TRUSTEE LYNCH SET UP AND WRONGFULLY TERMINATED FOR THEFT?YOU DECIDE
DID WEIR AND COMPANY FAIL TO PROTECT HIM FOR DOING HIS JOB AS STEWARDON MAY 8,2010 TRUSTEE JOSEPH LYNCH WAS PART OF A RANDOM SEARCH AT THE SECURITY GATE WHILE LEAVING THE EMPIRE GENERATION JOB SITE.TRUSTEE LYNCH WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THYSSEN KRUPP SAFWAY.HE WAS ALSO THE APPOINTED WEIR,BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI SHOP STEWARD.TRUSTEE LYNCH WAS BROUGHT DIRECTLY TO THIS JOB SITE FROM HIS LAST JOB AFTER BEING REMOVED FROM HIS LAST EMPLOYEE.THIS OF COURSE IS WITH OVER 300 ON THE OUT OF WORK LIST.HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE DOUGY BOY??
THE RESULT OF THE RANDOM SEARCH WAS
THAT LYNCH WAS FOUND TO HAVE A COMPANY DRILL AND A QUANITY OF SCRAP
COPPER HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE FROM THE SITE
ON
MONDAY MAY 11,2010 TRUSTEE LYNCH WAS NOTIFIED HE WAS TERMINATED BY HIS EMPLOYER SAFWAY
INC FOR "STEALING COPPER AND COMPANY JOBSITE TOOLS.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES PROJECT AND MADE A SHOP STEWARD.THIS WITH OVER 300 ON THE OUT OF WORK LIST.HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE DOUGY BOY??
INTERVIEW WITH BROTHER LYNCH: ACCORDING TO JOE LYNCH HIS TROUBLE STARTED ON THE SITE WAY BEFORE THE DAY OF MAY 8,2010. ON A DAY PREVIOUSLY THE CARPENTERS HAD BEEN WORKING IN THE COOLING TOWER AND TEMPERATURES HAD STARTED TO REACH UNBEARABLE DEGREES. AS SHOP STEWARD LYNCH MADE A MOVE TO PROTECT THE CARPENTERS IN HIS CHARGE AND COMPLAINED ABOUT THE WORKING CONDITIONS TO LG CONTRACTORS. LYNCHS EMPLOYER SAFWAY WAS A SUB OF LG CONTRACTORS. THE COMPLAINT AND THE AFTERMATH WAS PASSED BACK TO SAFWAYS SUPER AND IT SEEMS HE WAS NOT HAPPY ACCORDING TO LYNCH.
JOSEPH LYNCH IS ADAMANT THAT HIS TROUBLES ON MAY 8,2010 ARE A RESULT OF THAT COMPLAINT AND THAT HE WAS "SET UP" BY THE SUPER AT SAFWAY. BROTHER LYNCH STATED THAT THE DRILL MENTIONED IN THE REPORT WAS GIVEN HIM TO USE BY THE SAFWAY SUPERVISIOR AND HE KNEW HE WAS TAKING IT. BROTHER LYNCH ALSO FELT THAT THE COPPER WAS PLACED IN HIS PATH BY THE SAFWAY SUPER WHO KNEW HE EWAS TAKING HOME COPPER GIVEN TO HIM BY THE ELECTRICIANS AND WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE GONE IN THE TRASH.JOSEPH LYNCH CONTNDS THAT HIS PROBLEM WAS NOT ABOUT THE COPPER WBUT IS THE RESULT OF TRYING TO PROTECT HIS MEN.
