LM-2 REVEALS PHILLIPENAS SPENDS ONLY 72 MINUTES A DAY REPRESENTING THE MEMBERS OF LOCAL 631

John Phillipenas


Secretary-Treasurer

Salary Breakdown (2010)

Gross Salary: $95,142.00

Allowances: $0.00

Official Business: $7,503.00

Other Compensation: $0.00

Total Compensation: $102,645.00

Time Breakdown By Activity

Representational 15%

Political 10%

General Overhead 5%

Administrative  70%



Salary History

Year Title Gross Salary Total Compensation

2010 Secretary-Treasurer $95,142.00 $102,645.00

2009 Secretary-Treasurer $87,571.00 $93,397.00

HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS UNEMPLOYED AND PHILLIPENAS HIRES ?

With hundreds of Local 631 members unemployed and hundreds more suffering reduced hours we hear John Phillipenas recently hired yet another Business Agent last week. No explanation has been given by Phillipenas for his recent hiring binge and no substantial justification other than the upcoming election appears to exist. To add insult to injury Phillipenas hired Randy Soltero a officer of the Sheet Metal Workers instead of a Teamster. No word of whether Randy will join Phillipenas in being paid over $100,000/year to work for Local 631.

SAY IT AIN'T SO DIRTY JOE

Sightings of Dirty Joe Rivas at Republic Services of late have become almost nonexistent. Maybe it's because members at Republic began calling him "Punk A** Joe" after his unfortunate decision to seek a restraining order against Local 631 President Kevin Hardison after Hardison observed Mrs Rivas operating the union truck assigned to her husband and demanded an explanation from John Phillipenas. Or maybe Dirty Joe started attending those five hour liquid lunches with Todd Clapper. In any event, we can report that Dirty Joe is in fact alive and well  and seems to actually  remember how to find the Republic yard as he was reported to have appeared in the flesh today at 11:00 a.m. Of course you won't find many members around at that time of day but it is more convenient for closed door meetings with management/ 

ASK FAT ELVIS

May we suggest now that Fat Elvis, aka, Bill Brown is once again campaigning to become Secretary-Treasurer of Local 631 members question "the King" about why he was fired from his last three jobs? If he doesn't admit allegations of racist and sexist comments by Fat Elvis directed towards members of Local 631 resulted in him losing his job as a Business Agent and at the Test Site you aren't being told the full story.

WILL TOT MOM BE YOUR NEXT BUSINESS AGENT?

Word on the street is Casey Anthony may be headed to Las Vegas to begin work as the latest Business Agent hired by John Phillipenas. Seems like Tot Mom has the necessary qualifications to join the rapidly growing group of Business Agents given her lack of qualifications and experience coupled with her natural born ability to lie and distort the truth. As an added bonus her employment would drop John Phillipenas to the second most hated person by the membership in the Local.  

PHILLIPENAS PREPARES FOR NEW HOLLYWOOD CAREER AS TRON GUY!

Looks like John Phillipenas is busy preparing for life after Local 631. A star is born!

PILLIPENAS DIARY---CONVENTION NEGOTIATIONS

June 14, 2011

Dear Diary,

OMG this has been the worst month of my life! Everyone at the Local is so totally depressed that I can't even organize a sleepover. Donny W. just stays in his office and cries all day . I mean he wails and carries on even worse than when Chilla beats him with a riding crop. When Chilla  found out the terms of the Convention contract Donny and I negotiated she started screaming and hitting Donny W. like a crazy women. Chilla said that there was about as much chance of us being re-elected  in six months as Patrick D. finally growing a tiny pair of balls. When I said that isn't fair because Patrick D. is taking special hormones Chilla backhanded me across the face so hard that I saw stars. She really scares me!

 Everyone and I mean everyone is in a bad mood and not just the members.  It all started when Jimmy H. issued his decision on the trusteeship hearing last month. He said that he would impose an  immediate trusteeship if I didn't negotiate real hard in Conventions or follow the instructions of his Personal Representatives. I was worried because his Personal Representatives walk around all day acting real bossy and I've never negotiated a contract. I got everyone together at the Local and asked if anyone ever negotiated a contract? None of the Business Agents said yes except Wayne D. who said he tried negotiating in Construction but it was really hard and everyone got mad at him because the members lost $13.00 an hour. I asked Wayne D. what we have to do to negotiate a contract in Conventions and he said that we had to make up a list  of things we wanted like at Christmas and sit in a room and talk about the list until everyone agreed what to include on the Christmas list. I said that negotiating didn't sound too hard but Wayne D. said that the Employers start asking all these complicated questions and only want to include what's on their list. He said the Employers act all serious and talk on and on forever. Don't worry I told everyone if all else fails I'll yell YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID and we can storm out of the room.

