This page was created by Brother Tim Mitchinson, a member of IBEW LU 303 Niagara Region, Ont. Canada.
It is dedicated to the IBEW Members whose sacrifices once secured our livelihood. It appears our leaders today are willing to concede their hard won gains !
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest." Abraham Lincoln
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Everything you read in the Journal is not always as it professes to be. If our leadership were as devoted to the rest of the IBEW objects as they are for organizing every John and Jane Doe, we wouldn't be losing our hard earned gains. Check out the following addresses:
for third link, paragraphs 127, 132, 142*, 158*, 162, 164, 203, 224, 233 and 235 to save you some reading. Paragraphs marked with * indicate why we need OMOV before the next Convention! The ballot can't decide what the delegates and membership don't know! Sorry for the inconvenience of having to copy these URLs to your address bar but I think you'll find it worth your while.
Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..." - Thomas Paine
To all IBEW Local 303 members: What really happened to your Stabilization Trust Fund money ?
In April of 2001 we froze the Stab Fund. In late 2001 or early 2002 Sorley started spending it again without our approval. In the Fall of 2004 Wall advised us that Sorley had overcommitted (to speak politely) the Stab Fund by over $900,000.00. That does not include the total amount of money he spent without the consent of the Trust Fund's beneficaiaries, who are the members of LU 303.
This Fund is owned by the membership of Local Union 303 and it is NOT an IBEW fund. On October 1, 2008 I made a motion, which was unanimously passed by the floor, to retain KPMG Forensic Accountants to conduct a forensic audit on "OUR" Stabilization Trust Fund. Peter Wall sent the motion directly to IO in Toronto, asking what he should do. IO directed him to "DO NOTHING UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE". IO then deemed the motion out of order without explanation as to how it was out of order. They continue to refuse to answer this question.
As a direct result of my actions to prevent Wall from further abusing OUR Stab Trust Fund, both Wall and Terry Filipetti filed FALSE charges against me. IO then held one of their infamous Kangaroo Courts in my honour with Chuck McKenzie as the referee. He totally ignored my evidence. IVP Flemming then banned me from holding office and attending all meetings. Now Brother Upper is facing similar charges because he too made a motion for a forensic audit of OUR Stab Fund, which Wall has also not complied with.
Stabilization Trust Funds throughout all IBEW Locals in Ontario are owned by the membership, NOT the IBEW. This is FACT. For the International Office to issue orders and make decisions in respect of a Local Union's Stab Trust Fund is in the very least Interference with Local Union autonomy and thereby a contrevention of the OLR Act. Considering IO is taking part in a major cover-up of misappropriated money, I believe criminal charges are in order.
This case is currently before the OLRB, under section 149 (2) of the OLR Act.