I INQUIRED OF BROTHER LYNCH AS TO WHAT STEPS WERE TAKEN BY LOCAL 370 TO PROTECT HIM AS SHOP STEWARD IF THIS WAS INDEED A SET UP AND RETALIATION FOR DOING HIS JOB AS A SHOP STEWARD. MANY OF US HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF LOCAL 370 OFFICERS HANGING US OUT TO DRY WHEN WE TRY TO ENFORCE JOB SITE RULES AS SHOP STEWARD.LOCAL 370 HAS A HISTORY OF MAKING LONG TERM COMPANY MEN, WITH NO STEWARD TRAINING,SHOP STEWARDS BECUASE THEY KNOW THAT WILL NOT MAKE WAVES FOR THE COMPANIES THEY HAVE BEEN WITH FOR YEARS. JOSEPH LYNCH REPLIED THAT THE ONLY ACTION TAKEN WAS ONE PHONE CALL TO SAFWAY BY WILLIAM WEIR AND THAT WEIR ASKED LYNCH TO WRITE A LETTER. I ASKED LYNCH. BOTTOM LINE JOE. IF THIS WAS A SET UP WHAY ARE YOU NOT STILL ON THE JOBSITE.HE RPELIED HE WAS NOT ON THE JOB SITE BECUASE HE HAD "STOLEN SOMETHING"
INTERVIEW WITH SAFWAY MANAGEMENT:
IT SEEMS SAFWAY HAS A DIFFERENT VERSION TO TELL.IT IS THEIR POSTION THAT JOSPEH LYNCH WAS FIRED AFTER A RADNOM GATE SEARCH REVEALED HE HAD A COMPANY TOOL AND SOME SCRAP COPPER HE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE FORM THE SITE. SAFWAY SAID THEY HAD NO KONWLEDGE OF LYNCH TAKING THE TOOL AND DID NOT GIVE HIM PERMISSION.THEY ALSO SAID THAT LYNCH WAS WELL AWARE THAT TAKING SCRAP OFF THE SITE WAS AGAINST THE RULES AND CONSIDERED STEALING.THERE IS ALSO SPECUALTION THAT THE TOOL IN QUESTION WAS TARGETED BY LYNCH BECUASE IT WAS BEING USED BY ANOTHER 370 CAPRENTER LYNCH RESENTED AND HAD EARLIER TRIED TO HAVE LAID OFF WHICH THE COMPANY REFUSED TO DO. LYNCH WANTED THIS CARPENTER LAID OFF TO PROTECT THE JOB OF ANOTHER CARPENTER MORE FAVORABLE TO LYNCH. THE DRILL IN QUESTION WAS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CARPENTER WHOM LUNCH WANTED GONE.
ACCORDING TO INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SAFWAY WILLIAM WEIR,DOUGLAS BLACKLOCK AND MARK SOWALSKI NOW ENAGED ON A HARRASMENT CAMPAIGN TO TRY AND FORCE THE COMPANY TO DROP THE STEALING REPORT AGANST LYNCH AND TO REINSTATE LYNCH ON THE JOB AND "MAKE IT ALL GO AWAY". THEY MADE REPEATED PHONE CALLS AND HLED IN PERSON MEETINGS WITH THE SAFWAY SUPER AND TRIED TO BULLY AND HARASS HIM INTO DROPING THE PROBLEMS WITH LYNCH AND PUTTING HIM BACK ON SITE.THE SAFWAY SUPER REFUSED.ACCORDING TO THE SUPER THEY HINTED AT FUTURE PROBLEMS SAFWAY MIGHT HAVE WORKING IN THE AREA AND OTHER BULLYING TACTICS. SAFWAY PRESENTLY HAS A CREW AT GLOBAL FOUNDRIES.AT THIS POINT THE LOCAL OFFICERS.WIER BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI, WENT DIRECTLY TO SAFWAY IN INDIANA WHERE THE COMPANY IS HEADQUARTERD.THEY ENAGAGED IN THE SAME HARRSASMENT CAMPAIGN WIHT THE COMPANY OWNER WHO ALLSO REFUSED TO BOW TO THIER PRESSURE AND REFUSED TO REINSSTAE LYNCH AND DROP THE THEFT REPORT. UNDAUNTED WIER AND COMPANY WENT AFTER LG CONTRACTORS AND TRIED TO FORCE THEM TO GET SAFWAY TO COMPLY WITH THEIR DEMANDS.IT DID NOT WORK.
SO WHAT WERE THE MOTIVES HERE.WAS A LOCAL WHO HAS A HISTORY OF HANGING THEIR STEWARDS OUT TO DRY SUDDENLY PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS TO FINALLY PROTECT A SHOP STEWARD.OR WAS THIS WEIR AND BLACLOCK HARRASING AND BULLYING A GOOD COMPANY TO SAVE THE ASS OF ONE OFF THEIR OWN. REMEMBER THAT LYNCH IS ALSO A LOCAL 370 TRUSTEE HAND PICKED AND APPOINTED PRO TEM BY WILLIAM WEIR AND LATER RALIROADED INTO OFFICE ON THE WIER SLATE.WAS SAFWAY THE BAD GUY WHO SET UP LYNCH.
