now in the hands of the GEB attorney clearly

reflect the meeting is to be resumed on Sat. May 22, 1999 and that the local will

send out notices to members and advise of new location as well as meeting's resumption

as well as 7 days notice to nominate delegates to the District Council, which is now

under Trusteeship for being under influence and control of organized crime.

 

No notices have been sent and when one calls the local at 773-586-5766,

the clerical secretary tells members there will be no meeting. I suspect that John Matassa, jr,

who was booted out of union on May 12, 1999 for being a member of organized crime,

is trying to sandbag honest members. If we don't show up on Saturday he will and

he will have the votes to accept the decision of executive board and reject supervision.

Every political appointee working for Chicago's park district, cook County, or state
government will be there to support John Matassa, jr and organized crime.

 

In the event union members are being deprived of the "meaningful" right to vote May 22, 1999,

I expect the GEB Attorney will go into U.S. District Court in Chicago on Monday,
May 24, 1999 and seek an emergency trusteeship. In which case, the U.S. Marshals

will gallop out to 6607 S. Archer and seize control of the local, change the locks, and

oust all the members of the executive board and appoint a trustee and capable assistants

as well as new officers. I will have tv cameras at the site on Saturday and Monday as well

as members of the press and the Chicago Police Department Labor Relations personnel should

anything happen.

 

I have all the background info on http://members.xoom.com/jimcgough

under the laborers and local 2, including the letter the executive board is

required to read at the next general membership meeting. Whether that

meeting will occur on May 22 or June 8 is in doubt. The important, critical

item of information in the May 19, 1999 letter from the GEB Attorney is the
reminder to members that all decisions of the executive board of a local
are binding until and unless over ridden by vote of the members at the next

general meeting, a provision I personally brought to the attention of the GEB

Attorney when I told him I was going to use it to have my troops in local 2

take back control of local 2 by having the votes.

 

The real issue confronting the International and the GEB Attorney in view of the
public doubt and cynicism of the legitimacy of the internal reform movement

is who the GEB attorney appoints as trustee or supervisor or co trustee or 

assistant supervisor. Members of Laborers for JUSTICE and reform minded

members of local 2 expect the GEB Attorney to appoint Jim McGough in some

capacity to foster the reform movement in local 2 and elsewhere. The FBI

would like McGough to be appointed as a delegate to the Chicago District Council

but can not interfere with internal union affairs.  DOL-OIG would love to see McGough

inside the rat's nest of corruption, knowing full well he would yell bloody murder

when he detected corruption.

 

When all is said and done, report on who the GEB appoints as an assistant to the trustee.

If he appoints someone who can not devote his energies full time, bad appointment.

If he appoints someone who is not intimately familiar with LIUNA's constitution-bad appointment.

If he appoints someone without investigative experience , like an ex FBI official knowledgeable

about organized crime-bad appointment. If he appoints someone who does not know

how to use the internet and computers, bad appointment. The appointment of Jim McGough

would of course be an excellent appointment according to Combined Counties Police Association president, John Flood, former head of Oglivie's Organized Crime Task Force.