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BSD remembers Leah Schneider, victim of Local One Discrimination.

RIP Leah Schneider member of Local One who struggled to make tier and carry twins and fight Cancer.



Leah Schneider, a remarkable woman and stage technician, who struggled for years as a woman and non family member in Local One IATSE, struggling to make tiered medical benefits designed to most benefit, the officers and department heads of Local One IATSE. Family members of the inner circle of Local One, in violation of US Constitutional Law and US Labor Law, had the best jobs and guaranteed benefits year after year. The editorial staff of BSD had numerous talks with Leah where she outlined how difficult it was to make medical benefits prior to and during her pregnancy, and during her battle with Cancer, while the illegally favored relatives and friends of the Department heads and officers skated into the best jobs and benefits year after year, with quite a few making pay and benefits while working under age, doing multiple jobs at the same time (impossible without corruption.), and even without actually showing up. Leah's struggle was typical of many Local One members, literally treated as non members in Local One's corruption scam against the rank and file of Local ONE IATSE. Rest in Peace. Leah, you will not be forgotten!


Seniority system? Where is it?, Answer it doesn't exist because it would interfere with Local One's continuing pattern of Discrimination in favor of Local One Officers and Department heads in violation of US Constitutional Law and Labor Law. Bob Nimmo, MBA Fordham, you and the other officers and Department Heads are an ethical and legal disgrace to the rank and file membership and Labor Unions. Kenny Boy McGarty this means you too. And you too Tony Boy DePaulo, collecting two checks at once and not doing a thing for the rank and file. McMahon and your brother at the Regis and Kelly Scam Show, you are also remis. Mickey Fox, where is your son working? Snakes one and all.

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Stagehand Leah Schneider is back to work at the Cort Theatre on W. 48th St., to preparing for the upcoming play 'The Homecoming,' which opens in December. The Local 1 chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees reached a tentative agreement with the League of American Theaters and Producers late last night, ending a 19-day stagehand strike that closed the doors on many Broadway shows.

WOMEN AND LOCAL ONE



MBA FROM JESUIT FORDHAM BROADWAY BOB NIMMO

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY TO THIS? IS THIS WHAT THEY TEACH AT JESUIT FORDHAM?

WE THINK NOT. YOU AND THE OTHERS AND THE HEADS AND MANAGEMENT HAVE A FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL THE MEMBERSHIP OF LOCAL ONE IATSE.


We found this quote from the New York Times by a FEMALE LOCAL ONE IATSE STAGE HAND (WE WILL NOT NAME HER), AND WE QUOTE,


" breaking into Local One presented a challenge, not only because of its all-male history but also because of its traditional character as a tightly knit group with strong family ties. ''It's been a father-son union since the beginning of time,'' said Ms. ____. ''You get work if you know somebody who gives you work.... Families are very important in this union,"

The "father and son union" violates United States Constitutional and Labor law. We have to ask why isn't our membership in the union enabling us to get the jobs on Broadway and all Theatrical venues, not just for women, but also for non Irish males, Blacks, Spanish and others?

ADDITIONALLY WE FOUND A CASE IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, (WE ARE NOT NAMING THE PLAINTIFF (THE WOMAN WHO FILED THE COMPLAINT) ON THE INTERNET AND WE QUOTE,

"PLAINTIFF IS A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF DEFENDANT THE SCHUBERT ORGANIZATION AND WAS FORMERLY REPRESENTED BY HER UNION, THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL ONE IATSE, AFLCIO, (LOCAL ONE) ANOTHER DEFENDANT. PLAINTIFF ALLEGES HER UNION BREACHED IT'S DUTY OF FAIR REPRESENTATION, AND THAT SHE WAS SUBJECT TO GENDER DISCRIMINATION."

We are not naming the woman because the officers and heads have a history of discrimination and retaliation against the membership in violation of law.

More women and men are not coming forward to complain because of this DISCRIMINATION and RETALIATION, AND because of the illegal and retaliatory trial of 2 brothers who were illegally brought to trial and illegally convicted and illegally fined $3,000 each and each illegally banned from union meetings for a significant period of time.

We have to ask the officers why is this so and why does the Union Pledge illegally mandate that all members agree to not sue the union in violation of United States Law under the Landrum-Griffin Act?

Trustee-Attorney Dashman and Attorney Spivak why is this so?

This represents an additional illegal intimidation against the membership.

This is only a sample of the law suits against Local One under the mismanagement of this corrupt government!

The daughter of a Local One stagehand pickets outside Broadway  theatres in New York, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. With the prospect of  lucrative Thanksgiving holiday grosses evaporating, Broadway's  stagehands and producers have a pressing reason to resolve their  differences and find a way to end the strike that has shut down Broadway  shows for a week.

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Bruce Cohen, a Local One spokesman, declined to comment

This is what Current UNITED STATES Supreme Court JusticeSONIA SOTOMAYOR said about Local ONE IATSE:"A threat of continued racketeering activities might be established by plaintiffs at trial showing that McGarty and Lynch used extortionate tactics as a regular way of conducting business...and that officials and members of Local One were criminally charged with extortion, fraud, theft, assault, in connection with (Local ONE) activities."
BSD editorial staff says Nothing has changed- Where are our jobs, pensions and benefits Rico boys!
The Rank and File Thank You Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor!

The Rank and File Thank You Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer! Sotomayor and Terzi are Latin Names.



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APPRENTICE TEST????: Don't bother unless your FATHER, UNCLE, BROTHER, COUSIN is a department head or officer!!!

TRUTH: A CORRUPT UNION.

DON'T BOTHER IF YOU ARE A
MINORITY OR A WOMAN.

MET STAGEHAND: Abuse was tragic opera/ ANOTHERDIAZ CLAN DISGRACE PRETENDING TO BE UNION DEMOCRATS/MCGARTY /FOX WHATS UP? DEMOCRACY at the METROPOLITAN OPERA, WHERE IS IT? Diaz Clan declining the Met Opera Contracts!

Last Updated: 1:19 AM, September 18, 2012

Posted: 1:19 AM, September 18, 2012

A former Met stage carpenter is suing the Metropolitan Opera for sexual harassment, claiming that her male colleagues constantly abused her with unwanted come-ons and crude, dangerous pranks.

Teri Orsburn, 53, worked for almost three years at the Met, where she was the company’s only female stagehand.

Orsburn says in a Manhattan federal lawsuit that from the outset, her immediate supervisor refused to call her anything else but “girl,” setting a tone for others to follow.

She said colleagues put glue on her tools, locked her out of the company lounge, and intentionally put her in physical danger.

TERI ORSBURN - Suing over “harassment.”
TERI ORSBURN
Suing over “harassment.”

“They started heckling me immediately, day in, day out, and we worked very long days,” said Orsburn, an Arizona native and self-described cowgirl. “They acted like badly-behaved 8-year-old boys.”

Lawyers for the Metropolitan Opera did not immediately return a call for comment.

Orsburn said the curtain came down on her career after a stagehand shoved her to the ground and fell on her in a stage area where there were no witnesses.

She said the incident left her with physical injuries that made her unable to continue performing the job she had dreamed about since childhood.


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MANAGEMENT AND UNION REMINDER:
NEPOTISM VIOLATES US CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW!


LATER GILOON, DIAZ, WEKSELBLATT!

LIONS CAN EAT FOXES THAT ARE UNDEMOCRATIC.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY: BROADWAY BACKSTAGE

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HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY BSD
THE Next UNION ELECTION! Vote Claffee, Score and Danny Thorn! No votes for Pimp Nimmo and the Business Agents and John Diaz!

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APPRENTICE TEST????: Don't bother unless your FATHER, UNCLE, BROTHER, COUSIN is a department head or officer!!!

TRUTH: A CORRUPT UNION.

DON'T BOTHER IF YOU ARE A
MINORITY OR A WOMAN.

MET STAGEHAND: Abuse was tragic opera/ ANOTHER DIAZ CLAN DISGRACE PRETENDING TO BE UNION DEMOCRATS/MCGARTY /FOX WHATS UP? DEMOCRACY at the METROPOLITAN OPERA, WHERE IS IT? Diaz Clan declining the Met Opera Contracts!

Last Updated: 1:19 AM, September 18, 2012

Posted: 1:19 AM, September 18, 2012

A former Met stage carpenter is suing the Metropolitan Opera for sexual harassment, claiming that her male colleagues constantly abused her with unwanted come-ons and crude, dangerous pranks.

Teri Orsburn, 53, worked for almost three years at the Met, where she was the company’s only female stagehand.

Orsburn says in a Manhattan federal lawsuit that from the outset, her immediate supervisor refused to call her anything else but “girl,” setting a tone for others to follow.

She said colleagues put glue on her tools, locked her out of the company lounge, and intentionally put her in physical danger.

TERI ORSBURN - Suing over “harassment.”
TERI ORSBURN
Suing over “harassment.”

“They started heckling me immediately, day in, day out, and we worked very long days,” said Orsburn, an Arizona native and self-described cowgirl. “They acted like badly-behaved 8-year-old boys.”

Lawyers for the Metropolitan Opera did not immediately return a call for comment.

Orsburn said the curtain came down on her career after a stagehand shoved her to the ground and fell on her in a stage area where there were no witnesses.

She said the incident left her with physical injuries that made her unable to continue performing the job she had dreamed about since childhood.


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MANAGEMENT AND UNION REMINDER:
NEPOTISM VIOLATES US CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW!


LATER GILOON, DIAZ, WEKSELBLATT!

LIONS CAN EAT FOXES THAT ARE UNDEMOCRATIC.


FATHER AND SON UNION CORRUPTION
BSD : UNION DEMOCRACY AND FAIR PLAY FOR LOCAL ONE'S MEMBERS.

WE HAVE ADDED GOOGLE TRANSLATOR FOR OUR DISCRIMINATED AGAINST SPANISH MEMBERS! HOLA!We have added Google Translator for our Spanish speaking members! Broadway Democracia tramoyistas ha anadido Google traducir para nuestros miembros hispanos y todos los demas idiomas. Por Favor Lea El Top De Los Blogt Emcontrar Google Translate speaking Spanish or other Languages!


VIRTUAL UNION HALL SIGN IN???

MORE LIES AND ADDITIONAL SCAM.


WE DON'T WANT VIRTUAL SIGN IN WE WANT ACTUAL JOBS!!!

WHERE ARE THE FEDS???

THE LOCAL ONE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE BOTH SHAKEN AND STIRRED TO MAKE A BETTER MIXED MARTINI, TO ACTUALLY BOND WITH THE MEMBERSHIP!!!

CITY JOURNAL MAGAZINE: ONE IS:"A MILITANT UNION/SMOTHERS NEW YORK THEATER(& the rank and file)

"IT IS NO WONDER THAT REPRESSIVE REGIMES FROM CHINA TO SAUDI ARABIA VIEW THE OPEN INTERNET AS A THREAT"

ATTORNEY MICHAEL SPROULE.

ATTORNEY'S DASH AND SPIVAC WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS? NO FREE SPEECH PROTECTION FROM YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTION? PIMPS.
City   Journal Winter 2010.

CITY JOURNAL AND THE TIMES BLASTED OUR UNION.

BAD PRESS AND BAD UNION ARE WHAT NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ PROVIDED FOR THE RANK AND FILE IN THEIR TIME IN OFFICE.

THEY CONTINUE TO DECLINE THE CONTRACTS AND GARNER BAD PRESS. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE MEMBERSHIP.

SHOW THEM THE UNION IS A POWERHOUSE OF DEMOCRACY AND GOOD FOR THE CITY AND THE THEATERS. VOTE FOR THE BEST.UNDER BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ:

"ALL GLORY IS FLEETING"!

Clan Diaz and Clan Irish pay attention!

"NUTS AND GO TO HELL NIMMO"!

Bob Nimmo participated in the Illegal Trial against the Cohen Brothers and Really against all Democratic Memebers of Local One Iatse. Here is what our MBA from Fordham had to say after the 2006 Elections as published in the Local One Iatse Spotlight:

Quoting Bob Nimmo MBA from Fordham, "Thank you to all who voted in the November elections. It is now our responsibility as Citizens to Hold Those WE Elect ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW THEY RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF A HUMANE SOCIETY AND ORGANIZED LABOR".

MORE BULLSHIT MORE LIES!
NOT A JESUIT, A PAGAN IS MORE LIKE IT.
TRULY NOT YOUR "FATHER'S" UNION.
ATTORNEY'S DASH AND SPIVAC: LABOR RACKETEERS!

Letterman and the Business Agents in the Dumpster

CBS throws Letterman set into Dumpster

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Thanks, Dave. Now get out!

CBS wasted no time in kicking David Letterman’s set to the curb. Sentimental fans gathered outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Thursday to watch as stagehands unceremoniously crushed and sawed through iconic pieces of the “Late Show” backdrop the day after the final show.

“I can’t believe they’re just demolishing the whole thing. It’s shocking,” said Stephanie Strausz, of Manhattan, who scored a second-row ticket to Wednesday’s star-studded finale.

“It should go in the Smithsonian, not the Dumpster,” she said.

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Strausz was one of many “Late Show” lovers who successfully snagged a keepsake from a theater Dumpster that overflowed with red audience seats and bits of the bridges that made up the set behind Letterman’s desk.

More than a dozen fans waited for the workers and security to clear out Thursday evening before descending on the talk-show trash like vultures, scavenging for salvageable relics.

“Show business. They don’t waste much time,” executive producer Rob Burnett said via Instagram, next to a photo he took of the gutted theater.

There were a few things stagehands carefully carried out, including Letterman’s on-air desk — which was covered in bubble wrap and headed for the Smithsonian — a replica of the George Washington Bridge, loaded into a van, and furniture and instruments belonging to band leader Paul Shaffer.

Most of the costumes and some props were sent to a costume warehouse in Yonkers.

Letterman said farewell on Wednesday after 33 years in late-night television.

We are Charlie and Free Speech in Local One IATSE

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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY: BROADWAY BACKSTAGE HAD 200,000 SEARCHES FOR DECEMBER ALONE!

Seniority System and Jobs? Where are they? Federal Bureau of Investigation Why do the the Former Business Agents Anthony DePaulo, Mike Wekselblatt, and Currrent Business Agents Kevin McCardy, Bob Nimmo, Mickey Fox, Eddie McMahon want Illegal kickbacks to obtain a Job.

Department Heads also want Kickbacks.

U.S. District Attorney needed here.

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The Fix is In!

Merkin Hall: Local One Scam Continues against the Rank and File.

The Fix is In!

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY

BSD 200,000 SEARCHES FOR THE ONE SEARCH TERM BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER ALONE!

WE ARE UNION DEMOCRACY AND WE SUPPORT THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE! END THE CORRUPTION BY THE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND BUSINESS AGENTS.

RETURN THE CONTROL OF LOCAL ONE IATSE TO THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE!

IF WE DON'T MAKE A MILLION READS FOR THE YEAR WE WILL EASILY MAKE IT NEXT YEAR.

WE HAD 5 TIMES THE NUMBER OF READS THIS MONTH THEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR! WE INCREASED OUR READERSHIP IN JANUARY ALONE BY AN ADDITIONAL 20 %

200,000 PAGE READS ON THE SEARCH TERM BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY THIS DECEMBER. 200,000
Occupy Broadway and Local ONE IATSE! Jobs,Pensions,Benefits. End the scam against the Rank and File Membership.


LOCAL ONE IATSE'S DEMOCRACY BLOG! We are getting ready for the next Local One IATSE Election!
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BROADWAY tramoyistas DEMOCRACIA: BROADWAY BACKSTAGE: UN MILLÓN DE LA PÁGINA DICE 2011
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UN MILLÓN DE LA PÁGINA DICE 2011!
DESPUÉS GILOON, DIAZ, WEKSELBLATT!
LEONES PUEDE COMER zorros que no son democráticos. BSD: la democracia sindical y el FAIR PLAY.

BROADWAY DEMOCRACIA tramoyistas: BROADWAY BACKSTAGE HAD 193.000 REGISTROS DE DICIEMBRE DE SOLO!
BSD 193000 busca el un término de búsqueda DEMOCRACIA PARA EL BROADWAY tramoyistas mes de diciembre!

SOMOS LA DEMOCRACIA UNION y apoyamos la tropa de Local One IATSE! Acabar con la corrupción POR EL jefes de departamento y agentes comerciales.

DEVOLVER EL CONTROL DE UN LOCAL A LA IATSE bases de LOCAL UNO!

SI NO HACEMOS UN MILLÓN DE LECTURAS PARA EL AÑO QUE FACILMENTE SE HACE EL PRÓXIMO AÑO.

Nos pasamos 5 veces el número de mes, entonces lee este AL PRINCIPIO DEL AÑO!

200.000 PÁGINA lee en el término de búsqueda DEMOCRACIA ESTA DECEMBER.200 BROADWAY tramoyistas, 000
Ocupan IATSE UNA Broadway y Local! Puestos de trabajo, pensiones, beneficios. Poner fin a la estafa contra el rango y miembros del archivo.

LOCAL UN BLOG DE LA DEMOCRACIA IATSE! Nos estamos preparando para las próximas elecciones locales IATSE Uno!
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We have increased our readership by 20 % in the last month alone. We are doubling our readership every 3 months!

BSD DEMANDS $1,000,000, THAT'S 1 MILLION DOLLAR OUT OF COURT SETTLEMENT FOR EACH OF OUR DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MEMBERS PLUS COURT COSTS!

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY

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REST IN PEACE BOB NIMMO!
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CITY JOURNAL MAGAZINE: ONE IS:"A MILITANT UNION/SMOTHERS NEW YORK THEATER(& the rank and file)


"IT IS NO WONDER THAT REPRESSIVE REGIMES FROM CHINA TO SAUDI ARABIA VIEW THE OPEN INTERNET AS A THREAT"

ATTORNEY MICHAEL SPROULE.

ATTORNEY'S DASH AND SPIVAC WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS? NO FREE SPEECH PROTECTION FROM YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTION? PIMPS.
City  Journal Winter 2010.

CITY JOURNAL AND THE TIMES BLASTED OUR UNION.

BAD PRESS AND BAD UNION ARE WHAT NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ PROVIDED FOR THE RANK AND FILE IN THEIR TIME IN OFFICE.

THEY CONTINUE TO DECLINE THE CONTRACTS AND GARNER BAD PRESS. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE MEMBERSHIP.

SHOW THEM THE UNION IS A POWERHOUSE OF DEMOCRACY AND GOOD FOR THE CITY AND THE THEATERS. VOTE FOR THE BEST.UNDER BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ:

"ALL GLORY IS FLEETING"!

Clan Diaz and Clan Irish pay attention!

A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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Praise  for City Journal.
CITY JOURNAL HELPED SAVE THE CITY- CAN CITY JOURNAL HELP SAVE THE UNION,OR WILL THE UNION CONTINUE TO DECLINE?

PANERO, VOLPE, LATIN NAMES NOT IRISH NAMES.

HOW SOON BEFORE THE BLACK, WOMEN, JEWISH, AND OTHER ETHNIC NAMES SLAM THE ONE?

(THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE BSD THROUGH FRIENDS OF FRIENDS HAVE BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND A "MEET THE PRESS" LABOR DEMOCRACY GET TOGETHER HERE IN THE CITY. WE WILL BE THERE AND WE WILL DISCUSS OUR ISSUES WITH NYC MEDIA LABOR DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS.)

WILL THEY ALSO REACT AGAINST THE INEQUITIES OF THE SYSTEM?

BSD SAYS YES.

PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO, MBA FORDHAM LEADS THE DISCRIMINATION AND THE SCAM AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE.

DAN GILOON ( LOOP BOY AND PARTICIPANT IN THE SCAM) WHAT'S UP? ALL THAT PAC MONEY SPENT AND THE ONE IS GETTING BLASTED BY THE MEDIA!

NIMMO, DIAZ, GILOON, WEKSELBLATT, McGARTY, McMAHON, THE HEADS AND THE LOOP BOYS, WE ARE WHISPERING IN YOUR EAR AND WRITING IT HERE: "ALL GLORY IS FLEETING".

IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN PAC MONEY TO GET THINGS BACK ON TRACK AS NOW
JOE VOLPE'S MACHINE SNAPS INTO ACTION.

JOE VOLPE IS PART OF A WELL HEELED URBAN AFFAIRS GROUP WORKING FOR GIULIANI WHEN HE IS NOT AT THE MET.

AMERICA'S MAYOR GIULIANI READ AND WAS INFLUENCED BY THIS MAGAZINE WHEN HE RAN THE CITY, AND NOW THIS MAGAZINE HAS READ OUR COMMENT PAGE AND BLOG AND PUBLISHED THEIR OWN COMMENTS.

MEN AND WOMEN OF INFLUENCE READ THIS MAGAZINE AND WILL READ THESE COMMENTS.

CLAN DIAZ AND CLAN IRISH PAY ATTENTION.

YOU ARE ALL SLEEPY FROM A LACK OF DEMOCRATIC SLEEP,

WEKLSELBLATT AND MCGARTY ARE YOU UP FOR THIS??? MBA NIMMO?

BSD SAYS YOU DON'T HAVE THE SKILLS TO GET THE JOB DONE!!! BUT WE ARE CHALLENGING YOU TO DO SO ANYWAY!

THE DEMOCRACY 7 STAGEHANDS ARE PRO UNION AND PRO UNION DEMOCRACY AND IN FAVOR OF A FAIR LOCAL ONE IATSE.

THIS UNION IS GETTING A BAD NAME DEPRIVING BOTH THE RANK AND FILE AND THE MAJOR ARTS VENUES.

THIS IS THE MARK OF A UNION IN CRISIS.

THE REAL TRIAL, CAN YOU PULL IT TOGETHER TO REPRESENT THE RANK AND FILE, THE PROGRESS OF THE NEW YORK THEATER COLLECTIVE, AS WELL AS THE CITY AS A WHOLE?

CHANGE OR THEY WILL LEAVE YOU BEHIND.

DIAZ YOU NEED SLEEP, BUT NOT WITH MANAGEMENT.

YOU NEED TO SLEEP WITH THE RANK AND FILE, WITH ACTUAL LABOR LAW AS YOUR PILLOW AND BLANKET.

NIMMO AND THE REST, YOU ARE LACKING THE SECURITY AND LEGALITY OF LABOR LAWS PILLOW AND BLANKET!

YES RICH, THE PRODUCERS ARE GREEDY BUT SO ARE THE OFFICERS, HEADS, AND THE FEW HANDS AT THE VENUES. THE SAME HANDS. THE BAD HANDS. GIVING THE UNION A BAD NAME.

WE ARE HERE AND WE WILL STAY HERE UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE.


THE TIMES, NEWSROOM MAGAZINE, THE SMITHSONIAN, THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF CONGRESS, WEST POINT, COLUMBIA, HARVARD, YALE, PENN STATE, FREEDOM FORUM, AND NOW, CITY JOURNAL, ET AL.

WE ARE BEING READ AS ALLOWED BY U.S. CONSTITUTION AND LABOR LAW. AND YOU CAN'T DO A DAMN THING ABOUT IT.

FREE SPEECH AND UNION DEMOCRACY FOR THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE!

RETALIATORY ACTS VIOLATE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LABOR LAW AND WILLBE DEALT WITH IN THE CIVIL SUIT.

James Panero

Strike the Set
A militant union smothers New York theater. (AND THE RANK AND FILE).

You’ve got to hand it to New York’s stagehands’ union. Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has been collective-bargaining the life out of New York theater for over a century. Just how much does this union of carpenters, electricians, and prop masters bleed from city arts organizations? Carnegie Hall’s tax returns for its 2007–08 season suggest an answer.

Dennis O’Connell, Carnegie’s properties manager, has pulled down headline-making salaries from the concert hall for years. Between 2001 and 2003, for instance, his annual salary ranged between $309,000 and $344,000. But for the fiscal year ending in June 2008, O’Connell’s earnings topped $530,000, making him Carnegie’s highest-paid employee after its executive director, Clive Gillinson. Four other stagehands—carpenters James Csollany and Kenneth Beltrone and electricians John Goodson and John Cardinale—came in just behind, with salaries exceeding $400,000 apiece.

The Carnegie payouts received wide circulation in the New York media last fall after being reported in Bloomberg News. (AND THE BSD WHICH THE TIMES READ)Yet the story only hints at a deeper truth well known in the New York arts community—one that affects Lincoln Center, all of Broadway, and numerous other venues. Because of the stranglehold of Local One–negotiated contracts, New York theater owners must all pay a sizable tribute each day just to keep the lights on. The pay rates that Local One secures for its stagehands far exceed the deals struck by other IATSE chapters nationwide, and many employees can pad their base pay with multiple surcharge triggers—overtime, missed meals, and tasks that mandate excessive staffing.

The money comes out of arts organizations’ bottom lines, driving up production costs and ticket prices and inhibiting the evolution of New York theater. “Any programming that does not resemble programming 30 years ago is prohibitive,” explains one theater manager. Pricey union contracts have “absolutely prohibited arts organizations from doing new things, particularly in difficult times.” The contracts also prevent organizations from expanding their reach through advances in technology like webcasting and simulcasts in movie theaters. The Metropolitan Opera had to spend years at the bargaining table to launch its Live in HD program.

The union has established a closed network of unchecked power. (To get a sense of its might, just try to speak to someone on the record.) When Local One workers talk about their “brotherhood,” some of them mean it literally: the chapter president, James J. Claffey, Jr., is the son of a Local One member and counts five brothers in the union. The leadership is predominantly Irish and male, and of the union’s 3,000 members, only about 130 are women. Thanks to a tiered salary structure and a union-controlled promotion system, not all of the members benefit from the big payouts. (ILLEGALLY AND IN DISCRIMINATION IN VIOLATION OF US CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW)(STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY 7 REPRESENTING THE 2300 GETTING THE JOB DONE ALONG WITH OUR CIVIL AND LABOR RIGHTS) ONE'S ANONYMOUS BLOGGERS WHO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS RANK AND FILE MEMBERS RAIL AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE UNION'S "IRISH LOOP" SYSTEM OF PREFERMENT 2500 VICTIMS PLUS THE 350 TO 500 PLUS RELATIVES AND LOOP BOYS (WHITE, IRISH MALES)."

In better economic times, when theaters were flush, Local One’s impositions were bad enough. Now, as arts organizations are failing in the recession, the union’s compensation packages should receive the same scrutiny as the pay rates of top management. Keep in mind that the high salaries commanded by maestros and executive directors, which can exceed $1 million, were determined in an open marketplace. Could another prop master do O’Connell’s job just as well, and for less pay? (BSD says yes men and women both, also Blacks, Spanish, non Irish white males and without declining the contracts)

You can’t fault O’Connell: he performs a service and enjoys his legally agreed-upon compensation for doing so.(YES WE CAN BLAME O'CONELL, THE UNION AND CARNEGIE HALL AND GILLINSON FOR THE DISCRIMINATION) The true blame rests with an arts leadership too weak-willed to fight union demands.(VIOLATING US CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE) The former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Joe Volpe, showed that such fecklessness wasn’t necessary. A former stagehand himself, with sons working as union extras, Volpe knew how to play tough against Local One. (and he still knows how to play tough) “At labor negotiations, for example, I can whoop and holler and scream and carry on like a wild man,” he once said. “I’ll shout that they can burn the place down but I’m never going to give in. And I’ll walk out. And their attorney will come over to me later and tell me it was great—that my act really helped him because until then the union was stuck in its position and he couldn’t get them to change.”

While Local One (ILLEGALLY AND IN VIOLATION OF OUR RIGHTS) protects the lucky few at the top of the stagehand food chain, many more New Yorkers in the arts, unionized or not, are seeing their positions eliminated or their salaries cut during the current downturn because of unsustainable budgets. Arts leaders, who need to start controlling costs at all levels, also need the backbone to stare down the threat of a Local One strike. And if negotiations break down in the future, the arts community must overcome its unwillingness to cross picket lines for a justified cause that will help all workers. You don’t have to be antiunion to confront the inequity of Local One. You just have to be anti–Local One. (or pro union victims of a corrupt union)

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THE BLOG NUMBER ONE MEN PROVED THAT, HANDS DOWN AND RIGHT UNDER THE NOSE OF THE BUSINESS AGENTS.

HIRE AND PROVIDE THE BEST AND YOU WOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST. NO ONE WOULD BE COMPLAINING.

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The Terror War to be Returned to Broadway: Islamic State urges Muslims to Attack Times Square with pipe bombs

NYC_-_Times_Square“To the Lone Wolves in America: How to Make a Bomb in Your Kitchen, to Create Scenes of Horror in Tourist Spots and Other Targets.” Why would they want to “create scenes of horror”? Could it have anything to do with the Qur’an’s command to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah (8:60)?

“ISIS supporters urged to attack Times Square with pipe bombs,” by Bruce Golding and Erin Calabrese, New York Post, September 16, 2014:

Supporters of the Islamic State terror group are being urged to attack Times Square and other popular American tourist attractions with easily assembled homemade bombs, according to a disturbing report Tuesday.

A message posted on an ISIS Web forum lists widely available ingredients needed to build a pipe bomb, and includes photos showing how to combine them into a deadly explosive device, Vocativ reported.

The Arabic-language message cites Times Square — the scene of a failed car-bomb attack in 2010 by al Qaeda sympathizer Faisal Shahzad — and the Las Vegas Strip as prime targets, but also suggests striking sites in Texas and mass-transit stations across the country.

The message is titled “To the Lone Wolves in America: How to Make a Bomb in Your Kitchen, to Create Scenes of Horror in Tourist Spots and Other Targets,” and was written three weeks ago.

But it “resurfaced” on Saturday afternoon, around the same time ISIS released a video of the beheading of British aid worker David Haines on the same Web forum, according to Vocativ.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said cops were aware of the message, but added: “There are no credible, specific threats to the city at this time

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Metropolitan Opera star Wendy White is suing Lincoln Center for a 2011 accident where she was injured on stage during a performance of Faust.

"She has capitulated to the reality that she's permanently injured and won't get better," White's lawyer, Martin W. Edelman, said Friday after filing the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Edelman said the mezzo-soprano, playing the role of Martha, flew "into an abyss" in December 2011 when a platform with faulty hinges collapsed under her, badly bruising her torso.

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A scene from Charles Gounod's "Faust"  at the Metropolitan Opera, where mezzo-soprano Wendy White is said to have fell "into an abyss" and permanently damaged her diaphram muscles.

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A scene from Charles Gounod's "Faust" at the Metropolitan Opera, where mezzo-soprano Wendy White is said to have fell "into an abyss" and permanently damaged her diaphram muscles.

White — whose 23-year stint at the Met included 500 performances — didn't break any bones in her tumble. But her lawyer said her diaphragm muscles are permanently injured, Edelman said White, 60, held off suing, hoping that physical therapy would get her back in shape.

"She didn't want to sue and create a horrible relationship with a place where she grew up and where her talent was nurtured and promoted. She wanted to get better and return to work," Edelman said.

However, he said, she didn't get better and now she can't expand her chest to sustain notes and produce the level of sound required of a stage performer.

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Wendy White (right) performing with Maria Gulgehina during a dress rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" at the Metropolitan Opera in 2001. White performed at the Met for 23 years before her injury in 2011.

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Wendy White (right) performing with Maria Gulgehina during a dress rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" at the Metropolitan Opera in 2001. White performed at the Met for 23 years before her injury in 2011.

The lawyer said the Met's stage construction crews built a platform that was supported by thin metal hinges which are more often used to close wooden shutters.

"The hinges were too weak to support the weight of the performers," he said.

Just before White got on the platform, costar Rene Pape, playing Mephistopheles, had dashed across it. Hearing a clattering sound, he saw the platform collapse and reached - unsuccessfully - to catch White's extended hand.

"Curtain!Curtain!" Pape yelled as the performance stopped. The audience was notified of the accident and the singers resumed with an understudy as White was rushed to the hospital.

The Metropolitan Opera Association declined to comment.


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Met stagehand: Abuse was tragic opera

Met stagehand: Abuse was tragic opera

Met stagehand: Abuse was tragic opera

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A former Met stage carpenter is suing the Metropolitan Opera for sexual harassment, claiming that her male colleagues constantly abused her with unwanted come-ons and crude, dangerous pranks.

Teri Orsburn, 53, worked for almost three years at the Met, where she was the company’s only female stagehand.

Orsburn says in a Manhattan federal lawsuit that from the outset, her immediate supervisor refused to call her anything else but “girl,” setting a tone for others to follow.

She said colleagues put glue on her tools, locked her out of the company lounge, and intentionally put her in physical danger.

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“They started heckling me immediately, day in, day out, and we worked very long days,” said Orsburn, an Arizona native and self-described cowgirl. “They acted like badly-behaved 8-year-old boys.”

Lawyers for the Metropolitan Opera did not immediately return a call for comment.

Orsburn said the curtain came down on her career after a stagehand shoved her to the ground and fell on her in a stage area where there were no witnesses.

She said the incident left her with physical injuries that made her unable to continue performing the job she had dreamed about since childhood.


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The Rank and File Thank You Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor!

The Rank and File Thank You Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer! Sotomayor and Terzi are Latin Names.

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Sister Pat beware of Local One officers bearing gifts attempting to cleanse their dirty laundry by donating to charity. Current Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor allowed a civil suit to proceed against LOCAL ONE IATSE because Former Local One President Kevin McGardy and former Business Agent Ronald Lynch threatened Anthony Terzi with bodily harm etc. This is not honest unionism and this cost Local One rank and file members millions of dollars and weakened the credibility of the Union as a whole. Mcgarty is on the right side of this picture even as he has been on the wrong side of the law. Curious how he was again elected to union office and current Business Manager Bob Nimmo, MBA Fordham, did nothing to warn the membership and allowed McGarty continued officership despite a blemished record of ill achievement. Additionally they discriminated against Terzi because he was not Irish and would never had threatened him if he was Irish. They would have looked the other way. Sotomayor and Terzi are Latin Names

A. TERZI PRODUCTION v. THEATRICAL PROTECT. UNION

2 F.Supp.2d 485 (1998)

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A. TERZI PRODUCTIONS, INC. and Anthony Terzi, Plaintiffs, v. THEATRICAL PROTECTIVE UNION, Local No. One, I.A.T.S.E., AFL-CIO; Kevin McGarty, Individually and as President; Ronald Lynch, Individually and as Junior Business Agent, Defendants.

No. 97 Civ. 3615(SS).

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

April 17, 1998.

Goldstein & Morris, LLP, Mark L. Goldstein, New York City, for Plaintiffs.
Spivak, Lipton, Watanabe, Spivak & Moss, Franklin K. Moss, James M. Murphy, New York City, for Defendants.

ORDER AND OPINION

SOTOMAYOR, District Judge. (currently Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor)
Defendants Theatrical Protective Union, Local No. One, I.A.T.S.E., AFL-CIO ("Local One" or the "Union"), Kevin McGarty ("McGarty"), and Ronald Lynch ("Lynch"), move to dismiss causes of action... pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). For the reasons discussed below, the Court grants the motion in part, and denies it in part.

BACKGROUND

This action arises out of the Union's picketing of plaintiffs' job site with the conceded purpose of compelling plaintiffs to enter into a collective bargaining agreement. Plaintiff A. Terzi Productions, Inc. ("ATP") is a contractor of technical and production services. Plaintiff Anthony Terzi ("Terzi") was at all relevant times ATP's "principal." Defendants McGarty and Lynch, who are sued here both in their individual and representative capacities, were at all relevant times Local One's president and junior business agent, respectively.
For purposes of this motion, the Court must assume that the facts alleged in the Complaint are true. See Walker v. New York,974 F.2d 293, 298 (2d Cir.1992). These facts are as follows. On September 12 and 13, 1996, approximately 200 of Local One's members picketed a televised fashion show held at the Armory in New York City to pressure ATP into a labor agreement. ATP had been hired by the show's producer (the "Producer") to set-up and dismantle the show's stage materials, among other things. At the time, ATP's employees were not members of Local One, nor did they seek or want Local One's representation. (Complaint ¶ 18.)
Local One's picketers demonstrated around-the-clock on both days of the show, bearing signs and distributing leaflets. (Complaint ¶¶ 19-20, 22.) The picketers also engaged in violent and disruptive behavior. They threatened the Producer with bodily harm and financial ruin to compel him to remove ATP from the show; they verbally assaulted ATP's and the Producer's employees and interfered with their ingress and egress at the show; and they made racist statements such as "ATP uses `niggers.'" (Complaint ¶¶ 21-25.) Police officers were deployed to the picketing site to prevent violence, although plaintiffs do not allege that anyone was arrested. (Complaint ¶ 22.)

ORDER AND OPINION

SOTOMAYOR, District Judge. (currently Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor)
Alternatively, a threat of continued racketeering activity might be established by plaintiffs at trial by showing that McGarty and Lynch used extortionate tactics as a regular way of conducting Local One's business. See H.J. Inc., 492 U.S. at 243, 109 S.Ct. 2893. Plaintiffs have alleged in their Amended Rico Statement that, in June 1992, officials and members of Local One were criminally charged with extortion, fraud, theft and assault in connection with activities...... (Amended Rico Statement ¶ 20.)16 Accepting these allegations as true, I find that plaintiffs have sufficiently pled the continuity element of their RICO claim to withstand a motion to dismiss. Defendants' motion to dismiss the fifth cause of action is, therefore, denied.

US v LOCAL ONE IATSE: WHITE, MALE, IRISH FAMILY LOOP.

U.S. v LOCAL ONE IATSE

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE) NON IRISH, WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH NEED NOT APPLY TO LOCAL ONE IATSE! FOR THE BEST JOBS THE STEADY JOBS, THE SENIORITY SYSTEM, GUARANTEED BENEIFITS AND ADVANCEMENT IN THIS CORRUPT UNION! NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY.



United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE)Cite as:




in assigning the better jobs with higher pay and more guaranteed hours to the shareholder-employees, who were exclusively of SAME ancestry, and (2) by limiting share ownership to persons who were of SAME ancestry and were either members of the family or close friends of a current shareholder.28

WHERE ARE OUR JOBS AT THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CORRUPT BUSINESS AGENTS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS?

Madison Square Garden Raided as State Police Investigate Union Corruption

N.Y. state troopers raided Madison Square Garden (MSG) on Jan. 27, removing documents as well as cash from a private home. MSG officials kicked out several people -- Jim Arneman, the head of bldg. operations, chief electrician John O'Hara -- who were also suspended from their jobs. Law enforcement sources say that the investigation is focusing on possible no-show jobs arranged by the local affiliate of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employees, and bid-rigging by officials of the electrical union. [New York Post, 2/12/04]






Robert Nimmo Chief Pimp and
Television Business Manager
212-333-2500 x132
rnimmo@iatse-local1.org

MBA from Fordham University

Service to Local One
Bob is serving in his third term as Television Business Manager. I am the senior Business Manager. I will be running for my fourth term as Business Manager, but really I am just a Pimp in a suit just like the other Business Managers. We operate the Irish family Loop and pretend it is a union. Violations of Labor Law and Civil Law occur daily in our jurisdiction. We are not a legitimate union. Are you a non Irish White, Black, Hispanic, a Woman? Well forget it we will make you a token member but we will steal from you every day of your union life. Blood is thicker than Water you Orphan Shit.


Kevin McGarty
Theatrical Business Manager
212-333-2500 x119
kmcgarty@iatse-local1.org
Kevin is proud of the fact that his family has carried Local #1 union cards for four generations.
Sure we have a new website, but that's just to make us look like cool dudes and to make it look like we operate a legal, lawfull union. NO, NO, NO nothing could be further from the truth. Everybody knows that the best jobs, pensions and benefits go to the family Irish loop. Are you a non Irish white, black, Hispanic, a woman. HA, Ha, Ha, we will run you around in circles and screw you every day of your union life because we are low class ignorant mother fuckers. Blood is thicker than water you Orphan Shits. Union Law and Civil Law? Get real! We will screw you out of your socks.

Paul Dean
Chairman of the Trustees Fifth Generation Scam Artist. We get the jobs, pensions and benefits. Screw the Orphans. Blood is thicker than Water. You bet we discriminate.And we violate United States Labor Law and Civil Law on a daily basis.
212-333-2500 x124
pdean@iatse-local1.org
Paul F. Dean, Jr. is a fifth generation Local One Stagehand who was initiated 1987.
Work as Local One Member
He has worked throughout Local One’s jurisdiction for over 30 years in venues including the Metropolitan Opera House, various television studios, Broadway Theatres and numerous industrial events. I get all the jobs, Pensions and Benefits and Me and my buddies discriminate against the non Irish Loop. Fat chance any of you will get anywhere in OUR union.

