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Subject: Is this statement accurate?


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Anonymous
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Date Posted: 10/ 6/09 7:24am

Dear Brother XXXX,



Please get you facts straight. In the DOC Chapter election, workers in bargaining unit 8 (that is your unit) returned to Local 509 after the expiration of an agreement with NAGE. When the experiment started they voted to dismantle their chapter. When they returned last January we created a new chapter. Nominations were opened and members from three different factions were nominated for the office of Chapter President.

Ballots were mailed out in keeping with usual rules. However, after the mailing we discovered that a number of ballots had the wrong return envelope. They were not addressed to the Labor Guild, but to Local 509 (in 30 years of running 509 elections this was a first) As a result the Trustees did not open or count the returned ballots, but remailed the entire election.

Nothing was fixed. The winner of that election was David Pizzi, a former DOC Chapter President who was leading a futile attempt to remove the DOC Jobs from Unit 8. 2 days after the ballots were mailed he had a serious auto accident that put him in the ICU for 2 weeks and left him with permanent damage. He declined to take the office. Under the provisions of law we reopened nominations an held another vote. Ken Gorman was elected. with a 70 vote margin. Nothing was fixed.



I will deal with your other allegations at a later date.



In solidarity,



Michael Grunko, President SEIU Local 509
617/924-8509 ext 509
cell 617/669-1945
fax 617/924-8248

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Re: Is this statement accurate?Anonymous10/ 6/09 11:20am
Re: Is this statement accurate?Anonymous10/ 6/09 12:26pm


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