Index lu2 Documents of Local 2 Click on Category to expand list. Elect
John Burke and the Local 2 coalition Slate
- Laborers for JUSTICE letter
to Crains reporter Paul Merrion and GEB Attorney Luskin explaining
situation in local 2 as of May 21, 1999.
- Platform of Local 2
Coalition Slate, a slate composed of rank and file from the tunnel,
open cut, underground workers-laborers that are employed by and work for
private companies as opposed to Caravetta's Slate, a/k/a The
organized crime slate" It is composed of
political appointees who are beholden to the Cook County Democratic
party, whose chairman is Schipper's
cousin. Caravetta is a supervisor at the Cook County Jail, 26th and
California, where he probably recruits candidates
like Bates
- Wendell
"Hawk" Hawkins
ruled eligible for office. See files
- Caravetta's candidate for vice president, Juan Hernandez, nominates
a convicted murder for executive
board who is disqualified after protest by Burke campaign
manager McGough. See IHO
decision . See PDF file
Kenny Bates, the convicted murder, got out of prison in 1997, 9 years
too late to be eligible for union office in 2001. Kenny nominated the auditors for
Caravetta's slate and CrimeDawg is now checking for embezzlement
convictions.
- National Inquirer calls former local 2 trustee David Schippers
"The
World's Biggest Hyprocrite"
- Local 2
"Coalition Slate" members fight for members and challenge
Organized Crime boss Matassa and lack of union democracy on May 11,
1999-the night "union democracy" was born in local 2. PDF File of meeting
minutes.
- Election Officer rules Reggie
Robinson, who admits to being an inexperienced laborer,
eligible to run with Caravetta and the auditors nominated by Caravetta's
ex-felon candidate for executive board.
- Minutes of April 1999
Nomination meeting where Matassa allows Caravetta to win business
manager by default. Matassa shitcanned Burke's dues so he would not be
eligible. See McGough's protest to IHO and note Healy silence about
constitutional violations/
- Election Rules for Laborers local 2
PDF File of Election Rules
- Nomination meeting Local 2
February 10, 2001
- Chuck Hartman of Kenny
Construction Company nominates organized crime boss John Matassa for
business manager in 1996 , a nomination seconded by Leonard White,
who was John Matassa's sergeant at arms and who was nominated by mob
puppet Ricky Caravetta to be Caravetta's sergeant at arms on the
Progressive Reform Party Slate
- Ludicrous election
schedule proposed by GEB Attorney
- Burke Tomasik
complaint to dissolve trusteeship of laborers local 2
- Chicago
District Council Trusteeship Hearings-transcripts and newspaper
articles
- John
Matassa, Jr. barred from LIUNA for being a "made" member of
organized crime
- Background
- Romano Letter to Local 2 members re
dismissal
- Burke Letter to
Luskin Re Romano dismissal
- Luskin Letter to
local 2 members explaining Dalton appointment
- Crimedawg's comments on
Luskin's Dalton letter
- McGough's transfer
into local 2 after assuring contested election in local 5
- O'Sullivan's letter
acknowledging McGough's transfer can not be revoked or stopped.
- Newspaper Articles
- Controlling
Documents Governing Local 2
- Newsletters
- Labor Management
Reports
letter to
Dalton 2000-11-02 requesting inspection/copying of local 2 records
letter to provisional LIUNA general president O'Sullivan for up to date
copies of LIUNA's constitutions, rules, policies, procedures