William Walters
Vice President
212-333-2500 x129
wwalters@iatse-local1.org
Willie is the fourth generation of Walters in Local One.
Work as Local One Member. Want a Job? Fat chance. All the jobs go to the families in violation of United States Constitution and Labor Law. I know because me and my buddies go to Labor college so we can learn to discriminate against the Rank and File Members. Ha Ha! We call them orphans. Blood is thicker than Water.


THE YEAR OF OBAMA IS 2011!AND THE OFFICERS, HEADS, AND NEGLIGENT MANAGEMENT ARE BREAKING UNITED STATES LAW.



Great idea to hold a special meeting to deal with the significant drug and alcohol problems Beloved PRESIDENT CLAFFEY!!!. BSD would like to suggest a special meeting to deal with the significant discrimination problem in Local ONE and the SCAM denying members JOBS, PENSIONS, BENEFITS and the huge Potential lawsuit facing Local ONE!!!

BSD
IS PROUD TO WELCOME BACK THE NEW YORK TIMES.
BSD is proud to announce that we are right on track to reach our 2011 goal with over 800,000 page reads for the year! We support the Rank and File of Local One but not the union corruption mismanaging venues. Significant steps need to be taken to end the Drug and Alcohol problems in Local One. Business Agents are you up to it? BSD says Business Agents, you don't have a clue!

BSD
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE REACHED OUR GOAL AND HAVE ACHIEVED 400,688 PAGE READS FOR THIS YEAR(2010).

OUR GOAL FOR NEXT YEAR 1,000,000 PAGE READS NEXT YEAR. We had 47,000 searches just for the one search term: broadwaystagehandsdemocracy in February alone.
DAN GILOON'S PAC MONEY CAN'T HUSH THE MEDIA AND SHIT CONTINUES TO HIT THE FAN AS DAVID HOROWITZ BLOG ACCUSES LOCAL ONE OF EXTORTION.
PINNOCCHIO BOB NIMMO MBA. I AM A $2,280,000 CROOK . A Labor Racketeer. SENIOR BUSINESS AGENT PLAYING PADDY CAKE WITH THE CORRUPT IRISH LOOP. MANAGING CORRUPT AND SEGREGATED THEATERS ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS. IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND LABOR LAW. As long as Broadway Bob and the Business agents continue to mismanage the union the Rank and File of this union are and Continue to be in Wisconsin, not a Democratic state or Union.

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Dennis O’Connell (properties manager): $524,332
James Csollany (carpenter): $461,174
John Cardinale (electrician): $438,828
Kenneth Beltrone (carpenter): $432,655
John Goodson (electrician): $425,105

Labor Racketeers

That’s a total annual compensation for the five Carnegie stagehands of $2,280,000, or $456,000 each.




MADOFF SON COMMITS SUICIDE!!!HOW SOON BOB NIMMO, MBA FORDHAM CORRUPT BUSINESS MANAGER LOCAL ONE IATSE.
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THE LATEST ON OUR CROOKED BUSINESS AGENTS PAY TO MANAGE A CORRUPT SYSTEM! ILLEGAL SEGRATION TIERED BENEFITS, DISCRIMINATION, RETALIATION, UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE, NEPOTISM, VIOLATION OF LANDRUM-GRIFFIN, ILLEGAL TRIALS, LACK OF FREE SPEECH. WHERE ARE OUR JOBS, PENSIONS AND BENEFITS? FELONY RICO BOYS. Labor Racleteers.
ROBERT NIMMOBusiness Manager$223,749.00
KEVIN MCGARTYBusiness Manager$223,494.00
MICHAEL WEKSELBLATTBusiness Manager$221,622.00
EDWARD MCMAHON IIIBusiness Manager$218,236.00

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WE ARE UNION DEMOCRACY!!!
WELCOME
SUNY PURCHASE COLLEGE!
TOO MANY OF LOCAL ONE'S OFFICERS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE LABOR RACKETEERS: Rank and File Union members sick and dying because LOCAL ONE discrimination and LABOR RACKET keeps them from acquiring medical benefits.
CANCER/HEART DISEASE VICTIMS ARE ALSO VICTIMS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE. WE HAVE PREGNANT WOMEN STAGEHANDS AND MOTHERS WITHOUT BENEFITS!!! STOP DISRESPECTING OUR CHARTER OPERATING AN UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERSHIP!

Broadway Stagehands Democracy welcomes ZIFF Organization 14 reads. Thank You for stopping by. Ann Ziff Chairman Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. KOCH ORGANIZATION

5 READS

Can you help the tried against, tiered against and DISCRIMINATED against members of LOCAL ONE.

JOBS FOR WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH, AND NON IRISH WHITES.

NOT JUST FOR THE IRISH LOOP, DIAZ CLAN AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS AND HEADS IN CONTINUOUS VIOLATION OF LABOR LAW AND UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

BROADWAY SCAM AGAINST R&F GROSSES 1 BILLION FOR THE PRODUCERS AND THE IRISH LOOP Labor Racketeers.






































In a statement BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY SAYS, "WE ARE GETTING FUCKED HERE"! 1.2 BILLION LAST YEAR WHERE THE FUCK ARE OUR JOBS! CHARLOTTE ST MARTIN ARE YOU READY FOR THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT?

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THE PRODUCERS COMPLAIN ABOUT LOCAL ONE. AND LOCAL ONE COMPLAINS ABOUT THE PRODUCERS. AND THE RANK AND FILE GET SCAMMED BY BOTH AS BROADWAY GROSSES ONE BILLION. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WHERE ARE YOU? WE NEED A CLASS ACTION ATTORNEY!
Broadway Grosses Over $1 Billion in 2009-2010 Season

In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League, said, "We are thrilled that even in this current economic climate, our numbers are strong thanks to the vibrancy of this season's offerings."

In a statement BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY SAYS, "WE ARE GETTING FUCKED HERE"!




GETTING THE JOB
DONE!!!
DAN GILOON'S Labor Racketeer HUSH MONEY CAN'T STOP THE MEDIA.DAN GILOON'S PAYOFFS CAN'T STOP BAD PRESS.ALONE IN THE DARK IN HIS DIRTY UNDERWEAR.

LOCAL 30 IATSE INVESTIGATED IN SUGARLAND STATE FAIR COLLAPSE: BSD ASKS WITH OUR SIGNIFICANT DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS FACING LOCAL ONE AND INCOMPETENT BUSINESS AGENTS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS CAN A SIMILIAR TRAGEDY HAPPEN HERE: BSD SAYS YES IT CAN!

13 WTHRUnion investigated in Indiana State Fair stage collapse



Union investigated in Indiana State Fair stage collapse

Updated: Sep 22, 2011 2:38 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS - There's new information on the State Fair Tragedy, and who was responsible for assembling the rigging which fell and killed seven people.

13 Investigates takes a look at the contract, and tries to get answers from the union which was hired to do the job.

Randy Byrd wants answers.

"There's no doubt in my mind that it was constructed poorly. It was assembled wrong," he Byrd said as he talked about the stage that claimed his brother's life.

Nathan Byrd, a stagehand with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 30, was perched behind a spotlight high above the stage at the Indiana State Fair, when it collapsed to the ground. He and six others died.

The Indiana Occupational Health and Safety Administration is investigating Byrd's employer, Local 30.

"He ran the spot light. He built the stages. He had high comprehension so he was able to figure out the assemblies," said Randy Byrd, describing his brother's work.

Local 30's contract with the Indiana State Fair Commission says the union is responsible for the set-up, because it supplied all of the labor.

Mid-America Sound owned the stage, while the commission paid Local 30 to handle "...all phases of stage scaffolding set-ups and tear-downs...and the installation, operation and dismantling of permanent or temporary sound, lighting and audio visual equipment."

"...The Union shall obtain and maintain all required permits, licenses and approvals, as well as comply with all health, safety and environmental statutes, rules or regulations..."

Under the agreement, the commission even promised to pay for one testing session for one employee each year through the Entertainment Technician Certification Program.

The certification program manager says Indiana has seven arena riggers certified through its program to set up temporary stages.

Nathan Byrd was not one of them.

ETCP says it has also certified six theater riggers, and seven electricians across the state. Nationwide, more than 1,200 workers are certified. ETCP says it targets its certifications to the top third in the industry, who are mostly managers.

Now as his family and IOSHA question bosses about his death,

The State Fair Commission's contract with Local 30 states:

"Neither party will assume liability for any injury (including death) to any persons, or damage to any property arising out of the acts or omissions of the agents, employees or subUnions of the other party."

Local 30's Agent Representative refused to answer any of our questions, and referred us to his attorney Bill Groth, who was not available.

It's unclear at this time if Nathan Byrd was involved in the set-up of the stage. But Byrd's brother told Eyewitness News some co-workers admitted problems with the stage days before the collapse.


SHIT CONTINUES TO HIT THE FAN AS LOCAL ONE ACCUSED OF EXTORTION.

Great Speech Mr. President, you are playing a heads up game regarding Wisconsin. However, Mr President, many of the Rank and File members of this union are members of a union that, as far as Legitimate and Democratic Unionism is concerned is actually the state of WISCONSIN and yes worse than WISCONSIN, under the failure of the Business Agents and many Department Heads.

This just in Beloved President Claffey's statement in Broadway World slamming David Koch and other anti union activists:IATSE Local One President Discusses Recent Wisconsin Events: 'A Wake-Up Call'


Monday, March 14, 2011; Posted: 05:03 PM - by BWW News Desk

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Statement of James J. Claffey, Jr. President of Local One IATSE Regarding Recent Events in Wisconsin:

"The events in Madison, Wisconsin must serve as a wake-up call to us in the great state of New York. The attacks on Union workers in Wisconsin matters to us in more ways than most can imagine. If you wear a Union pin on your lapel, there are powerful forces in this country who are







putting a bulls-eye on your back as part of a larger campaign whose target is all working families and everything we hold dear.

As the 125th Anniversary of Local One approaches and I consider what the last century and a quarter has meant, I take a closer look at our local's many struggles for achievement as well as the history of working people in America.

In the last century, unionizing in America meant working people joining the middle class: a decent roof over our heads, food on the table, respect in the workplace and a better life for our children.

But ever since unions secured all of these things, these powerful forces have been attempting to take them back.

The Governor of Wisconsin wants to simply roll back two centuries of working people's progress and it should be clear; he's not talking about taking away the right to join a Union. The Governor of Wisconsin is talking about taking away the right for a Union to behave and perform like a Union whose objectives are to protect and negotiate wages, terms, conditions, benefits, jobs and jurisdiction. The Governor is attempting to challenge our mere existence by eliminating a union's right to collective bargaining.

All working families and labor organizations throughout this country must stand together because Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is not alone. When a corporation like Fox News can have five potential Republican presidential candidates on its payroll or billionaires like David H. Koch (yes, that David H. Koch whose name is on The New York State Theater) can throw tens of millions into "grass root" Tea Party campaigns to elect anti-union activists like the governor of Wisconsin, then union families should not forget that the same thing can happen in their state and in Washington, D.C.

The campaign to take away the rights of unionized Wisconsin state workers is just the start. The so-called "heartland of America" is rapidly becoming the "heartLESS-land of America." There's similar talk in Ohio, and Tea Party governors and legislatures all over the country are starting to sing the same phrases written by the billionaires who wrote the tune. And the big lie they're all harmonizing on is that unionized state, county or city workers are better paid than the equivalent private sector worker.

Brothers and Sisters of Local One and union people all over America must exercise their legal rights collectively and take action to fight this battle as if it were in their own backyards. We must acknowledge these union busting campaigns as a wake-up call to support our Brothers and Sisters in Wisconsin, because if we don't, we will all one day wake up in Wisconsin."

James J. Claffey, Jr. began his career as a stagehand in 1982 in venues including Radio City Music Hall, the City Center 55th Street Dance Theatre, Madison Square Garden, CBS-TV, ABC-TV and various Broadway theatres. Mr. Claffey began his career as an Officer of Local One in 1996, serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees until 1998 at which time the membership elected him to the full time position of Theatrical Business Manager, an office he was then re-elected to in 2001. Since May 2004, he has served as President of Local One. He is a graduate of both the Cornell University Labor Studies Certificate Program and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Mr. Claffey was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of The Actors' Fund and serves on the NYC Opera Board of Directors as well as a Vice President on the NYC Central Labor Council.

BSD says great statement President Claffey! You are playing a heads up game! BSD says make Jimmy our only BA and International President! However Mr. President many of the Rank and File members of this union are in a union that, as far as Legitimate and Democratic Unionism is concerned, is actually the State of Wisconsin and yes worse than Wisconsin under the failure of many of the Business Agents and Department Heads.

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Stagehands Extort Hundreds of Thousands From Theater Goers

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If there never was a story that explains how unions are really little else but a criminal extortion racket, the story by James Ahearn in the New Jersey Began Record helps explain it for us. Ahearn’s piece headlined “For Backstage Labor, Rich Rewards,” informs us that some stagehands in New York theater make upwards to $422,000 a year in salary — and that doesn’t include benefits.These positions are not as highly skilled as brain surgeons, to be sure, yet these guys make hundreds of thousands a year to move chairs, rearrange scenery, raise curtains, and what have you. Why the absurdly outsized pay scale? Threats of strikes shutting down Broadway and its multi-million dollar industry is why. Ahearn reveals that one mere stagehand makes $422,599 a year, plus $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation, another makes $290,000, and two carpenters and two electricians made about $400,000 a year with benefits to work the theaters of New York.These guys are skilled laborers, of course. Not every guy off the street can just start being an electrician or a stagehand without training. But should these manual labor positions be making hundreds of thousands a year for their efforts? What accounts for this absurdity?


THIS JUST IN:TRAGEDY AT THE HIRSCHFELD THEATER!!!

STAGE HAND OVERDOSE!

HOW DOES SPIVAK NEGOTIATE AROUND THE DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS FACING LOCAL ONE? He doesn't care because Spivak is a labor racketeer. Her0in and Labor Racketeers. Who sold the stagehand the drugs Business Agents? Spivak do you care. BSD says only about the corrupt money you are making.




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THIS JUST IN FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: LOCAL ONE SCAM CONTINUES AGAINST RANK AND FILE

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL

Politics from the Nation's Capital

The power of CORRUPT unions: Average stagehand at Lincoln Center in NYC makes $290K a year


Columnist James Ahearn of New Jersey's Bergen Record has a great column on, of all things, the stagehands at New York city's top performing arts venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. These are not highly skilled or technical jobs but take a gander at how much they are paid:

At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.
To repeat, that is the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians' chairs into place and hang lights, not the pay of the top five.
Across the plaza at the Metropolitan Opera, a spokesman said stagehands rarely broke into the top-five category. But a couple of years ago, one did. The props master, James Blumenfeld, got $334,000 at that time, including some vacation back pay.

Ahern also notes that the top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall makes $422,599 a year in salary, plus $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation. So why such exorbitant pay? You probably already guessed that a union is involved:

How to account for all this munificence? The power of a union, Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. "Power," as in the capacity and willingness to close most Broadway theaters for 19 days two years ago when agreement on a new contract could not be reached.Wakin reported that this power was palpable in the nervousness of theater administrators and performers who were asked to comment on the salary figures. Kelly Hall-Tompkins, for one, said, "The last thing I want to do is upset the people at Carnegie Hall. I'd like to have a lifelong relationship with them." She is a violinist who recently presented a recital in Weill Hall, one of the smaller performance spaces in the building. She said she begrudged the stagehands nothing: "Musicians should be so lucky to have a strong union like that." Uh-huh.

Be sure and read Ahearn's whole column. And next time someone tells you unions are just about fair wages for an honest day's labor, remember that's not always the case. All too often they're about power and greed. This is also true for public sector unions -- see the cover story in today's Examiner on the pay of local officials in the DC area, "Salaries of local government brass top Biden's, Cabinet secretaries."
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/power-unions-average-stagehand-lincoln-center-nyc-makes-290k-year#ixzz19TmqybOU

THIS JUST IN FOX NEWS:

December 27, 2010

$290,000 a Year to Move a Musician's Chair


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Columnist James Ahearn of New Jersey's Bergen Record has a great column today on, of all things, the stagehands at New York city's top performing arts venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. These are not highly skilled or technical jobs but take a gander at how much they are paid:

At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year.


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Average stagehand at Lincoln Center in NYC makes $290K a year?

I looked at this blog banter this morning, plus the original reporting on it, and still find it hard to believe -- the average stagehand at Lincoln Center in NYC makes $290k a year.
The top stagehand at Carnegie Hall makes $422,599 a year in salary, plus $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation.
Is that out of balance, or what? You can start reading about it here. Las Vegas has a lot of stagehands, but I'll bet none of them make even a quarter of the top guy at Carnegie.

ures per year, stagehands at New York’s Broadway theaters live the dream. Although their jobs are not highly skilled, and consist mainly of moving props, chairs, furniture and the like around a stage, they have the power and willingness to shut down any Broadway theater to get whatever they want come contract negotiation time.

Union flexes its muscles; stagehands at Lincoln Center make average $290,000 per year


Carnegie Hall, impressive-especially for the salaries of its stagehands.

One union worker, stagehand Dennis O’Connell, who is the props manager at Carnegie Hall, makes $422,599 per year—plus $107,445 in benefits. A New York Times reporter, Daniel J. Wakin, got the information on a 2007-2008 publicly-filed tax return of Carnegie Hall, which listed the theater’s six highest paid employees.

Besides the company’s chief executive, Clive Gillison, who made $946,581, the next five highest paid employees were all stagehands. The lowest-ranked member in the top five was electrician John Goodson, who made $327,257 plus $76,459 in benefits.

Although the stagehands at Carnegie Hall might be the best paid in town, the average pay of all the stagehands at nearby Lincoln Center, including salary and benefits, was $290,000.

The power to charge a business $300,000 to $500,000 for one laborer comes from Local 1, of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, which closed down 39 Broadway theaters in November 2007 for 19 days, causing tens of millions of dollars per week to be lost by theater owners, and the city.

So the next time you visit New York and wonder why all the theater tickets are $150 each or more, now you know at least part of the story.

Mark Perry“Stagehand Scalping” At Carnegie Hall; Where’s The Outrage About $450,000 Salaries For StagehandsBy Mark Perry on


About a year ago, I
had a post about “excessive pay” for the unionized stagehands at Carnegie Hall, some of whom made more during the 2007-2008 season by pushing the 9-foot Steinway Model D concert grand piano out onto the stage for a concert than the artist makes for playing the piano. Financial data about many nonprofit organizations, including salary data for the “highest paid employees and their compensation,” are available at the website GuideStar. Here’s the link to The Carnegie Hall Corporation listing at GuideStar.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the top five highest paid Carnegie employees were all stagehands making an average of $359,000 in base compensation (see chart above). A more detailed analysis of Carnegie Hall’s 2008 tax return reveals that each of the five stagehands earned an additional $100,000 in deferred compensation for 2008, bringing their total yearly compensation amounts to:

Dennis O’Connell (properties manager): $524,332
James Csollany (carpenter): $461,174
John Cardinale (electrician): $438,828
Kenneth Beltrone (carpenter): $432,655
John Goodson (electrician): $425,105

That’s a total annual compensation for the five Carnegie stagehands of $2,280,000, or $456,000 each. How to explain these excessive above-market wages? Easy, the stagehands are members of one of the oldest and most powerful NYC labor unions – The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees – which exercised its union muscle in 2007 by striking and shutting down 26 Broadway shows for almost three weeks, at an estimated cost to NYC of about $40 million.

There’s a lot of outrage and attention directed towards “excessive CEO pay,” judging by the 153,000 Google hits for that phrase, which is 270 times more than the 567 Google hits for the phrase “excessive union pay.” As I mentioned in the previous post, musicians and promoters frequently blame “ticket scalpers” for raising ticket prices, but maybe “stagehand scalping” deserves some of the blame for high concert ticket prices?!
THIS JUST IN:Local One Issues New Statement About SPIDER-MAN Safety. YES BELOVED PRESIDENT CLAFFEY IT IS A COMPLICATED SHOW, BUT THE PRODUCERS HIRING THE DRUNKS, DRUG USERS, INEXPERIENCED RELATIVES AND OTHER QUESTIONABLE CHARACTERS AND IGNORING THE MORE EXPERIENCED RANK AND FILE UNION MEMBERS ARE THE REAL PROBLEM FACING BROADWAY AND LOCAL ONE. RIGHT CORRUPT BUSINESS MANAGERS NIMMO, McMAHON, McGARDY, FORMER BA MIKE WEKSELBLATT AND NEGLIEGENT ANTHONY DEPAULO.

BELOVED PRESIDENT CLAFFEY'S STATEMENT REGARDING SPIDER-MAN CREW AND LOCAL ONE SCAM WITH EDITORIAL RESPONSE BY BSD EDITOR AND CHIEF.
SORRY PRESIDENT CLAFFEY AS MUCH AS WE ADMIRE YOU AND YOUR HIGHLY TALENTED FAMILY WE MUST RESPOND HERE AND NEGATE YOUR SPIN STATEMENT ABOUT WHATS REALLY GOING ON ON BROADWAY AND AT SPIDER-MAN. THE BROADWAY THEATERS ARE MANNED BY AN IRISH LOOP CORE SCAM AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE INCLUDING SPIDER-MAN. DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE IS RAMPANT IN THE THEATERS BY HOUSE HEADS AND THEIR CREWS. THE CREWS AND HEADS ARE MADE UP OF RELATIVES OF OFFICERS AND HEADS AND ARE ESSENTIALLY A NEPOTISTIC GROUP OF UNSKILLED TECHNICIAN FOSTERING OUTDATED SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGY IN A SCAM AGAINST THE MEMBERSHIP AND THE PRODUCERS. RANK AND FILE MEN AND WOMEN BETTER QUALIFIED ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IRISH, MEN, BLACKS, HISPANICS AND QUALIFIED TO GET THE JOB DONE. ALL OF THE UNIONS OFFICERS ARE IRISH AND MANY OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE IRISH AND THE REST OF US ARE TREATED ILLEGALLY AND IN VIOLATION OF LABOR LAW AND UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW BY THE OFFICERS AND HEADS OF THIS UNION.

Thursday, December 23, 2010; Posted: 12:12 PM - by BWW News Desk
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James J. Claffey, Jr., BELOVED President, Local One IATSE has just issued the following statement regarding safety at SPIDER-MAN.

"Spider-Man" is the most challenging musical production in the history of Broadway. For all the advanced technical equipment used in today's Broadway shows, the shows are still performed and run by human beings. The human element cannot be taken out of live theatre, and the Broadway theatre is a strictly choreographed system of actors, stage managers, technicians and machines.

Local One and the production of "Spider-Man" are in agreement with our insistence of safety checks and redundancies that have been added to ensure the safety of everyone involved in "Spider-Man." After a complete review of all technical aspects of the show in its entirety and continued collaboration with the New York State Department of Labor, OSHA, production management of "Spider-Man" and all other affected unions, Local One IATSE is confident in the additional safety protocols that have been newly installed and implemented to address this specific incident and the entirety of the show. The Union maintains and will continue to pursue the collaboration of all these parties. Safety for this Union, is and has always been paramount for everyone on stage and backstage and for the audience in front of the curtain.

The Foxwoods Theatre stage crew servicing this "Spider-Man" production is an elite crew, proficient in all new technologies required for this groundbreaking show. Local One stands by this crew of professional stagehands and joins them in their sincere concerns for a colleague of "Spider-Man" who lies in Bellevue Hospital.

Local One, and its more than 3000 members join the entire Theatre community in sending heartfelt best wishes to Christopher Tierney for a rapid recovery from the injuries he suffered.



THIS JUST IN:

News Release

Las Vegas Non-Union Worker Wins Right to Obtain Over $100,000 from IATSE Union for Discrimination

Threat of federal court appeal forces National Labor Relations Board to reverse itself

Las Vegas, NV (February 5, 2008) — Under threat of a federal court appeal, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) this week reversed itself and authorized a local worker to claim over $100,000 in damages after International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 720 union officials illegally discriminated against him.

Union brass had unlawfully expelled the employee from an exclusive union hiring hall, denied him the ability to obtain work, and offered him no means of reinstatement.

The ruling comes in a case brought by Las Vegas-area worker Steven Lucas, with free legal help from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys. Lucas is an audio-visual equipment technician employed in the Las Vegas trade show and convention industry.

In June 2007, the NLRB in Washington, DC, upheld a preliminary ruling by NLRB Region 28 in Las Vegas allowing Lucas to reclaim only about $16,000 in lost wages from one job due to the unlawful union discrimination. In reality, union officials’ illegal blackballing of Lucas from getting work from more than a dozen employers during 1995 and 1996 had cost him many times that amount.

The Lucas case has been a major source of embarrassment for the NLRB since the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals several years ago reprimanded the agency and forced it to pay attorneys’ fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) because its position in an earlier phase of the case was “not substantially justified.”

“The prospect of even more embarrassment for the NLRB in enabling this outrageous union discrimination forced the agency’s hand,” said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. “Even in a Right to Work state where payment of union dues is voluntary, union officials use their monopoly bargaining power to punish workers that don’t toe the union line.”

Lucas was a union member from 1981-1992 and used the hiring hall until 1994, when union officials illegally and arbitrarily expelled him from the hiring hall. By not allowing Lucas to be reinstated in the hiring hall, IATSE union officials denied him work opportunities for a period of roughly 18 months.

Even though Nevada has a highly popular and effective Right to Work law that frees nonunion employees from paying membership dues to an unwanted union, IATSE union officials use their monopoly bargaining privileges to set up “exclusive hiring halls.” In such halls, union officials decide which employees to refer for work at conventions and trade shows, and workers are forced to pay money to the union to be eligible for work.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, is assisting thousands of employees in over 200 cases nationwide.

Union Faces Trial At Labor Agency For Threatening to Kill Dissident Workers

Orlando, Fla. (February 14, 2003) — The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 835 officials face federal prosecution for illegally threatening to “kill” or otherwise harm workers who participated in efforts to toss out the union and breaking a previous settlement agreement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Local 835 officials operate an exclusive union hiring hall that provides workers for the trade show, convention, and exhibition service industry in the Orlando area. After investigating the unfair labor practice charges filed by James Zitis and Clay Wayman – who obtained free legal representation from attorneys with the National Right to Work Foundation – the NLRB investigators found that union officials had “threatened to kill employees” and “threatened employees with the loss of work opportunities and the loss of their homes and possessions” if they engaged in activity to decertify the union through an NLRB-supervised election. In addition to naming IATSE Local 835, the NLRB complaint cites two of its top officials, Susan Wolfgang and Peter Merrifield, for their involvement in the harassment. “The outrageous threats issued by these union officials show they have no respect for the law or employees’ well being,” said Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. On May 16, 2002, IATSE union officials agreed to accept an NLRB settlement agreement of some of the employees’ charges, which required them to post a notice alerting workers that they only had to pay fees equal to the cost of running the hiring hall. Union officials have failed to live up to the NLRB settlement and continue forcing non-union members to pay fees as a condition of using the hiring hall’s referral process without explaining how the fee was calculated. The NLRB has set the hearing date for July 21, 2003 to examine the charges against IATSE Local 835. Even though Florida has a highly popular and effective Right to Work law that frees nonunion employees from paying membership dues to an unwanted union, IATSE union officials use their monopoly bargaining privileges to set up exclusive hiring halls. In such halls, the union decides which employees to refer for work at conventions and trade shows, and the workers are forced to pay the union to be eligible for work.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

BSD wishes our Friends and Fans a very Happy New Year 2018! End discrimination in LOCAL ONE!

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Happy 11th Birthday BSD! We are here getting the job done.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

The editorial staff of Broadway Stagehands Democracy is still here getting the job done. We are union Democracy. It is a new year but Stagehands Democracy is not a new idea.

Friday, April 1, 2016

Broadway Stagehands Roar Against Local One Corruption.

BSD roasr against union corruption of Local One IATSE..

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

RIP Leah Schneider

BSD remembers Leah Schneider, victim of Local One Discrimination.

RIP Leah Schneider member of Local One who struggled to make tier and carry twins and fight Cancer.



Leah Schneider, a remarkable woman and stage technician, who struggled for years as a woman and non family member in Local One IATSE, struggling to make tiered medical benefits designed to most benefit, the officers and department heads of Local One IATSE. Family members of the inner circle of Local One, in violation of US Constitutional Law and US Labor Law, had the best jobs and guaranteed benefits year after year. The editorial staff of BSD had numerous talks with Leah where she outlined how difficult it was to make medical benefits prior to and during her pregnancy, and during her battle with Cancer, while the illegally favored relatives and friends of the Department heads and officers skated into the best jobs and benefits year after year, with quite a few making pay and benefits while working under age, doing multiple jobs at the same time (impossible without corruption.), and even without actually showing up. Leah's struggle was typical of many Local One members, literally treated as non members in Local One's corruption scam against the rank and file of Local ONE IATSE. Rest in Peace. Leah, you will not be forgotten!


Seniority system? Where is it?, Answer it doesn't exist because it would interfere with Local One's continuing pattern of Discrimination in favor of Local One Officers and Department heads in violation of US Constitutional Law and Labor Law. Bob Nimmo, MBA Fordham, you and the other officers and Department Heads are an ethical and legal disgrace to the rank and file membership and Labor Unions. Kenny Boy McGarty this means you too. And you too Tony Boy DePaulo, collecting two checks at once and not doing a thing for the rank and file. McMahon and your brother at the Regis and Kelly Scam Show, you are also remis. Mickey Fox, where is your son working? Snakes one and all.

Photo Leah at the Cort Theater
Stagehand Leah Schneider is back to work at the Cort Theatre on W. 48th St., to preparing for the upcoming play 'The Homecoming,' which opens in December. The Local 1 chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees reached a tentative agreement with the League of American Theaters and Producers late last night, ending a 19-day stagehand strike that closed the doors on many Broadway shows.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Rest in Peace discriminated member Leah Schneider. The real cancer that is left behind affects all the remaining rank and file and the cure is prosecuting the wayward officers and department heads of Local One IATSE.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Rest in Peace Leah Schneider. The members love and miss you.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Met Opera, Lincoln Center and the Koch Brothers


ArtsBeat | Lincoln Center President Received Increase in Bonus in Final Year

New York Times (blog) - ‎May 24, 2015‎
“The bonus was based on annual reviews of his performance and his project performance,” said Eileen McMahon, a representative for Lincoln Center. She also noted that the bonus, first reported by The New York Post, was based on 18 months of work, not ...

Opera brings dark love story to Lincoln Center with 'Lucia'

The Coloradoan - ‎May 23, 2015‎
Gaetano Donizetti's dark and Gothic thriller “Lucia di Lammermoor” - loosely based on Sir Walter Scott's 1820 novel, “The Bride of Lammermoor” - will be performed at The Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The gritty tale tells ...

Lincoln Center announces Broadway shows for new season

The Coloradoan - ‎May 22, 2015‎
Take a tour through the mind of Marilyn Monroe, celebrate the queen of rock & roll and get some laughs in with Nealon and Norm.

Alamance Chorale to perform at Lincoln Center

Burlington Times News - ‎May 23, 2015‎
The Alamance Chorale will make its Lincoln Center debut Monday in the same hall where the New York Philharmonic performs. Last year, the group of vocalists from Alamance County along with director Daniel Privette were invited by the Distinguished ...

New York Fashion Week: Goodbye Lincoln Center, Hello Fall 2015

Fox News - ‎May 14, 2015‎
The runway shows will no longer be held at Lincoln Center. Complaints from locals about the lack of access to a park attached to Lincoln Center doomed the tents at Lincoln Center, but many designers had already abandoned the performing arts center for ...

Lincoln Center Park to Get New Trees After Alleged Fashion Week Destruction

DNAinfo - ‎May 21, 2015‎
LINCOLN SQUARE - The public park that hosted Fashion Week until a lawsuit forced it out will undergo a landscaping project to restore trees and plantings park advocates allege were destroyed in its wake.

David Koch closes his wallet to Lincoln Center

Page Six - ‎May 22, 2015‎
David Koch - who donated $100 million for the refurbishment of the old New York State Theater inLincoln Center (now the David H. Koch Theater) - has no interest in helping pay for the renovations on the David Geffen Hall across the plaza.

An Inside Look at the Transformation of Lincoln Center

Town and Country Magazine (blog) - ‎May 15, 2015‎
WITHOUT MONEY, THERE IS NO LINCOLN CENTER, OR METROPOLITAN OPERA, OR ANY OF OUR CHERISHED CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS. BUT IT TAKES MONEY (AND ADMINISTRATORS) TO RAISE MONEY.

Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln CenterOrchestra

New York Times - ‎May 15, 2015‎
On Thursday at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, Mr. Shorter, 81, did something different. He played a concert as a soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: new versions of Mr. Shorter's compositions from his own records and others ...

Sophia Loren in Titanus Film Retrospective at Lincoln Center

New York Times - ‎May 22, 2015‎
“Two Women” will be screened on Sunday (as will an earlier Loren comedy, “The Sign of Venus,” on Thursday) as part of a Lincoln Center retrospective on the heyday of Titanus, the Italian film studio. From the late 1940s through the early 1960s, Titanus ...

Former Metropolitan Opera soloist to appear in Bishopville

SCNow - ‎May 20, 2015‎
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - Former Metropolitan Opera Soloist and Bishopville native Gwendolyn Bradley will moderate a multi-media musical concert to benefit the General Alumni Association of Allen University at 5 p.m.

moe. to Play at Benefit Show at Lincoln Center

jambands.com - ‎May 19, 2015‎
moe. will be the featured artist in a charity concert for the Children's Health Fund. moe. will play a half-hour set at the show, which is set to take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall on Monday, June 1. The band have been given ...

First Presbyterian of Stuart vocalists to perform Lincoln Center

TCPalm - ‎May 20, 2015‎
STUART— Two soprano vocalists from First Presbyterian Church of Stuart will perform at New York'sLincoln Center on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25 in an event called "Life and Remembrance.

Photo Flash: Inside Lincoln Center's Spring Gala with Tommy Tune & More

Broadway World - ‎May 15, 2015‎
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) raised a record $10.4 million last night at its Spring Gala honoring Hearst Corporation, as announced by Katherine Farley, chair of Lincoln Center. The event, attended by more than 500 people, lauded Hearst ...

Millburn resident to sell art at Lincoln Center's American Crafts Festival

NorthJersey.com - ‎May 18, 2015‎
For the second time, Krol will be at the American Craft Festival selling some of her work on Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, at Lincoln Center, in New York City. She will return for another show in October. The artist is also hosting "One Day ...

Premieres, Family Matinees & More on Ailey's Schedule at Lincoln Center, 6/10-21

Broadway World - ‎May 20, 2015‎
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will return toLincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a two-week season at the David H. Koch Theater, June 10 - 21, 2015. The 15-performance engagement ...

DCINY to Present LIFE AND REMEMBRANCE Memorial Day Concert at Lincoln ...

Broadway World - ‎May 13, 2015‎
DCINY to Present LIFE AND REMEMBRANCE Memorial Day Concert at Lincoln Center, 5/25 Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Life and Remembrance, a special concert at Avery Fisher Hall,Lincoln Center in honor of ...

Classic ABT, Metropolitan Opera, New York — review

Financial Times - ‎May 14, 2015‎
For its 75th anniversary, American Ballet Theatre has begun with its first decade, its fecund 1940s (as the world burned). Of the six stupendous pieces on alternating programmes, four are story ballets, as suits a “ballet theatre”.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera to Present Verdi's AIDA in June

Broadway World - ‎May 14, 2015‎
Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community company that offers grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford, will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, AIDA, on four dates in June.

Get out to the park for carnival fun at 'Servant of Two Masters'

The Coloradoan - ‎3 hours ago‎
Tickets: Available through the Lincoln Center Box Office at 970-221-6730 or LCTix.com. Prices range from $24 to $28 for regular admission and $18 to $22 for seniors 60 and older, students and groups of 10 or more.


See realtime coverage

ArtsBeat | Lincoln Center President Received Increase in Bonus in Final Year

New York Times (blog) - ‎May 24, 2015‎
“The bonus was based on annual reviews of his performance and his project performance,” said Eileen McMahon, a representative for Lincoln Center. She also noted that the bonus, first reported by The New York Post, was based on 18 months of work, not ...

Opera brings dark love story to Lincoln Center with 'Lucia'

The Coloradoan - ‎May 23, 2015‎
Gaetano Donizetti's dark and Gothic thriller “Lucia di Lammermoor” - loosely based on Sir Walter Scott's 1820 novel, “The Bride of Lammermoor” - will be performed at The Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The gritty tale tells ...

Lincoln Center announces Broadway shows for new season

The Coloradoan - ‎May 22, 2015‎
Take a tour through the mind of Marilyn Monroe, celebrate the queen of rock & roll and get some laughs in with Nealon and Norm.

Alamance Chorale to perform at Lincoln Center

Burlington Times News - ‎May 23, 2015‎
The Alamance Chorale will make its Lincoln Center debut Monday in the same hall where the New York Philharmonic performs. Last year, the group of vocalists from Alamance County along with director Daniel Privette were invited by the Distinguished ...

New York Fashion Week: Goodbye Lincoln Center, Hello Fall 2015

Fox News - ‎May 14, 2015‎
The runway shows will no longer be held at Lincoln Center. Complaints from locals about the lack of access to a park attached to Lincoln Center doomed the tents at Lincoln Center, but many designers had already abandoned the performing arts center for ...

Lincoln Center Park to Get New Trees After Alleged Fashion Week Destruction

DNAinfo - ‎May 21, 2015‎
LINCOLN SQUARE - The public park that hosted Fashion Week until a lawsuit forced it out will undergo a landscaping project to restore trees and plantings park advocates allege were destroyed in its wake.

David Koch closes his wallet to Lincoln Center

Page Six - ‎May 22, 2015‎
David Koch - who donated $100 million for the refurbishment of the old New York State Theater inLincoln Center (now the David H. Koch Theater) - has no interest in helping pay for the renovations on the David Geffen Hall across the plaza.

An Inside Look at the Transformation of Lincoln Center

Town and Country Magazine (blog) - ‎May 15, 2015‎
WITHOUT MONEY, THERE IS NO LINCOLN CENTER, OR METROPOLITAN OPERA, OR ANY OF OUR CHERISHED CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS. BUT IT TAKES MONEY (AND ADMINISTRATORS) TO RAISE MONEY.

Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln CenterOrchestra

New York Times - ‎May 15, 2015‎
On Thursday at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, Mr. Shorter, 81, did something different. He played a concert as a soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: new versions of Mr. Shorter's compositions from his own records and others ...

Sophia Loren in Titanus Film Retrospective at Lincoln Center

New York Times - ‎May 22, 2015‎
“Two Women” will be screened on Sunday (as will an earlier Loren comedy, “The Sign of Venus,” on Thursday) as part of a Lincoln Center retrospective on the heyday of Titanus, the Italian film studio. From the late 1940s through the early 1960s, Titanus ...

Former Metropolitan Opera soloist to appear in Bishopville

SCNow - ‎May 20, 2015‎
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - Former Metropolitan Opera Soloist and Bishopville native Gwendolyn Bradley will moderate a multi-media musical concert to benefit the General Alumni Association of Allen University at 5 p.m.

moe. to Play at Benefit Show at Lincoln Center

jambands.com - ‎May 19, 2015‎
moe. will be the featured artist in a charity concert for the Children's Health Fund. moe. will play a half-hour set at the show, which is set to take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall on Monday, June 1. The band have been given ...

First Presbyterian of Stuart vocalists to perform Lincoln Center

TCPalm - ‎May 20, 2015‎
STUART— Two soprano vocalists from First Presbyterian Church of Stuart will perform at New York'sLincoln Center on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25 in an event called "Life and Remembrance.

Photo Flash: Inside Lincoln Center's Spring Gala with Tommy Tune & More

Broadway World - ‎May 15, 2015‎
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) raised a record $10.4 million last night at its Spring Gala honoring Hearst Corporation, as announced by Katherine Farley, chair of Lincoln Center. The event, attended by more than 500 people, lauded Hearst ...

Millburn resident to sell art at Lincoln Center's American Crafts Festival

NorthJersey.com - ‎May 18, 2015‎
For the second time, Krol will be at the American Craft Festival selling some of her work on Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, at Lincoln Center, in New York City. She will return for another show in October. The artist is also hosting "One Day ...