  We started making our list for negotiations:

1.JUMPY GYM
2.PEZ
3.HAIR EXTENSIONS
4.BREAK TIME TO WATCH JERSEY SHORE
5.PAID EVERY WEEK IN CHUCKY CHEESE TOKENS
6.CHILLA BANNED FROM CONVENTION FLOOR (ADDED BY DONNY W)

 Everyone agreed that the members would be happy with this list so we piled into the short bus and drove to negotiations. I was really excited to exchange proposals because I thought the Employers might have something really good on their list like a Justin Bieber t-shirt (he's dreamy) that we could accept. As we passed our list across the table I stood up and shouted real loud "unless you agree to everything on our list right now we're going on strike tonight".  I figured that would scare the Employers and stop all the talking and questions Wayne D. warned me about. I could tell the Employers didn't know what to say as they finished reading our list but before any of them could talk Ron S. a Personal Representative appointed by Jimmy H. started laughing real hard and said "I want to thank John for starting these difficult negotiations with a joke but before we begin today the union would like a 30 minute break".

After the Employers left the meeting room Ron S. got all red in the face and asked if Donny and I were "freaking morons or high from smoking pot." I immediately blurted out that Donny got high on the short bus driving to the meeting. People say you aren't supposed to tattle but I know that being a rat bastard has gotten me where I am today. Donny didn't say anything except to ask Ron S. if he could borrow a dollar to buy some Twinkies from the vending machine outside the meeting room. Ron S. said he was buying rape whistles for me and Donny that we had to wear until the contract was ratified for our own protection.

 I didn't really understand much of went on in the rest of negotiations because Ron S. wouldn't let me or Donny talk at all. I got in trouble and had to spend one entire meeting in "time out" sitting in the corner because I blew my rape whistle real loud when the lawyer for the Employers was talking. talking talking. Donny was all depressed and said we were at a disadvantage because they have a "real lawyer and all we have is Patrick D." I told Donny to shut up already as everyone knew I hired Patrick D. because he had a cute mouth and not to be a real lawyer. Donny and I started bringing our nap rugs from the office after the first meeting and spent most of the remaining meetings asleep.

HARDISON EXONERATED BY JOINT COUNCIL 42

In a unanamous decision that included two IBT Vice Presidents, Joint Council 42 dismissed four charges filed by John Phillipenas against Local 631 President Kevin Hardison for allegedly stealing gasoline. In the sharply worded decision the Joint Council concluded that Phillipenas failed to produce "any evidence" and criticised Phillipenas for using a fundamentally "flawed system" and "not testifying convincingly". The Joint Council found the attempt by Phillipenas to remove Hardison as the elected President of Local 631 without due process "inappropriate" and called the changing of the Executive Board minutes by Phillipenas to cover up the removal of Hardison as President a "separate and serious matter". The long awaited decision completely vindicates Hardison who was fired as a Business Agent and charged by Phillipenas after repeatedly clashing with Phillipenas about the management and direction of Local 631. The decision is the latest setback for Phillipenas who was suspended by Joint Council 42 last week on charges filed against him by Hardison, severely rebuked by General President Hoffa for his mismanagement of Local 631 and threatened with the immediate imposition of  a Trusteeship.

NEWS FLASH....PHILLIPENAS SUSPENDED BY JOINT COUNCIL 42

John Phillipenas was suspended by Joint Council 42 for 30 days. Weimer, Williams and Gonzales also found to have violated IBT Constitution and reprimanded. Phillipenas immediately appealed the decision to the IBT General Executive Board and requested that his suspension be stayed pending a decision on the appeal. A stay was granted by General President Hoffa which permits Phillipenas to stay in office until a decision is rendered. Developing story......

IS THE FIX IN ON CONVENTION CONTRACT RATIFICATION?

We hear John Phillipenas and Donny Weimer aren't taking any chances on the ratification vote on Saturday June 4, 2011. Members are not being provided in advance of the ratification vote with written materials with which to review the language changes in the proposed labor agreement. Guess Phillipenas and Weimer don't want to answer any pesky questions about the language changes. Members can  expect a combination hard sell/ fear campaign at the meeting. Phillipenas and Weimer, who are Trustees of the Security Fund, failed to have the Fund Actuary calculate the necessary contribution rate  for 2011-2013 so any claim that sufficient funds were negotiated is nonsense.

