EMPOWERMENT SLATE LIMPS TO THE FINISH LINE

Broken and defeated by three years of incompetent management of Local 631, John Phillipenas and the Empowerment Slate face the very real prospect of finishing third in the upcoming ballot count. We hear Phillipenas will not leave his office and spends his days shouting out orders to Kermit, Donny and Johhny to collect ballots from phantom supporters, much like Hitler from the bunker ordering nonexistent divisions to counter-attack the Red Army outside Berlin. Vote the Restore the Pride Slate and end the reign of terror of Phillipenas.

JUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATION JOHN IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE! ----THE CHRISTMAS SONG

 We hear John Phillipenas was so livid that his effort to deprive the membership of their federally protected right to freely and fairly elect the leadership of Local 631, was derailed by the election protest filed by Tommy Blitsch, which then resulted in IBT General President James Hoffa ordering new ballot packages be mailed to the  entire membership, that upon learning of the decision by Hoffa, an enraged Phillipenas spent thirty minutes red faced and screaming obscenities.. .  Just imagine Phillipenas on December 23rd after the ballots are counted and he is involuntarily retired by the membership.  A warm thought for a cold December night for the 6,000 members  of Local 631.

THE CHRISTMAS SONG

(PHILLIPENAS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE)

Phillipenas roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on his balls, 

The FBI planted the hall with a wire,
And Chilla dressed Donny and Kermit up like Eskimos.

Everybody knows John wants to kiss Patrick under some mistletoe,
 Voting out the Empowerment Slate will help to make the season bright.
Phillipenas and his tiny brained Business Agents with their eyes all aglow,
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.

They know that new ballots are on the way:; 

No more member paid for toys and goodies on the sleigh

Every BA is going to cry,

Cause our ballots really know how to fly.

And so I'm offering this simple phrase

For members from one to ninety two, 

Although its Its been said many times, many ways,
A very Merry Christmas to you

SEEN CAMPAIGNING AT CONVENTIONS

A smiling Phillipenas greeted members.

Johnny bought a pretty new dress for campaigning.

Chilla dressed Donny for campaigning.

KERMIT WILLIAMS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Kermit Williams photographed campaigning at Republic Services on Friday. We hear Kermit was glad handing and passing out cans of his popular beverage "Pimp Juice" to all three members that agreed to talk to him. You go girl BFF!

PHILLIPENAS BLITSCH SLAPPED BY HOFFA

General President Hoffa acted forcefully last week to insure a fair election at Local 631. Based on the election protest filed by Secretary-Treasurer candidate Tommy Blitsch, Hoffa ordered fumbling, stumbling, bumbling and generally incompetent John Phillipenas to immediately mail new ballots to all members of Local 631 or face the immediate imposition of a trusteeship to protect a fair election.

 General President Hoffa was forced to take decisive action because Phillipenas and his high priced inside and outside legal counsel failed to take two minutes to view the envelope for the ballot return package to ascertain if it contained return postage. None of the almost 6,000 envelopes contained postage as required by the election rules. Phillipenas refused to have the ballots mailed with proper postage affixed until ordered by Hoffa. Everyone should expect Phillipenas to use every dirty trick possible to suppress the ability of members to vote him and his entire slate out of office.

We hear Phillipenas, Weimer and Williams are so convinced that the membership will not return them to office that they recently filed an election protest requesting that the election be delayed. Mail your ballot brothers and sisters and send home Phillipenas and his crew of incompetent business agents! 

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.