Premieres, Family Matinees & More on Ailey's Schedule at Lincoln Center, 6/10-21

Broadway World - ‎May 20, 2015‎
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will return toLincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a two-week season at the David H. Koch Theater, June 10 - 21, 2015. The 15-performance engagement ...

DCINY to Present LIFE AND REMEMBRANCE Memorial Day Concert at Lincoln ...

Broadway World - ‎May 13, 2015‎
DCINY to Present LIFE AND REMEMBRANCE Memorial Day Concert at Lincoln Center, 5/25 Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Life and Remembrance, a special concert at Avery Fisher Hall,Lincoln Center in honor of ...

Classic ABT, Metropolitan Opera, New York — review

Financial Times - ‎May 14, 2015‎
For its 75th anniversary, American Ballet Theatre has begun with its first decade, its fecund 1940s (as the world burned). Of the six stupendous pieces on alternating programmes, four are story ballets, as suits a “ballet theatre”.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera to Present Verdi's AIDA in June

Broadway World - ‎May 14, 2015‎
Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community company that offers grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford, will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, AIDA, on four dates in June.

See realtime coverage

ArtsBeat | Lincoln Center President Received Increase in Bonus in Final Year

New York Times (blog) - ‎May 24, 2015‎
“The bonus was based on annual reviews of his performance and his project performance,” said Eileen McMahon, a representative for Lincoln Center. She also noted that the bonus, first reported by The New York Post, was based on 18 months of work, not ...

Opera brings dark love story to Lincoln Center with 'Lucia'

The Coloradoan - ‎May 23, 2015‎
Gaetano Donizetti's dark and Gothic thriller “Lucia di Lammermoor” - loosely based on Sir Walter Scott's 1820 novel, “The Bride of Lammermoor” - will be performed at The Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The gritty tale tells ...

Lincoln Center announces Broadway shows for new season

The Coloradoan - ‎May 22, 2015‎
Take a tour through the mind of Marilyn Monroe, celebrate the queen of rock & roll and get some laughs in with Nealon and Norm.

Alamance Chorale to perform at Lincoln Center

Burlington Times News - ‎May 23, 2015‎
The Alamance Chorale will make its Lincoln Center debut Monday in the same hall where the New York Philharmonic performs. Last year, the group of vocalists from Alamance County along with director Daniel Privette were invited by the Distinguished ...

New York Fashion Week: Goodbye Lincoln Center, Hello Fall 2015

Fox News - ‎May 14, 2015‎
The runway shows will no longer be held at Lincoln Center. Complaints from locals about the lack of access to a park attached to Lincoln Center doomed the tents at Lincoln Center, but many designers had already abandoned the performing arts center for ...

Lincoln Center Park to Get New Trees After Alleged Fashion Week Destruction

DNAinfo - ‎May 21, 2015‎
LINCOLN SQUARE - The public park that hosted Fashion Week until a lawsuit forced it out will undergo a landscaping project to restore trees and plantings park advocates allege were destroyed in its wake.

David Koch closes his wallet to Lincoln Center

Page Six - ‎May 22, 2015‎
David Koch - who donated $100 million for the refurbishment of the old New York State Theater inLincoln Center (now the David H. Koch Theater) - has no interest in helping pay for the renovations on the David Geffen Hall across the plaza.

An Inside Look at the Transformation of Lincoln Center

Town and Country Magazine (blog) - ‎May 15, 2015‎
WITHOUT MONEY, THERE IS NO LINCOLN CENTER, OR METROPOLITAN OPERA, OR ANY OF OUR CHERISHED CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS. BUT IT TAKES MONEY (AND ADMINISTRATORS) TO RAISE MONEY.

Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln CenterOrchestra

New York Times - ‎May 15, 2015‎
On Thursday at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, Mr. Shorter, 81, did something different. He played a concert as a soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: new versions of Mr. Shorter's compositions from his own records and others ...

Sophia Loren in Titanus Film Retrospective at Lincoln Center

New York Times - ‎May 22, 2015‎
“Two Women” will be screened on Sunday (as will an earlier Loren comedy, “The Sign of Venus,” on Thursday) as part of a Lincoln Center retrospective on the heyday of Titanus, the Italian film studio. From the late 1940s through the early 1960s, Titanus ...

Former Metropolitan Opera soloist to appear in Bishopville

SCNow - ‎May 20, 2015‎
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - Former Metropolitan Opera Soloist and Bishopville native Gwendolyn Bradley will moderate a multi-media musical concert to benefit the General Alumni Association of Allen University at 5 p.m.

moe. to Play at Benefit Show at Lincoln Center

jambands.com - ‎May 19, 2015‎
moe. will be the featured artist in a charity concert for the Children's Health Fund. moe. will play a half-hour set at the show, which is set to take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall on Monday, June 1. The band have been given ...

First Presbyterian of Stuart vocalists to perform Lincoln Center

TCPalm - ‎May 20, 2015‎
STUART— Two soprano vocalists from First Presbyterian Church of Stuart will perform at New York'sLincoln Center on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25 in an event called "Life and Remembrance.

Photo Flash: Inside Lincoln Center's Spring Gala with Tommy Tune & More

Broadway World - ‎May 15, 2015‎
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) raised a record $10.4 million last night at its Spring Gala honoring Hearst Corporation, as announced by Katherine Farley, chair of Lincoln Center. The event, attended by more than 500 people, lauded Hearst ...

Millburn resident to sell art at Lincoln Center's American Crafts Festival

NorthJersey.com - ‎May 18, 2015‎
For the second time, Krol will be at the American Craft Festival selling some of her work on Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, at Lincoln Center, in New York City. She will return for another show in October. The artist is also hosting "One Day ...

Premieres, Family Matinees & More on Ailey's Schedule at Lincoln Center, 6/10-21

Broadway World - ‎May 20, 2015‎
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, will return toLincoln Center for the Performing Arts for a two-week season at the David H. Koch Theater, June 10 - 21, 2015. The 15-performance engagement ...

DCINY to Present LIFE AND REMEMBRANCE Memorial Day Concert at Lincoln ...

Broadway World - ‎May 13, 2015‎
DCINY to Present LIFE AND REMEMBRANCE Memorial Day Concert at Lincoln Center, 5/25 Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Life and Remembrance, a special concert at Avery Fisher Hall,Lincoln Center in honor of ...

Classic ABT, Metropolitan Opera, New York — review

Financial Times - ‎May 14, 2015‎
For its 75th anniversary, American Ballet Theatre has begun with its first decade, its fecund 1940s (as the world burned). Of the six stupendous pieces on alternating programmes, four are story ballets, as suits a “ballet theatre”.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera to Present Verdi's AIDA in June

Broadway World - ‎May 14, 2015‎
Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera (LAMet), a local community company that offers grand opera in intimate settings and at prices almost anyone can afford, will present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, AIDA, on four dates in June.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY: RUSH LIMBAUGH RADIO INTERVIEW REGARDING LOCAL ONE SCAM AGAINST R F

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Rank and file Local One members protest. Occupy Wall Street.

Neither Paterno or Nimmo did the right thing! Both looked the other way! Now they are at the end of their Careers.
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Don't Bother Sending Your Kids to New York to be Union Stagehands
January 6, 2011. RUSH LIMBAUGH ACKNOWLEDGES LOCAL ONE NEPOTISM AND LACK OF UNION DEMOCRACY AND FAIR PLAY! LOCAL ONE NOT A MERITOCRACY. CONTRACTS CONTINUE TO DECLINE. Labor Racketeers.

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RUSH: Well, guess what the average annual salary, including benefits, for stagehands at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York is? Take a guess. Literally, take a guess. The average forstagehands. Let me tell you what a stagehand does. A stagehand moves the props around; takes the chairs, moves them around; puts up the music stands. That's what a stagehand does. A stagehand is not a performer. In New York at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center (there are a number of different performing halls at Lincoln Center) $292,000 a year is the average salary. It is a union salary. It's a union job. Now, all of you parents out there who have children who are showing artistic talents, prodigies in the musical arts?

Throw it out. Send 'em to New York and have 'em become stagehands. That way they get to spend all day... Well, I don't know how many days or how many hours a day they work. They spend all that time at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and 292 grand is the average. This was the result of the stagehands threatening to go out on strike not long ago, and if you go talk to a musician and ask them, the musicians don't make anywhere near this. The performers, if you go ask them about it, you won't find one critic. If the stagehands don't show up, nobody can work. It's $292,000 a year (laughing) for stagehands. "What do you got get stagehands, Mr. Limbaugh?" Nah, I got nothing against stagehands. Everybody needs to do something. But I just...$292,000 a year. There's a separate stagehand, by the way, that does nothing but raise and lower the curtain. One button. I kid you not. One stagehand lowers the curtain. It's a button. Average salary: $292,000 a year.

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RUSH: Here is Donna in Middletown Maryland as we start on the phones. Nice to have you with us. Hi.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks so much for taking my call.

RUSH: You bet.

CALLER: I really enjoyed your show yesterday, especially the bit about the Constitution and I agree with you on that point. We've got an uphill battle ahead of us. What intrigued me that you said earlier was the bit about Carnegie and the stagehands. And I think of the -- oh, gosh, nearly 30 years of plugging away at the guitar in the music industry in various parts of the country, and, you know, I mean comparatively speaking to them, you know, definitely the starving musicians club. And I think it's an outrage, and, you know, here I'm thinking about sending my son off to a good conservative college down the road, and he's extremely gifted in musical talent, and I'm thinking to myself, jeez, I might as well send him back to New York to Carnegie, make a good living, he could support his parents. No, I'm only kidding, but you know where I'm going with this.

RUSH: Right, and you don't even need to spend the money or the time in college to get the gig.

CALLER: Yeah, it's a joke, it's honestly a joke. I mean, I don't know about you, but, you know, looking back, I'm very glad that we pounded the pavement all these years, and I'm gonna continue to do so. And there's nothing wrong with it, and I don't expect any handouts.

RUSH: Well, it's an interesting story. It's columnist James Ahearn in the Bergen Record, New Jersey, and here are the numbers. "At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year. To repeat, that is the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians' chairs into place and hang lights, not the pay of the top five. Across the plaza at the Metropolitan Opera, a spokesman said stagehands rarely broke into the top-five category. But a couple of years ago, one did. The props master, James Blumenfeld, got $334,000 at that time, including some vacation back pay." The top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall, $422,599 a year in salary, plus another $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation. So the top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall earns well over half a million dollars a year. And of course it is a union.

How to account for all this? "The power of a union, Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. 'Power,' as in the capacity and willingness to close most Broadway theaters for 19 days two years ago when agreement on a new contract could not be reached." And they went out and found a violinist, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, to ask her, "Well, what do you think of all the money stagehands are making?" She said, "'The last thing I want to do is upset the people at Carnegie Hall. I'd like to have a lifelong relationship with them.' She is a violinist who recently presented a recital in Weill Hall, one of the smaller performance spaces in the building.

She said she begrudged the stagehands nothing: 'Musicians should be so lucky to have a strong union like that.'" (interruption) Yeah. That's right, watch out for the sandbag. I mean if you tick off the stagehands and you happen to be sitting there playing the violin and one of those sandbags is dropped from the top squishing your neck and compressing your spine then you'll never know what happened and these kinda accidents happen all the time. I saw it in Murder, She Wrote every other week.

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RUSH: By the way, don't get any ideas of sending your kids off to New York to become members of Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. You have to be born into it. It is the most closed of all the unions. I'm told that you only get a job if you're related to somebody in the union. Gotta be born into it, Local 1, closed shop, as they say.

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RUSH: John, Sparta, New Jersey, you're next with the EIB Network, hello -- and remember, I can't hear you and I can't interrupt you. So when you finish, stop and I'll respond. I'm reading what you're saying. I'm a sentence behind you.

CALLER: Very good, Rush. I'm sorry to be calling you to disagree with you on something. I've been listening for so long and --

RUSH: Well, I love that. I can't hear you.

CALLER: Oh, you can hear that?

RUSH: No, I'm reading. I'm reading what you're saying.

CALLER: Oh, I'm sorry.

RUSH: Go ahead.

CALLER: Anyway, I gotta bring it back to the last hour because I gotta take task with something that you brought up on the stagehand unions in New York, the guys over at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. My son is a member of the stagehand unions, and he doesn't... You know, first, my son is... He works long hours. He makes pretty good money for doing what he's doing, but he works long hours, puts a lot of effort into what he does, and he works odd hours, and many days. The guys over Carnegie and Lincoln, they're at the top of the game. Those guys have been in the business for a long time. They have, you know, amassed skills, and everything to bring to the table. That union is one of the few, I think, that are what you'd consider a free market union. I mean, you're not gonna pay the money to see the shows to get in that pays them --

RUSH: (big sigh)

CALLER: -- unless you enjoy what it is that they give you. So you're taking them to task for how much they make, I find that kinda... You know, I hate that argument. You know, "Because they make so much money, they're somehow bad." That's the same argument that the Democrats and the use against the --

RUSH: No! No, no, no. In the first place, they are the sons and grandsons in that union. It's not a meritocracy. I'm not talking about how little or long they work or how hard it is. I do know that a stagehand who raises and lowers the curtain pushes a button. All I said was that the New Jersey Bergen Record is reporting the average salary for the stagehand union is $292,000. I don't know what your son makes, but that's the average: $292,000. I throw it out there. Other people can decide whether it's excessive or not. I did make the joke, "It's far more sensible to send your kid to become a member of that union rather than become a violinist at Carnegie Hall or anywhere over at Lincoln Center," but I'm not opposed to people making money. Free market union? You could say "free market" in that they sort of blackmailed the performers. (laughing) They shut down the stage for 19 days and so forth. But if you wonder why tickets to Broadway shows cost what they cost, that's one of the factors. The violinists... I know people here. The violinists at Carnegie Hall make a hundred thousand dollars a year. They're the top in their field, and it's the violinists and the performers on the stage that people are coming to pay to see perform and so forth.

Hey, it is what it is.

I'll draw a teacher analogy when we come back.

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RUSH: I knew, ladies and gentlemen -- I knew! -- when I did the stagehand story that somebody was gonna call. I didn't know it would be a relative of somebody who worked there, but I've been waiting. I knew somebody was gonna call and say, "What do you have against somebody make $292,000? I thought you were fine with people making money?" I totally agree. If somebody is willing to pay it for that work, fine and dandy. I do know that opera tickets at the Met top out at around $435 a pop, so you're not gonna have a whole lot of people other than the upper crust going to sit there and listen to an opera. They just hiked the prices up 11% this time last year.

By the way, the Metropolitan Opera and other places at Lincoln Center get a boatload of taxpayer money through grants, the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and so forth and so on. People, all the time, complain about how little teachers make; another complaint is how much athletes make. Let's turn it around then. Let's use the stagehand versus athletes. Let's say that you're a Yankees fan. Take Derek Jeter. Let's say Derek Jeter makes (pick some arbitrary numbers here) half million dollars a year, and the ushers and usherettes make $2 million. Would that make sense to you, if the stagehands are making three times what the performers make?

In other words, Derek Jeter is making $10 million. Let's take $10 million. So the ushers and usherettes are making $30 million. Well, obviously the economics of that aren't gonna work out because nobody's coming to Yankees Stadium to watch the ushers and usherettes. Well, you might have some perverts showing up but you're not gonna fill the stadium with people who want to watch the ushers and usherettes seat people or wipe off seats or what have you. Teachers. Everybody says teachers are notoriously underpaid because of the truly crucial and important task they have of indoctrinating our youth. Okay, teachers, let's pay 'em $500,000 a year or $300,000, like stagehands. You know what your property taxes are gonna be?

And you are paying. Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall are being subsidized. That's the only reason they can stay in business. I guarantee you $435 a ticket at the top, at the Metropolitan Opera, is not enough to support the place to keep the lights on to pay the stagehands, the performers, and everything else that has to go on in there (and the same thing at Carnegie Hall) unless there is a whole lot of subsidizing going on. Let me find the story here. There's a battle shaping up between private sector and public sector unions. Here it is. It's the Wall Street Journal. It's an editorial. No, it's Bill McGurn (a noted friend of mine, by the way).

"Labor's Coming Class War -- Private sector union workers begin to notice that their job prospects are at risk from public employee union contracts." I don't have time to go through the whole story here with you, but believe me. Now, the stagehands are not public sector. They're private sector unions. But they are an exception for the amount they make, the average salary they make of close to $300,000 a year versus the performers who (again, the violinists) top out at a hundred grand. So there's a battle coming because everybody sees now what the public sector (i.e., government unions) are making.

And make no mistake, the government unions are every bit as attached to the left-wing, socialist agenda in this country as Obama is. They're inseparable, and their objective is to break the private sector, break the bank and the private sector, to bust its will, to pare it down. There is an animus they have against it, and it's a coming battle. Not just between private sector unions and public sector unions, but private sector employees, period. Private sector employees... Forget private sector unions. Private sector employees make half, on average, what government union workers make or government employees. They don't even have to be unions in this case.

All right, Mike in Jackson, Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. It's great to have you here. Hello.

CALLER: God bless you, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: This is exactly... You set me up perfectly. Umm. Umm. I just hope I can get my brain to work here. The left has been very --

RUSH: Don't worry about it. Mine will take over if yours stalls.

CALLER: (laughing) I knew that. The left has been real patient putting this plan together. You know, you can call it socialism, progressivism, Cloward and Priven (sic), Bill Ayers, style thing, and there is gonna be a battle. There's gonna be shutdowns, there's gonna be problems, probably specifically tied to the cuts the Republicans are gonna be want to make to get this madness under control, the spending. But they're building loyalties. It's like you said: We're glad when people make money, but they're building loyalties, and these people are gonna fight to keep all this money they're earning. The unions, the government workers. You've got the class warfare. You've got the media preaching to everyone. You've got the socialist professors teaching the kids to hate America and all that. Everything you talk about every day -- and God bless you for it --

RUSH: Mmm-hmm.

CALLER: -- but it's all a part of a plan. You can call it whatever you want. I'm a Christian man. I've always called it, 'cause I'm kind of a go-to person for people. They come and ask me, "Why? Why? Why?" You know, and these people aren't dumb. It's not stupidity. I always call it "good versus evil." I'm a Christian man. But I know you don't probably want to get off into that, but that's what I call it. But there are gonna be problems. It's gonna be. We're gonna be Europe soon. I believe that. They're gonna shut down transportation, food delivery, all that. I really feel it's coming because they're not gonna want to give up their big salaries. They're gonna fight. They're gonna battle for what they've got.

RUSH: Well, you're seeing that in Europe, too. Let me -- just playing devil's advocate here -- ask, "Can you blame 'em?"

CALLER: (chuckles) No! No! Exactly. It's blind loyalty.

RUSH: What they've got is the result of negotiated agreements and contracts. That's what they would tell you.

CALLER: Exactly. It's blind loyalty. Yeah, yeah. They don't see the bigger picture. They just want to keep buying their everything. Their toys, their everything. It's blind loyalty. They don't see it as good versus evil or whatever. They just want to keep living their life.

RUSH: Well, but doesn't everybody?

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. But it's that blind loyalty to the cause. You know, and they don't -- may not -- even really it's for a bigger cause, but it really is. That's why the government wants to keep giving -- "giving" in quotes; "giving away" -- free medicine, free food stamps, everything. It's all to keep the votes rolling in. If you give something to someone --

RUSH: You mentioned Cloward-Piven. The purpose of Cloward-Piven is to overload the welfare system. Just overload it. It can't survive. It totally crashes. Nobody has anything. You have total chaos. You have anarchy, because nobody has anything. Because without anybody working, nobody having a job, there's nothing produced and there's nothing to transfer, and nobody has anything. The people expecting to live off government largesse, there isn't anyway. The people expecting to live off Social Security, welfare, there isn't any if you take Cloward-Piven out to its natural conclusion. And during all this you have these people who say, "The government is good! It is the only good." They'll do nothing but rely on government.

Cloward-Piven's whole plan to destroy America, the whole objective to destroy America capitalism is to so overload the system with people who are not working but who are being given much more than livable wage benefits and so forth. They knew that that couldn't be sustained. When the chaos comes, when the anarchy comes, the theory is that out of that will arise, who will then reassemble the country (without a constitutional convention). You'll have a Chavez or a Castro. Somebody will rise up out of this and finally produce the workers paradise and assign people X, Y, and Z -- where they can live, what they will do, what kind of work they'll do -- and freedom will be a thing of the past. That's the objective.

I know it's hard to understand, because people living in America -- the vast majority of them -- would look at the country and say, "What is it about this you want to destroy? What in the world? All of the wealth that's been created here?"

"Well, because we didn't get any of it! We're getting screwed and we're gonna make sure everybody else gets screwed and suffers along with us. We want to show you what it's been like."

Because they think when The Great Dictator arises from the ashes, that they will be the chosen ones, that they'll be the ones that will finally be in the circle of entitlement, the big clique, the chosen few who run things. And, like my dad always said in a laughing way, "Son, these liberal media people, if they ever really got a communist government here, the first people to be put in jail would be them and the people that employ them; and the first thing would be taken away from them would be their cameras and their microphones and then their pens and their paper. They'll be the first. The biggest supporters of this stuff will be the first to go to jail."

He laughed about it.

I said, "Sounds almost worth trying," and my dad, who didn't see humor in this kind of stuff, chastised me for the comment.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY
MICKEY ARE YOU A DEMOCRACY FOX? NIMMO, MCMAHON, WEKSELBLATT AND MCGARTY ARE CROOKS AND MANY DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE CROOKS. Labor Racketeers!
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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY
WE CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE THE VOTING OUT OF OFFICE OF CORRUPT UNDEMOCRATIC BUSINESS AGENT MIKE WEKSELBLATT. HE VIOLATING UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW AND US LAW. JOHN DIAZ NOT ELECTED. DAN GILOON NOT ELECTED. THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF LOCAL ONE HAVE CAUSE TO CELEBRATE!

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY FULLY SUPPORTS GENERAL STANLEY McCHRYSTAL.

BOTH WERE CORRECT FIGHT THE WAR OR GET OUT!

General Douglas MacArthur

Dedicated to the Jailed Prisoners of Local One Iatse the Rank and File.

Dedicated to the Rank and File who voted illegal Trial Prosecutor Mike Wekselblatt out of office.

Nobel Peace Prize Given to Jailed Chinese Dissident what about the jailed Rank and File of this Union?




COMCAST CABLE CONTINUES TO CANCEL THE CURLY NETWORK AND CURLY HIMSELF

NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker gets a cancellation notice from Comcast


By Charles Dharapak, AP
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said today that he'll end his 24-year career at the television, movie, Internet, and theme park giant when Comcast takes control. That could happen by year end if the deal is cleared by federal officials.

Zucker, 45, told staffers in a memo that "it is clear to me that this is the right decision for me and for the company" because Comcast deserves "the chance to implement their own vision."

But he told The New York Times that his departure was involuntary. In a meeting two weeks ago, he said, Comcast COO Steve Burke "made it clear that they wanted to move on."

Earlier Zucker pooh-poohed persistant speculation that Comcast might put its own team in charge when the deal closes.

Although once considered a wunderkind in his years as a news producer , Zucker's reputation as a corporate executive suffered as NBC's prime time audience fell. The nadir for the highly image-conscious CEO came early this year when he took responsibility for the management debacle from his decision to turn one of NBC's most important franchises, The Tonight Show, over to comedian Conan O'Brien. Audiences didn't warm to the new host, or to a weeknight show featuring the former host Jay Leno. O'Brien left the network when NBC asked Leno to return to The Tonight Show.

But Zucker said that the real focus of the company had shifted to cable where networks including USA, SyFy, CNBC, and MSNBC are thriving. He also hoped to establish a strong foothold in digital media by championing Hulu, which NBC Universal launched in a partnership with News Corp.

By David Lieberman

OUR JIMMY CLAFFEY #4 OUT OF 5 MOST POWERFUL ON BROADWAY, BSD JOINS COMPETITION

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY AMONG THE MOST POWERFUL ON BROADWAY.

LET US SHAKE THE SYSTEM. BSD ADDS 33,500 PLUS 8,000 OLD BSD SEARCHES 169,510 SEARCHES 5/20/2010 12 WEEKS. STILL #1!. It is impossible to know just how many blogs are picking up our quotes and how many reads there are in total. Happy day Pinocchio Bob and the boys. Have fun Wex! Con man Giloon. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL.


MICKEY ARE YOU A DEMOCRACY FOX?
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History
2010-5-20- 33,500+8,310 OLD BSD
2010-4-14 - 30,500+8,030 OLD BSD
2010-3-17 - 29,000+8,770 OLD BSD
2010-2-12 - 43,000+8,400 OLD BSD
EQUALS 169,510 PLUS KNOWN SEARCHES 12 WEEKS!

Pennsylvnia VOTE Demonstrates AMERICANS are ANGRY. LET US SHAKE THE SYSTEM, AND LOCAL ONE IATSE. WE WILL. WE HAVE BEGUN.



Angry Boomers and Other Election Clues
primary resultsLeft to right: Michael Perez/Associated Press, Jake Stevens/Reuters, Danny Johnston/Associated Press Left to right: Joe Sestak beat Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania; Rand Paul won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky; Senator Blanche Lincoln with her supporters in Little Rock, Ark.

The outcomes of the primaries in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas showed that both the Democratic and Republican parties face threats from candidates who are able to portray themselves as outsiders willing to shake up the system. Rand Paul, the Tea Party candidate in Kentucky, prevailed in the Republican senatorial primary against Trey Grayson, who was endorsed by Senator Mitch McConnell. Senator Arlen Specter was defeated by Representative Joe Sestak in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. And Senator Blanche Lincoln now faces a run-off election against her challenger in June.

Of course, intra-party contests tend to draw more ideological voters. Even so, the anti-incumbent streak was apparent. What do these results indicate for the November elections?

Read more…

Broadway's 50 Most Powerful People

5. JIMMY NEDERLANDER JR.

The heir apparent to #2.



4. JIMMY CLAFFEY

If Broadway was run on a giant extension cord it would be Claffey’s hand at the plug. “As head of Local One, he’s one of a very few people who could shut Broadway down overnight with a phone call.


3. BOB WANKEL

President and co-CEO of the mighty Shubert Organization.

2. JIMMY NEDERLANDER SR.



Old-school patriarch of New York’s most prominent theatre family, which controls the city’s second largest theatre chain. Oh yeah, and he also owns a piece of a little sports franchise called The New York Yankees.

1. PHIL SMITH

Chairman and co-CEO of The Shubert Organization, which controls not only 17 Broadway theatres but also Telecharge, the industry’s biggest ticket distribution system. “Phil Smith,” said one insider definitively, “is the King of Broadway.”By: Patrick Lee

6.

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CITY JOURNAL MAGAZINE: ONE IS:"A MILITANT UNION/SMOTHERS NEW YORK THEATER(& the rank and file)


"IT IS NO WONDER THAT REPRESSIVE REGIMES FROM CHINA TO SAUDI ARABIA VIEW THE OPEN INTERNET AS A THREAT"

ATTORNEY MICHAEL SPROULE.

ATTORNEY'S DASH AND SPIVAC WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS? NO FREE SPEECH PROTECTION FROM YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTION? PIMPS.
City   Journal Winter 2010.

CITY JOURNAL AND THE TIMES BLASTED OUR UNION.

BAD PRESS AND BAD UNION ARE WHAT NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ PROVIDED FOR THE RANK AND FILE IN THEIR TIME IN OFFICE.

THEY CONTINUE TO DECLINE THE CONTRACTS AND GARNER BAD PRESS. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE MEMBERSHIP.

SHOW THEM THE UNION IS A POWERHOUSE OF DEMOCRACY AND GOOD FOR THE CITY AND THE THEATERS. VOTE FOR THE BEST.UNDER BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ:

"ALL GLORY IS FLEETING"!

Clan Diaz and Clan Irish pay attention!

BUSINESS AGENTS AND JOHN DIAZ ARE YOU AWAKE? R&F WANT TO KNOW

“Covert Operations”: The New Yorker Profile of the Koch Brothers

UNDER CONTROL OF THE KOCH BROTHERS LINCOLN CENTER WILL BECOME MORE ANTI UNION. MICKEY FOX, KENNY BOY McGARTY, PINNOCCHIO BOB NIMMO MBA, JOHN DIAZ ANY ONE AWAKE OVER THERE AT 320 W 46 STREET? READ THE NEW YORKER ARTICLE AND LETS WAKE UP!

25th August 2010
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Covert Operations

The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

by Jane Mayer | The New Yorker | August 30, 2010


100830 r19927 p465 “Covert Operations”: The New Yorker Profile of the Koch BrothersDavid H. Koch in 1996. He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.

On May 17th, a black-tie at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that. Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s co-chairs, Blaine Trump, in a peach-colored gown, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, in emerald green. Kennedy’s mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, had been a patron of the ballet and, coincidentally, the previous owner of a Fifth Avenue apartment that Koch had bought, in 1995, and then sold, eleven years later, for thirty-two million dollars, having found it too small.


The gala marked the social ascent of Koch, who, at the age of seventy, has become one of the city’s most prominent philanthropists. In 2008, he donated a hundred million dollars to modernize Lincoln Center’s New York State Theatre building, which now bears his name. He has given twenty million to the American Museum of Natural History, whose dinosaur wing is named for him. This spring, after noticing the decrepit state of the fountains outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Koch pledged at least ten million dollars for their renovation. He is a trustee of the museum, perhaps the most coveted social prize in the city, and serves on the board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where, after he donated more than forty million dollars, an endowed chair and a research center were named for him.


With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual revenues are estimated to be a hundred billion dollars. The company has grown spectacularly since their father, Fred, died, in 1967, and the brothers took charge. The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch Industries owns Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, among other products. Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in the country, after Cargill, and its consistent profitability has made David and Charles Koch—who, years ago, bought out two other brothers—among the richest men in America. Their combined fortune of thirty-five billion dollars is exceeded only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation.

FASHION NIGHT AT LINCOLN CENTER LOCAL ONE STAGHANDS SCAM AGAINST US CONTINUES

NEITHER THE PRODUCERS OR LOCAL ONE CELEBRATE LABOR DAY FOR THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS

END THE DISCRIMINATION AND THE ILLEGAL IRISH LOOP LOCAL ONE OFFICERS AND HEADS VIOLATING BOTH U.S. LABOR AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW!

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Labor-day

30 MILLION MORE TO THE MET DIAZ, GELB AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS CONTINUE HIDING FROM THE RANK AND FILE

Met Opera on Verge of Funding Windfall

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The Metropolitan Opera House

The Metropolitan Opera could find itself the unexpected beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar gift under the unusual terms of a Washington, D.C., heiress's donation, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Betty Brown Casey's donations to the Washington National Opera's endowment came with a stipulation: Should that company fail to remain independent, the funds would be rescinded—and transferred to the Met.

That day could be on the horizon: The National Opera is in merger talks with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

According to a person familiar with the matter, donations made by Mrs. Casey, the National Opera's life chairman, constitute between one-half and two-thirds of the National Opera's total endowment, which was $30.5 million at the end of its 2009 fiscal year. That would make the amount of the Met's potential windfall between $15 million and $20 million.

A lawyer for Mrs. Casey, Brendan V. Sullivan Jr., referring to the opera, said: "I'm confident that they will abide by their written agreements."

Through a spokesman, the general manager of the Met, Peter Gelb, declined to comment. The Met's endowment at the end of fiscal year 2009 totaled $247 million, and the gift—if transferred—would represent a much-needed injection of funding for the company, which has been hammered by the recession. Its net assets declined 38% in the 2009 fiscal year.

Mrs. Casey, 83 years old, is the widow of Eugene B. Casey, a Maryland real-estate developer who served as a farm adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mrs. Casey's motivation for the terms on her donations is unclear.

Associated Press

Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter GelbFormer Kennedy Center President Larry Wilker said he was not aware of Mrs. Casey's decision and did not have any information about why she would have taken such a step. But he speculated that the stipulation could have been made in response to disappointment over scuttled plans to build an independent home for the Washington National Opera, which has performed at the Kennedy Center since 1971. In 1996, Mrs. Casey gave the opera company $18 million to purchase a building for development as an opera house. After construction costs became prohibitive, the company sold the building for $28.2 million, and the net proceeds were added to company's existing endowment, which was then named for Mrs. Casey's late husband.


DISNEY SAVED THE BROADWAY THEATERS WHILE LOCAL ONE IATSE DECLINES!

LOCAL ONE IATSE DECLINES WHILE DISNEY SAVES BROADWAY.

HOW SOON BEFORE DISNEY CHUCKS THE DRUNKS DRUG USERS AND CROOKS FROM BROADWAY?

END THE ILLEGAL NEPOTISM AND THE IRISH LOOP!

BOB NIMMO, MBA, EDDIE McMAHON, KENNY BOY McCARDY, FORMER BUSINESS AGENTS WESKELBLATT AND DEPAULO, WHAT'S GOING ON ON BROADWAY?

Original Creative Minds in the Room" NOT IN LOCAL ONE!

CATCH THE DISWithout Disney, Broadway—and New York theater in general—would be like those depressing days when Chorus Line was the only show to see in a grim Times Square and you had to fight past hookers in rabbit fur coats to get to the box office. Many resent the “Disneyfication” of Times Square. Sure, I had a great time sipping nine dollar low-quality red wines out of plastic glasses at Runway 69 as much as the next gay. Sometimes, in bitter moods, I totally get why this weirdo likes to boycott Disney stores. But one of the great things Disney has done (besides inventing animatronics) is put a massive amount of money behind one of America’s dying art forms—the theatre. (Yes, I’m going to spell it that way because I’m fancy.)

CORNELL LABOR COLLEGE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ANOTHER DISASTER FOR THE R&F

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CORNELL LABOR COLLEGE ANOTHER DISASTER FOR THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE, AS SOME OFFICERS BETRAY LABOR LAW AND UNION DEMOCRACY.

PROFESSOR GRAY FROM CORNELL LABOR COLLEGE, YES WE CAN PASS MORAL JUDGMENTS OCCURRING IN LOCAL ONE, CARNEGIE HALL AND MS. GRAY AGAINST YOU AND THE OTHER PROFESSORS TEACHING LABOR LAW TO A GROUP OF OFFICERS BENT ON CORRUPTING LABOR LAW. HOW MUCH PROFESSOR GREY DO YOU AND THS COLLEGE MAKE FROM MONEY PAID FROM THE RANK AND FILE FROM THIS UNION AND OTHER CORRUPT UNIONS?

PROFESSOR GRAY WE PASS MORAL JUDGEMENT ON YOU AND CORNELL, LOCAL ONE AND CARNEGIE HALL.

SAID PROFESSOR GRAY REGARDING WHAT CARNEGIE HALL STAGEHANDS ARE MAKING:

“It’s pretty amazing what the total comes out to be,” said Lois Gray, a professor emeritus at
Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an expert on labor relations in the arts and entertainment industries. “But it reflects bargaining power and one’s economic position. You don’t pass moral judgments on these things. Baseball players are scarce, and talent is scarce.”

CORNELL LABOR COLLEGE PROFESSOR GREY NAIVELY DEFENDS LOCAL ONE SCAM

(regarding clan Carnegie Hall), “It’s pretty amazing what the total comes out to be,” said Lois Gray, a professor emeritus at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an expert on labor relations in the arts and entertainment industries. "You don’t pass moral judgments on these things. Baseball players are scarce, and talent is scarce.”

BSD SAYS TO PROFESSOR GREY YOUR HEADS UP YOUR ASS. NAIVE PROFESSOR GRAY'S STATEMENT REGARDING WHAT CARNEGIE HALL STAGEHANDS ARE MAKING: BSD STATES PROFESSOR GREY'S AND CORNELL'S GULLIBILITY AND NEGLIGENCE ARE A GOOD PORTION OF WHAT IS ALLOWING LOCAL ONE'S SCAM TO THRIVE AS THEY TEACH CROOKS THE LAW SO THE CROOKS CAN USE THE LAW TO SCAM THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERSHIP.

PROFESSOR GREY: just a STUPID COW

BSD SAYS: *TALENT DOESN'T VIOLATE US CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW AND US CRIMINAL LAW.
*TALENT DOESN'T HOLD ILLEGAL TRIALS THAT VIOLATE LAW AND RETALIATE AGAINST THE MEMBERSHIP.

*TALENT DOESN'T FEAR FREE SPEECH AND FREE UNION.

*TALENT DOESN'T COMMIT FRAUD AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE PROFESSOR GREY.

*TALENT DOESN'T HAVE A UNION PLEDGE THAT DEMANDS THAT UNION MEMBERS TAKE AN ILLEGAL UNION PLEDGE, WHICH IS IN ITSELF AN ILLEGAL THREAT TO THE MEMBERSHIP TO NOT SUE THE UNION, IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW.

*TALENT DOESN'T NEED DRUGS, ALCOHOL, DECEPTION, NEPOTISM TO RELATIVES DEEMED UNDESIRABLE FIRED FROM REPUTABLE VENUES.

*TALENT, PROFESSOR GREY IS WHAT THE VICTIMS OF LOCAL ONE UNWILLINGLY PROVIDE THE SCAM OFFICERS, IN THE FORM OF HARD EARNED RESOURCE THROUGH THEIR DUES AND 4% SO THAT THE OFFICERS PAY CORNELL TO LEARN TO MISREPRESENT LABOR LAW AND THE RANK AND FILE.

*TALENT PROFESSOR GREY DOESN'T ALLOW A UNION TO DOMINATE HIRING AT ALL VENUES TO IRISH MEN, AVOID BLACKS, WOMEN, NON IRISH WHITES.

*TALENT PROFESSOR GREY WILL PROVIDE THE RANK AND FILE A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CORRUPT OFFICERS, THE VENUES AND CORNELL LABOR COLLEGE.

IN TIME PROFESSOR GREY. IN TIME.

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“It’s pretty amazing what the total comes out to be,” said Lois Gray, a professor emeritus at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an expert on labor relations in the arts and entertainment industries. "You don’t pass moral judgments on these things. Baseball players are scarce, and talent is scarce.”

WE PASS JUDGMENT CORRUPT PROFESSOR GREY, GILLINSON, GELB, THE OFFICERS, THE LOOP BOYS AND THE CORRUPT UNION.

*WE PASS JUDGMENT ON CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT ATTORNEY'S AND CARDMEN DAN DASHMAN AND SPIVAC.


THE ONE'S BUSINESS AGENTS, LIKE MANY IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS, ARE USING ILLEGAL, UNETHICAL AND IMMORAL PATHWAYS TO RUN THE UNION AND RUIN THE UNION.

Lois Gray PROFESSOR GREY AND THE OTHER CORRUPT AND UNETHICAL PROFESSORS AT CORNELL SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. TEACHING LABOR UNIONS TO BE UNDEMOCRATIC TO THE RANK AND FILE.

ANOTHER RUTH MADOFF ANOTHER BAD LAY!
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Jean McKelvey/Alice Grant Professor of Labor Management Relations Emeritus
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ANOTHER RUTH MADOFF, ANOTHER BAD LAY.
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BERnard Madoff in 2007.

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After US fraudster Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in jail

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CORNELL NYC LABOR COLLEGE MANY OFFICERS USE LABOR LAW TO VIOLATE LABOR LAW. FAIL UNION DEMOCRACY.



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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY CELEBRATES THE VOTING OUT OF OFFICE OF ILLEGAL TRIAL PROSECUTOR MIKE WEKSELBLATT. HE VIOLATED UNION MEMBERS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH, FREE UNION AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. HE IS A LABOR LAW VIOLATOR. HE AND OTHERS FAIL TO UPHOLD THE LANDRUM-GRIFFEN ACT AND UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.DAN GILOON ALSO NOT ELECTED. JOHN DIAZ NEVER OBJECTED. BOB NIMMO MBA FORDHAM LOOKED THE OTHER WAY. LOCAL ONE'S OFFICERS MAY PASS YOUR CLASS, BUT MANY FAIL TRUE UNION AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND LAW.



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Click Here RIP MR. DEMOCRACY Clyde Summers, Advocate of Labor Union Democracy, Is Dead at 91

Clyde W. Summers, a law professor who played a pivotal role in writing the 1959 federal law that guaranteed democratic rights to union members, died on Oct. 30 at a retirement home in Germantown, Pa. He was 91.

University of Pennsylvania Law School

The cause was complications of a stroke, said Robert A. Gorman, a fellow law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

For many years, Mr. Summers lived in Philadelphia.

