An Attack On Free Speech
According to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act:
"It shall be unlawful for any person through the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to restrain, coerce, or intimidate, or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate any member of a labor organization for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this Act. "
We are nothing more than regular old UTU members. We have no ties to the Teamsters Union, no financial assistance from any DLCs looking to get back to the Boyd/Little years, and not too much skill when it comes to manipulating html code.
When we started this, we went to a friend of ours from back in New York who does know a thing or two about html codes and asked if he could lend us some assistance. As an old high school friend, he agreed.
For that, he got his name, address and telephone number plastered all over the Internet by the plaintiffs who are blocking the democrat rights of the thousands of UTU members who voted in for the SMART merger in August.
Ironic, isn't it, that the same people who supposedly "champion" the democratic rights of UTU members such as ourselves are the first to veto the exercise of those rights when they don't fit into their world view. Isn't it ironic that they're the same people who also are now attempting to suppress a dissenting viewpoint by posting the personal information related to an individual who helped us set up this web site?
Even more interesting is that the four Teamsters conveniently had the resources and access to the UTU database to do a very quick search on our friend's name.
Releasing membership information like that to outsiders is a serious violation of the memberships' privacy rights, made worse if it was done by someone on the inside at UTU headquarters in Cleveland.
To those who chose to take it upon themselves to shut down dissent through intimidating it by plastering some one's private information all over the Internet, we have this nugget from section 209 of the LMRDA:
What the plaintiffs and their supporters don't want people to talk about is their motives for their lawsuit. And the only way to find their motives is to take them at their words. Their past words that is. The words they scrubbed from their websites when they embarked on their twisted journey of character assassination, innuendo and intimidation.
Posting someone's personal information with the intention of intimidating them is something we've come to accept from a group of Teamsters, so we shouldn't have been surprised.
"It shall be unlawful for any person through the use of force or violence, or threat of the use of force or violence, to restrain, coerce, or intimidate, or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate any member of a labor organization for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this Act. "
We are nothing more than regular old UTU members. We have no ties to the Teamsters Union, no financial assistance from any DLCs looking to get back to the Boyd/Little years, and not too much skill when it comes to manipulating html code.
When we started this, we went to a friend of ours from back in New York who does know a thing or two about html codes and asked if he could lend us some assistance. As an old high school friend, he agreed.
For that, he got his name, address and telephone number plastered all over the Internet by the plaintiffs who are blocking the democrat rights of the thousands of UTU members who voted in for the SMART merger in August.
Ironic, isn't it, that the same people who supposedly "champion" the democratic rights of UTU members such as ourselves are the first to veto the exercise of those rights when they don't fit into their world view. Isn't it ironic that they're the same people who also are now attempting to suppress a dissenting viewpoint by posting the personal information related to an individual who helped us set up this web site?
Even more interesting is that the four Teamsters conveniently had the resources and access to the UTU database to do a very quick search on our friend's name.
Releasing membership information like that to outsiders is a serious violation of the memberships' privacy rights, made worse if it was done by someone on the inside at UTU headquarters in Cleveland.
To those who chose to take it upon themselves to shut down dissent through intimidating it by plastering some one's private information all over the Internet, we have this nugget from section 209 of the LMRDA:
Any person who willfully violates this title shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
What the plaintiffs and their supporters don't want people to talk about is their motives for their lawsuit. And the only way to find their motives is to take them at their words. Their past words that is. The words they scrubbed from their websites when they embarked on their twisted journey of character assassination, innuendo and intimidation.
Posting someone's personal information with the intention of intimidating them is something we've come to accept from a group of Teamsters, so we shouldn't have been surprised.
Labels: Intimidation, Teamsters
posted by The Real UTU at
5:50 PM
8 Comments:
what i really want to know is whether the merger included selling the utuia. is that true because the plaintiffs and their supporters are screaming it to the mountains without any sources.
As a member of the UTU, I personally apologize to Mr Devita for the harrassment he faced from these scum. They do not represent real UTU members.
Futhey's people have done everything to sabotage the merger and the people who support it. It is true because I am one of his people.
I am a member of a General Committee that donated money to Save Our Union. Do I have the right to protest or file charges against the General Chairman who used my money to support litigation against my vote?
When Vice President Futhey met with attorney Fox was Futhey being paid by the UTU?
When Vice Futhey called the anti merger boys did the UTU pay for the call?
When Vice Futhey turned over documentation to Fox, was he on UTU time or his own time? Did he use a UTU computer or a UTU fax or a stamp paid for by UTU?
Is Vice President Futhey guilty of misusing union funds? I voted for the merger and he is using my dues money to cancel my vote.
Improper use of union funds. I did not vote for using my dues dollars to fight the merger. UTU is out of control. Using UTU money to support a case against themselves.
In all my years as a UTU member and officer I never heard of one officer charging another officer. If this is an example of UTU leadership, then the UTU may have reached the point of no return.
9 months of Futhey is enough, the UTU has chosen a path that has irreparably damaged its reputation damaging not only itself, but the Labour movement as a whole. When an International Union brings dishonour upon itself, all labour seems to be smeared with it.
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