A PHONE CALL OF INQUIRY TO LOCAL 1005 OF MERRYVILLE INDIANA GIVES SAFWAY A TWO THUMBS UP RATING. THEY ARE A GOOD COMPANY TO WORK FOR.PAY THEIR BENEFITS.TREAT THIER UNION EMPLOYEES WELL AND HAVE NO HISTORY OF SETTING UP SHOP STEWARDS.SO AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE WARY OF ALIENATING CONTRACTORS. AT A TIME WHEN WE HAVE CONTRACTORS WHO MIGHT NOT SIGN AGAIN DUE TO THE MADOFF FIASCO.AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE TRYING TO REPAIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH CONTRACTORS WEIR, BALCLOCK AND SOWALSKI ENAGAGED IN A BULLYING AND HARRASSMENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST A "TWO THUMBS UP COMPANY"?WILL SAFWAY BE A VICTIM OF FUTURE REPRISALS FROM BLACLOCK AND SOWALSKI. DO THESE CLOWNS HAVE A HISTORY OF BULLYING AND HARRASSING CONTRACTORS WHO DO NOT DO AS THEY ARE TOLD. SUCH AS REMOVING TRUSTEES FOR STEALING OR NOT ALLOWING BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI TO DICTATE WHO GETS HIRED OR LAID OFF ON A JOB SITE SO THEY CAN PLACE THEIR RELATIVES AND BUDDYS ON THE JOB SITE FIRST..
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD OF A VISIT TO SAFWAY AND THIER SUPER AT THE GLOBAL FOUNDRIES SITE A FEW DAYS AGO BY BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI.THEY WENT TO DISCUSS THE AGE OF A 370 MEMBER WHO WAS BEING HIRED ON BY SAFWAY AFTER HE LEGALLY SOLICITED A JOB.IT SEEMS BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI WERE CONCERNED WITH HIS AGE AND POSITION ON THE LIST.BUT THAT ALONG WITH THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST GEA AND DANNY WILSON OF MLB IS ANOHER STORY ALL TOGEHTER.
EPILOQUE: SO WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE. A SHOP STEWARD SET UP AND RETALIATED AGAINST FOR PROTECTING HIS MEN OR JUST A 370 TRUSTEE CAUGHT STEALING. DO WE HAVE LOCAL 370 OFFCIERS FINALLY COMING OUT TO PROTECT A SHOP STEWARD IN THE LINE OF DUTY OR DO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF POMPUS ARROGANT WIND BAGS HARRASING AND TRYING TO BULLY A GOOD COMPANY TO EXCERT THEIR POWER. DO WE HAVE A CASE OF WEIR,BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI CONCERNED FOR A 370 STEWARD AND DO WE HAVE WIER,BLACKLOCK AND SOWALSKI TRYING TO PROTECT THIER HAND PICKED TRUSTEE.YOU DECIDE.
DESPITE LYING AT THE MONTHLY MEETING REGARDING ANY BUSINES AGENTS OR SHOP STEWARDS TRYING TO FORCE CONTRACTORS TO HIRE ONLY THROUGH THE HALL.DESPITE LYING ABOUT BUSINESS AGENTS OR SHOP STEWARDS TRYING TO STOP 370 MEMBERS FROM BEING HIRED WHO LEGALLY SOLICITED A JOB THAT IS EXCATLY WHAT SOWALSKI AND BLACLOCK WRE PULLING ON THIS JOB SITE.JUST AS THEY WERE DOING WITH DANNY WILSON AND MLB AT GLOBAL FOUNDRIES. THEY TRIED TO FORCE THE SUPERS TO HIRE THROUGH THEM ONLY SO THEY COULD CONTROL WHO GOT HIRED AND WHO GOT LAID OFF.JUST AS DANNY WILSON DID AT MALTA THE GEA SUPER TOLD THEM TO DROP DEAD AND HIRED AS THEY WANTED. WAS THIS ABPUT SAFWAY SETTING UP A SHOP STEWARD OR WAS ABOUT GEA,SAFWAY AND LG NOT PLAYING BALL AND A COUPLE OF 370 CLOWNS ABUSING THIER POWER
COMING UP:
DID WEIR,BLACLOCK AND SOWALSKI
ENGAGE IN HARRASMENT CAMPAIGN
AGAINST SAFWAY INC AND LG
CONSTRUCTORS OR DID THEY DO NOTHING
INTERVIEW WITH TRUSTEE LYNCH
INTERVIEW WITH SAFWAY MANAGEMENT
SAFWAY INC GIVEN 2 THUMBS UP BY LOCAL 1005 IN MERRIVILLE IND