Mr. Summers, who taught at the Penn law school from 1975 until 2005, was widely viewed as the nation’s leading legal expert on union democracy and union elections. Some old-line labor bosses who disliked his emphasis on individual rights snidely called him “Mr. Democracy.”

In the 1950s, his ground-breaking law review articles about unions violating their members’ rights led to his working with a young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, in drafting major parts of the Landrum-Griffin Act, often called the Bill of Rights for union members. The law guarantees freedom of speech for union members and periodic secret elections of union leaders.

“What Louis Brandeis was to the field of privacy law, Clyde Summers is to the field of union democracy,” Michael J. Goldberg, a professor at the Widener School of Law, wrote this year. “Summers, like Brandeis, provided the theoretical foundation for an important new field of law.”

Beyond union democracy, he wrote highly influential, often pioneering law review articles criticizing unjust dismissals of workers, analyzing collective bargaining by government employees and comparing America’s employment laws with those in Sweden, Germany and other countries.

“In so many areas, Clyde was on the cutting edge of labor and employment law,” said Martin H. Malin, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

His overriding passion seemed to be fighting corrupt and undemocratic union bosses and championing the individual worker. He took up that cause in the 1950s, when unions were far more prominent, Congress held high-visibility hearings about mob influence on unions, and labor law was a popular academic field.

“In those days, if you talked about union democracy, you were viewed as antilabor,” said Herman Benson, founder of the Association for Union Democracy.

When two dissenters in the painters union were murdered in the San Francisco area in 1966 after they denounced sweetheart contracts, Mr. Summers became a leader on a committee demanding justice. After the 1969 murder of Joseph A. Yablonski, a rival of W. A. Boyle, the autocratic president of the United Mine Workers, Mr. Summers led efforts to rewrite that union’s constitution to make it more democratic. Mr. Boyle was eventually convicted of the murder.

“Like the prophets of biblical times, he has spoken most passionately against evil committed by those who claim to be doing the Lord’s work,” Julius Getman, a law professor at the University of Texas, wrote in a tribute when Mr. Summers became an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. “And like the prophets of old, he stood at first almost alone.”

Clyde Wilson Summers was born in a one-room tarpaper shack in Grass Range, Mont., on Nov. 21, 1918. His parents, struggling farmers, moved to Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska before settling on a farm outside Winchester, Ill., where Mr. Summers attended high school. At 16 he went to the University of Illinois, obtaining his bachelor’s degree in 1939 and his law degree there in 1942.

During the war, he declared himself a conscientious objector — a move that caused the Illinois bar to deny him admission. In 1945, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 vote, upheld the bar’s decision, although in an impassioned dissent Justice Hugo Black hailed the 26-year-old plaintiff as “moral and intelligent.”

Mr. Summers earned a master’s degree in law at Columbia in 1946 and a doctor of science in law there in 1952. He taught law at the University of Toledo and met his wife, Evelyn Wahlgren, a music teacher, on a blind date at a Valentine’s Day dance there. He then taught law at the University of Buffalo from 1949 to 1956 before becoming a professor at Yale Law School from 1956 to 1975.

In 1958, Mr. Summers drafted a Bill of Rights for union members on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union; many of his thoughts and words were included in the Landrum-Griffin Act.

He is survived by his wife as well as two daughters, Erica Summers of Silver Spring, Md., and Lisa Summers of Ridgewood, N.J.; two sons, Mark of Lexington, Ky., and Craig of Seattle; a sister, Majel Drake of Wheaton, Ill.; and eight grandchildren.

“The life of law is precedent,” Mr. Summers said at a dinner honoring him when he became a professor emeritus. “But the life of a lawyer should be something more, to search within themselves for answers which precedents cannot provide, to go beyond the question ‘What does the case hold and why?’ to ask, ‘What is good, what is just, what is kind?’ ”



MANY OF OUR FANS ARE ASKING WHO IS PAYING WHO?


CLIVE GILLINSON CARNEGIE HALL HAS THE RANK AND FILE WONDERING WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON? HE MADE $946,000 PLUS WHAT ABOUT UNDER THE TABLE?

Clive Gillinson, Carnegie's top executive, says stagehands have huge and varied jobs to carry out, far more so than at halls like the Met.

BSD SAYS IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE IT IS CORRUPTION. WHO IS PAYING WHO? SOMETHING STINKS AND IT AIN'T FISH!

O’Connell made $530,044 in salary and benefits during the fiscal year that ended in June 2008. The four other members of the full-time stage crew -- two carpenters and two electricians -- had an average income of $430,543 during the same period, according to Carnegie Hall’s tax return.

At Carnegie Hall only Artistic and Executive Director Clive Gillinson makes more than the stagehands.

Gillinson earned $946,581 in salary and benefits in the fiscal year that ended in June 2008. Chief Financial Officer Richard Matlaga made $352,139, while General Manager Anna Weber received $341,542.


US v LOCAL ONE IATSE: WHITE, MALE, IRISH FAMILY LOOP.

U.S. v LOCAL ONE IATSE

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE) NON IRISH, WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH NEED NOT APPLY TO LOCAL ONE IATSE! FOR THE BEST JOBS THE STEADY JOBS, THE SENIORITY SYSTEM, GUARANTEED BENEIFITS AND ADVANCEMENT IN THIS CORRUPT UNION! NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY.



United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE)Cite as:




in assigning the better jobs with higher pay and more guaranteed hours to the shareholder-employees, who were exclusively of SAME ancestry, and (2) by limiting share ownership to persons who were of SAME ancestry and were either members of the family or close friends of a current shareholder.28



THE YEAR OF OBAMA IS 2010!AND THE OFFICERS, HEADS, AND NEGLIGENT MANAGEMENT ARE BREAKING UNITED STATES LAW.

WHITE LOOP BOYS AT THE MET DISMANTLE CHANDELIER IRISH LOOP BOY ELECTRICIAN JIM MANAHAN.

Cleaning the Crystal Constellations HIS SON STANDING THERE DOING NOTHING WHILE THE RANK AND FILE NEED WORK!

The 49,000 pieces of crystal that ride on the rods will be replaced with brand-new crystal from Swarovski. Jim Manahan, a maintenance electrician at the Met, worked onWHITE MALE IRISH LOOP LOADS IN AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY AT THE MUSIC BOX THEATER.
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GLENN BECK: SHOCKING HISTORY OF UNIONS IN AMERICA

BOB NIMMO, EDDIE McMAHON, GLENN BECK SAYS UNIONS NOT FIGHTING FOR THE LITTLE GUYS. UNION LEADERS HAVE AN AGENDA. WE HAVE A UNION CONTRACT WITH FOX, ARE WE GOING TO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH THAT REPORT WHILE OUR GUYS ARE CREWING HIS SHOW AND OTHER FOX SHOWS? THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF BSD SAYS HE IS CORRECT, THIS UNIONS OFFICERS INCLUDING YOU ARE CONTROLLING THE ILLEGAL AGENDA AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION.

'Glenn Beck:' Shocking History of Unions in America.

GLENN BECK, CAN YOU HELP THE TRIED AGAINST, DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AND TIERED AGAINST VICTIMS OF LOCAL ONE'S SCAM AGAINST US? THE DRUG USERS, ALCOHOLICS, CROOKS, CRIMINALS, CHECK STEALING DEPARTMENT HEADS FIRED FROM FIRST RATE VENUES PROVIDED WITH NEW JOBS AT FIRST RATE VENUES WHILE THE HARD WORKING, HONEST, RANK AND FILE MEMBERS SUFFER FROM A LACK OF FAIR REPRESENTATION BY OUR "UNION". NIMMO, McMAHON, McGARDY, FORMER BM'S WESKELBLATT AND DEPAULO ETC. WHAT GOING ON IN THE ONE? NEW BM MICKEY FOX ARE YOU WORKING FOR THE RANK AND FILE NOT JUST THE 3RD AND 4TH GENERATION IRISH LOOP? WHERE ARE OUR REAL JOBS, PENSIONS, BENEFITS AND FAIR REPRESENTATION? END THE SCAM.

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NEW: GILOONS PACK MONEY CAN'T HUSH THE MEDIA!

MORE BAD PRESS FOR THE ONE?!! GILOON, WHAT'S UP? DR.CARL HOROWITZ WHERE ARE THE JOBS FOR R&F IN LOCAL ONE? HOROWITZ, NOT A LATIN NAME. BSD says cut Gillinson's pay, cut Gelb's pay, cut the business agents pay and the crook department heads pay and distribute the jobs fairly among the rank and file membership end the scam!



Pinocchio Bob Nimmo MBA, Eddie McMahon, MIKE WEKSELBLATT, KeNNy McGarty, CLAN DIAZ AND CLAN IRISH, GILOON, heads and loop boys: more and more media are jumping on the bandwagon. WHERE ARE THE REAL JOBS FOR THE RANK AND FILE? END THE SCAM. PAY US WHAT YOU OWE US NOW! New York Stagehands OR WE WILL HAVE OUR HIGH POWER ATTORNEY INITIATE CITY, STATE, FEDERAL COMPLAINTS AND INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE LAW SUITS.



Union Inflates Ticket Prices

IATSE Local One on strike If Broadway shows have gotten unusually expensive, one major reason is the dominant presence of

INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES (IATSE) LOCAL ONE. ILLEGALLY AND IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW!



International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local One. Not too many people are aware of the power of this 3,000-member stagehands' union. But its leaders have managed to exact enormous concessions from arts management along the Great White Way, and at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and elsewhere. For the bosses, at least, it's been a sweet deal. An article in the Winter 2010 issue of City Journal,

AN ARTICLE IN THE WINTER 2010 ISSUE OF CITY JOURNAL



a quarterly periodical of the Manhattan Institute, summarizes just how sweet - and why the situation isn't likely to change anytime soon.

The short piece, written by New Criterion Managing Editor James Panero and titled "Strike the Set," notes that this union of carpenters, electricians and prop masters has amassed almost unchecked power. This has served to drive up production costs and force theater owners to raise ticket prices. Local One top brass aren't complaining.For the fiscal year ending June 2008, Dennis O'Connell, a union member who serves as property manager for Carnegie Hall, received more than $530,000 in compensation; that was second only to Carnegie Hall Executive Director Clive Gillinson. Four other stagehands - James Csollany, Kenneth Beltrone, John Goodson and John Cardinale - each made over $400,000. Nice work if you can get it. Other members can make out well, too, so long as they play by the rules of the union-controlled promotion system.











ILLEGALLY AND IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW!

Such arrangements, the author notes, are stifling even during good times. But as theater revenues have suffered during the latest recession, union compensation packages "should receive the same scrutiny as the pay rates of top management." While it's true executive directors and maestros can command high salaries, sometimes in excess of $1 million, such income is determined by market negotiation, not strike threat. Panero asks, "Could another prop master do O'Connell's job just as well, (YES, WE CAN, MEN, WOMEN, BLACKS, NON IRISH WHITES DISCRIMINATED AGAINST)and for less pay?" (WE DON'T WANT LESS PAY, WE WANT THE SAME PAY)It's a question more New Yorkers in the arts community should be asking, and not just of prop masters, lest more positions be eliminated or salaries be cut. "Arts leaders, who need to start controlling costs at all levels, also need the backbone to stare down the threat of a Local One strike," the author concludes. "And if negotiations break down in the future, the arts community must overcome its willingness to cross picket lines for a justified cause that will help all workers." That sounds like a plan.

HOW SOON BEFORE THE MASSIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST LOCAL ONE?

U.S. Government Issues Massive Labor Law Complaint Against Station Casinos

According to the Culinary Workers Union and Bartenders Union, Latino Workers are Overwhelmingly the Subjects of Company’s Alleged Illegal Activities

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. government’s National Labor Relations Board has issued a massive complaint against Station Casinos charging the Las Vegas gaming company with allegedly violating federal labor law at all ten of its large local resort casinos. Not only is the 127-count federal indictment the largest single complaint ever issued against a Nevada gaming company by the federal labor board, the complaint shows Latinos are overwhelmingly the subjects of the company’s alleged illegal activities. Roughly 86 percent of the charges involve Latino workers.

“Workers at Station Casinos are standing up to join the Culinary and Bartenders unions because they want a better life for themselves and their families”

“Workers at Station Casinos are standing up to join the Culinary and Bartenders unions because they want a better life for themselves and their families,” said Culinary Union President Geoconda Arguello-Kline. “The company has responded not only with an aggressive anti-union campaign resulting in the government issuing a massive labor law complaint, but with an attack that is falling overwhelmingly on Latino workers.”

The federal government’s complaint alleges that, from February 19 through April 7, Station managers broke federal labor laws 127 times. The complaint charges Station Casinos with engaging in a host of illegal activities against workers seeking to exercise their right to form a union, including the use of threats, intimidation, interrogation, surveillance, bribery, discouragement, discrimination, discipline and physical assault. No other Las Vegas gaming company has racked up so many federal government charges in such a short amount of time.

“The company has said over and over again that it will respect our right if we decide we want a union,” said Delmi Aldana, a Cook at Fiesta Rancho. “Actions speak a lot louder than words. We work hard. We take care of the customers and we are just trying to take care of ourselves and our families. We should not have to face threats, intimidation, harassment and retaliation at work for exercising our rights and we should not be targeted.”

The federal complaint stems from unfair labor practice charges filed by the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, and Bartenders Union, Local 165, earlier this year. The National Labor Relations Board investigated those charges and subsequently issued the complaint. The unions opted to withdraw seven of its charges to gather additional evidence before likely refilling them with the Board later this summer.


The government issued the complaint on May 28, 2010. The NLRB hearing before an administrative law judge on the complaint is scheduled for August 16, 2010.


GILOONS PAC MONEY CAN'T HUSH THE MEDIA!

GILOON'S PAC MONEY CAN'T HUSH THE MEDIA! HE'S ALONE IN THE UNDEMOCRATIC DARK IN HIS DIRTY UNDERWEAR.


$500,000 A YEAR AT CARNEGIE HALL FOR EACH OF 5 STAGEHANDS WOULD PROVIDE 25 $100,00 A YEAR JOBS TO THE RANK AND FILE OR 50 $50,000 A YEAR JOBS OR VERY MANY PART TIME JOBS.
BOB NIMMO SAID THE UNION NEEDS MORE JOBS.
MORE JOBS IS NOT THE ANSWER BOB NIMMO.
THE REAL ANSWER: LESS BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND LESS OF THE ILLEGAL AND UNFAIR CORE LOOP.

EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE CONTRACTS WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND GET THE OFFICERS AND HEADS OUT OF HOT WATER.
WE HAVE TO ASK WHO IS PAYING WHO? IS CLIVE GILLINSON AT CARNEGIE HALL PAYING OFF THE BUSINESS AGENTS OR ARE THEY PAYING OFF GILLINSON?
IS THIS HAPPENING ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS?
SOMETHING STINKS THERE AND IT AINT FISH.
THE MET OPERA IS ANOTHER STORY, THE DIAZ CLAN HAS BEEN RAPING THE MET FOR DECADES, AND IT IS ONLY GOING TO HURT THE UNION AND THE RANK AND FILE.
ALL IN ALL THE BUSINESS AGENTS UNDER THE SENIORITY OF BROADWAY AND PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR MANAGING THE SYSTEM FOR THE RANK AND FILE OF THE UNION AND THEY CONTINUE TO FAIL IN THIS CREATING A WILLFUL, DELIBERATE AND CONSPIRED ACTION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE

AT CLAN CARNEGIE HALL AND ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS THE BUSINESS AGENTS ICE OUT THE RANK AND FILE SO THE LOOP BOYS MAKE PENSION AND BENEFITS. NO SOUP FOR YOU IN THE FORM OF A FULL TIME JOB AND PENSION AND BENEFITS SO BENEFITS PAID BY MANAGEMENT DON'T GO TO THE RANK AND FILE BECAUSE OF THE DISCRIMINATORY TIER SYSTEM. THE HEART OF THE SCAM. MANAGEMENT PAYS THE UNION BENEFITS BUT THE UNION SAYS SORRY NO PENSION AND BENEFITS FOR YOU. THEN THE PENSION FUND GROWS AND GROWS AND WE DON'T GET OUR BENEFITS. NICE SCAM.YET STILL A SCAM. THE UNION DOES NOT WANT MORE STAGEHANDS TO GET JOBS BECAUSE JOBS MEAN THE UNION HAS TO PAY OUT PENSIONS. SLICK SLICK SLICK.

WELCOME TO THE ONE FUND AND KEN FEINBERG FOR LOCAL ONE VICTIMS

Welcome New Readers (Financial Times of London, Ken Feinberg Story)

For those finding this site after reading my quotes in a June 9th story in the Financial Times (of London), welcome.

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(For other readers, the story deals with appointment of former September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Special Master Kenneth Feinberg to “a new role overseeing banks’ compensation schemes to ensure that they do not reward unnecessarily risky behaviour.” See: From 9/11 heartache to bankers bonuses)

I had previously written quite a bit of praise of Feinberg and his endless hours hearing the stories of victims in order to administer the fund that had been set up in the wake of the attack. (See: The Days After September 11th — A Tribute To An Attorney)

From the article coming out on Tuesday the 9th is this part:

Eric Turkewitz, a New York lawyer who represented two of the victims, said he remained impressed by the stamina of Mr Feinberg. “He was a tremendous public servant,” he said. “This is a guy who was personally hearing cases from early in the morning until late at night. How he did it and stomached it and stayed fresh for it after tale after tale I don’t know.”

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FEDS SEEK $5M MADOFF BACK OFFICE/ AND AT THE ONE'S BACK OFFICE STEALING FROM US?

Feds Seek $5 Million From Madoff Back-Office Veterans


The feds have launched civil forfeiture actions seeking $5 million allegedly held by two former back-office workers at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan say Annette Bongiorno and Joann "Jodi" Crupi both spent more than 25 years working for Bernard Madoff's now tarnished investment firm.

Bongiorno handled BLMIS clients' questions about their investments, and allegedly oversaw fabrication of documents like account statements and trade confirmations. The government wants her to fork over $1.1 million in accounts at mainstream banks like HSBC; the nearly $300,000 she spent on a 2005 Bentley and a 2007 Mercedes Benz; and $1.3 million that went to a swanky condo. According to court papers filed by prosecutors, Bongiorno began spending much of her time in Florida and working a heavily reduced schedule starting as early as 1995, but was still making six-figure annual salaries over the course of the firm's last decade of existence.

Crupi was responsible for client redemptions and allegedly was involved in funneling investors' money through a chain of bank accounts controlled by BLMIS as part of its elaborate Ponzi scheme. The feds say she's on the hook for the $2.25 million in cash she used to purchase a home in Mantoloking, N.J., and $26,500 in rental income she's earned after buying that property.

The announcement of the civil forfeiture actions came shortly after news broke that key Madoff aid Frank DiPascali, who has pleaded guilty to a variety of crimes and is cooperating with the government, was released on bail.

QUESTIONS FOR PETER MARTIN: NOT THE QUESTIONS WE WOULD ASK HIM!

Questions for Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief of New York City Ballet

Friday, June 25, 2010

Peter Martins, New York City Ballet's ballet master in chief, spoke recently with Leonard Lopate about the company's new season and its Architecture of Dance festival, which ends Sunday, June 27.

Under Martins' leadership, the NYCB this season presented seven new ballets, and four newly commissioned musical scores, and a customed-designed stage by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. He talks about leaving the Royal Danish Ballet, where he was a principal dancer, to come to America — all because of West Side Story.

In the video below, Martins talks about his interests off the stage for a behind-the-scenes moment at the WNYC studios.

He explains why "this is [his] moment" and tells us what he'd do with his last day on earth.

MET OPERA: IS ANYONE LISTENING? DIAZ CLAN TO BE SWEPT FROM MET? YES THEY ARE LISTENING!

Is anybody listening? American opera faces crossroads as audiences for performing arts slide YET THE DIAZ CLAN RAKES IN MILLIONS A YEAR! WHERE ARE OUR JOBS?


CLAN DIAZ CLAN IRISH, WHAT % OF LOCAL ONE MEMBERS ARE DENIED FULL TIME WORK BECAUSE OF THE LOOP?

IN LOCAL ONE THE LOOP BOYS NEVER COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT WHILE THE RANK AND FILE MUST ALWAYS FILE A CLAIM YEAR AFTER YEAR IN VIOLATION OF LAW AND OUR RIGHTS. LOCAL ONE END THE SCAM.

The Undeserving Unemployed

UNION DEMOCRACY DEAD AT LINCOLN CENTER IN VIOLATION OF LAW

CLAN DIAZ AND CLAN IRISH, GILOON, NIMMO, WESKELBLATT, MCGARTY, GELB, ANN ZIFF, JOE VOLPE, GILLINSON ETC:

DIAZ CLAN PUPPETS AT THE MET.MET BREAKS SALES RECORDS 2007 AND 2009 YET THIS UNION PUTS A HOLD ON PAY INCREASE FOR RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS AT THE MET!!!???
Photo by Ken Howard

WHILE THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND OTHER OFFICERS RECEIVED A PAY AND ANNUITY INCREASE!

New York City stagehands forgo salary hike at Metropolitan Opera

by Associated Press
Thursday July 02, 2009, 11:46 AM

Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City have agreed to give up a 3 percent salary hike for the 2009-2010 season -- the last year of their current contract.
The move will help the Met to deal with a looming deficit.The Met has agreed to extend the stagehands' contract for another year when the full raise will go into effect.The Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, had originally asked the union for a 10 percent salary cut.
That cut has been imposed on Gelb and most other top administrators and nonunion staff.
The stagehands are represented by Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

The New York Times reported this story today.

SOMEONE COMMENTED, "HAS JOHN DIAZ LEARNED ANYTHING"?,A VERY GOOD QUESTION!YES, TO CASH HIS CHECKS AND SLEEP WITH MANAGEMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS.

JOHN DIAZ GET SOME SLEEP YOU ARE DOPEY FROM LACK OF SLEEP.
THE REST OF YOU ARE OVER PAID UNDER WORKED LAZY SLOB CROOKS, SLEEPING WITH MANAGEMENT AND SCREWING THE REST OF US.
Met Stagehands Agree to Postpone Raise/WEKSELBLATT AND McGARTY WHY IS THIS SO? THE RICH GIVE THEM MILLIONS. WHO IS BULLSHITTING US NOW?
By Daniel J. Wakin

The Metropolitan Opera, struggling to make headway against large and looming deficits, has won a cost saving from its stagehands. The stagehands union, Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, said on Tuesday the workers agreed to forgo a 3 percent increase in salary and benefit expenses for the 2009-2010 season, the last in its contract. The union and the Met agreed to extend the contract for another year, when the full raise will go into effect.
THE REAL DEAL:
MET HAULS IN FIRST DAY SALES RECORD Box office takes in TAKES IN 2.5 MILLION (BLAME THE DIAZ CLAN! AND McGARTY AND WEKSELBLATT) for 2009-10 season.
ALSO:

PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN 2007 AT 2.1 MILLION WHO ARE WEKSELBLATT AND McMGARTY AND DIAZ BULLSHITTING NOW
THE THREE OF THEM TOGETHER IN PAY AND BENEFITS MAKE 2 MILLION A YEAR!
CUT THEIR PAY NOT OUR PAY.

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THEY HAVE GIVEN VOLPE IN RETIREMENT AND MANAGEMENT MORE TO LAUGH AT BUT BOYS THEY ARE LAUGHING AT YOU NOT US. WE HAVE THE BALLS TO GET THE JOB DONE!
By GORDON COX

The Metropolitan Opera is trumpeting record first-day sales for its upcoming season, with the Met box office taking in $2.5 million for the 2009-10 season.

The previous record of $2.1 million from a season's first day on sale was set in 2007. This year's tally accounts for purchases made by Internet, by phone and at the box office.

Season opens Sept. 21 with a new production of "Tosca."

Union Leaders/reps always communicate in generalizations. The workers are not allowed to speak ad hoc on camera - so we need to ask them one-on-one what is really happening. Broadway is not magic. It is hard work, high skill, and serious money. AND CORRUPTION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE! Local  One Press Conference - Part 5http://www.frontrowking.com/venues/images/theater_masks.jpghttp://www.entertainment-link.com/images/upload/performingarts/metoperawide.jpg

Local  One Press Conference - Part 5

On the Right of this Photo possibly the highest paid stagehand in America. AND YET NOT THE BRIGHTEST OR MOST AWAKE.

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

DIAZ Puppets backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House.

My name is John Diaz I am among other things an Officer (WHY IS THIS CLOWN AN OFFICER?) in Local One IATSE, and I am the Assistant Stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing And Con Arts.
I am the second Highest Stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera. My Brother was the Head Stagehand, he hired me and has retired now his son, my nephew inherited the position of Head Stagehand.(WHY!?) IN VIOLATION OF U.S. LABOR LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. HIRING RELATIVE OVER RANK AND FILE IS DISCRIMINATION AND ILLEGAL.
I am the Head of the Night Gang. With pay and benefits including pension and multiple annuities I am possibly the Highest paid stagehand in America.(???) I make close to $600,000 yearly with these two jobs. Plus, I have a pension and millions in my annuities!!

My other nephew is the Stage Right Boss or Carpenter. Our family pulls literally millions out of the Metropolitan Opera yearly. I can't say how many of my relatives work there.
I will say here like all the other venues Family Heads discriminate illegally in violation of U.S. Constitutional and Labor Law against Rank and file members.

I know the law, because like the other officers I study Labor Law at Cornell.
We don't use labor law for the benefit of the Rank and File, like officers are supposed to, we use labor law as a tool to discriminate and retaliate against those who are not in our families.(THE RANK AND FILE).
I use labor law to (ILLEGALLY) manage my family's hold on the Stage Jobs at the Metropolitan Opera
, and I see to it that all the other families around the business, especially Broadway Theaters keep hold of jobs for their families even though the father and son union violates U.S. Constitutional and Labor Law.
We all manage a Rico and Ponzi Scam against the Rank and File members and hold illegal trials against members choosing to exercise their Constitutional Right to Free Speech guaranteed by U.S. Constitutional and Labor law.
We do so Willfully, Deliberately, and in Conspiracy
To put an end to Free Speech and stifle the re unionization efforts from the Rank And File membership.

The Metropolitan Opera is the Largest Employer of Stagehands in NYC.
My job as an officer is provided to me so that I will guarantee the vote of those members by making their jobs dependent on how they vote.
This provides the government of Local One with continuous opportunity to manage the various families illegal control of the theaters and studios. Nice work if you can get it. And we want to make sure that the jobs and control go to our families even if we violate U.S. Constitutional Law and Labor LAW.

I never stood up for the Cohen Brothers. They are a minority in this union. They have no power. It would have been correct of me to do so under Labor Law, but I overlooked my responsibility to free speech and free union and members rights just like the other officers.
I am a patsy just like the other officers.
I am Portuguese not Irish. I cannot work on Broadway and my family can't work on Broadway. No one on Broadway wants to work at the Met. The work is too hard and the hours too long and we don't have as good a contract as at the Broadway Theaters.

I never looked out for the minorities in this union like I could have. I do the dirty work of the Majority group at the expense of the Minority groups. I am not a union Democrat. I am a union Oligarch. I am unions gone undemocratic and corrupt.
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Former GM (and Local One member) Joe Volpe closed the Book on us. He knew we break scenery going into and out of the truck, and break scenery on stage so we can make overtime.
There has never been a piece of scenery gone unbroken by the Diaz family at the Met.

The Cohen and the Rank and File are not guilty. Broadway Stagehands Democracy is not guilty.We and the other families are guilty.
AT THE MET AND AT LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS DEMOCRACY IS DEAD ON STAGE TO THE RANK AND FILE FROM THE UNDEMOCRATIC OFFICERS AND HEADS AND THE ILLEGAL FAMILY CONTRACTS VIOLATING U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW!
Many have asked when do I sleep working all night at the Met and all day at the Union? Well, I do not think of sleep or union democracy. I think about all the cash me and my family are making and all the theater families are making at the expense of the Rank and File members.
IF IT IS NOT A CLUB FOR ALL MEMBERS, THEN IT IS A DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY SYSTEM. IF CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CIVIL OR FEDERAL COURT I WILL NOT TAKE THE RAP FOR THEM!

THE REAL DEAL:

MET HAULS IN FIRST DAY SALES RECORD Box office takes in TAKES IN 2.5 MILLION YET CUTS PAY FOR RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS (BLAME THE DIAZ CLAN! AND McGARTY AND WEKSELBLATT) for 2009-10 season. DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS ON STAGE AT THE MET ARE DEAD TO THE RANK AND FILE DUE TO CORRUPT, LAZY AND INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP.
"DIZZY DADDY DIAZ"Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Anonymous said...

What's the deal? Did Diaz finally see the light. It appears that he and Claffey no longer exchange Christmas cards.
Is there any truth to the rumor that Diaz will run against "The Rug" in the next election?
BSD SAYS YES TO CLAFFEY NO TO DIAZ.
WHERE ARE OUR REAL JOBS AT THE MET AND ALL OF LINCOLN CENTER DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS!

DIAZ PUPPETS AT THE MET

Photo by Ken Howard



BSD SAYS NO TO DIAZ YES TO CLAFFEY. WHERE ARE OUR JOBS DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS???

MADOFF HANDS OFF $9B TO PALS WHERE IS OUR CASH ONE'S PALS AND FEDS.

CLAN DIAZ, CLAN IRISH: DAN GILOON, BOB NIMMO MBA, McMAHON, WESKELBLATT, ETC.

Madoff Reportedly Tells Inmates of Secret $9 Billion Stash

Published June 21, 2010

| NYPost.com

Ponzi king Bernard Madoff is telling fellow jailbirds that he secretly funneled $9 billion in swiped funds to three people before he was nabbed, an inmate told The New York Post.

Madoff says that his partner in crime, Frank DiPascali, knows who the recipients are -- and that he suspects DiPascali is using that information to cut a better deal with the feds, according to the inmate at the medium-security prison in Butner, N.C.

"I think it was personal friends," the inmate said of the recipients of the mega-bucks.

DiPascali, 52, pleaded guilty last year to 10 felonies in connection with helping Madoff swindle investors out of more than $60 billion at his Manhattan financial firm.

Madoff, 72, is serving a life sentence, but DiPascali has reportedly been trying to avoid that fate by cooperating with prosecutors -- who argued strenuously for his release from jail pending sentencing despite a judge's initial reluctance to grant bail.

The inmate, who has witnessed the arch swindler's daily routine, also detailed how Madoff began attending sessions with a female prison psychiatrist last year after becoming depressed about a tell-all published in August by his former mistress, Sheryl Weinstein.

Click here to read more on this story from the New York Post.

MORE PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO AND CHARLIE McCARTHY EDDIE McMAHON AS NBC BECOMES CABLE TV







THE DOODIE FOR THE UNION AND THE RANK AND FILE CONTINUES AS NBC DOWNGRADES TO CABLE.

TV, IT NEVER LOOKED WORSE, AS BOB NIMMO'S LIES BECOME FLESH AND BLOOD FOR THE RANK AND FILE TO SEE. HIS AND EDDIE McMAHON'S DOWNGRADE CONTINUES.

LYING TO THE RANK AND FILE IS COMMITTING FRAUD TO THE RANK AND FILE. NOT TO MENTION DELIBERATELY IGNORING OUR FIDUCIARY EXPECTATIONS AND TELEVISION'S SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS.

ANOTHER HIGH CRIME AND MISDEMEANOR COMMITTED BY BOB NIMMO AND EDDIE McMAHON.

Comcast-NBCU: It's All About the U

Examiner.com - ‎Nov 8, 2009‎
The wait continues for the official announcement on the Comcast NBCU takeover. Some reports have suggested that the deal could happen in the next two weeks ...


TV (NEW YORK SAID BOB NIMMO) IT NEVER LOOKED BETTER AS NBC BECOMES CABLE???!!!


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FIRST LENO NOW THE WHOLE NETWORK








OOOOOOOOHHHHH HELP THE TRIED AGAINST TIERED AGAINST AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MR. BILL.


LOCAL ONE SPOKESPERSON THE NETWORKS ARE HERE WOULD YOU CARE TO COMMENT?


Bruce Cohen, spokesman for the Local 1 Union representing the Broadway stagehands, speaks to reporters outside the negotiations between Broadway producers and stagehands Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007 in New York. An ongoing strike by the stagehands have continued to shut down most Broadway shows as of Sunday evening.

BSD SAYS:CATCH 22: YOU GOTTA BE A WHITE, IRISH MALE LOOP BOY

How to Make a Living in Show Business: Become a Stagehand for $530,044 a Year


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Tuesday, October 20, 2009; Posted: 11:10 AM - by BWW News Desk

For all those out there who have ever been deterred from a career in show biz due to instability can now have restored hope, thanks to one Dennis O'Connell and his fellow stagehands. According to a report on Bloomberg.com this morning, O'Connell, who oversees props at Carnegie Hall earned a whopping $530,044 in salary and benefits during the 2008 fiscal year, while four of his colleagues - two carpenters and two electricians - had an average income of $430,543 this same year, as reported in Carnegie Hall's tax return.

To provide some perspective, according to Bloomberg.com, an international star pianist can make up to $20,000 a night performing at Carnegie, meaning he or she would need to perform at least 27 times to match O'Connell's salary.

That is not to undermine the value or talent of the venue's stagehands. Those seasoned in theater know just how vital this labor force (often hundreds deep) is to any production that may only showcase a small handful of people. After all, Mary Poppin's wouldn't look nearly as good if she didn't fly. The Lion King would not continue to amaze audiences without that magical opening entrance.

However, according to the report, part of the reason for such generous earnings is the fact that they are protected by a powerful union that has tremendous leveraging power in negotiations by simply threatening to pull its labor force. And, this is New York: no stagehands mean no shows. What would New York be without its theater and live performance industry (notably the most profitable industry for the city)? Broadway was given a taste in 2007 during the 26-week stagehand strike that devastated Times Square and hundreds in the business, proving (quite literally) that happy stagehands means happy industry.

To read the full report on Bloomberg.com, click here.

Local One is the premier stagehand union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E). We are the Brothers and Sisters who construct, install, maintain, and operate the lighting and sound equipment, the scenery and special effects which thrill and delight audiences attending Broadway shows, concerts at Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall, the magnificent, spectacular productions at The Metropolitan Opera and throughout LIncoln Center, and the many entertaining broadcasts from CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and PBS. We work at numerous cable TV studios and make possible the presentation of major corporate industrials and special events. Local One does it all -- lights, sound, video, scenery and rigging, special effects. Whatever your production needs may be, however big or small, nobody can make your dreams come true better than the skilled, talented professional stage employees of Local One. We are famous for our dedication and unique abilities.


DEWEY LEBOEUF LLP OUR EDITORIAL STAFF VOTE FOR A LAWSUIT.

THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY HAS VOTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE LAWSUIT. WE WILL HOLD OUT UNTIL THE FEDS INDICT THEM. PAY UP OR WE WILL HOLD OUT UNTIL THE INDICTMENTS.
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THE EDITORIAL STAFF WANTS OUR:
*PENSION CREDITS DENIED AS VICTIMS OF THE SCAM AND THE DISCRIMINATORY TIER SYSTEM.
*ANNUITY MONEY OWED US FROM THE SCAM AGAINST US.
*CASH OWED US AS VICTIMS OF THE SCAM FROM JOBS DENIED US BY THE ONGOING SCAM.
*MONEY OWED US IN DAMAGES.

WHERE ARE OUR STEADY JOBS, PENSIONS AND MILLION DOLLAR ANNUITIES?

SCAM VICTIMS ARE US!
CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL DA'S WHAT GOING ON?

WICKED PATRONS AND OTHER BROADWAY PATRONS COMMENTS ON STAGEHANDS:

BSD APOLOGIZES BUT WE ARE FINDING THAT THERE ARE PROBLEMS MANAGING A LOT OF THE "NON CARDS" AND "CARDMEN(???) " AND THE HEADS THAT HIRE THEM. OUR BUSINESS AGENTS ARE NOT DOING THE JOB WE ARE PAYING THEM TO DO. NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE PRODUCERS WANT TO CUT OUR CONTRACTS. THE TICKET BUYERS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE STAGEHANDS(????). THE TICKET BUYERS ARE THE "MONEY" OF BROADWAY. THE THEATER LOVERS FROM PODUNK AND HERE EXPECT BETTER FROM OUR HANDS.

WHO ARE THESE "STAGEHANDS" MASQUERADING AS REAL STAGEHANDS???

AND THE RIPOFF ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS?

MORE AMATEUR NIGHT ON BROADWAY FROM THE BUSINESS AGENTS THE HEADS, AND THE "STAGEHANDS" EMBARRASSING THE REAL STAGEHANDS OF LOCAL ONE. AND YOU WONDER WHY THEY WANT TO CUT THE CONTRACTS. DOPES.

FUNNY, HOW THE AUDIENCE SMARTLY IS OBSERVING THIS FACT.

THAT MEANS THE HOUSE MANAGER AND THE PRODUCERS ARE ALSO CATCHING THIS FACT.






hi,

so i'm pretty new to the city and going to a broadway show is a very big deal to me. i finally get to see the shows i've been listening to for years. i've seen wicked before, but this is my first time to see it on broadway.

i'm watching the show and loving it and then at the point where the monkeys come out flying, i see a guy in, i kid you not, a white t-shirt and jeans standing on a ledge house right about a third of the way into the audience. i don't know how your eye couldn't go to him in a dark theater and i'm thinking "what is this guy doing standing there in full view during a performance?" he's there for quite a while and it's not clear why, but it's really not clear why he's wearing a WHITE T-SHIRT. my friends all said their eyes went right to him when he walked out.

it turns out that HE'S A STAGEHAND who helps one of the monkeys get flown in over the audience. still, i cant believe that he's standing there in street clothes. even in my PODUNK theater, all the stagehands wore black so as not to disturb the performance. how is this guy, who is working on broadway able to wear somehthing so distracting? is there no dress code for broadway stagehands? this wasn't a sightline issue. if i'm sitting house right and i can see him, then everyone center and house left can see him too. he was a good 2 feet out from the black scrim. i'm not attacking all stagehands, but it really seemed so UNPROFESSIONAL, like THIS GUY COULDN'T CARE LESS or at least not enough to wear black for the benefit of the paying audience.
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The white t-shirt is new two me... but I've seen the guy before, along with the guy who stands by the edge of the stage left wing for ten minutes waiting to collect Glinda's shoe rack after Popular, the one walking around with the flash light during the Cornfield scene, and the one with his feet hanging over the side staircase working the stage spot for the opening.
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White is better than red. One time I saw the Wicked on broadway and one of the men handling the spotlights on the side of the stage was wearing a bright red t-shirt. It was distracting against all of the dark colors that the set is.
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When I saw Young Frankenstein, one of the stagehands behind one of the laboratory set pieces was wearing a blue shirt and jeans.
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All these have happened just about every time I have seen the show, they really should do something about it.

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Someone mentioned stagehands on stage in costume at the Vivian Beaumont. South Pacific currently does this -- there are stagehands in sailor costumes who help to move some of the set.

My worst example of stagehands dressed distractingly was at the recent revival of Guys and Dolls, where a stagehand was wearing a royal blue and white basketball jersey and denim shorts, also with plenty of tattoos on his exposed shoulders and arms. Since Guys and Dolls is a period piece, it took me right out of the show. And I was sitting on the inside aisle of the side orchestra, so, although he was technically in the wings, a lot of the audience could see him.

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so if it has obviously has happened many more times than just the day i saw the show, why are they allowed to do that? i mean, is the stage manager in charge of enforcing things like that? and is there anyone from IATSE (HEADS, MCGARTY, FORMER BA WESKELBLATT THEY ARE CHALLENGING YOU TO DO A BETTER JOB)(AND SO ARE WE)) on this board who can verify that stagehands can wear whatever they want during a performance no matter how distracting? cause it really makes it look like those people JUST DON'T CARE.

and the thing is, i know that there are a lot of stagehands working hard on that show to make it run smoothly and safely so if i were one of them, i'd be mad that my co-worker showed such disrespect to all the effort everyone else is putting in to make a broadway experience a broadway experience.

