THE BURNING EMBER 3

HIS MOTTO--FULL TIME PAY;PART TIME PERFORMANCE

Well Bullfrog still believes he does not have to perform his constitutional duties in order to be paid. The Local Constitution requires him to be at specific meetings and to conduct those meetings. However, after fleeing from the 10 Jan 08 Executive Board meeting, more in this issue about that, he failed to appear for any meetings on Sunday 13 Jan 08. He was supposed to have called a Constitution Committee meeting for 2pm on that day, but failed to do so. He did not bother to show up for the training that was conducted at the local office that was given by one of out National Business Agents. He was a no show for the Executive Council meeting and in keeping with his “missing in action” style he failed to show at the General Membership Meeting. He now has missed two of three meetings that he is required to attend. Officers are only allowed to miss six per year in order to get paid. I suppose he figures he can miss as many as he wants and still get paid. Well a local member exercised his rights and filed charges. Now the local Executive Board is taking action to protect the local. I heard that there is going to be a trial on charges brought against him for his missing more than six meetings last year. I also heard that there was going to be a hearing for his failure to follow the directives of the Membership Meeting for his failure to call a Constitution Committee meeting. The trial is to be held in early February, ask your steward for the date and time. I hope that the trial will put an end to his dereliction of his duties. I think it will be very interesting. Now as to what happened at the Executive Board meeting.

As I said in a previous issue of the Burning Ember, a long time member had asked for some help from the local in finding out what management was doing at the AMF. The Clerk Craft Director scheduled a meeting with management for December 4th to discuss the changes at the AMF. When the Clerk Craft director e-mailed the Bullfrog to notify him of the meeting, the Bullfrog then took it upon himself to cancel that meeting, saying he would meet when he was ready. Since then he has not rescheduled the meeting. The last Executive Board meeting was the first chance to question the Bullfrog about that and some other issues. The Bullfrog though when questioned about his actions decided that it was getting a bit too warm and he again bolted from the meeting before it was concluded. It seems that the Bullfrog thinks he does not have to follow the local constitution, but that he does not have to be accountable for failing to do so. Cut and run seems to method of handling problems.

Makes you wonder how he handles things with management. E-mail him and ask him at:
orbulldog1@verizon.net or gstin29803@aol.com

If all of this bothers you, remember there are only about 195 more days until we get a new president.