I am glad to see that someone actually cares about what is happening in our union. It took a lot of courage for someone to step up to the plate and let people know what is going on knowing that our administration will make life hell for anyone who speaks out against them. There is a list of names of individuals that can not be dispatched to work because the administration uses their power to punish those who want to do what is right for the members. It was obvious to me that the person who said that the members voted on the raises and it was there fault was obviously one of our administration. They always blame the members for everything. There was a vote on where our raise would go a few years back. No one was notified of the vote. Out of the thousands of members that are eligible to vote only twenty or so voted for a raise to go to a health and welfare retirement fund. The strange this is, there is no fund. Where is that money going? The administration again blamed the members for not voting. How could they when only a "special few" were told about the vote. And you guessed it. It was only those who wanted the money to go into this non-exsitant fund who were notified that there would be a vote. No one was notified that there would be a vote to give Wayne King and Tommy Blitch a raise. Tommy Blitch also stated that no one won a NLRB charge. Another lie! There was a case where someone at the training center won a case because he recieved a threatening phone call from Wayne King because he voted "no" on a substandard contract. Luckily the phone call was recorded. The NLRB did everything they could to help Wayne King win the charge but a recording of someone threatening you is evidence that is hard to beat. This makes me believe that there is a bond between the local and the NLRB which should be investigated.