(WE ARE MAD)
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You know, I really don't think it's unreasonable to be respectful when you're working on a Broadway show. Wearing black doesn't seem like a very hard task and though they may not be required to wear them, I can't see why a stagehand wouldn't feel it to be their duty to not stand out. It's pretty clear that there job is to work the show and to accommodate it running smoothly, safely, and without interruptions for the performers, the audience, and their peers. If their clothing proves as a distraction to any of these groups, it should be addressed. I guess that's the deal with unions, but twenty bucks can buy you a black shirt and black pants at Target or Walmart.
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from front row, up there alot of the set is done with manual labour, so I could see them putting the organ into place and latching it into the track, but while that was done I also saw a huge ass crack of the guy getting it into position, I started to laugh out loud.
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(WHEN AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE NOTICING THE STAGEHANDS INSTEAD OF THE SHOW YOU KNOW THESE GUYS AND THE HEADS AND OUR BA'S ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB. THE AUDIENCE EXPECT THE BASICS AND ARE NOT ALWAYS GETTING IT FROM ALL THE HANDS. BSD EDITOR.)

WE ARE EMBARRASSING YOU HERE BECAUSE 1. YOU ARE SCREWING BETTER MEN AND WOMEN OUT OF JOBS THEY DESERVE. 2. YOU ARE REPLACING QUALITY, CAPABLE STAGEHANDS WITH DRUG USERS, ALCOHOLICS AND OUT RIGHT JUNK FOR HIRE. THE SAME WAS TRUE IN THE BLOG NUMBER ONE MEN.DON'T BLAME US YOU HAVE ONLY YOURSELVES TO BLAME FOR THE DECLINING CONTRACTS ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS. BECAUSE ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS THE HEADS ARE HIRING JUNK SO THEY APPEAR AS THE BEST. AND THE CONTRACTS CONTINUE TO DECLINE. WHAT DO YOU SAY MICKEY FOX MORE 3 AND 4TH GENERATION UNDISCIPLINED HANDS DECLINING THE CONTRACTS. WHAT A SHAME.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CARD MAN WHO COLLECTED THOSE COMMENTS AND SENT THEM IN TO US.

FREE LINDSAY MONITOR LOCAL ONE'S BUSINESS AGENTS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS

'Lindsay
FREE LINDSAY MONITOR LOCAL ONE'S BUSINESS AGENTS AND HEADS.

FBI Found Kenneth Starr Hiding In His Closet. STARR SCAMMED THE STARS. BUSINESS AGENTS AND HEADS SCAM THE RANK AND FILE. WHY ARE THEY HIDING IN THE ONE'S CLOSET?

ANOTHER CURLY.

Celebrity Adviser Charged

Kenneth I. Starr played a game of hide-and-go-seek with prosecutors Thursday morning. Accused of stealing $30 million from clients like Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, and Martin Scorsese, the financial adviser to the stars was found crouched behind coats in the closet of his Upper East side apartment and yanked out by his collar, according to the AP.

Mr. Starr, 66, had a number of hiding places to choose from in his $7.5 million condominium, which included 5 bedrooms, 6.5 baths and a 1,500 square foot garden on the main floor,










BROADWAY SCAM AGAINST R&F GROSSES 1 BILLION FOR THE PRODUCERS AND THE IRISH LOOP


In a statement BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY SAYS, "WE ARE GETTING FUCKED HERE"! 1.2 BILLION LAST YEAR WHERE THE FUCK ARE OUR JOBS! CHARLOTTE ST MARTIN ARE YOU READY FOR THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT?


THE PRODUCERS COMPLAIN ABOUT LOCAL ONE. LOCAL ONE COMPLAINS ABOUT THE PRODUCERS AND THE RANK AND FILE GET SCAMMED BY BOTH AS BROADWAY GROSSES ONE BILLION. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WHERE ARE YOU? WE NEED A CLASS ACTION ATTORNEY!

Broadway Grosses Over $1 Billion in 2009-2010 Season

By: Dan Bacalzo · May 24, 2010 · New York

The Broadway League has released end-of-season statistics for the 2009-2010 season, which ran May 25, 2009 through May 23, 2010. A total of 39 shows opened during the season, including 11 new musicals, 14 new plays, 6 musical revivals, and 8 play revivals.

Broadway grosses during this period were $1.02 billion, which is up from last season's $1.00 billion. However, attendance was down, with 11.89 million attendees during the current season as opposed to 12.25 million in the 2008-2009 season. The current season's totals do not take into account the musical Young Frankenstein, which did not report its grosses to the Broadway League.

In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League, said, "We are thrilled that even in this current economic climate, our numbers are strong thanks to the vibrancy of this season's offerings."

In a statement BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY SAYS, "WE ARE GETTING FUCKED HERE"!



NEW YORK, Nov. 25, 2007

Glimmer Of Hope For A Broadway Compromise

Striking Stagehands And Theater Producers Agree To Return To Negotiations

Stagehands John Joseph Kelly, foreground left, and Sean Fedigan,  foreground right, chat as they picket Nov. 24, 2007 outside the Neil  Simon Theatre in New York where Kelly is a stagehand for _Hairspray_.  Fedigan is a stagehand for _Jersey Boys_ at the August Wilson Theatre  across the street. Stagehands John Joseph Kelly, foreground left, and Sean Fedigan, foreground right, chat as they picket Nov. 24, 2007 outside the Neil Simon Theatre in New York where Kelly is a stagehand for "Hairspray". Fedigan is a stagehand for "Jersey Boys" at the August Wilson Theatre across the street. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

PHOTO ABOVE:DURING THE FIRST DAYS OF THE 2007 STRIKE ONLY THE WHITE IRISH HOUSE CREWS PICKETED. ABOVE TYPICAL LOOP BOYS JOHN JOSEPH KELLY AND SEAN FIDIGAN PICKET. THE JOBS, PENSIONS AND BENEFITS ON BROADWAY ARE GOING MAINLY TO WHITE IRISH MALES. IN ALL THEATERS, STUDIOS AND VENUES. WE WILL BE PUBLISHING A SPECIAL PAGE SOON OF THE WHITE IRISH CREWS VIOLATING U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW. WHILE THE IRISH UNION OFFICERS LOOK THE OTHER WAY.


SEARCHING FOR BROADWAY PINOCCHIO ROBERT NIMMO MBA AND THE OTHER LOST OFFICERS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE

TODAY SOME ONE SEARCHED BOB NIMMO, MBA BUSINESS MANAGER. WAS IT BOB NIMMO HIMSELF OR WAS IT SOMEONE SEARCHING BOB NIMMO. WAS IT THE TIMES AGAIN? WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR BOB NIMMO EVEN AS HE CONTINUES TO SEARCH FOR HIMSELF. WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR ALL OF THEM EVEN AS THEY EVADE THE RANK AND FILE AND THE LEGITIMATE LAWFUL UNION.

JOHN DIAZ CONFESSES/IN LOCAL ONE IATSE AND AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE

CLAN DIAZ AND CLAN IRISH, GILOON, NIMMO, WESKELBLATT, MCGARTY, GELB, ANN ZIFF, JOE VOLPE, GILLINSON ETC:

DIAZ CLAN PUPPETS AT THE MET.MET BREAKS SALES RECORDS 2007 AND 2009 YET THIS UNION PUTS A HOLD ON PAY INCREASE FOR RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS AT THE MET!!!???
Photo by Ken Howard

WHILE THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND OTHER OFFICERS RECEIVED A PAY AND ANNUITY INCREASE!

New York City stagehands forgo salary hike at Metropolitan Opera

by Associated Press
Thursday July 02, 2009, 11:46 AM

Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City have agreed to give up a 3 percent salary hike for the 2009-2010 season -- the last year of their current contract.
The move will help the Met to deal with a looming deficit.The Met has agreed to extend the stagehands' contract for another year when the full raise will go into effect.The Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, had originally asked the union for a 10 percent salary cut.
That cut has been imposed on Gelb and most other top administrators and nonunion staff.
The stagehands are represented by Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

The New York Times reported this story today.

SOMEONE COMMENTED, "HAS JOHN DIAZ LEARNED ANYTHING"?,A VERY GOOD QUESTION!YES, TO CASH HIS CHECKS AND SLEEP WITH MANAGEMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS.

JOHN DIAZ GET SOME SLEEP YOU ARE DOPEY FROM LACK OF SLEEP.
THE REST OF YOU ARE OVER PAID UNDER WORKED LAZY SLOB CROOKS, SLEEPING WITH MANAGEMENT AND SCREWING THE REST OF US.
Met Stagehands Agree to Postpone Raise/WEKSELBLATT AND McGARTY WHY IS THIS SO? THE RICH GIVE THEM MILLIONS. WHO IS BULLSHITTING US NOW?
By Daniel J. Wakin

The Metropolitan Opera, struggling to make headway against large and looming deficits, has won a cost saving from its stagehands. The stagehands union, Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, said on Tuesday the workers agreed to forgo a 3 percent increase in salary and benefit expenses for the 2009-2010 season, the last in its contract. The union and the Met agreed to extend the contract for another year, when the full raise will go into effect.
THE REAL DEAL:
MET HAULS IN FIRST DAY SALES RECORD Box office takes in TAKES IN 2.5 MILLION (BLAME THE DIAZ CLAN! AND McGARTY AND WEKSELBLATT) for 2009-10 season.
ALSO:

PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN 2007 AT 2.1 MILLION WHO ARE WEKSELBLATT AND McMGARTY AND DIAZ BULLSHITTING NOW
THE THREE OF THEM TOGETHER IN PAY AND BENEFITS MAKE 2 MILLION A YEAR!
CUT THEIR PAY NOT OUR PAY.

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THEY HAVE GIVEN VOLPE IN RETIREMENT AND MANAGEMENT MORE TO LAUGH AT BUT BOYS THEY ARE LAUGHING AT YOU NOT US. WE HAVE THE BALLS TO GET THE JOB DONE!
By GORDON COX

The Metropolitan Opera is trumpeting record first-day sales for its upcoming season, with the Met box office taking in $2.5 million for the 2009-10 season.

The previous record of $2.1 million from a season's first day on sale was set in 2007. This year's tally accounts for purchases made by Internet, by phone and at the box office.

Season opens Sept. 21 with a new production of "Tosca."

Union Leaders/reps always communicate in generalizations. The workers are not allowed to speak ad hoc on camera - so we need to ask them one-on-one what is really happening. Broadway is not magic. It is hard work, high skill, and serious money. AND CORRUPTION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE! Local One Press Conference - Part 5http://www.frontrowking.com/venues/images/theater_masks.jpghttp://www.entertainment-link.com/images/upload/performingarts/metoperawide.jpg

Local One Press Conference - Part 5

On the Right of this Photo possibly the highest paid stagehand in America. AND YET NOT THE BRIGHTEST OR MOST AWAKE.

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

DIAZ Puppets backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House.

My name is John Diaz I am among other things an Officer (WHY IS THIS CLOWN AN OFFICER?) in Local One IATSE, and I am the Assistant Stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing And Con Arts.
I am the second Highest Stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera. My Brother was the Head Stagehand, he hired me and has retired now his son, my nephew inherited the position of Head Stagehand.(WHY!?) IN VIOLATION OF U.S. LABOR LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. HIRING RELATIVE OVER RANK AND FILE IS DISCRIMINATION AND ILLEGAL.
I am the Head of the Night Gang. With pay and benefits including pension and multiple annuities I am possibly the Highest paid stagehand in America.(???) I make close to $600,000 yearly with these two jobs. Plus, I have a pension and millions in my annuities!!

My other nephew is the Stage Right Boss or Carpenter. Our family pulls literally millions out of the Metropolitan Opera yearly. I can't say how many of my relatives work there.
I will say here like all the other venues Family Heads discriminate illegally in violation of U.S. Constitutional and Labor Law against Rank and file members.

I know the law, because like the other officers I study Labor Law at Cornell.
We don't use labor law for the benefit of the Rank and File, like officers are supposed to, we use labor law as a tool to discriminate and retaliate against those who are not in our families.(THE RANK AND FILE).
I use labor law to (ILLEGALLY) manage my family's hold on the Stage Jobs at the Metropolitan Opera
, and I see to it that all the other families around the business, especially Broadway Theaters keep hold of jobs for their families even though the father and son union violates U.S. Constitutional and Labor Law.
We all manage a Rico and Ponzi Scam against the Rank and File members and hold illegal trials against members choosing to exercise their Constitutional Right to Free Speech guaranteed by U.S. Constitutional and Labor law.
We do so Willfully, Deliberately, and in Conspiracy
To put an end to Free Speech and stifle the re unionization efforts from the Rank And File membership.

The Metropolitan Opera is the Largest Employer of Stagehands in NYC.
My job as an officer is provided to me so that I will guarantee the vote of those members by making their jobs dependent on how they vote.
This provides the government of Local One with continuous opportunity to manage the various families illegal control of the theaters and studios. Nice work if you can get it. And we want to make sure that the jobs and control go to our families even if we violate U.S. Constitutional Law and Labor LAW.

I never stood up for the Cohen Brothers. They are a minority in this union. They have no power. It would have been correct of me to do so under Labor Law, but I overlooked my responsibility to free speech and free union and members rights just like the other officers.
I am a patsy just like the other officers.
I am Portuguese not Irish. I cannot work on Broadway and my family can't work on Broadway. No one on Broadway wants to work at the Met. The work is too hard and the hours too long and we don't have as good a contract as at the Broadway Theaters.

I never looked out for the minorities in this union like I could have. I do the dirty work of the Majority group at the expense of the Minority groups. I am not a union Democrat. I am a union Oligarch. I am unions gone undemocratic and corrupt.
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Former GM (and Local One member) Joe Volpe closed the Book on us. He knew we break scenery going into and out of the truck, and break scenery on stage so we can make overtime.
There has never been a piece of scenery gone unbroken by the Diaz family at the Met.

The Cohen and the Rank and File are not guilty. Broadway Stagehands Democracy is not guilty.We and the other families are guilty.
AT THE MET AND AT LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS DEMOCRACY IS DEAD ON STAGE TO THE RANK AND FILE FROM THE UNDEMOCRATIC OFFICERS AND HEADS AND THE ILLEGAL FAMILY CONTRACTS VIOLATING U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW!
Many have asked when do I sleep working all night at the Met and all day at the Union? Well, I do not think of sleep or union democracy. I think about all the cash me and my family are making and all the theater families are making at the expense of the Rank and File members.
IF IT IS NOT A CLUB FOR ALL MEMBERS, THEN IT IS A DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY SYSTEM. IF CALLED TO TESTIFY IN CIVIL OR FEDERAL COURT I WILL NOT TAKE THE RAP FOR THEM!

THE REAL DEAL:

MET HAULS IN FIRST DAY SALES RECORD Box office takes in TAKES IN 2.5 MILLION YET CUTS PAY FOR RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS (BLAME THE DIAZ CLAN! AND McGARTY AND WEKSELBLATT) for 2009-10 season. DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS ON STAGE AT THE MET ARE DEAD TO THE RANK AND FILE DUE TO CORRUPT, LAZY AND INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP.
"DIZZY DADDY DIAZ"Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Anonymous said...

What's the deal? Did Diaz finally see the light. It appears that he and Claffey no longer exchange Christmas cards.
Is there any truth to the rumor that Diaz will run against "The Rug" in the next election?
BSD SAYS YES TO CLAFFEY NO TO DIAZ.
WHERE ARE OUR REAL JOBS AT THE MET AND ALL OF LINCOLN CENTER DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS!

DIAZ PUPPETS AT THE MET

Photo by Ken Howard



BSD SAYS NO TO DIAZ YES TO CLAFFEY. WHERE ARE OUR JOBS DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS???

CITY OPERA UPDATE NO MONEY FOR US BUT...

Mortier Flew First Class, Made $400,000 at City Opera (Update1)


George Steel, director, NYC Opera

George Steel, artistic and general director of the New York City Opera. Photographer: Timothy Greenfield Sanders/New York City Opera via Bloomberg News

Gerard Mortier, brief head of the New York City Opera. He is currently general director of the Teatro Real of Madrid. Photographer: Lies Willaert via Bloomberg

The New York City Opera, which just reported a $19.9 million deficit in 2008-09, paid Gerard Mortier $400,000 for his stint as part-time general-manager in-waiting.

The tax return for the year ending in June 2009 suggests City Opera’s financial problems remain considerable.

A spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declined to comment.

HOW MUCH WILL CLAN DIAZ AND CLAN IRISH COST THEMSELVES, THE CITY AND LINCOLN CENTER

Lincoln Center Updates Plaza and Maybe Its Liability. DO YOY HAVE CLASS ACTION INSURANCE?



In the brightness of morning, when the sun glints off the gushing fountain, or at twilight, as people cross the travertine on their way to performances, the plaza at Lincoln Center can be one of New York’s tranquil oases.


DIAZ IS AND CONTINUES TO BE A GELB PUPPET. REMEMBER THIS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

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Peter Gelb, who recently has been asking the Met’s rank and file for salary concessions, had his own compensation bumped up 36% for the 2007-08 season.

According to Bloomberg News, Gelb earned about $1.5 million during his second year as the Met’s general manager.

What La Cieca finds particularly intriguing about the Bloomberg piece is that it reveals that Gelb still takes home a smaller paycheck than Joe Volpe did at the end of his Met incumbency. http://media.npr.org/programs/wesat/joevolpe200.jpgUncle Joe’s final haul was $1.7 million for the financial year ending July 2006.

WILL THE R&F GET SCREWED AGAIN THIS SUMMER AT THE MET AND LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL?

Gunn, Phillips, Fabiano and More Sing Free Met Summer Recital Concerts in July

PlaybillArts - ‎May 17, 2010‎
By PlaybillArts Staff The Met has announced details for its annual Summer Recital Series to be held in all five boroughs July 12-29. ...

City Parks Foundation & Met Opera Announces The Met at SummerStage 7/12-29

Broadway World - ‎May 17, 2010‎
City Parks Foundation, in association with The Metropolitan Opera, today announced a series of free operatic recitals as part of the 2010 season of ...

Is the Metropolitan Opera Laying the Groundwork to End its Free Summer Concerts?

The L Magazine - Henry Stewart - ‎May 18, 2010‎
This year, the Metropolitan Opera will again feature a scaled back summer outreach to the outer boroughs concert series, focusing instead on a ten-day ...

BOB NIMMO MBA, ED McMAHON, KEVIN McCARTHY, WILL WE GET REAL WORK OR WILL THE SCAM CONTINUE?





2010 Tony Awards to Be Held on June 13, 2010


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The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2010 (8:00-11:00 p.m., live EST) on the CBS Television Network. The awards honor theatre professionals and distinguished achievement on Broadway. The cut-off for nomination eligibility on the 2009-2010 Broadway Season will be April 29, 2010.

The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.

The 2010 Tonys are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. At The Broadway League, Nina Lannan is Chairman and Charlotte St. Martin is Executive Director. At the American Theatre Wing, Theodore S. Chapin is Chairman and Howard Sherman is Executive Director. For Tony Award Productions, Alan Wasser and Allan Williams of Alan Wasser Associates are the General Managers.

Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss/White Cherry Entertainment are Executive Producers of the 2010 Tony Awards. Together, Kirshner and Weiss have been the recipient of four (4) Emmy's for their work on past Tony Award telecasts, most recently the Emmy Award in the Outstanding Special Class Program Category in 2008 for the 61st Annual Tony Awards"

The official Tony Awards web site, www.TonyAwards.com, is developed, designed, and hosted by IBM, an official partner of the Tonys.

Technical Reports BSD #1 and #2 AND #3 AND #10 WELL OVER 110,530 SEARCHES IN TWO MONTHS

It's official Diaz throws his tool belt into the ring. Makes move against our Jimmy C.

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"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CAPITALISTS AND LABORERS TO HAVE COMMON INTERESTS". samuel gompers





50 CARD MEN AND CARD WOMEN SIGNING IN TO THE UNION HALL EACH DAY PLUS THE MANY SEARCHING FOR WORK AND THE LARGEST EMPLOYER OF STAGEHANDS IN LOCAL ONE THE DIAZ CLAN AND THE OTHER MET HEADS DON'T CALL? AND YOU WANT US TO VOTE FOR YOU NO FUCKING WAY. HOW MANY NON CARDS AND DIAZ BOYS AT THE MET?

THIS JUST IN BSD TOPS MARCH 14 ADDS ANOTHER 38,530 SEARCHES PLUS HOLDS TOP 3 POSITIONS WITH BROADWAY SAL MOVING INTO THE TOP TEN AS WELL.



History

2010-4-14 - 30,500

2010-3-17 - 29,000

2010-2-12 - 43,000

plus 8,030 old BSD = 110,530

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN SEARCHED WELL OVER 110,530 TIMES ON JUST THIS SEARCH TERM ALONE. TIME PERIOD: 2/12 TO 4/14 ONLY TWO MONTHS!!!

ANOTHER 38,530 FOR APRIL SO FAR, ON JUST THAT ONE TERM PLUS THE REST.


WE ARE GLOBAL UNION DEMOCRACY.


WE HAVE THEN BEEN READ WELL OVER 110,530 TIMES IN JUST TWO MONTHS COUNTING OTHER SEARCH TERM, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND DOWN LOADS TO OTHER DEMOCRACY BLOGS.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU CITY JOURNAL.

"There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve, there is not wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish" samuel gompers.

"THE FREE PRESS FORWARD" (bsd editor and chief)

BSD WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE ENTIRE EDITORIAL STAFF AND CREW. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! BSD NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO RESPECTFULLY WE ARE UNION DEMOCRACY!!! OUR FRIENDS BROADWAYSALSSTAGEHANDDEMOCRACY 10, BROADWAYSTAGEHANDSREUNION #70. GREAT JOB GANG!!!

Website: broadwaystagehandsdemocracy.blogspot.com

said of boxers and now the BSD editors



"MY FEELING IS THEY'RE ALL TOUGH OR THEY WOULDN'T BE IN BOXING", BOXING'S GREATEST REF ARTHUR MERCANTE SR.

YES, ARTHUR WE ARE AMONG THE BEST AND THE TOUGHEST AND GETTING STRONGER AND TOUGHER BY THE DAY!

ARTHUR ALWAYS SAID, "VOTE CLAFFEY"

NBC'S CLAN REILLY CLAIM BETTY WHITE THEIR MOM AND GRANDMA!

NBC'S REILLY CLAN STAGEHANDS CLAIM BETTY WHITE THEIR MOM AND GRAND MA. BETTY SAYS, "WHO'S MOM AND GRANDMA"????

Betty White's 'Saturday Night Live' gig shows she's no average senior citizen

New York Daily News - David Hinckley - ‎May 9, 2010‎
Betty White, the oddest comet in our crowded celebrity sky, did nothing to diminish her stature last night as she hosted "Saturday Night Live. ...

Broadway Stagehands Democracy wishes BARBARA WALTERS a speedy recovery.

Barbara Walters to have Heart Valve Replaced

mediabistro.com (blog) - Chris Ariens - ‎54 minutes ago‎
ABC's Barbara Walters just announced on "The View" that she will be having her heart valve replaced later this week. Walters told viewers, "Lots of people have done this and I have known of this condition for a ...
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OUR UNION TELLS US TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC YET 11 DAYS AFTER ATTACK OBAMA CUTS FUNDING

Despite a terrorist attack in New York just 11  days ago the federal government is cutting counter-
Despite a terrorist attack in New York just 11 days ago the federal government is cutting counter-terrorism funds to the state. Obama will visit the NYPD tomorrow (AP PHOTO)

Just 11 days after a car bomb almost killed dozens in Times Square, the Obamaadministration today announced that they're further cutting New York's homeland security funding.The White House today announced that they are cutting funding for area mass transit security by $42 million – 27 percent – and for port security by $11.2 million, or 25 percent. Officials said the move will affect efforts to beef up security on subways, buses, bridges, rail lines, and the ports themselves, angering New York elected officials."This is definitely a slap in the face to New York," said Rep. Peter King (R - Nassau), the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee. New York's senior Senator, Charles E. Schumer (D) this afternoon also blasted the administration.“For the administration to announce these cuts two weeks after the attempted Times Square bombing shows they just don’t get it and are not doing right by New York City on anti-terrorism funding," said Schumer. "We urge them to reconsider this decision. Instead of distributing funding all over the country, they should focus their attention where the greatest threat exists, right here in New York.”New York's funding was already cut from 25 percent in 2005 to 17 percent now.The announcement comes as Obama is expected to visit NYPD headquarters tomorrow during a visit to New York.

Schumer on Administration's Security Cuts: 'They Just Don't Get It'

New York Observer - Reid Pillifant - ‎6 hours ago‎
Yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer insisted he isn't a harsh critic of the Obama administration. "In general I've been very supportive of ...

Federal authorities on Thursday raided several locations in the Northeast and took two people into custody as part of an investigation into the failed Times Square car bombing, which Obama administration officials ...

MICHAEL SAVAGE AND THE SAVAGE NATION NOT BANNED HERE. WE HAVE EMPTY SUITS ALSO!











MICHAEL SAVAGE YOU MAY BE BANNED IN BRITAIN BUT YOU ARE NOT BANNED HERE! WE LOVE YOU MICHAEL AND SUPPORT YOU. OUR UNION HAS EMPTY SUITS BUSINESS AGENTS. WHILE THE EMPTY SUITS VIOLATE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LABOR LAW

APOLLO THEATRE'S OWN WALK OF FAME/BLACK STAGEHANDS CAN'T WORK ON BROADWAY SHAME

ILLEGAL SEGREGATION ALLOWS BROADWAY AND ALL THEATRICAL STEADY FULL TIME JOBS TO GO TO LARGELY WHITE IRISH MALES. HOUSE CREWS ARE COMPOSED OF THE SONS OF DEPARTMENT HEADS AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS AND OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS AT VENUE AFTER VENUE. BLACKS HOUSE CREWS WORK AT APOLLO THEATER AND JAZZ AND LINCOLN CENTER. THE YEAR 2010 AND LOCAL ONE STILL APPLIES AN OUTDATED PLESSY VS FERGUSON TYPE OF SEGREGATION HIRING POLICY AT IT'S VENUES. SEPARATE BUT EQUAL VIOLATES U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. IT WAS LANDMARK IN 1896, BUT NOT TODAY IN NEW YORK CITY 2010.

BP SUFFERS DOWN GRADE FAILS TO PLAN AHEAD SAME WITH PINOCCHIO NIMMO AND THE OFFICCERS

Like BP our officers fail to plan. PB (PINOCCHIO BOB)Nimmo, MBA says unify which is code for accepting discrimination. BSD and crews say, "NO WAY", as problems continue.

BP robot team to tackle oil disaster. Who's tackling the disaster in Local One? WE ARE.

Deepwater Horizon

TIMES SQUARE BOMBER ARRESTED ABOUT TO BOARD FLIGHT TO DUBAI

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY THANKS ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR THE ARREST OF THE BROADWAY TALIBAN BOMBER. HE TRIED TO MAKE SCHUBERT ALLEY MEMORY LANE!



BSD asks the executive board are we insured FOR WHEN the inevitable DOES happen and Broadway is devastated and money stops pouring into the fund? Who will pay the pensions and medical etc???? The business could be devastated for years to come.

Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested Monday night as he prepared to  fly to Dubai and then on to Pakistan, officials said.
Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested Monday night as he prepared to fly to Dubai and then on to Pakistan, officials said.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS


Ex-CBS producer Robert Halderman sentenced to six months in prison for blackmailing David Letterman. BSD SAYS HE GOT OFF EASY IN A DEAL WITH LETTERMAN TO NOT SPEAK OR PUBLISH INTIMATE INFO. YES, A LUCKY SLAP ON THE WRIST.

JOE NEEDS TIES FOR CHRISTMAS, AND LIKE OUR OFFICERS AND HEADS A CONSCIENCE.Updated: Tuesday, May 4th 2010, 6:01

Robert Halderman is forbidden to have any contact with David  Letterman until 2018.
Hermann for News
Robert Halderman is forbidden to have any contact with David Letterman until 2018.

MICHAEL SPROULE FROM LAW FIRM AKABAS AND SPROULE THANKS FOR STOPPING BY AGAIN AND AGAIN. CAN YOU HELP THE TRIED AGAINST, DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AND TIERED AGAINST VICTIMS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE'S SCAM AGAINST US? Featured Author


  • The Internet in the Public Interest..."IT IS NO WONDER THAT REPRESSIVE REGIMES FROM CHINA TO SAUDI ARABIA VIEW THE OPEN INTERNET AS A THREAT" (HOW TRUE MICHAEL AND LOCAL ONE OFFICERS AND HEADS! THANK YOU MICHAEL!

In its short life, the Internet has quickly proven itself to be a boon to free speech. It’s no wonder that repressive regimes from China to Saudi Arabia view an open Internet as a threat.

The Internet is a free and open market. But it is also a public service. So far, we’ve been lucky that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” has led us in the right direction, but we may not always be so lucky. There will likely come a time when society will have to take a more active role in ensuring that the Internet is operated in the public interest.

JIMMY CLAFFEY WINS LOCAL ONE PRESIDENCY 2010!!!

Claffey re-ups at Local OnePresident of stagehands' union gets third term By GORDON COX


James J. Claffey Jr. has been re-elected for a third term as prexy of Local One, the Gotham area chapter of stagehands union IATSE.Claffey was first elected to the post in 2004 and then again in 2007. Later that year, the org's contentious contract renegotiations with the Broadway League prompted the union to call a strike that darkened more than 25 Main Stem productions for 19 days.Claffey, who was theatrical business manager at Local One prior to stepping up to president, was elected by a wide margin to a three-year term.The union chapter has about 3000 members, with about 2200 working at any one time and approximately 180-200 employed on Broadway.


Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com.

Congratulations MR. PRESIDENT CLAFFEY!!! The BSD editorial staff is Proud of our beloved president and very happy that we helped elect a winner! HAIL TO THE CHIEF!Congratulations Mickey Fox. WekSelblatt lands on his ass. WE ACCOMPLISHED THAT. GILOON FAILS IS HE HUMPING SCENERY WITH WESK AT THE MET?

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History MADE BY CLAFFEY.
EVEN CARMEN DIAZ VOTED FOR JIMMY!
REST IN PEACE LYNN REDGRAVE.
NEW VICTORY, MTC, JOYCE THEATER ET AL LOW PAYING VENUES:MIKE WESK, DAN GILOON NEED WORK. DOES THIS MEAN DANNY IS FIRED FROM NBC?
BSD REQUESTS ALL DONATIONS REGARDING THE PASSING OF PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO FROM UNION DEMOCRACY BE SENT TO FREEDOM FORUM WASHINGTON DC.

TALIBAN FAIL TO CLOSE BROADWAY!!! MAYOR BLOOMBERG LIES TO CITY. MET SELLS 2.2 M TICKETS DIAZ FOLLY

TIMES SQUARE BOMBER IN FRONT OF SAINT PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.
PHOTOS: Shahzad, believed to be the man in the pic above, was  arrested while trying to leave the country on board a plane departing  for Dubai. CLICK FOR PHOTOS OF THE TIMES SQ. CAR BOMB ATTEMPT.
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PHOTOS: Shahzad, believed to be the man in the pic above, was arrested while trying to leave the country on board a plane departing for Dubai. CLICK FOR PHOTOS OF THE TIMES SQ. CAR BOMB ATTEMPT.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/04/2010-05-04_times_square_bomb_plot_suspect_faisal_shahzad_says_he_acted_alone_traced_by_cell.html#ixzz0mybgCIb7
JIMMY'S IN AND WE HELPED MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
MAYOR BLOOMBERG LIES TO NEW YORK CITY JUST LIKE ON SEPTEMBER 11TH.
JOHN DIAZ/GELB FOLLEY CONTINUES AS MET OPERA SELLS 2.2 MILLION HIGH DEF TICKETS.
PAY THEM HOW MUCH????
GET TO WORK MICKEY FOX!

BSD HERE GETTING THE JOB DONE!
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BROADWAY FACES IT'S BIGGEST CHALLENGE SINCE THE STRIKE. Car bomb found in the heart of New York. BSD SAYS PAY THE STAGEHANDS ANYWAY. BLOOMIE WHY ARE YOU LYING TO THE CITY?
A deserted Times Square

(Cary Horowitz/Reuters)Times Square was uncharacteristically deserted

An empty Times Square

(Peter Foley/EPA)

Thousands of tourists and theatre-goers were evacuated, leaving Times Square empty
Aliou Niasse

(Neville Elder)Aliou Niasse, who spotted the car outside his street stall in Times Square.TIME SQUARE HERO

A NYPD officer in an bomb suit examines the Nissan Pathfinder  sport utility vehicle
(Brendan McDermid/Reuters)






New York City Police direct pedestrians behind barricades in Times  Square

NFL DRAFT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL/ OUR PHONES DID NOT RING!

NFL Draft FootballNFL draft prospects pose for photographs on the marquis of Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in New York. The NFL draft will begin on Thursday, April 22, 2010.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

AND THE NOMINEES ARE???




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MICKEY FOX SAYS CARDMEN FIRST! OUR BEST SCORE IN COOL SHADES.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY WOULD LIKE TO REMIND ALL OFFICERS AND CANDIDATES THAT YOU WILL BE SCRUTINIZED HERE AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW IN YOUR STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY SUPPORTS THESE CANDIDATES OR POTENTIAL CANDIDATES CURRENTLY

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY

(100,00 PLUS: A POWER HOUSE IN 6 WEEKS )


We believe many, many more reads are coming in than our technical support documents, as they are only documenting the major search term BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY. MANY ARE BEING BROUGHT IN USING OTHER SEARCH TERMS. WE ALSO HAVE MANY SUBSCIBERS WHICH WE CANNOT KEEP TRACK! OVER 300 BLOGS HAVE PICKED UP OUR QUOTES, COMMENTS, PHOTOS ETC. MANY MORE WILL CONTINUE TO ADD THESE AS WELL. WE CANNOT COUNT ALL THE READERS BEING BROUGHT INTO THESE BLOGS, And then there is GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH. BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND THE WAYWARD HEADS WE ARE EMBARRASSING YOU HERE. YOU EARNED THE EMBARRASSMENT.

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WE ARE HERE FOR THE RANK AND FILE!



JIMMY, WE ARE A POWER HOUSE AND GETTING STRONGER BY THE DAY! WE ARE SUPPORTING YOU IN THE ELECTION AND HAVE BEEN CLEARING THE WAY FOR YOU FOR MONTHS IN ADVANCE IN ANTICIPATION OF THE ELECTION.

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIKED YOU AND BELIEVE IN YOU.

WE EXPECT OUR PIECE OF THE PIE. WE ANTICIPATE OUR GAINING A LARGER FOOTHOLD HERE AND WE WANT TO KEEP OUR OPTIONS OPEN IN THE FUTURE. ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER. OUR MEMBERS ARE TELLING US THAT NIMMO, McMAHON AND WEKSELBLATT ARE FINISHED. WE MADE THAT HAPPEN. WE ARE HERE GETTING THE JOB DONE.
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OUR EDITORIAL STAFF WHOLLY SUPPORTS, ENDORSES AND RECOMMENDS JIMMY CLAFFEY FOR REELECTION AND FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE STRENGTH AND POWER OF OUR UNION AND IT'S MEMBERSHIP, AND AN END TO DECLINING CONTRACTS



WE ARE PRO UNION AND PRO LOCAL ONE IATSE.

JIMMY CLAFFEY FOR PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, AND OUR ONLY BUSINESS AGENT SAYS BSD EDITORIAL STAFF.MR. BROADWAY VOTE CLAFFEY

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY: SUPPORTS THESE CANDIDATES OR POTENTIAL CANDIDATES CURRENTLY:

JIMMY CLAFFEY,

"SHOW ME A COMPANY THAT HAS NO STRIKES AND I'LL SHOW YOU A COUNTRY THAT HAS NO LIBERTY". samuel gompers and JIMMY CLAFFEY

President of Local 1 Stagehands Union James J. Claffey, Jr. ,  right, is interviewed by reporters as he leaves contract negotiations  Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007 in New York. Talks ended Tuesday morning between  striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers without a deal to end  the labor dispute that has darkened theaters for more than two weeks,  the union said. AP Photo logo AP Photo 29 months ago President of Local 1 Stagehands Union James J. Claffey, Jr. , right, is interviewed by reporters as he leaves contract negotiations Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007 in New York. Talks ended Tuesday morning between striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers without a deal to end the labor dispute that has darkened theaters for more than two weeks, the union said.







BOB SCORE,

DANNY THORNE, ANTHONY MANO, JOE LAVAIA, QUALITY, INTEGRITY, ABILITY. WE ARE CONSIDERING MICKEY FOX AND BIG JOE MAHER. BOTH AN IMPROVEMENT TO WHAT WE HAVE NOW.

WE REQUEST ALL LOCAL ONE MEMBERS VOTE FOR THESE CANDIDATES.

DO MORE THAN JUST CONSIDER THEM. VOTE FOR THEM.

WE ALSO SUPPORT, ENDORSE, AND RECOMMEND THAT THE MEMBERSHIP

VOTE OUT PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO, MBA.

TIME TO PUT IN YOUR RETIREMENT PAPERS PINOCCHIO. HEAD FOR THE SHOWERS WE BOMBED YOU OUTTA THE GAME.

NIMMO, A DEAD DUCK FOR UNION DEMOCRACY. A SNOWBALLS CHANCE IN HELL HE'LL BECOME A LABOR LAW SUPPORTER. DEAD TO THE RANK AND FILE.

"THE YEAR 2009 WAS DIFFICULT FOR THE LOCAL", YES IT WAS AND YOUR LACK OF DEMOCRACY AND FAIR PLAY MAKES IT CONSISTENTLY DIFFICULT FOR THE RANK AND FILE. "WE MUST STAY UNITED", YOU NEVER UNITED THE MEMBERS. YOU DISINTERGRATED THE MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCRIMINATION AND A LACK OF UNION DEMOCRACY AND FAIR PLAY.

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MIKE ASSHOLE WESKELBLATT, EDDIE McMAHON, KENNY McGARTY, JOHN DIAZ.



WE DO NOT SUPPORT DAN DASHMAN AS TRUSTEE, PAUL DEAN JUNIOR, ROBERT GORT.

MANNY DIAZ AND DAN GILLOON ARE AN EMBARASSMENT TO UNION DEMOCRACY .









McGARTY WILL LAND ON HIS FEET.

WEKSELBLATT WILL LAND ON HIS ASS

AND MAYBE IF HE'S LUCKY HE CAN HUMP SCENERY WITH DIAZ AND THE NIGHT GANG AT THE MET.

















Stagehands John Joseph Kelly, foreground left, and Sean Fedigan,  foreground right, chat as they picket Nov. 24, 2007 outside the Neil  Simon Theatre in New York where Kelly is a stagehand for _Hairspray_.  Fedigan is a stagehand for _Jersey Boys_ at the August Wilson Theatre  across the street. YES, THE PRODUCERS WOULD FIRE ANYONE FOR AN EXTRA BUCK BUT SO WOULD THESE AND OTHER ANTI UNION DEMOCRACY OFFICERS AND THE HEADS THEY REPRESENT IN THE SCAM AGAINST US.



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s April 20, 2010, 5:42PM ET

Probe: NY State Theatre director employed family

The longtime producing director of the New York State Theatre Institute violated state laws against nepotism by repeatedly hiring family at a cost of nearly $700,000, according to the state inspector general.

With her full control over hiring and little board oversight, Patricia Snyder selected herself and close relatives for more than 300 jobs with more than 90 percent of NYSTI productions, Inspector General Joseph Fisch said Tuesday. Snyder also oversaw an additional $475,000 in questionable expenses, including more than $150,000 on rent for a Manhattan studio apartment, he said.

"A public authority is not a family business, nor a family employment agency," Fisch said. He called it "an outrageous misappropriation" of public money.

It puts on several productions annually and had a $3.6 million budget last year. Snyder, 69, currently has a salary of $127,050. The report focused on 2004-2009.

She and family members took jobs at NYSTI as director, producer, actor, author, narrator, musician, sound technician, composer, arranger, programmer, illustrator, instructor and office assistant, the report said. In a typical October-May season, the institute puts on six or seven stage productions, usually at the Sage Colleges theater in Troy, near NYSTI's offices, on weekdays for school groups and evenings and weekends for the general public.

In his 127-page report, Fisch noted that the state's Public Officers Law has long-standing restrictions against unwarranted privileges and financial conflicts of interest. He faulted Snyder's use of NYSTI funds to pay expenses, including: $38,317 for 83 chauffeured rides between New York City and Saratoga Springs or Troy for herself, family, staff and cast members; more than $31,000 on opening night receptions and cast parties and nearly $85,000 on meal expenses that appeared to be disallowed by state rules.

