Aaarrrrgh! SEIU Mutiny Ahead!
At Tuesday's City Council meeting, scores of SEIU-member animal shelter employees will issue a No Confidence vote against Edward M. Boks, the General Manager of Los Angeles Animal Services.On the tail of Laura Chick's two recent audits declaring financial mismanagement, and a failure for his to prepare for the upcoming (October 1st) city-wide spay neuter law, the SEIU is finally putting its paw down and will ask for Mr. Boks' termination.
Boks lost similar positions in Maricopa County, Arizona, and New York City prior to coming to Los Angeles. Mayor Villaraigosa hired him shortly after being elected.
An SEIU insider says, "Mr. Boks' showboating personality, and penchant for controversy and blogging has kept the city from progressing toward Mayor James Hahn's promise of a No Kill city by 2008. His misbehavior is also believed to be the cause of the failure of AB 1634, the California Healthy Pets Act, Lloyd Levine's proposed statewide mandatory spay-neuter law. Collectively, Mr. Boks' antics make for an unacceptable work environment for our members."
Labels: AB 1634, ed boks, lloyd levine, mayor antonio villaraigosa, Mayor James Hahn, SEIU, the California Healthy Pets Act
Posted by Shelby York @ 9/08/2008 06:34:00 PM
23 Comments:
Right. The Union -- which just got what, a 25% raise from Villaraigosa? -- wants to blame Boks for City Hall's continuing slaughter of adoptable pets. How convenient and fitting: sacrifice a scapegoat to avoid laying blame where it belongs: the man at the top.
That SEIU has to do this via a publicity stunt shows their are either ineffective at direct dealing with City leaders or, as Moore suggests, accomplices in the Mayor's agenda of public sacrifice...
Hello Walter,
You are absolutely right and wrong.
Villaraigosa is completely at fault for the entire situation.
But since the election is seven months away, share with us your ideas for these every day workers to air their grievances. What else can they do here and now to stop this runaway man?
These are regular people looking for help. What can they do right now?
The answer is for the union to turn its pressure toward the one person who can resolve the problem -- the mayor.
The mayor can fire Boks. The mayor can threaten to fire him unless X, Y, and Z occur.
The Mayor can tell Boks to fire an assistant general manager and replace him/her with someone of the Mayor's choosing who can report directly to him.
Being an elected official, the Mayor cannot totally ignore what a powerful union wants.
Without doing this, the union has to hope that Boks changes his ways or quits.
The union may be afraid to go after the Mayor because they need him for things that are more important to them than the welfare of animals -- their own salaries and benefits.
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Villaraigosa is a fault for hiring Ed Bok's crazy ass. That guy had no business ever being considered for a position such as General Manager. He is a piss poor manager and most employees in the Department (represented and non-represented) share the sentiments of SEIU and other groups who deal with Boks and his staff daily. Animal Services is by far the most poorly run Department in the City.
The workers can stop carrying out the GM's order in solidarity, plain, simple, effective.
When and where is the protest over SEIU?
Simple:
1. Include Villaraigosa in the "vote of no confidence."
2. Support my campaign through contributions, bumper stickers, signing up for newsletters, etc.
The City takes in $1.7 billion PER YEAR more -- not total, but more -- than it did in 2004-05. There is no excuse to kill adoptable animals.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Mandatory Furlough/Temporary Layoffs BACK at SEIU 721
The Tyrone Freeman shady stuff has overshadowed SEIU 721's difficulties.
There were members of the old 347 (LA City local) filling Unfair
Employee Relations Practice cases over and over again trying to
stop their local from being merged. (Didn't work, as Employee
Relations Board does not interfere in the internal workings or
non-workings of unions.)
Also, if you check out the latest Civil Service Commission Agenda
(available at lacity.org) it looks like the civil service rule
to permit "mandatory furlough/temporary layoffs" is back again.
It's not getting a lot of publicity as the Coalition of City
Unions made a deal to give back $18.25 million to the general
fund (that was savings from the various health plans, which is
part of the contracts with the health plans), and to pursue a
program of $3 million in voluntary furlough days. That's
being sold as a triumph of mutual gains bargaining, whatever
that means!
============================================
Attached is a PDF copied from the Engineers and Architects
Association (EAA) union web site.
It's a letter from John Sweeney (head of AFL-CIO) to Annelle Grajeda,
currently on leave from Local 721 due to alleged illegal payments to her
boyfriend, and to Bob Schoonover, who perhaps might be around to
read it. The County Federation of Labor is an AFL-CIO organization
and EAA is an AFL-CIO union. Local 721 is being threatened with
removal from the county fed. (It is not an AFL-CIO union because
few years ago, SEIU split from the AFL-CIO and formed Change to
Win with the Teamsters and others, so it can only remain in the
county federation if it has a solidarity charter to NOT raid other unions.)
Read More
Nothing can help them. The "regular people"? They'll have to leave Boks alone because there are worse GM's than Boks FOR SURE and the animal crazies have turned off all of the people they needed help from.
Tell them to go picket some more and make even more enemies.
Oh right, Walter Moore, the genius who said the first thing he'd do as Mayor would be to call these same slugs and tell them to stop killing animals is now commenting "sagely" on a situation where the employees are complaining about what happens in shelters when someone tells them to stop killing animals?
That's my definition of "credibility"!
This is not about the Mayor. The circumstances have existed for decades. This is about employees who don't want to do their jobs but want to be paid handsomely for it and a clumsy department head they want fired because he's had the gall to suggest they should do some work to earn the raises they got. Heaven forbid!
According to the Times, the SEIU and members of the other shelter unions DID go to Villaraigosa and got turned away.
The only way to bring this matter to that public's attention IS to go to City Council. That way it's out in the open.
The revolt will be at City Council this morning, 10am, City Hall, John Ferraro Chambers.
Can someone please send me the link to the website of the commissioner who quit last year over Boks?
I'm at bluestereo@gmail.com
Zuma Dogg, why are you posted completely unrelated information here?
Isn't your blog private now? If so, what are you still doing here?
So basically SEIU is going to get some media attention that will further link it to the growing scandal over their operations? Genius communications strategy.
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It isn't enough for them to have met privately with the Mayor and be ignored. Now is the time to publicly pressure the Mayor. There is some old saying about if you want to stop a snake you have to cut off its head.
The Mayor hired him. The Mayor can fire him. We'll see if the protests end up being aimed at the Mayor or not. I don't think the union has the guts, or cares enough about the animals.
Zuma Dogg said "There were members of the old 347 (LA City local) filling Unfair Employee Relations Practice cases over and over again trying to stop their local from being merged."
(LAUGHING MY ASS OFF)
That is Instant Karma, my friends. The creeps from 347 who lied like rugs to the public and to City officials for two years, who threatening employees and even the public to push the Office of Public Safety "Consolidation" through are now crying about being consolidated themselves!
There is a god!!!
Socialist
Entities
In
Unison
No blanking way is this about the animals.
SEIU doesn't give a **** about anything but control of this City period.
Boks must not be playing ball with the Union extortionists so hes on the receiving end this time. Lucky him.
Ed Boks & Stuckey
Both are liars.
Stuckey's lies were deceptive and calculated.
Ed's are more transparent and reckless.
Boks/Barth=McCain/Palin
Looks like McCain/Palin are gonna win, so maybe you want to reconsider that comparison!
Who really cares about animal services anyway? Of all the departments that have horrible GM's, you're going to pick animal services GM to consider the worst? You obviously have no dealings with the city on any other level, so therefore you must be one of "them". The not regular people? Ha Ha
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