IBEW Locals in 15 States and Provinces Have passed a Motion To Support The OMOV Proposal
Contractors trying to depress wages is short sighted, they also make a percentage off our wage. Taken to the extreme, if they were successful in getting us to work for a minimum wage with no benefits, they could not justify a high markup and their profits per job would decline over time, as competition would keep driving down the bid prices. We would all be in the same boat then, contractors and labour, having to do twice as much work to maintain our current standard of living.JChadwick
And please Brothers, help me get the word out about Edwin, the more people that know who he is the less likely I am to have an "accident". Feel free to pass on this info. as he loses credibility his ability to do us harm is diminished, and Business Managers might not be so quick to support his initiatives.Who knows, if enough people are made aware of Ed Hill's true background, there could be a lot of excitement in Vancouver!JChadwick
You need to understand who is making the call for TFW's, CW/CE, small works/wages, and "Code of excellence". The way that contractors get whatever they want from the I.O., and helping corrupt Business Managers hold on to power, while threatening, merging and putting into trusteeship, any Locals that oppose him. How could our President be so against our Brotherhood? To answer that question you need to know more about the man. At 19 Edwin D. Hill begins his apprenticeship, turns out after 4 yrs. and gets appointed to the P.A.C. of L.U. 712, then Vice President, President, and Business Manager, all within a few years....pretty lucky right? He must be a special person to have all these great things happen to him. But it's not enough, while he is the business manager of his local 712 in Beaver Pa. he decides to start being unfaithful to his wife with his secretary, a Miss Mary Bowers,(see United States vs. Marie Bowers) oh sure she seems so innocent, whats the harm, but while Ed's enjoying a little extra marital affair, she is stealing hundreds of thousands of 712's dues and he's completely unaware that this is going on, thats right, Ed is as much a victim as all our brothers in 712. While in court she swears under oath that it was Edwin's idea, that he asked her to steal the dues and give them to him, so that they could be together forever, but how can we believe a woman who has no reason to lie and is already going to jail, we should believe instead that while they were having an affair that Ed had no idea that Mary was embezzling dues, she must have been some kind of criminal mastermind to fool our International President like that! But really Ed Hill is able to watch his former employee and mistress take the fall for what was "allegedly" his crime.While this is going on, a couple of brothers in 712, John Mallick and Billy Chadwick, realize that something is happening to the Pension Fund money,(John H. Mallick and Billy Chadwick vs. IBEW L.U. 712), again Ed is SHOCKED! So he immediately brings charges against our brothers John Mallick and Billy Chadwick for daring to question his integrity, and informing the Department of labor of alleged improprieties with the Pension Funds. The D.O.L. investigates Mallick and Chadwick's allegations, the results of this investigation causes the D.O.L. to take legal action against the Pension Fund, the International office drops the charges against Mallick and Chadwick, and Edwin D. Hill resigns. I'm sure that it had nothing to do with the charges that his mistress/secretary and brothers are making against him.... The missing dues money, or the "allegedly" misappropriated pension fund money, it's probably something else that causes this obviously arrogant, allegedly corrupt, adulterer, to walk away from his duties as Business Manager! So now Edwin Hill goes underground, appointed by I.O. President Charles Pillard to the International Office, where he spends the next 20 years skulking around all of our funds, such as C.O.P.E.(illegal funding of political candidates) and N.E.B.F.(illegal loans made to Clinton administration officials for Florida real estate), helping AFL CIO President Sweeney out of an insurance fraud scandal,(ULLICO), and possibly helping himself to whatever he wants. After enough time passes and no one remembers who he is, they bring him out into the open and appoint him to the office of International Secretary Treasurer,(after the re-election, and then sudden retirement of Jack Moore from that position) where he waits patiently for a few years until J.J. Barry appoints him to be our new and current President!I love our Brotherhood and I will fight with all I have to protect it, but how could such an "allegedly" corrupt man end up making decisions that effect my life?I know that this sounds unbelievable, but unfortunately nothing that I've said can't be backed up by public or court records, I would not slander a brother, but Ed Hill is not My brother, or your's. We will re-elect him at our next convention in Vancouver, no matter what, unanimously, to another term that he will not be able to finish, he will retire and he will appoint his successor, and this cycle of unaccountable oppression will continue, as it has for more years than any of us can remember. Who was the last International President that we actually selected? They have all been hand picked by the outgoing administration. There is just too much smoke around this guy for there not to be any fire, and while the courts couldn't make all of the charges stick, and the ones that they did were simply paid in fines by trustees(from our funds). We don't need that much more information to realize what this man is all about.Well, I guess we get the leadership that we deserve, we don't want to get involved, we get someone like Ed! In a true democratic election process, like O.M.O.V. these things would have come to light sooner, we would be able to know the man that wanted to lead us before electing him, and someone like Edwin D. Hill would not have had a chance.We have to make a change, or these no accounts will keep selling us out. Now is the time, One Man One Vote! Don't wait to see who this current Corrupt Bast*rd thinks should be our next President, Let's tell him loud and clear that this B.S. will not be tolerated anymore O.M.O.V!JChadwick
Not biologically, But Billy's our brother, it is a coincidence that we have the same last name, and that is how I came across the court records. Since I became aware of this information that Brother Billy fought so hard to expose, along with the damage that is currently being done to us, I have to do what I can to remind people who this man is. I am duty bound by our oath of obligation, I believe that there is sufficient evidence to charge ED Hill and investigate his qualifications to hold office, I just need to figure out how to do it.JChadwick