Fisch also criticized Snyder for acquiring adaptation rights to "Miracle on 34th Street" on behalf of NYSTI, then transferring the rights to herself and her son William. They profited each time the play was staged, earning more than $38,000 each, the report said.

David Morris, NYSTI chairman, said Tuesday the board is "deeply concerned" by some allegations and has taken some immediate remedial steps, but hopes the report won't be used as "a political pretext" to curtail the institute's work. The board put a hold on family hiring and ended the Manhattan apartment lease.

Fish forwarded the report to the state Commission on Public Integrity and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for review.



WAKE UP DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS

WAKE UP DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS? ANN ZIFF CAN YOU HELP US?


Saturday, March 27, 2010

BINGO: DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS WAKE UP DOPES THE RICH GIVE THEM MONEY!!! 30 MILLION TODAY. SNAP OUT OF YOUR COMA! SHE'S CHAIRWOMEN OF LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS (UNION CON ARTS) AND CARNEGIE HALL.

Metropolitan Opera Receives $30 Million Gift. BSD SAYS JOHN DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS WAKE UP FROM SLEEP YOU DOPES! GELB STILL CRYING THE BLUES??? VOLPE CAN YOU DIG IT? NOW NEGOTIATE LIKE HELL FOR THE RANK AND FILE AND STOP SHOOTING CUPID ARROWS AT BOTH GELB AND VOLPE.
ANN ZIFF CAN YOU HELP THE TRIED AGAINST, TIERED AGAINST AND DISCRIMINATED MEN AND WOMEN VICTIMS OF THE LOOP AT CARNEGIE HALL, THE MET AND LINCOLN CENTER???
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: March 26, 2010
The philanthropist Ann Ziff has given $30 million to the Metropolitan Opera (FUTURE CHAIRWOMEN OF LINCOLN CENTER AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF CARNEGIE HALL), the largest single gift from an individual in its history.
Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and Ann Ziff.
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The Met is projecting a deficit of as much as $4 million for the current fiscal year. (PLUS 30 MILLION EQUALS 26 MILLION IN THE BLACK) ARE YOU READING THIS DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS, AND THE RANK AND FILE?



JOHN DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? YOU CERTAINLY DON'T WORK FOR THE RANK AND FILE. YOU WORK FOR UNION CORRUPTION, NOT UNION DEMOCRACY.
Who to whom

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figures?

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Peter Gelb, who recently has been asking the Met’s rank and file for salary concessions, had his own compensation bumped up 36% for the 2007-08 season.

According to Bloomberg News, Gelb earned about $1.5 million during his second year as the Met’s general manager. Since then he and the Met’s senior staff have taken 10% cuts.

What La Cieca finds particularly intriguing about the Bloomberg piece is that it reveals that Gelb still takes home a smaller paycheck than Joe Volpe did at the end of his Met incumbency. Uncle Joe’s final haul was $1.7 million for the financial year ending July 2006.42 comments

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Peter Gelb’s million-dollar salary and the wit and wisdom of George Steel (”Things are tough”) are among the axes ground in Sunday’s Tony Tommasini think piece. [NYT]


OUR OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT THE RANK AND FILE WONDER WHOS WHO? DEP OF LABOR CAN YOU HELP US?

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THIS JUST IN:MORE CORRUPTION

Spitzer Lands Teaching Job at City College of New York. CITY COLLEGE


WHY NOT HIRE A TEACHER WHO UNDERSTANDS MORALITY, ETHICS AND WHO IS A BETTER ROLE MODEL,


INSTEAD OF ONE WHO PAYS TO ROLL WITH "MODELS"?



Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will teach in the same department where his father, Bernard Spitzer, established an endowment for the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science.



WE NEED A CLASS ACTION EMPLOYMENT ATTORNEY ABLE TO MANAGE A LABOR LAW SUIT AGAINST OUR UNION

RANK AND FILE MEMBERS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE ARE REQUESTING A WORLD CLASS LABOR LAW FIRM TO MANAGE AND ADMINISTER A LAWSUIT AGAINST LOCAL ONE IATSE REGARDING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACKS, WOMEN, AND NON IRISH WORKERS BEING DISCRIMINATED BY THE IRISH FAMILIES ILLEGALLY RUNNING AND MANAGING LOCAL ONE IATSE AND ALL VENUES IN THE JURISDICTION OF LOCAL ONE IATSE AND ALL MANAGEMENT VENUES NEGLIGENTLY ALLOWING DISCRIMINATION TO OCCUR.


WAKE UP DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS? ANN ZIFF CAN YOU HELP US?

Saturday, March 27, 2010

BINGO: DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS WAKE UP DOPES THE RICH GIVE THEM MONEY!!! 30 MILLION TODAY. SNAP OUT OF YOUR COMA! SHE'S CHAIRWOMEN OF LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS (UNION CON ARTS) AND CARNEGIE HALL.Metropolitan Opera Receives $30 Million Gift. BSD SAYS JOHN DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS WAKE UP FROM SLEEP YOU DOPES! GELB STILL CRYING THE BLUES??? VOLPE CAN YOU DIG IT? NOW NEGOTIATE LIKE HELL FOR THE RANK AND FILE AND STOP SHOOTING CUPID ARROWS AT BOTH GELB AND VOLPE.

ANN ZIFF CAN YOU HELP THE TRIED AGAINST, TIERED AGAINST AND DISCRIMINATED MEN AND WOMEN VICTIMS OF THE LOOP AT CARNEGIE HALL, THE MET AND LINCOLN CENTER???
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: March 26, 2010
The philanthropist Ann Ziff has given $30 million to the Metropolitan Opera (FUTURE CHAIRWOMEN OF LINCOLN CENTER AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF CARNEGIE HALL), the largest single gift from an individual in its history.

(PLUS 30 MILLION EQUALS 26 MILLION IN THE BLACK) ARE YOU READING THIS DIAZ AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS, AND THE RANK AND FILE?
“It’s not enough to save us,” Mr. Gelb said, but “it’s a very timely and important gift from a longtime supporter of the Met.” (OH YES IT IS) AND GIVE OUR GUYS A PAY INCREASE.
Ms. Ziff, the secretary of the Met’s board, will become co-chairwoman of the board in May, taking over the role of chairwoman next year.

Ms. Ziff, 63, said she was fully behind Mr. Gelb’s efforts.
“If the great arts organizations of the world — and I think perhaps the Met is the greatest — start cutting back, we’re cutting back on cultural heritage in this country,” she said. “It’s a good time to keep up our standards, keep pushing for the best.”
Ms. Ziff was married to William B. Ziff Jr., the publishing executive behind publications like Car and Driver and PC Magazine, who died in 2006. Her mother, Harriet Henders, was a soprano who performed with conductors like Arturo Toscanini and George Szell. “Opera has been in my blood since I was little,” she said in an interview at the Met on Friday.
She is also a vice chairwoman at Lincoln Center and recently joined the Carnegie Hall board.Shift of Funds at the Metropolitan OperaNew York Times (blog) - Robin Pogrebin -

$75 Million Renovation of City Center Of Music and Drama Union Cards?

Arts End the Local One's Scam against the Rank and File at City Center of Music and Drama. Renovation of everything but the Union Card.

City Center to Begin $75 Million Renovation

Published: March 16, 2010

City Center, dedicated by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1943 as Manhattan’s first major performing arts center, is embarking on a $75 million renovation and restoration of its landmark neo-Moorish building on West 55th Street.

Polshek Partnership Architects

A computer rendering of New York City Center’s renovated 55th Street façade.

A rendering of New York City Center’s renovated mezzanine lobby bar.

THE BUSINESS AGENTS SNAKES CONFESS FOR SAINT PATRICK

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ST. PATRICK DROVE THE SNAKES OUT OF IRELAND AND THEY CAME TO AMERICA TO MISMANAGE THE UNION.

My name is Pinocchio Bob Nimmo, M.B.A and I pick Saint Patrick's Day to Confess.

My name is Mike Sonny Boy Weskelblatt and I pick Saint Patrick's Day to Confess.

My name is Kenny Boy McGarty and I pick Saint Patrick's Day to Confess.

My name is Ed Boy McMahon and I pick Saint Patrick's Day to confess.

We manage the Scam against the Rank and File of Local One IATSE. We believe it is only fitting that we confess on Saint Patrick's Day.

Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland but we came to America to head and mismanage the union and supervise the decline of the contracts.

Our jobs are dependent on securing the best jobs for the Irish Loop in violation of U.S. Labor and Constitutional Law and keeping the non Irish as part timers and limiting their pension and benefits. Blacks, Women, Spanish and Non Irish Whites, Jews need not apply to our union.

We do so willfully, deliberately and in Conspiracy.

We were stunned by the Times Article and the Article in City Journal.

The jig is up.

If called to civil or federal court we will not hesitate to talk. We will not take the rap for the Irish families and heads.

We are patsies, most of the unions officers are Irish yes, and the non Irish among us have to pretend we are Irish and some of us with non Irish names are really half Irish also.

We pretend to be a union and we have some token non Irish members, and even as we speak we are making moves to appear to like the non Irish and give them work, but we are doing so only to fool the Rank and File, the Department of Labor, the Civil and Federal Courts and the Lawyers of the Plaintiff's.

The Class Action Lawsuit? More work for Giloon's P.A.C.

He has more than he can handle now!

GILOON'S PAC MONEY CAN'T HUSH THE MEDIA!

HE'S ALONE IN THE UNDEMOCRATIC DARK IN HIS DIRTY UNDERWEAR.
A BSD EDITORIAL:
THE TIMES HAS WRITTEN ABOUT LOCAL ONE'S RIP OFF OF THE RANK AND FILE, NOW CITY JOURNAL HAS WRITTEN ABOUT THE RIPOFF EVERYTHING IS FALLING INTO PLACE. THE WASTED PAC MONEY IS NOT STOPPING THE MEDIA FROM REPORTING THE TRUTH EVEN AS GILOON AND HIS CREW TRY TO SPREAD MONEY AROUND TO THE LOCAL POLITICO'S TO HIDE THE ONE'S SCAM AGAINST US.
NEXT STOP MORE AND MORE MEDIA JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON AND THEN THE INEVITABLE CITY, STATE, FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS. INDICTMENTS? WELL IT IS EXPECTED IN TIME. A LITTLE BIT MORE EACH DAY AND IN TIME THE INEVITABLE WILL OCCUR RIGHT NIMMO, WEKSELBLATT, McGARTY, McMAHON AND THE LOOP HEADS MANAGING THE SCAM.
$500,000 A YEAR AT CARNEGIE HALL FOR EACH OF 5 STAGEHANDS WOULD PROVIDE 25 $100,00 A YEAR JOBS TO THE RANK AND FILE OR 50 $50,000 A YEAR JOBS OR VERY MANY PART TIME JOBS.
BOB NIMMO SAID THE UNION NEEDS MORE JOBS.
MORE JOBS IS NOT THE ANSWER BOB NIMMO.
THE REAL ANSWER: LESS BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND LESS OF THE ILLEGAL AND UNFAIR CORE LOOP.
BOB NIMMO KNOWS ALL TOO WELL THAT MORE JOBS WOULD MEAN THE IRISH LOOP WOULD GET FATTER AND FATTER ON WHAT SHOULD BE A SHARED MEAL!
BOB NIMMO AND THE BUSINESS MANAGERS WOULD ONLY GIVE MORE JOBS TO THE IRISH FAMILIES ESPECIALLY THE BEST JOBS AT THE "BEST" BUT MOST DISHONEST VENUES.
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE CONTRACTS WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM AND GET THE OFFICERS AND HEADS OUT OF HOT WATER.
WE HAVE TO ASK WHO IS PAYING WHO? IS CLIVE GILLINSON AT CARNEGIE HALL PAYING OFF THE BUSINESS AGENTS OR ARE THEY PAYING OFF GILLINSON?
IS THIS HAPPENING ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS?
SOMETHING STINKS THERE AND IT AINT FISH.
THE MET OPERA IS ANOTHER STORY, THE DIAZ CLAN HAS BEEN RAPING THE MET FOR DECADES, AND IT IS ONLY GOING TO HURT THE UNION AND THE RANK AND FILE.
ALL IN ALL THE BUSINESS AGENTS UNDER THE SENIORITY OF BROADWAY AND PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR MANAGING THE SYSTEM FOR THE RANK AND FILE OF THE UNION AND THEY CONTINUE TO FAIL IN THIS CREATING A WILLFUL, DELIBERATE AND CONSPIRED ACTION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE.

MADOFF VICTIMS TO GET MONEY FROM MADOFF WINNERS WILL THE RANK AND FILE SCORE BIG FROM THE OFFICERS AND HEADS RAPING THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE?


WE BRING IN CITY JOURNAL AND THEY COMMENT ON BOTH THE CARNEGIE HALL SHAM AND THE DIAZ SHAM AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA AT LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS.CLAN CARNEGIE HALL, WE BRING IN THE TIMES AND THEY WRITE STORY

AT CLAN CARNEGIE HALL AND ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS THE BUSINESS AGENTS ICE OUT THE RANK AND FILE SO THE LOOP BOYS MAKE PENSION AND BENEFITS. NO SOUP FOR YOU IN THE FORM OF A FULL TIME JOB AND PENSION AND BENEFITS SO BENEFITS PAID BY MANAGEMENT DON'T GO TO THE RANK AND FILE BECAUSE OF THE DISCRIMINATORY TIER SYSTEM. THE HEART OF THE SCAM. MANAGEMENT PAYS THE UNION BENEFITS BUT THE UNION SAYS SORRY NO PENSION AND BENEFITS FOR YOU. THEN THE PENSION FUND GROWS AND GROWS AND WE DON'T GET OUR BENEFITS. NICE SCAM. YET STILL A SCAM. THE UNION DOES NOT WANT MORE STAGEHANDS TO GET JOBS BECAUSE JOBS MEAN THE UNION HAS TO PAY OUT PENSIONS. SLICK SLICK SLICK.

BROKEN PROMISES AND FIDUCIARY EXPECTATIONS AS LOCAL ONE AND DIAZ CLAN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST US

UNIONS FIGHTING FOR RELEVANCE YET LOCAL ONE TREATS RANK AND FILE LIKE ORPHANS LARGEST EMPLOYER MET OPERA UNDER THE DIAZ CLAN KEEPS US FROM OUR JOBS

YES UNIONS ARE FIGHTING FOR RELEVANCE

YET THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE ARE TREATED LIKE ORPHANS AND DENIED JOBS, PENSIONS,

AND BENEFITS


AND THOSE JOBS, PENSIONS AND BENEFITS ARE ILLEGALLY GOING TO THE FAMILIES OF OFFICERS AND HEADS.


EVEN AT THE LARGEST EMPLOYER OF STAGEHANDS IN LOCAL ONE IATSE, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA.


Unions fighting to reassert relevance!?

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LOOK OUT DIAZ CLAN VOLPE'S BACK AND THE METS GOT HIM FOR CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ONE

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THE REAL DEAL:VOLPE'S IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH LOCAL ONE ONCE AGAIN.

JOE VOLPE CAN YOU BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA?

WHY SO MANY DIAZ BOYS AND HOW IS THE WORK GETTING DONE JOE WHEN DIAZ HAS BOTH A DAY AND A NIGHT JOB?

WHEN DOES HE SLEEP?



MET HAULS IN FIRST DAY SALES RECORD Box office takes in TAKES IN 2.5 MILLION (BLAME THE DIAZ CLAN! AND McGARTY AND WEKSELBLATT) for 2009-10 season.

ALSO:

PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN 2007 AT 2.1 MILLION WHO ARE WEKSELBLATT AND McMGARTY AND DIAZ BULLSHITTING NOW

THE THREE OF THEM TOGETHER IN PAY AND BENEFITS MAKE 2 MILLION A YEAR!

CUT THEIR PAY NOT OUR PAY.

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New York Opera Rehires Manager

Wall Street Journal - Erica Orden - ‎1 hour ago‎
New York's Metropolitan Opera is bringing back Joseph Volpe, who left three years ago after 16 years as the company's general manager, ...













THE METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMONS JOE VOLPE TO DEAL WITH THE DIAZ CLAN

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Volpe Returning to Met for Labor Talks

The Metropolitan Opera has summoned Joseph Volpe, the former carpenter who rose to become its longtime general manager, to negotiate with its unions amid efforts to deal with large deficits.

The tough-minded Mr. Volpe retired from the Met in 2006 after 16 years as its general manager and 42 years as an employee. Bringing back a former top executive to an opera house is highly unusual, but especially in this case. There has been no love lost between Mr. Volpe and Peter Gelb, his successor as general manager.

They have clashed in the past and in an interview in 2006 Mr. Volpe noted that when he and Mr. Gelb overlapped for a season, his successor rarely asked for advice.

Now, with the contracts of the Met’s major unions expiring at the end of next season, Mr. Gelb has turned to Mr. Volpe for help.

“I’ve asked Joe to take on this assignment,” Mr. Gelb said, “because of his knowledge and extraordinary experience in successfully dealing with our unions over many years and because of his proven skill as a negotiator.” The move was reported in Friday’s Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Gelb’s ambitious plans at the Met have led to heavy spending and growing deficits although, like opera houses and orchestras around the country, it is also suffering from the effects of the recession. A large portion of the Met’s expenses come from its union employees, including the stagehands, orchestra and chorus.

Members of the Met’s staff took pay cuts last season, but the stagehands union declined Mr. Gelb’s request for a 10 percent decrease in pay. Instead, the stagehands, members of Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, agreed to give up a 3 percent raise this season and their contract was extended to next year, when the raise goes into effect.

The Met said Mr. Volpe would begin leading negotiations in the coming months.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS VOLPES RETURN TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

Joe Volpe returns to Met Opera for labor talks

NEW YORK – Joseph Volpe is returning to the Metropolitan Opera nearly four years after his retirement to head the company's upcoming labor negotiations.

Volpe worked for the Met for 42 years and ran the company for 16 seasons until Peter Gelb took over as general manager in July 2006. Most of the Met's labor contracts expire at the end of the 2010-11 season.

Gelb said in a statement Friday that Volpe was being brought back "because of his proven skill as a negotiator."

Senior management took a 10 percent pay cut on Dec. 1, 2008, and the rest of administrative staff took a 10 percent cut last Aug. 1. Stagehands who had been due a 2.5 percent salary raise in June delayed it until the 2010-11 season.

Heavy' DIAZ CLAN at the Metropolitan Opera Leaves RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS Hungry FOR WORK AND BENNIES


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THE MET KEEPS THIS GOING TOO AGAINST ALL OF US.



THE THING ABOUT THE LOW PAYING VENUES, THEY BRING IN MEMBERS STRUGGLING TO MAKE PENSION BENEFITS,

A KEY COMPONENT OF THE UNION'S SCAM AGAINST THE NON FAMILY MEMBERS IS TO HAVE MEMBERS WORKING AND BRINGING IN PENSION BENEFITS INTO THE LARGE PENSION FUND.

THE OFFICERS AND HEADS THEN KEEP THE MEMBERS FROM MAKING PENSION BENEFITS USING THE DISCRIMINATORY AND ILLEGAL AND UNDEMOCRATIC TIER SYSTEM AND REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF WORK THE MEMBERS ARE GIVEN AND PROVIDING THE HEADS, THEIR RELATIVES AND THE RELATIVES OF THE OFFICERS FLOODED WITH WORK WHILE

THE MEMBERS THEN ARE KEPT FROM MAKING PENSION CREDIT AND THE UNION KEEPS THE BENEFITS ACCRUING IN THE FUND FOR THE 500 RELATIVES AND OFFICERS AND HEADS MAKING BENEFITS YEAR AFTER YEAR ESSENTIALLY GUARANTEED A FULL PENSION AND ESSENTIALLY DENYING THE RANK AND FILE THEIR LEGAL PENSION ACCRETION,

THEIR FIDUCIARY EXPECTATIONS. RIGHT COMMISSIONER DASHMAN, STAGEHAND, ATTORNEY AND TRUSTEE AIDING IN THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST US. TELL US YOU DON'T KNOW BETTER!

IN DELIBERATE, WILLFUL, AND CONSPIRED SCAM AGAINST US.

NEW VENUES AND MEMBERS MUST BE BROUGHT IN TO KEEP THE PENSIONS HIGH AND THE BENEFITS ACCRUING FOR THE FAMILIES AT THE EXPENSE OF THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS.

JOE VOLPE DOES THE MET VIOLATE US v OAKLAND SCAVENGER? YES IT DOES JOE.

UNITED STATES v LOCAL ONE IATSE

U.S. v LOCAL ONE IATSE

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE) NON IRISH, WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH NEED NOT APPLY TO LOCAL ONE IATSE! FOR THE BEST JOBS THE STEADY JOBS, THE SENIORITY SYSTEM, GUARANTEED BENEIFITS AND ADVANCEMENT IN THIS CORRUPT UNION! NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY.

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE)Cite as:


in assigning the better jobs with higher pay and more guaranteed hours to the shareholder-employees, who were exclusively of SAME ancestry, and (2) by limiting share ownership to persons who were of SAME ancestry and were either members of the family or close friends of a current shareholder.28

THE YEAR OF OBAMA IS 2009!AND THE OFFICERS, HEADS, AND NEGLIGENT MANAGEMENT ARE BREAKING UNITED STATES LAW.

Stagehands’ Dispute: Who’ll Build ‘Ring’ Set for the Met?

Stagehands’ Dispute: Who’ll Build ‘Ring’ Set for the Met?

Update | 5:07 p.m.

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Robert Lepage at the Met in 2008.

The Metropolitan Opera and its stagehands are in a dispute over who gets to build the huge set for the Met’s new “Ring” cycle scheduled to open next season.

Robert Lepage, the Canadian director, has been assigned the task of creating a new version of the cycle. Mr. Lepage creates all his productions at a workshop in Quebec, but the Met and the stagehands’ union, Local 1, agreed to divide the work.

Because his workshop is nonunion, the agreement called for a group of Met stagehands to work in Quebec. When Mr. Lepage’s team changed plans for the set — using steel instead of a lightweight material and moving the construction of another piece of machinery to Quebec from New York, according to the Met — the union filed a grievance on Monday. (The Met stagehands include expert welders.)

“I believe this will all be resolved,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager. “We certainly are interested in having a harmonious working relationship with Local 1 and at the same time realizing the theatrical imagination of one of the world’s great directors and designers.”

He said Mr. Lepage’s designs were experimental and evolving as construction proceeded. The director has been at work on the Met “Ring” since 2006.

A spokesman for Local 1, Bruce Cohen, had no further comment except to say that the union “expects a satisfactory resolution.”

UNITED STATES v LOCAL ONE IATSE

U.S. v LOCAL ONE IATSE

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE) NON IRISH, WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH NEED NOT APPLY TO LOCAL ONE IATSE! FOR THE BEST JOBS THE STEADY JOBS, THE SENIORITY SYSTEM, GUARANTEED BENEIFITS AND ADVANCEMENT IN THIS CORRUPT UNION! NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY.

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE)Cite as:


in assigning the better jobs with higher pay and more guaranteed hours to the shareholder-employees, who were exclusively of SAME ancestry, and (2) by limiting share ownership to persons who were of SAME ancestry and were either members of the family or close friends of a current shareholder.28

THE YEAR OF OBAMA IS 2009!AND THE OFFICERS, HEADS, AND NEGLIGENT MANAGEMENT ARE BREAKING UNITED STATES LAW.

THE SPECIAL MEETINGS AN ILLEGAL WINK, RIGHT COMMISSIONER!

The editorial staff of the BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY returned from our trip to Miami early just so we could attend the latest in a bullshit series of "SPECIAL MEETINGS" to cover and report to the rank and file. The meeting was not special like all the other meetings, this meeting was a WINK to the good old boy DEPARTMENT HEADS to illegally hire each others relatives and the relatives of the officers who were laid off. THE RANK AND FILE HAS BEEN LEFT OUT AGAIN ILLEGALLY AND IN VIOLATION OF OUR CIVIL AND LABOR RIGHTS. RIGHT ATTORNEY'S DASH AND SPIVAC? COMMISSIONER DASH WHY IS THIS SO?



BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY: BROADWAY BACKSTAGE

BACKSTAGE ON BROADWAY AND NEW YORK TELEVISION: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND UNION DEMOCRACY

SEARCHING FOR BROADWAY PINOCCHIO ROBERT NIMMO MBA AND THE OTHER LOST OFFICERS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE

TODAY SOME ONE SEARCHED BOB NIMMO, MBA BUSINESS MANAGER. WAS IT BOB NIMMO HIMSELF OR WAS IT SOMEONE SEARCHING BOB NIMMO. WAS IT THE TIMES AGAIN? WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR BOB NIMMO EVEN AS HE CONTINUES TO SEARCH FOR HIMSELF. WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR ALL OF THEM EVEN AS THEY EVADE THE RANK AND FILE AND THE LEGITIMATE LAWFUL UNION.



WE WILL CONTINUE TO SIT ON THEIR BACKS

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

We will continue to sit on their backs until the job is done.

Tiger admitted he was wrong, Why can't the officers and heads admit they are wrong?
Tiger Woods


BSD says, "They will continue to decline themselves, the union and the contracts until they get on the right track."
PATTON SLAPPING THE MALINGERING AND COWARDLY NIMMO, McGARDY, McMAHON, WEKSELBLATT, AND DEPARTMENT HEADS.

THE RICH GOLF, THE R AND F CREATE DEMOCRACY.


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WELCOME THE SCHUBERT ORGANIZATION:THREE VISITS (3)

WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK ALL OF OUR UNION MEMBERS AND ALL UNION MEMBERS TO BOYCOTT ALL NEW YORK THEATRICAL VENUES, INCLUDING LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND ALL BROADWAY SHOWS UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE ENDS,


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THE LANDRUM-GRIFFIN ACT

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The Landrum-Griffin Act fully supports the US Constitution in allowing all members of labor unions free speech in a public forum.Our publishing here in accordance with our rights to free speech in a labor context in a public domain is fully supported by the Landrum-Griffin Act which is the Labor Union Bill of Rights. Truth, Justice and the American Way!


WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH EVEN IF THIS MAN IN ILLEGAL RETALIATION ILLEGALLY DISAGREES

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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY CALLS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF BUSINESS AGENTS IN LOCAL 1 IATSE

"I believe he's taken an important step forward today in curbing the influence of executive compensation on Wall Street while still allowing these companies to succeed and prosper," Obama said at a White House event honoring veterans.
more by Barack Obama - 1 hour ago - CNNMoney.com (217 occurrences) OBAMA ON BERNEKE'S CALL FOR A CUT TO EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.

THE BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY ANVIL IS CALLING FOR AN END TO THE OUTRAGEOUS PAY OUR BUSINESS AGENTS ARE RECEIVING AND THE ELIMINATION OF THE POSITION OF BUSINESS AGENTS IN TELEVISION AND BROADWAY. WITH THE COLLAPSE OF TELEVISION CONTRACTS UNDER THE MISMANAGEMENT OF THE BUSINESS AGENTS WE MUST TAKE THIS POLITICAL STAND AND WE URGE ALL OUR MEMBERS TO CALL FOR AND END TO THE POSITION OF BUSINESS MANAGER. THIS WOULD SAVE THE UNION 2 MILLION A YEAR. LET THEM GO OUT AND WORK FOR A LIVING FOR A CHANGE.


Bruce Cohen, a Local One spokesman, declined to

comment.


MIKE WEKSELBLATT / YOM HASHOA

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Mike Wekselblatt on the Left(IN BOTH PICTURES) . Mike was the prosecutor of the Cohen Brothers in the illegal union trial of the Cohen Brothers held by the Theatrical Protective Union Local One IATSE.

By acting as the prosecutor in this case Mike Deliberately, Willingly and in Conspiracy violated the Cohen Brothers Civil Rights in violation of US Constitutional Law.


The Landrum-Griffin Act which, is the Labor Union Bill of Rights, was enacted to uphold and protect the US Constitutional rights of all members of all labor unions in the United States. This act essentially allows union members the same civil rights in or out of a union.

Mike and the trial officers acted illegally
in participating in this trial. They broke the law. And actually failed to uphold both the law and the legal union, while attempting to dupe the membership into thinking they had the authority to hold this trial when this trial was a willful, deliberate, and conspired unethical and illegal act against both the Cohens and the Rank and file membership.

Landrum-Griffin was passed by an Act of the US Congress, by both the House and the Senate and was upheld as United States Federal Law by United States Federal Court, upheld on Appeal by United States Federal Appeals Court and was upheld in Iron Clad approval by the United States Supreme Court. Mike knows better he attended Labor College and his wife is a teacher.

Mike and the trial officers chose to prosecute the case as an illegal retaliatory act against the Cohen Brothers to hide the fact that Mike and the trial officers manage a discriminatory and retaliatory system designed to deny Rank and File Union Members the rights under Labor Law to the Jobs, Pensions and Benefits that they are entitled to as members of the Union.

Mike and the trial officers unethically and illegally use what they learn in Labor College to violate US Labor Law and to manage an illegal and unethical retaliatory and discriminatory system. They essentially attempted to quash union members from exercising their right to free speech and free union.

Their quashing of free speech and free union was an illegal attempt to keep union members from reorganizing within the union to regain their rights. Free speech is protected by Landrum-Griffin to maintain union Democracy.

Thus quashing free speech quashes union democracy. Mike and the other trial officers are very far from true legal union leaders and true American Democrats.


All manage illegally through fear and intimidation. All are thugs not leaders or a democrats. They are vile and despotic. Labor criminals, not labor leaders.

Mike was also a minority patsy in a majority group doing the majority of the dirty work for this majority group. The savage lessons of history should have taught Mike the correct direction to follow as an appropriate pathway.

We hold Mike and other minority leaders of this union to even greater responsibility. We believe they are taking more advantage of their position towards greater disadvantage of the rank and file membership.

We believe this makes Mike and Bob Nimmo even more responsible in an historical and cultural context. Additionally the greater the education, the more compelling the event becomes. Accountability to those most accountable.

This does not reduce or eliminate the accountability of the majority group. They must also be held accountable.





Lori Wekselblatt was production stage manager at the New York City Center for the “Fall for Dance Festival” and stage manager for the Clinton Global Initiative ’06.Her Secret Shame (MW)

THE LANDRUM-GRIFFIN ACT ALLOWS ALL UNION MEMBERS FREE SPEECH WITHOUT RETALIATION

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MANNY DIAZ CONFESSES/NOT THE ONE WE WANT!

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On the Right of this picture, a rare Minority Department Head Manny Diaz, not a bad stagehand and most of the time not a bad guy, but not a true American Democrat. Manny provided false and illegal testimony in the illegal trial of the Cohen Brothers. Manny did so to bolster his own false standing with the union and to illegally convict the Cohen Brothers who were alleged by Manny and others to have operated a members website. The Landrum -Griffin Act allows all union members the right of free speech in or out of the union hall to maintain UNION DEMOCRACY. Manny claimed the brothers had stated to him that they operated the web site. There is no actual proof that they said they operated the website, nor is there is actual proof that they operated the website, but no matter, in America all Americans and all union members are entitled to free speech. Many members voted for acquittal. They stacked the deck against the Cohens bringing in members whose jobs depended on their providing false testimony. Not one tenured Labor College attending officer spoke up for the violation of United States Labor and Constitutional law. Neither did Stagehand, Attorney, and elected union Trustee Dan Dashman. The Democratic members of this union expected better of Manny. The minority members of this union expected better. We hold Manny to a higher standard because both the Cohens and Manny are minority members of the union. We hold Attorney Dashman to a higher standard, he certainly knows better. Manny also knows better. Manny failed to uphold UNION DEMOCRACY. Manny and many of the Department heads on Broadway and in television hire only heads so that the heads in turn will hire them leaving the rank and file non family members struggling to make tier and benefits in violation of Labor and Constitutional Law. The business agents do the same and also hire heads so they and their crews will vote for them denying the rank and file their share. The Brothers were fined thousands of dollars in court costs each illegally and banned illegally from union meetings for a significant period of time based on the illegal testimony of Manny and others. One brother was unemployed in the union at the time while another was working only part time. At the same time non cards were working full time and no union officer did anything about it. This is true to today as well.





MARSHALL ALSO CONFESSES

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I confess I am part of the loop. I am never out of work. I know many of you do not get the same amount of work as me. I also know that I am no better or worse than any one else. I know exactly why the rank and file are not getting their share. If called to civil or federal court I will testify. The others will to. We will not take the rap for them.



DAN GILLOON CONFESSES ALONE IN THE DARK IN HIS UNDERWEAR DREAMING OF MARGARET MEAD

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HIS NOSE GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER AS HE LIES ABOUT UNION DEMOCRACY. A SLUG TO THE RANK AND FILE. ANOTHER PUPPET ON A STRING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERSHIP.


P1010217 by DGilloon I confess yes I also participate in the scam against the rank and file membership. I do know better. I am never out of work and if called to civil or federal court under the penalty of law I will tell the truth. Yes now I really am begining to see the truth at least I think I am seeing the truth. Truth Justice and the American Way. So help Me God!. Yes the Cohens are not guilty.

One NYC StageHand- JOB PUPPET

One Stagehand's view of things. With over thirty years of experience of working in NYC as a stagehand, I'm just another old geezer who spends a great deal of time in the dark IN MY UNDERWEAR.

DAN GILLOON, K. McGARTY, M. WEKSELBLATT, SCHUBERT'S, JUJAMCYN'S, NEDERLANDER'S, CHARLOTTE ST. MARTIN

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Charlotte St. Martin
Executive Director
League of American Theatres and Producers
226 West 47th Street, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10036
Phone: +1-212.703.0222
cstmartin@broadway.org

SHOULD WE ALL BE EMAILING CHARLOTTE ST. MARTIN ASKING HER WHY THIS IS SO?


WHY WITH FEW FAMILY (DAUGHTER, WIFE) EXCEPTIONS ARE THE BROADWAY THEATERS AND ALL NEW YORK THEATERS MANNED BY WHITE, IRISH, LOOP BOYS? THE HIGHEST PAYING THEATERS ARE WHITE, MALE, IRISH ONLY!

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW TOKEN BLACKS AND SPANISH AND A FEW WOMEN ALL THEATRICAL JOBS IN NEW YORK ARE GOING TO IRISH, WHITE MALES AT THE HIGHEST AND BEST PAYING NEW YORK THEATRICAL VENUES AND ON BROADWAY.

BLACKS, WOMEN, SPANISH AND NON IRISH WHITE MALES WORK AT THE LOWER PAYING THEATRICAL VENUES NON BROADWAY IN ILLEGAL VIOLATION OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW AND OUR CIVIL RIGHTS.

THE BROADWAY STRIKE PROVED THIS. WATCH VIDEOS OF THE STRIKE TO PROVE THE ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION BY THE IRISH LOOP ON BROADWAY, LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND ALL THEATRICAL VENUES.

THE DISCRIMINATION CONTINUES AGAINST US
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UNION OFFICERS AND HEADS AS PUPPETS AND PUPPETEERS AS THE DISCRIMINATION CONTINUES AND IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE. WHERE IS MANAGEMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR?
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WHY ARE THE BUSINESS MANAGERS MANAGING A RETALIATORY AND DISCRIMINATORY SYSTEM

BUSINESS MANAGERS MANAGING THE DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY LOOP AGAINST LOCAL ONE IATSE RANK AND FILE.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WE THE RANK AND FILE NEED YOU TO MANAGE THE SYSTEM TO THE BENEFIT OF THE RANK AND FILE UNION MEMBERS BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN LOCAL ONE!








EXTRA:

THE REAL DEAL:

MET HAULS IN FIRST DAY SALES RECORD Box office takes in TAKES IN 2.5 MILLION, YET CUTS PAY FOR RANK AND FILE STAGEHANDS! (BLAME THE DIAZ CLAN! AND McGARTY AND WEKSELBLATT) for 2009-10 season



THE THREE CURLIES CONFESS/DO WE CHEAT THEM AND HOW!(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

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CURLY JOE DERITA PLAYS TONY DEPAULO

CURLY JOE DERITA PLAYS TONY DEPAULO ANOTHER MINORITY PATSY TAKING THE RAP FOR THE MAJORITY IRISH. SORRY CURLY, YOU ARE BUSTED BY OFFICER JOE BOLTON.
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WHOSE LAP IS HE SITTING ON AND IGNORING THE RANK AND FILE?

CURLY JOE BESSER PLAYS EDDIE McMAHON BA

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CURLY JOE BESSER PLAYS BUSINESS AGENT EDDIE McMAHON. NO PHOTO OF OUR EDDDIE McMAHON IS AVAILABLE WE USED ED McMAHON'S PHOTO TO HELP YOU REMEMBER THE NAME. JUNIOR BA BUT KNOWS THE LOOP AND PLAYS THE GAME AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE. OUR APOLOGY TO THE FAMILY OF ED MCMAHON FOR ASSOCIATING YOUR ED WITH OUR EDDIE. ONLY EDDIE IS MISREPRESENTING OUR CARDS.

CURLY HOWARD PLAYS KEVIN McGARTY

CURLY HOWARD PLAYS KEVIN McGARTY BIRDING THE RANK AND FILE WHILE HE ILLEGALLY PARLAYS THE IRISH LOOP BOYS INTO MILLIONAIRES AT THE EXPENSE OF THE NON IRISH WHITES, SPANISH, WOMEN AND CARDS OF COLOR. WE ARE HERE BIRDING HIM RIGHT BACK! RIGHT CURLY. CURLY IS ON THE RIGHT OF THIS PICTURE. MIKE WEKSELBLATT IS ON THE LEFT. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE TWO OF THEM DO THEY LOOK LIKE ENLIGHTENED DEMOCRATIC UNION LEADERS OR DO THEY LOOK LIKE THUGS?




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TV IT NEVER LOOKED WORSE

THE ROAD IS CLEARED FOR CABLE NOT BROADCAST AS: General Electric buys minority stake in NBC from Vivendi

Vivendi sells its 20% slice of NBC for £3.5bn

  • Tuesday 1 December 2009 16.52 GMT
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The French conglomerate Vivendi has agreed to offload its minority stake in NBC Universal to co-owner General Electric, in a deal paving the way for a politically contentious takeover of the US television, film and online broadcasting empire by the cable provider Comcast.

Sources close to the companies say that Vivendi is selling its 20% slice of NBC for $5.8bn (£3.5bn), in an agreement struck in Paris between Vivendi's boss, Jean-Bernard Lévy, and GE's chief, Jeffrey Immelt.

This transaction will mean that GE owns 100% of NBC and it will allow the sprawling US industrial group to press ahead with an imminent plan to sell a majority of the business to Comcast – a buyout that could reshape a large part of the media industry.

NBC's businesses range from a coast-to-coast mainstream US television channel to Hollywood's Universal Studios and broadcasting offerings such as CNBC, Bravo and the Weather Channel. The company is valued at $29bn and Comcast could tie up a deal to snap up 51% on Thursday.

Analysts say that a sale makes sense to both GE and Vivendi, which have seen NBC's television ratings fall. "From Vivendi's point of view, the good news is that this effectively leaves them to go back to their investors and say they were able to monetise a minority stake at a good level," Claudio Aspesi, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, told Bloomberg News.

But critics are alarmed that Comcast, which is America's biggest cable operator, will end up with too much sway over consumers. John Malone, who chairs Liberty Media, recently remarked that Comcast would have "too much power" by controlling both content and delivery.

Free Press, a not-for-profit organisation aimed at protecting independent voices in the media, has launched a campaign urging the Obama administration to block an NBC buyout by Comcast, arguing that it would trigger a wave of mega-mergers.

SAID BRUCE COHEN THE BUSINESS AGENTS AND I HAVE NO COMMENT (???!!!)

BOB NIMMO MBA, "TV IT NEVER LOOKED BETTER"!

ABC NEWS FLASH: ALL MY CHILDREN RELOCATING TO WEST COAST! ABC NEW DISASTER FOR LOCAL ONE UNDER NEGLIGENT BUSINESS MANAGEMENT OF ROBERT NIMMO AND ED McMAHON!

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NBC advertises for stagehands on the internet???,

Why???, we have 3000 MEMBERS AND NBC IS ADVERTISING FOR STAGEHANDS???

WHAT HAPPENED DANNY WEKSELBLATT GET FIRED?

THEY RUN OUT OF RILEY'S, WHAT ABOUT THE MORONS?

THE GARBAGE EATER ON MORE'S CREW?