CONVENTION UPDATE: NO WAGES, NO VISION, NO DENTAL AND NO JURISDICTION---NO NOTHING

In order to avoid a showdown with GES and Freeman John Phillipenas and Donny Weimer raised the white flag and surrendered in negotiation with the two companies. Wages will be frozen for the entire three year agreement as the entire economic package of $1.00/hour is needed merely to maintain the current reduced level of benefits in the Security Fund. No  progress whatsoever was made in negotiations on securing jurisdiction over the Arizona warehouse, dealing with the jurisdictional raid by the Laborers or eliminating the 1 for 1 practice recently introduced. Friends, family and supporters of Phillipenas and Weimer will keeps their jobs and special benefits...well at least until next January. 

WILLIAMS PIMPS REPUBLIC MEMBERS OUT OF HOUR GUARANTEE

We hear Kermit Williams signed an addendum with management at Republic Services which removed the hour guarantee language from the labor agreement. Federal labor law requires that any change to the terms of a labor agreement must be approved by the membership but with the local union election just six months away it looks like Williams is desperate to curry favor and insure he has a management job waiting for him at Republic next January.

NO PROGRESS IN CONVENTION NEGOTIATIONS

Donny Weimer spent last week passing out disinformation about the status of the negotiations in Conventions. An electric buzz flowed across the floor about the "best contract in the history of Conventions." The truth on the other hand  is that no progress whatsoever has been made in negotiations. Weimer and Phillipenas have not negotiated jurisdiction over the Arizona warehouse or stopped the jurisdictional raid by the Laborers. There is no progress on negotiating sufficient contributions to restore vision and dental benefits. If fact Phillipenas admitted last week that he doesn't know the contribution rate necessary to fund the Security Fund. With Construction working under posted conditions and a $13/hour cut can anyone really expect better in Conventions?

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS TODD CLAPPER?

It's not like members of Local 631 have very high expectations in terms of representation but members at First Transit, UPS,Freight and other locations handled by Todd Clapper are questioning whether to contact Metro and file a missing person report. Not to worry, with the local election looming we're sure Todd will start showing up to shake hands around November 1st. In the meantime if you need Todd check the bars around the hall anytime after noon.     

PHILLIPENAS LEFT BEHIND

Mass depression descended over the membership of Teamsters Local 631 at 3:01 p.m. today when they learned that John Phillipenas was left behind from the long awaited end of days Rapture. Said one member "I feel like today is an Evangelical Groundhog Day and now we have to deal with six more months of Phillipenas."  Phillipenas who was reportedly hosting a private party in the Penthouse Suite at the Wynn could not be reached for comment.

WEIMER LEADS CONVENTION NEGOTIATIONS

"I know we've only reached a TA on the table of contents language but I swear this is the best contract in the history of Conventions."----Donny Weimer  

PHILLIPENAS STATEMENT ON END OF WORLD

TO: ALL MEMBERS OF LOCAL 631
FROM: JOHN PHILLIPENAS
DATE: MAY 21, 2011
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Listen up you trolls. At 3:00 p.m. today the world will end. I know many of you are concerned about what will happen to your leader. I have consulted with my spiritual adviser and determined that I will survive the end of days. That's correct at 3:00 p.m. I will be partying like a rock star with the Goddesses Patrick D. and  Johnny G. awaiting the Rapture from the Penthouse Suite at the Wynn.  To bad for you.

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ANOTHER 39 JOBS LOST TO SUBCONTRACTING WITH NOTHING BUT FINGER POINTING IN RESPONSE

Members driving transfer at Republic Services were shocked to learn on Monday that their jobs were being subcontracted out of existence. Kermit Williams and Joe Rivas who have been aware of the job loss since May 6th failed to mention the fact to transfer drivers or at the membership meeting last week. Neither offered an explanation on why they failed to disclose the information for ten full days. Pressed by members, Williams and Rivas have refused to file a grievance challenging the subcontracting and instead blamed former Local 631 President Tommy Blitsch who negotiated the subcontracting language in 2007. The 2007 labor agreement has been plagued with controversy with two different executed copies surfacing  that contain very significant differences.

PHILLIPENAS STATEMENT ON TRUSTEESHIP DECISION

TO: ALL MEMBERS OF LOCAL 631
FROM: JOHN PHILLIPENAS
DATE: MAY 16,2011
RE: TRUSTEESHIP DECISION

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WINNING!!! You crybabies sent thousands of complaints to the IBT about me and my Administration and what happened? Absolutely nothing. Sweetheart contracts, incompetent business agents, bad representation, corruption, bankrupt benefit funds blah, blah, blah. None of it matters because I have tiger blood. I'm not going to apologize to you members for being a rock star.  You're nothing but working stiffs and I'm a warlock so how could you expect to understand me.

 So stop over and the hall and you can say hello to me and the Goddesses Patrick D. and  Johnny G. If  you're nice maybe I'll even have Joe R. give you  a mani-pedi.