3000 MEMBERS AND THEY ARE ADVERTISING FOR STAGEHANDS ON THE INTERNET!!!

YOU SLOBS. HUGS NOT DRUGS!!!!


Stagehand - IATSE Local 1 @ General Electric - NBC Universal, NBC Universal - NBC TV Network & Media Works (New York, NY)

Company: General Electric - NBC Universal, NBC Universal - NBC TV Network & Media Works
Location: New York, NY


THIS WAS ONCE A GREAT UNION BEFORE YOU GUYS GOT A HOLD OF IT. TV IT NEVER LOOKED BETTER! 3000 MEMBERS AND THEY ARE ADVERTISING ON THE INTERNET AND BYPASSING THE UNION. JOKE EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A FUCK!

DEMOCRATIC FORUM

ALL ARE ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION AND THE RIGHT TO AGREE AND DISAGREE, I BELIEVE IN THIS UNION LEADERSHIP'S OBLIGATION TO OFFER AN EDUCATED VIEW OF ISSUES THAT APPLIES TO LABOR AND WORKING FAMILIES. PRESIDENT JAMES CLAFFEY.

Well put Mr. President. All members are entitled to form and express opinion in public or private regardless of issue, and are also entitled to expect tolerance from the government, it's leadership, and all fellow members in regard to the expression of such opinion.

We also understand that the members have an obligation and a right to offer their educated view of issues that apply to labor and working families back to the other members and our leaders.

The inverse is also true and also guaranteed by law. A democratic forum Mr. President. A public forum to insure the actual achievement of union democracy, and sidestep the clouding of real and important issues.



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WHY AREN'T NIMMO, McMAHON, McGARTY, AND WEKSELBLATT DOING THEIR JOBS? Where are the steady jobs Mr. President, on Broadway, all theatrical venues, behind the scenes in television, and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, for non Irish, Blacks, Women, Spanish. Where are our pensions, benefits and legal rights under the United States Constitution? Why in the year 2009 are the Cohen Brothers and the Rank and File still not free in NYC in the United States of America? Why are these venues and the Union as a whole being run by the 3rd and 4th generation Irish Americans against the rest of us? In violation of the Labor and US Constitutional law, in defiance of the law, even as the officers study Labor Law at Cornell Labor College? The Union knows better, Mr. President, but the union does not provide better. Deliberately, Willfully, and in Conspiracy, Mr. President. We are not going to take it any more.

MARTH STEWART DITCHES NBC MORE BAD NEW FOR NBC AND THE NETWORKS

More bad news for NBC as Martha Stewart Cooks Up A Cable Deal, leaves NBC

Lacey Rose, 01.26.10, 03:10 PM EST

Television's domestic diva follows Oprah out of syndication.


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Pack your aprons and gardening tools--Martha Stewart is heading to cable.

Stewart announced Tuesday that she'll be moving her eponymous daily talk show to the Hallmark Channel come September. The show, distributed on broadcast networks for the past five years, will end its syndicated run with NBC Universal this summer. Sweetening the deal, Stewart's Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia ( MSO - news - people ) will also cook up new series and prime time specials for the female-friendly network.

It's just the latest blow to the business of syndicated television. Earlier this year fellow daytime star Oprah Winfrey said she will end her series and roll out a cable channel OWN in 2011. Though Stewart isn't getting her own network, she will be granted control over two and a half hours of daily weekday programming on the channel, which is currently owned and operated by a subsidiary of Crown Media Holdings ( CRWN - news - people ).

Stewart's move speaks to the lure of cable television--and the dismal prognosis for local stations' finances. While the latter have been hard hit by weakened advertising rates and declining viewership, cable outlets continue to benefit from the dual-revenue streams of advertising and subscriber fees. "It's an evolution in the world of television," says Stewart.

The Hallmark Channel, available in nearly 90 million homes, is poised to round out 2010 with $107 million in cash flow, up 34% from a year earlier, according to media research firm SNL Kagan. Similarly impressive, net advertising revenue is expected to grow 15% to $232 million in 2010.

The new arrangement's primary upside for Stewart is that her show will now air at the same times--4 p.m. and again at 5 p.m.--nationwide each day, a luxury the syndication model doesn't offer. "It's so important for us to be available on

PRODUCERS WOULD FIRE ANYONE FOR AN EXTRA BUCK

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YES RICH, THE PRODUCERS WOULD FIRE ANYONE FOR AN EXTRA BUCK.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE OFFICERS AND HEADS WOULD ALSO FIRE A RANK AND FILE UNION MEMBER TO ILLEGALLY PLACE A FAMILY MEMBER ON A CREW, IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES LABOR AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, EVEN IF THAT FAMILY MEMBER DID NOT HOLD A UNION CARD.

IT IS DONE ALL THE TIME.

NOT TO MENTION ILLEGAL TRIALS.

ALSO DONE ALL THE TIME, NOT HIRE A UNION MEMBER TO WORK BECAUSE HE OR SHE IS NOT A FAMILY MEMBER, NON IRISH, A WOMEN OR BLACK IN A STEADY JOB.

THIS TOO IS DONE ALL THE TIME. IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW.

PRODUCERS ARE NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM THE OFFICERS ARE ALSO THE PROBLEM

ON BROADWAY, IN TELEVISION AT AT ALL THEATERS, THE PRODUCERS ARE NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM. THE OFFICERS AND HEADS ARE ALSO THE PROBLEM FOR THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS.


OUR OFFICERS COMPLAINED ABOUT THE PRODUCERS AND WE THE RANK AND FILE MUST ALSO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE OFFICERS AND HEADS IN REGARD TO ILLEGAL TRIALS AND DISCRIMINATORY TIER AND HIRING SYSTEMS FAVORING THE RELATIVES OF THE OFFICERS
AND HEADS.


DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WHERE ARE THE STEADY JOBS FOR THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS?

WHY ARE THE OFFICERS AND HEADS MANAGING A ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY LOOP AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS? A PONZI AND RICO SCHEME.

IT IS ONLY A CLUB IF IT IS A CLUB FOR ALL MEMBERS. OTHERWISE IT IS A DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY SYSTEM IN VIOLATION OF OUR RIGHTS UNDER U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.


YOU GUYS ARE DAMAGING UNIONISM.
NEPOTISM VIOLATES U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW

3,000
- the total number of Broadway stagehands comprising Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.).

350 to 500 (approximately) - number of Broadway stagehands responsible at any given time for "building, installing and operating scenery and sound and lighting equipment." (THE IRISH LOOP 2500 VICTIMS PLUS THE 350 TO 500 PLUS RELATIVES AND LOOP BOYS (WHITE, IRISH, MALES)

COMMON CRITICISM OF UNDEMOCRATIC UNION LEADERS, NOT THE UNION THE UNDEMOCRATIC OFFICERS:
"In most cases that I have seen, when unions go on strike the officers and negotiating members never miss a payday while the peons can eat cake. Most unions this day and age are useless." (NOT TO MENTION THE FREELANCERS GET NOTHING!)



BETWEEN 20 AND 40 PERCENT OF POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS REFUSING UNION CARDS

why did 40 percent of the potential monthly new cards fail to accept a union card? why are we still handing out cards when the union is in crisis?

Thank you for submitting 2 very good questions.
THIS IS HAPPENING EVERY MONTH.



THEY ARE NOT TAKING UNION CARDS BECAUSE THERE IS NO DEMOCRATIC UNION FOR THE MEMBERS TO BELONG TO RIGHT NOW AND THEY CAN'T GET STEADY JOBS BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NON FAMILY MEMBERS


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We would like to thank Jimmy Claffey and the entire Claffey Family for the work for the Brothers at the Music Hall.Jimmy is in the center of this lower picture and should not be confused with the other officers who are negligent. God Bless you Jim.
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UPSTATE NY DAIRY FARMER KILLS 50 COWS THEM HIMSELF DENYING CBS MILK FOR PRODUCTION


Dean Pierson, Dairy Farmer, Kills 51 Cows Then Commits Suicide

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COPAKE, N.Y. — State police in New York say an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself.

State police found the body of 59-year-old Dean Pierson in his Copake barn on Thursday. A visitor found a note Pierson had left on the barn door that said not to come in and to call police.

State police would only say that Pierson was having personal issues.

The Columbia County hamlet of Copake is about 115 miles north of New York City.

Local farmers buried the cows outside the barn Friday. They would not discuss Pierson or what had happened, but one of the men said these are hard times to be a farmer.

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MORE BAD NEWS FOR TELEVISION AS SIMON SAYS NEW SHOW FOR INTERNET


FORMER BUSINESS AGENT MODELS THE NEW MILKMAN AT ALL NETWORKS

New Simon Fuller show will launch online

POWER OF INTERNET

AS SIMON SAYS INTERNET INTERNET INTERNET INTERNET

INTERNET INTERNET

New Simon Fuller show will launch online

Telegraph.co.uk - Alastair Jamieson - ‎16 hours ago‎
Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol, will screen his next show on website Hulu months before it appears on television, in a sign of the power of the internet in broadcasting. By Alastair Jamieson His new series, If I Can Dream, will debut online ...


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THIS IS WHAT NBC IS SAYING ABOUT LENO THIS WEEK

"We are pleased that Jay Leno is returning to host the franchise that he helmed brilliantly and successfully for many years...he is an enormous talent, a consummate professional and one of the hardest working performers in television".

jeff gaspin chairman nbc universal television entertainment (THE COMPANY THAT REMOVED HIM FROM THE TONIGHT SHOW TO BEGIN WITH)

MLK: NOT A DREAM A REALITY

MARTIN LUTHER KING HAD A DREAM AND REACHED AMERICA'S MOUNTAIN TOP

Martin Luther King
WHEN WILL THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION REACH LOCAL ONE'S MOUNTAIN TOP?

CONGRATS CONAN FOR ENDING YOUR TERM AS NBC PUPPET

Howdy Doody by Grudnick.
THE DOODIE IS OVER FOR CONAN WITH 40 MILLION AND HIS STRINGS CUT AS NBC PUPPET.

WHO IS RUNNING LOCAL ONE THE COMPANIES SLEEPING WITH OUR OFFICERS OR THE RANK AND FILE?

Fighting Company Union Ideology in America










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BSD WELCOMES NEWSROOM MAGAZINE FOR A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT READS. THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be - Thomas Jefferson.

KPMG LLP THANKS FOR STOPPING BY/GLOBAL TOP FOUR

Headquarters of KPMG LLP, the PARK AVE NYC

BUSINESS AGENTS LOSE THE RAMP AT TIME WARNER CENTER TO 32BJ JANITORS

TIME WARNER RAMP LOST TO 32BJ JANITORS??? SCENERY TO BE LOADED IN AND OUT BY JANITORS!!!


PHANTOM OF DEMOCRACY AND BROADWAY, SEQUEL LOVE NEVER DIES WHERE IS DEMOCRACY FOR LOCAL ONE HANDS?

"There's unfinished business," Lloyd Webber told a group of journalists in London, according to the Associated Press. "I don't regard this as a sequel; it's a standalone piece."



YES, SIR ANDREW THERE IS UNFINISHED BUSINESS, THE LACK OF UNION DEMOCRACY FROM OUR UNION LOCAL ONE IATSE, AND THE DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION AGAINST NON IRISH, WOMEN, SPANISH AND BLACKS WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES.

THIS TOO IS THE REAL PHANTOM OF BROADWAY.

YES, BRING YOUR SEQUEL TO BROADWAY, BUT DON'T PROVIDE FOR THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE ANOTHER UNDEMOCRATIC PHANTOM MASK,

TAKE OFF THE MASK AND REVEAL THE IGNORANCE, BIGOTRY AND CORRUPTION IN LOCAL ONE IATSE.




YES, SIR ANDREW, CONTINUE THE STORY BUT PLEASE HELP TO END THE DISCRIMINATION ON BROADWAY.




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Bruce Cohen, a Local One spokesman, declined to comment

STAGEHANDS IN NEW ORLEANS SOUR ON THEIR UNION IATSE 720

Stagehands sour on union

Still no contract but lots of complaints

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | 2 a.m.

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Stagehands, from left, Chris Martini, Chris Minkema and Paul Bordenkircher talk in June 2007 about the union vote.

After a bitter organizing campaign last year, 10 stagehands based at the Orleans voted for union representation at three Boyd Gaming casinos.

They sought better wages and benefits, approaching those enjoyed by their brethren on the Strip. But nine months later, the stagehands have seen the realities of the modern labor movement when a small band of workers takes on a large company intent on keeping the union out.

Contract negotiations have flat-lined, the workers’ hours have been reduced and they have been excluded from company policies, including the granting of overtime to anyone who works more than eight hours in a single shift.

Worse, the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 720, is doing little on their behalf, workers say. They feel abandoned. Some members are so frustrated they are talking about decertifying.

“We don’t know who to blame — is it Boyd Gaming or is it IATSE or is it both?” said Chris Minkema, a stagehand who sits on the union’s negotiating committee. “We feel like we’re stuck in this void, this weird place where no one is on our side and we can’t get answers from anybody. We’ve been left out to dry.”

According to members of the bargaining unit, working conditions began to deteriorate in June, after the union won the election 10-6.

Days before the vote, the company had issued a memo on overtime, promising employees extra compensation if they worked more than eight hours in a single shift. But the lawyer Boyd hired to stave off the union, Mark Garrity, warned the stagehands that if the union won the election, the policy would not apply to them because overtime would become a subject of negotiations.

The company followed through, employees now say.

Overtime pay had been a major reason for the organizing drive, chiefly because stagehands often work double shifts in the run-up to a show or a stage production.

After the company changed its overtime policy for other workers, the stagehands sought explanations but say they ran into a bureaucratic maze. Inquiries were bounced back and forth between supervisors and human resources, they said.

“People are pointing fingers in different directions and no one is taking responsibility for it,” stagehand Chris Martini said.

Then came the cutbacks in work schedules, which was a surprise, workers said, given that Boyd had emphasized the importance of entertainment in its business plan during the union campaign. Some members, they said, saw their hours drop below the 32 a week required to maintain health benefits.

The company blamed the reductions on the sagging economy, stagehands said. The workers said Boyd hired an outside employee and paid him as a consultant to do some of the work the stagehands had performed.

“Guys are at the end of their rope,” said Paul Bordenkircher, a stagehand and a member of the union’s negotiating committee. “Guys are going broke. They’re missing house payments. Everyone is looking for other work.”

On top of it all, they said they were excluded from companywide cost-of-living increases this year. At the same time, management has stepped up on-the-job pressure, something Martini referred to as “micromanaging.”

So where was the union? Stagehands said they haven’t seen a union representative on-site in the nine months since the vote, with the exception of a single discipline incident. The local canceled meetings, sometimes without notice, workers said.

The local’s leaders spurned the notion that they had somehow abandoned the stagehands.

The local did file an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board in October, protesting the change in hours and other working conditions. That case will go before a judge next month.

Union officials say they have opened their hiring hall to the stagehands and referred them to other jobs to supplement their income. Also, negotiators say they are drafting another labor complaint and continue to challenge Boyd at the bargaining table but are largely constrained by a process that favors employers.

“It’s frustrating for us too,” said Dan’l Cook, president of IATSE Local 720, which has won contracts for stagehands at 10 Strip properties. “We’d like to see some action taken. Boyd is doing the bare minimum to satisfy what’s required under the (National Labor Relations Act). And unfortunately, we don’t have the bargaining leverage we had 30 years ago.”

Indeed, the union won an election to represent workers at the Blue Man Group’s show at the Venetian in 2006 and employees still lack a contract. The show’s owner challenged the results in court. The union, with the support of the national labor board, now awaits a decision on the case from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

Gordon Lafer, a professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center, said labor studies have shown that between 30 percent and 40 percent of unions that win elections never attain a first contract.

Federal labor law is fraught with legal delays and loopholes that often kill organizing campaigns.

(Boyd’s actions on pay policies, for instance, are protected under labor law, because pay is now a topic of negotiation, Lafer said.)

“The more the employer plays hardball the more resources it takes from the union’s side,” he said. “It’s not enough for the union rep to come around and sit at the negotiating committee.”

As a result, many unions have turned to political pressure when talks at the bargaining table stall. But the 1,800-member stagehands local has little political muscle compared with, say, the 60,000-member Culinary Union.

Boyd spokesman Rob Stillwell declined to comment on the stagehands’ complaints, but said pay was a central component of collective bargaining.

“We don’t negotiate any aspect of the contract in the press,” he said. “Obviously this being the first contract makes it complex, but we’re actively negotiating.”

NOTHING BUT CHAOS AS CONAN TELLS NBC SHOVE IT

January 12, 2010, 3:10 pm

Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ After Leno

Conan O’Brien says he will not host “The Tonight Show” if it is moved to 12:05 a.m., as NBC has proposed.Paul Drinkwater/NBC

Conan O’Brien released a statement Tuesday saying that he no longer wanted to be the host of “The Tonight Show” on NBC if it appeared at 12:05 a.m.

WHERE ARE THE REAL JOBS FOR THE RANK AND FILE AT THE KOCH THEATER/NOT JUST FOR THE RICO LOOP

UNION DEMOCRACY A NEEDED IMPROVEMENT FOR THE KOCH THEATER UNDER UNDEMOCRATIC OFFICERS AND SOME HEADS!!! JOBS FOR CARDMEN AND WOMEN

NOT THE OUT OF TOWNERS. HOW MANY CARDMEN ON THE STEADY CALLS?

Home improvement: New season starting at reborn(?) New York City Opera.

BSD SAYS NOTHING HAS CHANGED.


By Ronni Reich

October 29, 2009, 3:00PM
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MORE CHARLIE McCARTHY PUPPETS

JOBS GO TO IRISH RELATIVES WHO NEED WORK CAUSE THEIR BROADWAY SHOW CLOSED. RELATIVES OF THE HEADS AND THE OFFICERS. ONLY TOKEN WOMEN, BLACKS, NON IRISH. A BLACK MALE HAD TO SUE TO GET A JOB. WOMEN ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. SONS ON HEADS GET WORK. ARE YOU A CARD MAN OR WOMEN WHO NEEDS STEADY WORK. SORRY, NOT IF YOU ARE BLACK, A WOMEN, NON IRISH, NOT A RELATIVE. IN VIOLATION OF US CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW.

AND THIS AT THE FORMER NY STATE THEATER
WHICH OUR TAXES PAY FOR AND DISCRIMINATION IS RAMPANT.
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100 MILLION DONATION RECONSTRUCTS EVERYTHING BUT THE UNION CARD.

PHILANTHROPIST KOCH CAN YOU HELP THE TRIED AGAINST, DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, AND TIERED AGAINST MEMBERS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE.

David and Julia Koch at the April 2009 dedication of the David H. Koch Theater at
Lincoln Center. Koch's $100 million gift will be used to renovate and create an
endowment for the elegant, world-renowned theater. WILL IT END THE DISCRIMINATION?
BSD SAYS NO!!!


NBC:NOTHING BUT CONFUSION OVER LATE NIGHT AS CARSON AND MCMAHON TO BE RETURNED FROM THE DEAD


NOTHING BUT CONFUSION. CARSON RETURNED FROM THE DEAD TO SAVE NBC.

N
IMMO'S BOYS CANT GET IT DONE. BRINGING DOWN THE CONTRACTS ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS.


NBC:THIS JUST IN "NETWORK EXECUTIVES" DECIDE TO MOVE LENO TO COMPETE WITH ROMPER ROOM


TIMES SQUARE LOOP JOB SELLABRATION. CLANS MAKE OUT LIKE BANDITS AGAIN

LOOP SHUFFLE CLOSES TIMES SQUARE TO THE RANK AND FILE. CLANS MAKE OUT DURING THE DAY PLUS SHOWS. MAYBE WE WILL GIVE THE R&F WORK ALL NIGHT IN THE COLD.

FREE SPEECH WATCH CREATES A PERMENANT LINK TO BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY. THANK YOU!


Free Speech Watch has created a permanent link to Broadway Stagehands Democracy. Thank You!

Free Speech Watch|

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WELCOME BRACEWELL GIULIANI LLP, NY WASHINGTON TEXAS HELP THE THE SCAMMED OF LOCAL 1

THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BYE!

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Bruce Cohen, a Local One spokesman, declined to comment

NUTCRACKER SNOW JOB FROM CITY BALLET HOLIDAY BANDIT LOOP CONTINUES

Dance

Depths to Plumb, Sugarplum

RANK AND FILE SCAM CONTINUES AGAINST US AS THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRIES OUR OFFICERS INSURE NOTHING CHANGES AT THE NEW KOCH (NY STATE THEATER) RECONSTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING BUT THE UNION CARD. 25 G DONATION OF OUR FUNDS TO CITY BALLET FROM UNION GOVERNMENT INSURES THE R AND F ARE SCREWED AGAIN. WHO EVER HEARD OF A UNION DONATING TO A COMPANY? MORE OF OUR CASH WASTED.
Paul Kolnik for The New York Times

Performers in New York City Ballet's “Nutcracker,” swirling in sugarplum fairy dust. Some dancegoers decry America's annual affinity for Tchaikovsky's ballet.

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NEGATIVE MICHAEL MOORE IN FAIRNESS/MANY LOCAL ONE IATSE OFFICERS AND HEADS DONT HIRE UNION EITHER

More Michael Moore Hypocrisy: Used NON-UNION Stage Hands To Film "Capitalism: A Love Story"

Unions for thee but not for me! That's about the gist of yet another revelation pointing out Moore's continued hypocrisy. I saw the story somewhere this morning, but can't recall where. But Google came up with a bunch of hits, including this from the NY Post: Union teaches Michael Moore a lesson.
Michael Moore, champion of the working class, used non-union stagehands to film "Capitalism: A Love Story." The porcine provocateur is promoting his anti-Wall Street jeremiad by giving free tickets to unions, but the American Federation of Teachers has turned them down because Moore didn't hire any members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. "Michael Moore and one of our sister unions, IATSE, are in discussions about concerns the union has," the AFT told ABC News. "The AFT has decided against accepting tickets until those issues are resolved." Moore's agent, Ari Emanuel, seems to blame the IATSE for treating documentarians as "second-class filmmakers." "This is a Writers Guild, Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild film, as all Michael's films are," Emanuel said. "He is a proud, dues-paying member of all three of these unions.
He may be, but he sure doesn't actually hire any himself. This story should surprise no one from Michigan, or anywhere these days I suppose, for a man espousing environmental virtue, while partially filling in wetlands on his $1.2 million estate to expand his beachfront. Hypocrisy in full glory. Moore also hopes (dare I say prays) that automaker GM will outright fail as a company, since cars are "WMDs for global warming." He said that very thing after making a name for himself with the documentary Roger and Me about how corporate greed was destroying GM. So Moore is happy that GM went bankrupt. Michigan moms and dads lost jobs. Lots of them. And Moore is happy sitting in his big house using up all the natural resources to his heart's desire. And going to parties celebrating excess, apparently. In fact, he eats up (besides the cheeseburgers) what can only be called vulgar displays of wealth. All this and he has the gall to say that "capitalism did nothing for me." Hypocrisy - thy name is Michael Moore!

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SANDS IN THE HOURGLASS/NY TV CONTINUES DECLINE/"NEVER LOOKED WORSE


CBS-SHEFFIELD FARMS DEAL IN THE WORKS

HANDS TO WORK AS MILK MEN AS CBS SHIFTS TO MILK PRODUCTION

AFTER CANCELING "AS THE WORLD TURNS".

BUSINESS AGENTS IN INTENSIVE CARE/ CONDITION CRITICAL/LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES CONNECTED IN FUTILE STRUGGLE.

Robert Nimmo Business Manager $ 185,272
Michael Wekseblatt Business Manager $ 184,469
Kevin Mcgarrty Business Manager $ 182,424
Edward Iii Mcmahon Business Manager $ 180,685





PAY THEM THIS MUCH PLUS BENEFITS? WHY??? CAN THEM LIKE THE NETWORKS HAVE CANNED THE ONE. WE DON'T NEED THEM ANYMORE.



New York Times
- Bill Carter, Brian Stelter - ‎7 hours ago‎
Procter & Gamble, the company that invented the soap opera and gave the genre its name, is no longer in the soap opera

NOT MUCH LONGER



GOT MILK?



FORMER BUSINESS AGENT MODELS THE NEW MILKMAN AT CBS
  • Would cows drink the milk sold AT CBS? Andy Rooney wonders what they have done to CBS?


West Side Freight: Milk Plants
CBS-Sheffield Farms opens a plant adjoining its company's headquarters at 524 W. 57th St. Here is a quote from the article on the new plant The American Produce Review.



"The new plant, adjoining the company's headquarters at 524 West 57th St., spans the tracks of the New York Central which run below street level from the 60th St. yards to 35th St. between Tenth and Eleventh Aves. The tracks were laid in a cut a year ago, removing the railroad from Eleventh Ave."


NEW CBS-Sheffield Dairy Plant (ARTISTS CONCEPTION)

Sheffield Dairy Plant by Paul Lowry.





CBS GOING BACK TO DAIRY PRODUCTS!!!



OFFICIAL GE DUMPS NBC TO CABLE:BUSINESS AGENTS UNDER HEAVY SEDATION W OXYGEN

OFFICIAL GE DUMPS SHABBY NBC/IATSE BUSINESS AGENTS REPORTED TO BE UNDER HEAVY SEDATION AND OXYGEN IS BEING GIVEN:

GE Glad To Dump NBCU, But Won't Give Up 30 Rock Offices or Logo

ABC News - Mark Schone, Drew Sandholm - ‎10 hours ago‎
GE executives are insisting that the corporation's giant red GE logo remain on the 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters of NBC in New York, even after Comcast takes over, according to people involved in the negotiations ...








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What If America’s MBA Programs Were Required To Speak Clearly?
We provide an exhilarating educational experience in which the student will learn how to disregard societal norms of behavior, abdicate traditional standards of decency, develop ethical work-arounds and master the skills necessary to avoid responsibility and accountability. If you do these things well, what you learn here will make you wealthy and threaten your fellow countrymen with financial collapse.

BROADWAY BOB NIMMO AND HIS 3 STOOGES FIDDLE WHILE THE UNION BURNS.

ALL GLORY IS FLEETING

THE PARTY IS OVER BOYS. TIME TO START THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MEMBERS UNION.

Definitions Section

MBA Virus

noun

realm: business

Destructive behavior, typically taught in business schools and/or MBA degree programs leading to patterns of behavior and decision-making which can only grow or reproduce outside of a system of ethical construct(s) and/or critical thinking.

Foundations

The MBA virus invades responsible business cultures by attaching to corporate goals and destroying natural internal checks and balances.

The MBA virus uses the host company’s managerial machinery to keep itself alive and to replicate itself. It may reproduce with fidelity or with errors ( mutations ) depending on corporate culture and managerial oversight.

The MBA Virus’ ability to mutate is responsible for its ability to take on the characteristics of accepted practices by means of slow evolution over time, making detection and elimination increasingly difficult.

Examples

Unilateral credit card contracts.

Outsourcing jobs for short term gain.

Tax evasion.

Taking on inordinate risk for management benefit.

Selective insurance adjustment policies.

Favoring short term goals over long term stability or viability.

WEAK NABET SHOWS LOCAL ONE THE WAY BOTH ARE GOING, DOWN.


"TV IT NEVER LOOKED WORSE" AS WEAK AND INEFFECTIVE NABET LEADS LOCAL ONE IN IT'S INEVITABLE DIRECTION UNDER BUSINESS AGENTS WITHOUT A CLUE WHILE CABLE NOT BROAD CAST NBC CONTRACTS DISAPPEAR.

Union Accuses Network of “Grinch-”-like Behavior; Threatens Strike During Annual Christmas Tree Lighting


LIGHTING THE CHRISTMAS TREE AT ROCKERFELLER CENTER ANOTHER NBC/LOCAL 1 LOOP AGAINST THE R & F

50 MEN AND WOMEN SIGNING IN AT THE HALL A DAY AND THE HOLIDAY LOOP ARE MAKING OUT LIKE BANDITS ALL AROUND TOWN.

THE MACY THANKSGIVING PARADE ANOTHER LOOP JOB AGAINST THE R & F

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

Broadway Stagehands Democracy is pleased at how well things are running. We are pulling in readers from Europe, Asia, Canada, all around the USA. All the worlds top cities. We have close to 20,000 page reads since the start of the year(PLUS SUBSCRIBERS) and the year isn't over yet. We are bringing them in from the Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Jersey and upstate. A lot of readers from the Carolina's and Florida (the retirees). We publish in 41 languages. We have made a lot of headway on the upgrade and we are now opening up the comments again. We will show all accepted comments in the comment area and move the better ones to the blog post area. Thank you all for the comments, suggestions, photos, news etc. We could not have done it without your help. Keep those cards and letters coming.

We had two different people search big names in our union recently or their spouses and they were brought in to this website.

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CLAN CARNEGIE HALL, WE BRING IN THE TIMES AND THEY WRITE STORY

AT CLAN CARNEGIE HALL AND ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS THE BUSINESS AGENTS ICE OUT THE RANK AND FILE SO THE LOOP BOYS MAKE PENSION AND BENEFITS. NO SOUP FOR YOU IN THE FORM OF A FULL TIME JOB AND PENSION AND BENEFITS SO BENEFITS PAID BY MANAGEMENT DON'T GO TO THE RANK AND FILE BECAUSE OF THE DISCRIMINATORY TIER SYSTEM. THE HEART OF THE SCAM. MANAGEMENT PAYS THE UNION BENEFITS BUT THE UNION SAYS SORRY NO PENSION AND BENEFITS FOR YOU. THEN THE PENSION FUND GROWS AND GROWS AND WE DON'T GET OUR BENEFITS. NICE SCAM. YET STILL A SCAM. THE UNION DOES NOT WANT MORE STAGEHANDS TO GET JOBS BECAUSE JOBS MEAN THE UNION HAS TO PAY OUT PENSIONS. SLICK SLICK SLICK.




THE FIX IS IN HERE TOO.

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IRISH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT CARNEGIE HALL HIRES ONLY WHITE IRISH MALE STAGEHANDS TO MAKE HALF A MILLION AYEAR AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE DISCRIMINATIONGillinson Calls $530,000 Stagehand Pay ‘Old Story’ (Update1)

BSD says it's not an old story it's an old scam. No jobs for the rank and file.

By Philip Boroff

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Carnegie Hall’s executive and artistic director, Clive Gillinson, said the $530,044 pay last year for a unionized stagehand is “an old story” and declined to say whether he would seek to reduce earnings in future.

HE DOESN'T NEGOTIATE IN PUBLIC BECAUSE HE FEARS THE PUBLIC.

“I don’t negotiate in public,” he said in a telephone interview

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CHASTITY BONO MORE A MAN THAN OUR BUSINESS AGENTS

Chaz Bono is beginning to feel some of the change in the process of becoming a man.
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Chaz Bono is beginning to feel some of the change in the process of becoming a man.

BS DEMOCRACY WELCOMES THE NEW YORK TIMES READING ABOUT CLAN CARNEGIE HALL AND THE SCAM






BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY WELCOMES THE NEW YORK TIMES READING ABOUT CLAN CARNEGIE HALL AND THE SCAM AGAINST THE R&F.

WELCOME SHEPARD MULLIN RICHTER LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT CLASS ACTION ATTORNEYS

CAN YOU REPRESENT THE TRIED AGAINST, TIERED AGAINST AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MEMBERS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE?

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY! ALSO WE NOTICE THAT YOUR NEW YORK OFFICE IS AT 30 ROCK. HOW CONVENIENT!

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MAYOR BLOOMBERG SUMMER PARTY BUBBA AND MAYOR BLOOM WHERE ARE OUR JOBS?

BLOOMBERG LP "$10 MILLION SUMMER PARTY NOT SO GOOD FOR THE RANK AND FILE! AS THE LOOP BOYS TAKE OUR JOBS. ANOTHER SCAM: BUBBA WHERE ARE OUR JOBS? MAYOR MIKE AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS WHAT IS GOING ON ? SUMMER AFTER SUMMER!

WRESTLING THE RANK AND FILE FOR UNION DEMOCRACY: A SECRET TO THE RESIDENTS OF EAST HARLEM AND THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION 2 WEEK SETUP PLUS PARTY ANOTHER LOOP JOB!

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DEVIL HORNS TO THE RANK AND FILE
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BLOOMBERG LP "SUMMER PARTY NOT SO GOOD FOR THE RANK AND FILE! ANOTHER SCAM: BUBBA WHERE ARE OUR JOBS? MAYOR MIKE AND THE BUSINESS AGENTS WHAT IS GOING ON ? SUMMER AFTER SUMMER!

Bloomberg L.P. “Summer Party 09 Takes Over Randalls Island (A “Public” Park?) This Past Weekend for Gala Event – Oh My!


The Bloomberg Summer Party \'08

Despite articles written about the not-so-ideal work conditions at Bloomberg L.P., Mayor Bloomberg’s company, I gather they make it up to their employees once a year with a gala event every summer to show us city folks who is boss. After all, it’s not many city parks that get closed off to the public for private parties for weeks at a time (includes preparation) yet somehow Bloomberg L.P. is able to swing it!

Connections? Parks for Sale?



THANK YOU. A VERY SWEET PERSON. THE REASON WE ARE HERE.


''I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often."


Margaret and Abagail said,

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL AND XMAS SHOW NOT FOR NON FAMILY STAGEHANDS DASH WHERE ARE OUR JOBS?

A HOLIDAY FOR THE STAGEHAND RELATIVES BUT NOT THE RANK AND FILE.

The 2009 Christmas Show

Constantly compared to Radio City Music Hall, American Music Theatre’s Christmas Show is widely hailed as one of America’s best. You will enjoy a wide variety of secular and sacred Christmas songs, ranging from outstanding a cappella renditions to powerful orchestral versions. You’ll delight in comedy sketches fun for kids 1 to 92, the lovely AMT dancers and an appearance from Santa himself. Make this holiday season the most memorable of all with Lancaster’s favorite Christmas show.

ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST AND THE LOCAL BEST SHOWS BUT ALSO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE.

LIKE ALL LOCAL ONE VENUES MANAGED TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE NON FAMILY MEMBERS IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES LABOR LAW. THE LABOR UNION AS A DELIBERATE, WILLFUL, AND CONSPIRED UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE.

CAPITAL ONE IT AIN'T CHRISTMAS IF YOU ARE SPONSORING DISCRIMINATION


NON FAMILY MEMBERS NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER.

Beautiful Christmas


ROCKETTES SAY STOP IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE FAMILIES.

THE RANK AND FILE NEED CHRISTMAS TOO NOT JUST THE LOOP BOYS. XMAS FOR THE NON IRISH OF LOCAL ONE IATSE.

THE RANK AND FILE OF LOCAL ONE IATSE ARE ASKING ALL OUR MEMBERS AND ALL UNION MEMBERS TO BOYCOTT THE CHRISTMAS SHOW AND ALL NEW YORK THEATRICAL VENUES INCLUDING BROADWAY SHOWS AND LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS UNTIL THE UNION IS RUN FAIRLY AND LEGALLY.

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Bruce Cohen, a Local One spokesman, declined to comment

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY

BUILT WITH OUR LABORER'S STRENGTH, OUR CRAFTSMAN'S PRECISION AND OUR AMERICAN PLEDGE TO UNION IDEALS!

BROADWAY UNION STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY





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with m1913 sabre he designed

National Portrait Gallery

Smithsonian Institution

PATTON 7 Striving for IATSE Broadway, Theater and Television Technicians in NYC.



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Published by The Magnificent Seven Production Group in Association with Democracy Seven Stages, and The Seven Infinity...

IN ALL OUR VARIATIONS OF SEVEN WE REMAIN IN ESSENCE THE DEMOCRACY SEVEN.



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THE BAT IS ALSO A SWORD AND THE SWORD A BAT. THE WORD CAN BE BOTH A BAT AND A SWORD IN COMBINATION.

It takes nine to play the game, but only seven to win it!





AMERICAN UNION DEMOCRACY TURNING OUR PLOWSHARES TO SWORDS



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THE NEW DEMOCRACY SEVEN AT THE PERIMETER OF TYRANNY'S VOID.








DEDICATED TO THE TRIED AGAINST, TIERED AGAINST AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MEMBERS OF THIS UNION.





THE MOTTO OF CHIVALRY IS THE MOTTO OF WISDOM
TO SERVE ALL AND LOVE ONLY ONE, ALL OF THE ONE. THIS AND THIS ALONE IS TRUE LIGHT.





CONTINUE TO SCROLL DOWN TO OUR COMMENT BLOG.






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USS NEW YORK MADE FROM RECYCLED WORLD TRADE CENTER CRUCIBLE STEEL. THE FINEST STEEL EXTANT.











DAVE HAD THE COURAGE TO GET THE JOB DONE. NOW IT'S HALDERMAN'S WORLD THAT HAS COLLAPSED!

Robert 'Joe' Halderman, the '48 Hours' producer arrested in a David Letterman extortion plot, was required to pay his wife $6800 a month in child support and alimony.
Robert 'Joe' Halderman, the '48 Hours' producer arrested in a David Letterman extortion plot, was required to pay his wife $6800 a month in child support. His world has collapsed before him.




HOW SOON BEFORE THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION HAVE THE COURAGE TO STAND UP TO THE CREEPS STEALING FROM US IN THE UNION, AT THE NETWORKS, AND ON BROADWAY?

WE ARE HERE GETTING THE JOB DONE.

DAVE NEVER HESITATED TO DO THE RIGHT THING

AND WE ARE NOT HESITATING EITHER.

HALDERMAN WANTED LETTERMAN TO BECOME HIS 2 MILLION DOLLAR PUPPET.

DAVE SUCKED IT IN AND STOOD UP AS A MAN TO THIS CREEP.

AND WE ARE STANDING UP TO THE CREEPS IN THE UNION, AT THE NETWORKS AND AT THE THEATERS TRYING TO MAKE US THEIR PUPPETS

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FOUR CREEPS
WAY TO GO DAVE!

2 MILLION RUBBER CHECK TO HALDERMAN AND OUR OFFICERS!


BEAUTY AND THE BEAST/BOOK EM DANO

Madonna vows never to marry again

Madonna Madonna ate pizza, despite following a strict diet.

BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY WARNS LEHMAN COLLEGE BRONX NEW YORK TO LOCAL ONE IATSE SCAM

WE ARE NOT ANTI UNION OR ANTI LOCAL ONE, WE ARE ANTI THIS GOVERNMENTS CORRUPTION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE.


LEHMAN BLACKBOARD:

How come I cannot be hired to work as a stagehand on a Broadway Show Local One IATSE, only the Irish Loop Boys? Kenny and Mike Why is this so? Broadway Producers I will work for less. Don't Pay them Pay Me. I will work harder and do a better Job. Here in the Bronx, we have to work harder to escape the Bronx. HOW SOON BEFORE THE BROADWAY PRODUCERS ESCAPE THE IRISH DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY LOOP? DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, WHERE ARE YOU?


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MIKE WEKSELBLATT ANNOUNCES THE NEWEST PATSIES IN THE LOCAL ONE SCAM!

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TV (NEW YORK SAID BOB NIMMO) IT NEVER LOOKED BETTER AS 3 DIFFERENT NETWORK SHOWS LEAVE NEW YORK!!!

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NOT YOUR FATHERS NBC OR YOUR YOUNG TRAINEE IN CRIME AND THE RIPOFF EDDIE McMAHON'S. ONLY THEIR NOSE'S GROW AS THE CONTRACTS, THE SHOWS, THE JOBS AND DEMOCRACY SHRIVEL IN THEIR SUITS.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER:

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER:
WHY ARE THE BUSINESS MANAGERS MANAGING A DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY SYSTEM?HOW SOON BEFORE OUR STORY REACHES THE TIMES, NEWS AND POST?



Hoops Holder?


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MICHAEL MOORE, ALSO STAGE TECHNICIANS AT ABC TV, NBC, CBS, ALL BRODWAY SHOWS, IN LOCAL ONE IATSE

Michael Moore's new comedy festival will definitely turn some heads. Photo from mifilmtourage.com.
Michael Moore called out ABC on Good Morning America Wednesday for employing Permalancers, permanent freelancers who are effectively full time employees but hired on a contract basis, and thus not extended any benefits.

"I'm talking to employees, people backstage here, they don't get to be real employees here because they don't get the benefits, so they're freelancers," Moore told Chris Cuomo.

"And I said 'Guy, I was here two years ago and you were a freelancer' — right backstage here at ABC — he said, 'We call ourselves permalancers now.' They don't get to share in just the basic benefits thqt an employee used to have who worked here. What's wrong with that? What is wrong with just giving people basic things for their hard work?

Don't forget the STAGEHANDS Michael! This is also true of the stagehands who work at all television studios under the jurisdiction of Local One IATSE.

THE UNION UNDER CONTRACT AT THE TELEVISION NETWORKS CALLS US PART TIMERS OR "ORPHANS" BECAUSE OUR FATHERS OR OTHER RELATIVES ARE NOT DEPARTMENT HEADS.

THIS VIOLATES UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND UNITED STATES LABOR LAW.

THEY DELIBERATELY KEEP US FROM MAKING BENEFITS SO THE MONEY THE NETWORKS AND THEATERS PAY THEM ACCRUES INTO LARGE DOLLAR AMOUNTS AND THE FAMILIES SHARE THIS IN PENSION AND OTHER BENEFITS.

THESE BENEFITS ARE DENIED TO US IN PART VIA AN UNDEMOCRATIC TIERED BENEFIT SYSTEM. THAT LARGELY REWARDS THE RELATIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND OFFICERS IN THE UNION.





"NUMBER ONE MEN" A NON CARD BLOG OF DRUG AND ALCHOL USE AT THE GERSHWIN, MARQUIS, THE BROOKS, ETC.

While Mr. Las Vegas has ended his writing about Broadway (Read Oct 6 and earlier) many of the heads and members continue to be there and continue to decline the contracts. We believe he was asked to leave the business. We support his right to free speech, but not his drugs and alcohol while at work in our theaters.The business agents look the other way and continue to decline the contracts, in willful, deliberate conspired scam against us.

''Number One Men"


ON BROADWAY: BROADWAY BOB NIMMO, KENNIE BOY McGARDY, MIKE WEKSELBLATT, EDDIE BOY McMAHON IS IT PARTY TIME OR SHOW TIME?

from "NUMBER ONE MAN"

"Stagehand work was all I knew how to do and in all honesty, I didn’t know that very well at all. Having ----- and Jimmy G teach me ‘the ropes’ was the equivalent of having circus clowns around an operating table.

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Next time something fell, it might be a set piece or four-hundred pound speaker. I didn’t want that on my head, figuratively, and I literally didn’t want it on someone else’s head.
It was risky to say the least just climbing around the catwalk or walking through the grid in my drunken state. It was one more miracle that I hadn’t yet slipped and fallen to my death.
But I did slip. I did fall. Whether metaphorically or not, one more slip and I'd be a goner.

I remember being up on the roof of the Gershwin with Jimmy G smoking a joint and looking down on the street below, and thinking how easy it’d be to end it all. But that wasn’t my style. My style was more methodical, slower and cowardly. I did it with a bottle of booze.

SORRY BOYS, EVERY DAY AIN'T A HOLIDAY. THE JOB SHOULD BE PRIORITY ONE NOT DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. WHILE THE RANK AND FILE STRUGGLE TO MAKE TIER.

A QUOTE FROM SENIOR AND CORRUPT BUSINESS MANAGER BROADWAY PINOCCHIO BOB NIMMO (3 TERMS TOO MANY):


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"Thank you to all who voted in the November elections. It is now our responsibility as Citizens to Hold Those WE Elect ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW THEY RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF A HUMANE SOCIETY AND ORGANIZED LABOR"


WICKED AND IRRESPONSIBLE.
AND VIOLATING UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW.

Robert Nimmo
Business Manager $ 185,272
Michael Wekseblatt Business Manager $ 184,469
Kevin Mcgarrty Business Manager $ 182,424
Edward Iii Mcmahon Business Manager $ 180,685



http://www.albanytownhall.com.au/technical.htmlACCOUNTABILITY


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WICKED AND IRRISPONSIBLE AT THE GERSHWIN, THE MARQUIS, THE BROOKS ETC.

WEKSELBLATT, McGARDY, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE NON CARDS ON BROADWAY?

YOU ARE BRINGING DOWN THE SYSTEM.

WHO IS MANAGING THE CONTRACTS?

WE WERE SENT INFO THAT A NON CARD WORKING AT THE GERSHWIN STARTED A BLOG

WHERE HE WRITES ABOUT THE DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AND MISSED CUES, BY HIMSELF

AND OTHER STAGEHANDS AT OTHER BROADWAY THEATERS.

WE HAVE TO ASK THE BUSINESS MANAGERS WHAT IS GOING ON IS ANY ONE MANAGING THE CREWS AT THE THEATERS?



WHAT ARE THE HEADS UP TO WHY ARE THESE HEADS NUMBER ONE MEN IF THERE CREWS ARE ABUSING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ON THE JOB. NUMBER ONE MEN AND WHY ARE THEY HIRING THESE DRUG AND ALCOHOL USERS?

THIS IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE SCALE TO MEASURE THE RANK AND FILE BY.
NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE CONTRACTS ARE DECLINING ON BROADWAY.

THE BLOG IS CALLED

''Number One Men"

AND IS A CHRONICLE IN PART OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE ON BROADWAY SHOWS AND MISSED CUES. INCLUDING DISCUSSIONS OF DROPPING A LEATHER MAN PLIERS USED AS A ROACH CLIP FROM THE GRID.

LAMEBRAINS AT THE GERSHWIN, THE MARQUIS AND ELSEWHERE AND ALSO OUR BUSINESS MANAGERS DURING A RECESSION WITH THE PRODUCERS JUST ACHING TO PULL YOUR PLUG.

YOU CAN SIGN HOW MANY JOYCE THEATERS? IT WOULD TAKE MANY JOYCE THEATERS TO MATCH THESE CONTRACTS. BUT YOU GUYS ARE NOT MANAGING THE CONTRACTS. WASTING TIME AND OUR MONEY. AND THE CONTRACTS.


YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING THAT THE JOYCE THEATER IS YOUR SHOW LEAGUE.

AMATEUR NIGHT ON BROADWAY BECAUSE OF THESE JOKERS.


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$1000.00 FINE

We would like to remind the heads and officers all heads and business officers should be fined, for allowing each non member, to work for each day they work, a thousand dollars. Do not circumvent your union heads and officers. It shall be incumbent upon all members to ascertain that union members are working in union jobs

COMMENT:"THE OFFICERS SHOULD BE FINED A MILLION FOR ALLOWING "NUMBER ONE MEN" TO HAPPEN ON THEIR WATCH".



QUOTES FROM THE OBSCENITY CALLED NUMBER ONE MEN.

TIME TO FIRE THE BUSINESS AGENTS BEFORE THE PRODUCERS FIRE LOCAL ONE IATSE!


''Number One Men"

A NON CARD WORKING AT THE THEATERS WROTE THIS/HE'S TRYING TO EARN HIS UNION CARD. WHY IS HE BEING HIRED?

"I was half-crushed with booze running through my veins at nearly every performance or stoned out of my gourd and found it infinitely more interested in listening to ----tell his stories.

But I’ll save all that for the book I plan on writing of this chapter of my life. Yeah, I may just write a book.
Anyway, one night during a performance, ---- had a major crush on and got into one of his fowl moods. First off, he was belching so loud the actors on stage glared up into the spotlights and at one point paused in between lines when ---- started yelling obscenities at the top of his lungs.
It went on for a good fifteen minutes and one actor even stormed off stage.
The catwalk we were on was only about twelve-feet above the upper balcony so everyone up there could hear ---- cursing up a blue streak and belching.
For the life of me, I can’t even remember what the hell he was so mad about but I do remember that half of the audience in the upper balcony, at one point, were not paying attention to what was going on in the play. Instead, they had their necks craned upward and were listening to ----make a spectacle of himself.
People were actually yelling at him to shut up. When ---- finally got so incensed in his tirade that he tore off his headset and yelled; “that’s it I’ve had it. I’m outta here,” the upper balcony erupted with an overwhelming applause.
The strike. That’s right. That’s what he was so irate over. The Local One stagehands were going on strike because the Theater Organization producer’s wanted take-backs. They didn’t want four guys standing around on stage while one was up in a bucket lift changing a light bulb."

ANOTHER QUOTE

"I'd be learning the spotlight but this time the lamps were positioned directly over the audience and the stagehands had to crawl out on a narrow catwalk to get there.
By now my alcohol consumption was pretty severe and one time when I was on a ladder changing a speaker wire in the front of house, Jimmy G noticed I was shaking.
“Better ease up on the booze McDuda. Hank might catch a whiff of you,” Said Jimmy. “You smell like a brewery. Worse rather. More like Duffy.”
I guess I could hold my liquor pretty good but Judith could tell when I had more than a few. She got to blaming ---- and Jimmy G for being a ‘bad influence’ on me. Maybe she wasn’t all that far off the mark but regardless, I was old enough to know I was sinking into a void of depravity. I wouldn’t say I was mature enough though to turn things around at the time. Bering mature, even for the old timers I worked with wasn’t in their vocabulary since they were pulling pranks day in and day out.
Before show time I stopped at a liquor store. I was running late and didn’t have time to go to McHale’s. Besides, I knew I was going to need more than one drink to stop the shaking.
So I’m climbing this ladder out to the catwalk on the fifth floor with a pint of bourbon tucked under my shirt and about halfway up I lose my footing, grab the run and the pint sails down, hits a beam and shatters. Luckily no one was around but the booze dripped down about forty-feet to stage level and soaked three or four of the wigs placed on a table. That night’s performance Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all smelled like Duffy."



ANOTHER QUOTE

"Back at the theater, I slowly started to sink into the old routine. A quick beer before a show with Duffy or smoking some weed at intermission with ---- and Jimmy G.
Work-wise, I was finding myself in great demand. Kegabeer seemed to always need me for a few days a week down at the Marquis and Hank and Stevie Mac kept me busy at the Gershwin in either the sound or prop department.
But I started to get lax about my work responsibility.
Stevie Mac mentioned to 'Scooter' Reilly, the head electric at the Brooks Atkinson Theater that I was a hard worker. Scooter put me on a load-in except, I over slept. I awoke with a hangover two-hours late, called in a panic and apologized. Scooter told Stevie it was the last time he'd ever call me for anything.
Some of the guys at the Gershwin busted my balls about fucking things up with Scooter.

"Reilly would have been a good man to know McDuda," Stevie said. " He would have given you a lot of work."

ANOTHER QUOTE

"So after doing a cue like plugging in a cable, I would find a secluded spot so that I wasn't in the way of actors and actresses running on and off stage or need to jostle my way around props, dressers, or soundmen doing their cues.
Being blitzed out of my gourd, I wasn't sure where the hell I was, although I do remember I was standing by one of the mushrooms. When Dorothy first arrives in munchkin land, the production had these three-dimensional, two-and-a-half-foot tall prop mushrooms that would move on stage.
Unfortunately, I was standing directly on the automation track. So when this mushroom started to move, it caught my sneaker between the base of the mushroom and the automation track causing me to fall. It then dragged me out onto the stage. I was screaming in pain in front of the entire audience as the mushroom opened up and a black midget hopped out and began to sing 'Follow The Yellow Brick Road." Two more munchkins ran over and pried my sneaker loose. It was the last time I ever worked in that off-Broadway theater.
Thankfully, no one at Judith and my wedding rehearsal dinner questioned me about the slight limp in my walk."

ANOTHER QUOTE

"We were in the generator room on the fifth floor smoking before the show. ---- took one last hit passed the joint to Jimmy G who did the same then snubbed it out and tossed it into a Styrofoam cup half filled with marijuana roaches. Jimmy tried to open the door but it wouldn't open.

“Quit goofin’ around Gallahan.” Said ---- pushing Jimmy out of the way and giving the handle a jiggle.

We were locked in alright. ---- tried furiously to twist the knob. We had five minutes to get to our lamps. Jimmy needed even more time to get down to stage level.

"Shit! What did you do McDuda?" Cried ---- as he started pounding on the door and yelling at the top of his lungs for someone to get us out of there.

I didn't do anything.
---- got so incensed he began hurling his meaty shoulder against the door in a fit of fury exclaiming how Harry was going to ream us new assholes.
Jimmy reached back into the Styrofoam cup and sparked up a roach as we faintly heard the orchestra begin. The show had started.

“Jimmy you got a knife?” Asked Tony broiling in panic. “Fuck. Give me your watch. I’ll use da clip.”

Jimmy waited until he was finished with the last bit of smoke filling his chest, exhaled while shaking his head from side to side and said; “What the fuck good is the clip of my watch going to do?” then leaned back complacently against the wall.

I was looking around for something but except for the large gray racks of electrical generators buzzing forth with power, and Jimmy’s Styrofoam cup 'o weed, there was nothing to use to unlatch the door.
---- used his steel-toed boot to kick at the door knob which only made things worse when it went flying off and hit the ceiling.
The last thing I wanted was to be found in here with these two clowns smoking pot and God only knew when they'd find us.
----- eyes were crazed and he even suggested shorting out the power in the electrical racks so there'd be a blackout in the theater. ---- was looking for something to do the trick. Jimmy surely wasn’t relinquishing his watch. Then ---- had the "brilliant" idea of pissing on the racks or else pissing in the Styrofoam cup and tossing it onto the circuits.

So before this numbskull burned us all alive, I got down on my hands and knees looking for something - anything to get us out of here when a tinge of red caught my eye in the molts of dust far under the racks. I hate electricity yet stupidly I reached under the high voltage casing. It was a screwdriver that someone had apparently lost long ago. I held it up as if some Holy Grail and ---- snatched it from my hand and went to work on removing the hinges of the door.
Jimmy didn't even have to look at his watch. From the sound of the music we could tell the first act was half over. We'd been in there just over half of an hour and surely Harry was scouring the theater for us.
Cursing up a storm, ---- was still pounding away and hadn't even gotten the rusty pin an inch up from the top hinge.
I took the screwdriver from him and wedged it into the latch of the door popping it open.
I suggested we agree to tell Harry and the stage manager that we were stuck in the elevator.
When I got behind my lamp, my buzz had nearly dissipated but not nearly enough to stop thinking about all the protons, electrons and neutrons in this world."

And all the morons failing to get the job done but working all the times continually decline the contracts.



AND IT GOES ON AND ON QUOTE AFTER QUOTE.

AND THE BOZO'S MASQUERADING AS STAGEHANDS, HEADS AND BUSINESS MANAGERS WHILE THE RANK AND FILE GET PASSED BY THESE NUMB SKULLS.

BROADWAY BOB NIMMO, IS THIS WHAT YOU LEARNED AT JESUIT FORDHAM? DID THEY TEACH YOU TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY AS THE "BROTHERS" PARTY AND THE BROADWAY CONTRACTS GO DOWN THE DRAIN?

UNION? WHAT UNION?



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YES, RICH THE PRODUCERS WOULD FIRE ANYONE FOR AN EXTRA BUCK,

BUT THE HEADS USING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL DURING THE SHOWS AND HIRING EXTRA STAGEHANDS WHO ARE A REFLECTION OF THEM ARE GIVING THE PRODUCERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO FIRE LOCAL ONE AND IT'S MEMBERS.

WHILE THE HARDWORKING NON DRUG USING OR ALCOHOL USING PROFESSIONAL TECHNICIANS LIKE YOURSELF AND US GET THE SHAFT FROM THE HEADS AND THE MORONS RUNNING THE UNION.

RICH, YOU ARE AMONG OUR BEST MEMBERS, BUT IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN A SPECIAL MEETING TO GET THINGS DONE RIGHT.

RIGHT COMMISSIONER DASH? COMMISSIONER DASH WAKE UP.

HIRE THE BEST AND YOU WILL GET THE BEST. HIRE GARBAGE AT THE VENUES AS HEADS AND THEIR LOW LIFE REFLECTED EXTRAS AND YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DECLINE THE CONTRACTS.

ON BROADWAY, IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SHOW TIME NOT PARTY TIME!

THEY WOULD BE THE LAST MEN ANY ONE OF ABILITY AND TALENT WOULD HIRE TO MAN OR WOMAN A BROADWAY SHOW OR OTHER THEATRICAL OR TELEVISION SHOW. YET THE BUSINESS IS FLOODED WITH THESE STOOGES BRINGING DOWN THE CONTRACTS

''Number One Men'':

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN CHARLOTTE READS NUMBER ONE MEN?


charlotte

Charlotte St. Martin
Executive Director
League of American Theatres and Producers
226 West 47th Street, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10036
Phone: +1-212.703.0222
cstmartin@broadway.org

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"How come I cannot be hired to work as a stagehand on a Broadway Show Local One IATSE, only the Irish Loop Boys?

Kenny and Mike Why is this so?

Broadway Producers I will work for less. Don't Pay them Pay Me.

I will work harder and do a better Job.

Here in the Bronx, we have to work harder to escape the Bronx.

HOW SOON BEFORE THE BROADWAY PRODUCERS ESCAPE THE PARTY AND LOOP? DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, WHERE ARE YOU?


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"How come I cannot be hired to work as a stagehand on a Broadway Show Local One IATSE, only the Irish Loop Boys?

Kenny and Mike Why is this so?

Broadway Producers I will work for less. Don't Pay them Pay Me.

I will work harder and do a better Job.

Here in the Bronx, we have to work harder to escape the Bronx.

HOW SOON BEFORE THE BROADWAY PRODUCERS ESCAPE THE PARTY AND LOOP? DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, WHERE ARE YOU"?


SURE YOU WOULD ONLY A NUMB SKULL WOULDN'T. TOO MANY "STAGEHAND"NUMB SKULLS AT THE EXPENSE OF HARDWORKING DECENT STAGEHANDS. THE REAL NUMBER ONE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS UNION.

An empowered
organization is one
in which individuals
have the knowledge,
skill, desire and
opportunity to
personally succeed
in a way that
leads to collective
organizational
success.

''Number One Men"/FAILING THE STANDARD OF CLASSICS/TO PASS THE TEST OF TIME.

WE BELIEVE TIME'S RUNNING OUT BOYS, AND THAT THE BLOG,

"NUMBER ONE MEN"

PROVES THAT TIME IS WINDING DOWN FOR LOCAL ONE IATSE,

BECAUSE OF THE OFFICERS AND HEADS WHO ARE NEGLIGENT AND MISMANAGING VENUES AND THEIR CONTRACTS.



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BROADWAY BOB NIMMO AND HIS 3 STOOGES FIDDLE WHILE THE UNION BURNS.

THE PARTY IS OVER BOYS. TIME TO START THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MEMBERS UNION.

Bruce Cohen, a Local One spokesman, declined to comment

WE BIKE EVERYWHERE FOR UNION DEMOCRACY WHERE ARE OUR STEADY JOBS LOCAL ONE?

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WE DON'T PARTY.

THANK YOU COLONEL GERGAN! FOR THE INFO ON THE CONGRESS AND DENYING WORKERS SECRET BALLOTS.

"The Congress is expected to soon present legislation with an option that denies workers a secret ballot when voting on union representation...
God bless America."

Thomas F. Gergen

Colonel USAF, (retired)

North Hampton

NBC 8H ALL THEM REILLY'S OTHER IRISH MALES, 1 DAUGHTER AND ONE DANNY WEKSELBLATT! LOOP CONTINUES.

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THE PHOTO IN THE LOCAL ONE SPOTLITE READS AS FOLLOWS, AND WE QUOTE ISSUE SPRING 2007 SPOTLITE UNION LOCAL ONE.

TITLED SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CREW, SEASON 32, STUDIO 8H ROCK CENTER, NBCU, NYC.

THE PHOTO GUEST HOST JOHN RILEY:





Robert Nimmo Business Manager $ 185,272
Michael Wekseblatt Business Manager $ 184,469
Kevin Mcgarrty Business Manager $ 182,424
Edward Iii Mcmahon Business Manager $ 180,685
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WEKSELBLATT ON THE LEFT, McCARTHY ON THE RIGHT. DISCRIMINATION ALL AROUND TOWN!

NOT IN THIS PHOTO: TELEVISION BUSINESS MANAGERS JESUIT BOB NIMMO MBA, AND EDDIE McMAHON.
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MADOFF REPRESENTS THE MISSING BUSINESS AGENTS AND OUR MISSING FIDUCIARY EXPECTATIONS IN THIS RICO AND PONZI SCAM AGAINST US.





COPY AND PASTE US THEIR PHOTOS IF YOU HAVE THEM SO WE CAN POST THEM HERE.
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NBC STUDIO EXECUTIVES TOM POPPEL AND CHRIS OLIVER, WHY IS THIS SO?

TUBE TALK

by
Bob Nimmo
ACCOUNTABILITY.http://www.albanytownhall.com.au/technical.html


"TELEVISION IT NEVER LOOKED BETTER" SAID BOB NIMMO (FOR NIMMO, McMAHON AND THE RICO LOOP BOYS.)


MISSING PHOTO OF HOUSE CREW SNL IATSE LOCAL ONE. BUT WE HAVE THE NAMES ON THE PHOTO AS DOCUMENTED IN THE UNION SPOTLITE, IRS FORMS, NBC PAYROLL, UNION CONTRIBUTIONS.

BACK ROW:PHIL FRIES, JEFF FITZGERALD, GEOFF AMORAL, BILL MCGINNES, LARRY DEMMLER JR, SHAUN REILLY, STEVE DEMMLER, FRANK REILLY, STEVE FISHER, TIM FLYNN,

FRONT ROW:JOE REILLY, JOE DALY, DAN WEKSELBLATT, JOHN C. REILLY, JIMMY REILLY, DONNA REILLY, PHOTO TAKEN BY RICK MCGINNES.

THAT'S 6 REILLY'S, 2 MCGINNES, 2 DEMMLER, AND ASSORTED OTHER IRISH MALES AND 1 IRISH DAUGHTER.

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THE JOBS FOR THE NON IRISH MALES, WOMEN, BLACKS AND HISPANICS? WHERE ARE THEY?

OF COURSE 1 WEKSELBLATT PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR SO THE BUSINESS AGENT LOOKS THE OTHER WAY,

IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES LABOR AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

LIVE EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT.


NBC STUDIO 8H THE DISCRIMINATION CONTINUES UNDER THE NOSE OF THE BUSINESS MANAGERS AND NBC MANAGEMENT.


HOW MANY REILLY'S DOES SNL ACTUALLY NEED?

ALL THOSE REILLY'S ON THE PAYROLL
, THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE NON REILLY'S, NON IRISH, WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH CONTINUES AT NBC AND ALL AROUND THE BUSINESS.

WHILE MIKE WEKSELBLATT AND THE OTHER BUSINESS AGENTS LOOK THE OTHER WAY.

ATTORNEY SPIVAC AND TRUSTEE ATTORNEY DASHMAN WHY IS THIS SO?

WHY CAN'T THE UNION HIRE A WORLD CLASS LAWYER?

BECAUSE THEIR POSITION AGAINST US IN INDEFENSIBLE AND VIOLATES UNITED STATES LAW.

SORRY WE DO NOT HAVE THE PHOTO BUT IF ANY OF THE TRIED AGAINST, TIERED AGAINST OR DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HAVE IT COPY AND PASTE IT TO US.

THIS CAN BE VERIFIED BY SEARCHING IATSELOCALONE.ORG/SPOTLITE/SNL HIT HTML TO READ AS NON PDF.

MANY OF THE LOCAL ONE IATSE DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER AND THEY HIRE EACH OTHER AND THEIR RELATIVES GYPSY FROM STUDIO TO STUDIO AT NBC AND AROUND THE BUSINESS.

THIS MAKES LESS JOBS FOR RANK AND FILE MEMBERSHIP STRUGGLING TO MAKE TIER AGAINST A STACKED UNION.

THIS VIOLATES US CIVIL RIGHTS LAW AND THE LANDRUM-GRIFFEN ACT.

OUR LAW LAW ATTENDING OFFICERS KNOW THIS AND ACTUALLY MAINTAIN THIS SYSTEM IN WILLFUL, DELIBERATE AND CONSPIRED VIOLATION OF THE LAW.

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IN FAIRNESS TO DANNY AND TO HIS CREDIT WE PUBLISH THIS BELOW.

BUT THE DISCRIMINATION MUST END AGAINST US OR ELSE!

THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION HAVE YET TO SCALE THE SUMMIT OF DISCRIMINATION OF MOUNTAIN LOCAL ONE IATSE. THIS MEANS YOU TOO TRIAL OFFICERS.

Copyright © 2004 Asbury Park Press.
Published Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004
Section B
By Rodney Point-Du-Jour
Keport Bureau
(With information added by Ride for Life from other sources)
(Pictures courtesy Daniel Wekselblatt)

Before they reached the summit of Mount Washington in northern New Hampshire, Monmouth County residents Daniel Wekselblatt and Michael Lange trekked over patches of ice and snow, endured frigid temperatures and felt the slight nudge of 20 mph winds as they carried 50 pounds of climbing gear on their backs.

However, scaling a mountain is nothing in comparison to watching friends and relatives battle a life-threatening disease.

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On January, 21, Wekselblatt, 44 of Ocean Township and Lange, 45 of Wall reached the 6,288-foot summit of Mount Washington for the Climb for a Cure fund, a local charity that has raised more than $6000 for cancer and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) research. The two Monmouth County residents raised the money by charging $25 to sign a white flag they carried to the summit, they said. The duo reached the summit, which is the Northeast’s highest peak, after five hours.

“This came out of a frustration to find a way to help people I know who have suffered from cancer,” Wekselblatt said.

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The flag, white with a red baseball and a pink ribbon in the center, will be sold on eBay, an on-line auction site, they said.

Wekselblatt, a member of the stage and lighting crew for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” was able to include donations from some television stars in exchange for their name scribbled on the flag. Signatures on the flag include Max Weinberg, the bandleader for “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”; Ann Curry, an anchor for NBC’s “Today”, and Jimmy Fallon of “Saturday Night Live,” Wekselblatt said.

Wekselblatt, an experienced mountain climber, said he hopes to draw an additional $2000 in donations for the flag through the on-line auction.

Wekselblatt and Lange had plenty of motivation for the climb. Wekselblatt lost his mother, Virginia to breast cancer, while Lange has friends and close relatives who had bouts with cancer.

“Everyone knows someone who has been affected by this disease,” Lange said.

“Three years ago one of our longtime lighting heads, who had just married, found out along with his wife that she has ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Peter and Anne Ehrhardt were just beginning their lives together. She now fights for every moment climbing a mountain much higher than I will ever climb,” Wekselblatt said.

Wekselblatt said he carried the memories of his mother, a former soprano for the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center in New York, with him during the climb.

“I felt an unbelievable strength while climbing the mountain,” Wekselblatt said. “It was so emotionally uplifting.”

All proceeds for the Climb for a Cure will go toward the ALS Association of Greater New York and Breast Cancer Research Foundation of New York, Wekselblatt said.

Donations for the Climb for a Cure fund can be mailed to NBC Credit Union, Climb for a Cure, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10112. For more information, call 732-517-0736.


YES, DISCRIMINATION, RETALIATION AND UNION CORRUPTION ARE ALSO A DISEASE AND WE ARE TIRED OF BEING VICTIMS TO THIS DISEASE AT THE HANDS OF LOCAL ONE IATSE OFFICERS AND HEADS AND NEGLIGENT MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE VENUES.


THIS WEBSITE CAME ABOUT OUT OF FRUSTRATION IN DEALING WITH UNION CORRUPTION AND DISCRIMINATION.

OUR SYMPATHIES TO SOPRANO MOTHER WEKSELBLATT,

BUT WOULD SHE APPROVE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF PUPPET AND UNDEMOCRATIC TRIAL OFFICER MIKE WEKSELBLATT?

WE THINK NOT!



WE WILL DOCUMENT THE CORRUPTION VENUE BY VENUE. WHERE ARE OUR JOBS? END THE DISCRIMINATION.



BA'S ARE PUPPETS AND STUD FARMERS. WELL, NOT ACTUALLY STUD FARMERS. BUT FARMERS NONE THE LESS.

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LOOP BOYS AT CARNEGIE HALL PULL BA'S STRINGS AS THE RANK AND FILE STRUGGLE

Robert Nimmo Business Manager $ 185,272
Michael Wekseblatt Business Manager $ 184,469
Kevin Mcgarrty Business Manager $ 182,424
Edward Iii Mcmahon Business Manager $ 180,685

plus pension, annuity and whats made on the side?

IT'S NOT PRACTICE OR A UNION CARD THAT GET STAGEHANDS INTO CARNEGIE HALL IT IS THE LOOP. WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS BUSINESS MANAGERS??


NOT A RELATIVE OF OFFICERS OR HEADS NO WORK FOR YOU!


WHITE, IRISH/HALF IRISH MALES. VENUE AFTER VENUE.



January 26, 2006 AT CARNEGIE HALL DENNIS O'CONNELL, JOHN CARDINALE, KEN BELTRONE, JOHN GOODSON $300,000 PLUS PENSION AND ANNUITY A YEAR


WHILE THE RANK AND FILE STRUGGLE TO MAKE TIER.


HOW CAN THEY DO A GOOD JOB?


THEY CANNOT! THE CONTRACTS WILL DECLINE. AND IT IS YOUR FAULT OFFICERS AND HEADS.


24 HOURS A DAY ON THE CLOCK, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK,NO SHIFTS TO ALLOW OTHERS TO WORK.


WHEN DO THEY SLEEP?NOT IN THE LOOP NO JOB FOR YOU! WHERE ARE OUR JOBS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR?

Nonprofit salaries

For a donation of between $2,500 and $50,000, you, too, can become a Carnegie Hall Patron. Sound like a deal? After all, your money goes far: Patrons, we're told, help keep ticket prices affordable, subsidize community outreach, and preserve the landmark Carnegie Hall building. Worthy causes all. (In case you were wondering what "affordable" means, tickets for tomorrow night's performance run from $58 to $195.)

What else is Patrons' money spent on? Well, staffing costs, of course. Carnegie Hall is a large organisation, and the director gets paid a large salary: $604,418 in the fiscal year ended June 2004, plus benefits. And then there are Dennis O'Connell, John Cardinale, Kenn Beltrone, and John Goodson. After the director, these men are the highest-paid employees of Carnegie Hall: they all made well over $300,000, before benefits, annuity and pension, in the 2004 fiscal year.

Carnegie Hall Patrons might be scratching their heads at this point, wondering who these people are. After all, they never turn up to thank large donors, and they certainly aren't part of the musical community. What could they do for this non-profit organisation which is worth the $1.48 million that the four of them shared in one year? To find out, the Patrons should look not to Carnegie Hall, but rather to Justin Davidson, who's guest-blogging this week at The Rest Is Noise. I'll spare you the need to click through: it turns out that thes guys are all, um, stagehands. And remember, this isn't a high-tech opera house we're talking about here: it's a concert hall.

Just one more reason to always check out charitable organisations before you start giving them your money.

There are no executive salaries listed for either Carnegie Hall organization in the June, 2005 returns. The only salaries shown are for five stagehands, listed in schedule A as earning from $294,030 to $396,648 in direct compensation, plus benefits. However, the New York Better Business Bureau report indicates that Clive Gillinson, the Executive and Artistic Director, earns $600,000 a year.


IRS Form 990 (a non-profit organization's tax return), which Carnegie filed for the fiscal year ending in June of 2004, is available here. It lists the five highest-paid members of the staff. The late, much missed Robert Harth, who swung from the rigging to scuttle a disastrous merger with the New York Philharmonic topped the list, earning $604,418, plus a benefits package of $141,590. After that, there's not an executive in sight. Nos. 2,3,4 and 5 on the list are all stagehands, who made between $300,000 and $384,000. And for that kind of change, you don't get to keep reconfiguring supposedly supple Zankel Hall, which in theory has three different incarnations but has hardly ever budged out of its starting end-stage mode. The payroll situation is similar at Lincoln Center, where the stagehands are comparatively penurious, but still crowd the top earners list. The crew's biggest moneymaker put in 40-hour weeks and made $216,388 - almost $20,000 more than Nigel Redden, the director of Lincoln Center Festival. The New York Philharmonic uses Lincoln Center's stagehands, too, which explains why the orchestra managed to keep the biggest salaries flowing towards its players - so long as you don't count executive director Zarin Mehta (roughly on a par with Robert Harth) and one well-remunerated independent contractor by the name of Lorin Maazel ($1.9 million). It's enough to make a fiddler wonder whether it wouldn't make a more luxurious life in music to stop scraping strings and start moving chairs instead. –Justin Davidson

How about a stagehand at Carnegie Hall who makes $425,911 - plus $107,041 in contributions to benefits plans and deferred compensation?

New York's high-priced culture club

Nonprofit institution Employee Annual compensation

  1. Carnegie Hall Dennis O'Connell, stagehand $388,325

Article: Stagehand tops the bill with 382,000 dollar salary


FORGET about New York tycoons Donald Trump and Ron Perelman - the big money in the Big Apple is being made by lowly stagehands.

The best-paid Carnegie Hall stagehand t earns $382,066 (GBP 234,396), just $4,000 less than the venue's top executive, according to new figures. The top-earning stagehand at the city's Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts makes $228,463 a year, only $3,000 less than the centre's senior vice president.

Though they are only supposed to earn $30 an hour for their work, the labourers take advantage of a more than generous union contract which guarantees them double and triple time, missed-meal bonuses and other extras.

Four of the five highest-paid employees at ...


Dennis O'Connell from zip code 07093 MAKING A HALF MILLION A YEAR PLUS IN LOCAL ONE AND HE ONLY GAVE THE PAC 700.00 SINCE 1979. DAN GILOON WHY AREN'T YOU ON HIS TAIL. AND THE REST OF THEM? ACCOUNTABILITY. DAN GILOON. DENNIS O'CONNELL. CREEP AND CHEAP SKATE.

Political contributions disclosed by campaign committees to the Federal Election Commission, sorted by name, zip code and employer. The data, from the FEC, covers the years 1979 through 2008.

Candidates

Committees

Dennis O'Connell
$300 to Political Action Cmte Of The Int'L Alliance Of Theatrical Empl Mov Pict Tech Art And... on September 27, 1999
Dennis O'Connell, Stagehand
$400 to Political Action Cmte Of The Int'L Alliance Of Theatrical Empl Mov Pict Tech Art And... on August 24, 1999
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RANK AND FILE STRUGGLE TO EAT AT BURGER KING WHILE THE LOOP BOYS OWN BURGER KING

BlogsMAKING THIS MUCH 9 YEARS AGO AND ARE STILL RAKING IT IN. WHAT ABOUT US? END THE LOOP.

IT PAYS TO BE A STAGEHAND Raking in dough at two landmarks

Monday, January 10th 2000, 2:11AM

Forget the lottery or the stock market. There's a better way to make a bundle. Just ask some stagehands at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

How does $382,066 in wages and benefits sound for working as a Carnegie Hall stagehand? You read that right: three-hundred-eighty-two-thousand, sixty-six dollars.

With a union contract that gives them double and triple time, missed-meal bonuses and other extras, the stagehands push themselves to the max moving props and scenery, loading tons of show equipment, doing carpentry and electrical work and other tasks to up their hourly base of $30.

Their incomes set a new standard for blue-collar workers.

"I don't know of anything like this in the history of the American working man," said Kenneth Jackson, editor of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" and a history professor at Columbia University.

In fact, four of the five highest-paid employees at Carnegie Hall are members of Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, who averaged $334,309 in pay and benefits in 1998, the last year that records were available, the Daily News has learned.

The top backstage earner last year was Dennis O'Connell, 49, of West New York, N.J., who made $382,066, including $297,327 in salary and $84,739 in benefits, as the veteran Carnegie stagehand in charge of props.

Not far behind O'Connell at Carnegie Hall was John Cardinale, of Whitestone, Queens, the stagehand in charge of electrical work, who made $330,610 - $257,285 in salary and $73,325 in benefits.

In contrast, only one executive at the W. 57th St. landmark earned more. Former executive director Judith Arron made $386,131 in salary, with no additional benefits.


At Lincoln Center for the Performing AND CON ARTS, four of the six top employees are stagehands who pulled down an average of $216,979, tax documents show. Only Lincoln Center President Nat Leventhal and Senior Vice President Andre Mirabelli earn more, taking home $525,247 and $231,761, respectively, in salary and benefits.

Union chiefs say crew members work doggedly, often racking up 24-hour days and going weeks without a day off. This allows them to clock hundreds of hours of overtime.

"Sure, the money adds up," said James Claffey, business manager of Local 1. "But you eat your Thanksgiving dinners at Burger King, you never sleep, and you don't get to see your family for Christmas because there's always a show."

Music hall brass say it's a tough job. "The stage crew often works a 10-day stretch without a day off, and sometimes works 48 hours straight," said Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, the executive director of Carnegie Hall.

The reason for this is that the producers and the venue insist that the same crew that rehearsed the show must run the show, arguing that the quality of a production or concert could suffer if a different crew arrived at night.

But experts said the generous salaries can hurt consumers by leading to sky-high ticket prices. At Carnegie Hall, an orchestra seat can sell for as much as $100.

"High compensation levels can have an enormous potential impact on ticket prices," said Martha LoMonaco, theater professor at Fairfield University.

The stagehands' contract provides for double and triple time, missed-meal bonuses, extra pay for up to $500 when concerts are broadcast on TV or recorded for albums, and other special fees.

The premium pay helped Richard Norton, of the upper West Side, ring up $228,463 last year in salary and benefits as chief of stagehands at Avery Fisher Hall, and Artie Connaughton, 47, of Matawan, N.J., earn $204,420 in salary and benefits as crew chief and shop steward at Alice Tully Hall.

"It's a job that exacts its pound of flesh and takes a huge toll on our families," said Connaughton as he examined a sound console during a recent tour of Tully.

Family sacrifice comes with the territory, agreed Frank Ferrante, of North Caldwell, N.J., another stagehand at the 1,096-seat Tully. He made $213,391 in salary and benefits.

"My priorities are my four kids and putting them through college and seeing them in a different line of work," he said.

"Anybody who thinks working a 22-hour day is a picnic never worked a 22-hour day in their life," Terry Dunleavy, another stagehand at Alice Tully Hall, said as he tested backstage lighting for a recent rehearsal of the "Lincoln Center Songbook."

"I love my job here, but it sure takes its toll," said Dunleavy, whose exact salary was not known.

Executives at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall declined to comment, but praised the workers.

"At Lincoln Center, we demand - and receive - the highest level of expertise from our stagehands," said Mirabelli.

Here's how they work hard

for their money:

Overtime. Basic pay averages $30 an hour, and time and a half past eight hours is $45. Weekends are paid at time and a half, as is all work from midnight to 8 a.m. Some holidays are paid double time, or $60, and overtime on holidays and weekends in some cases can hit triple time, or $90.

Performance fees. For working during a concert or show, stagehands get a flat fee of around $100.

Missed-meal bonuses. Management pays double time for an hour if crews work through meal breaks. This golden hour often becomes triple time because stagehands are frequently on time and a half. It can become quadruple time, $120, on some holidays.

Swing time. If stagehands return to work with less than an eight-hour break between shifts, the entire day is paid at double time.

Step-up pay. Special payments can range from $51.24 to $500 for extra work performed during shows or concerts that are broadcast or recorded for TV, radio or CDs.

Graphic: BY THE NUMBERS

Five highest-paid employees

at Carnegie Hall:

Judith Arron, former executive director $386,131

Dennis O'Connell, stagehand $382,066

John Cardinale, stagehand $330,610

John Goodson, stagehand $321,991

James Csollany, stagehand/carpenter $302,569

Five highest-paid employees

at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts:

Nathan Leventhal, president $525,247

Andre Mirabelli, senior vice president $231,761

Richard Norton, stagehand $228,463

Brian Murphy, stagehand $221,571

Robert Jacobi, stagehand $217,052

Source: Internal Revenue Service Form 990. For fiscal year ending June 30, 1998. Note: Arron died in 1998. Salary not yet available for Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, current executive and artistic director.


LOCAL ONE ORGANIZING: THE DOOR FOR THE SCAM IS OPEN FOR NEW PATSIES











The door for Union membership in Local One is open.
All who qualify are welcome to join.

There are three methods for gaining membership in Local One.

Apprenticeship: A LOW PAYING JOB AT AN UNDESIRABLE VENUE WORKING LATE NIGHTS FOR LOW PAY. NEVER TO ACTUALLY OBTAIN A GOOD JOB AS THEY ALL GO TO THE LOOP BOYS. SORRY WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH NON IRISH WHITE MALES. IN DISREGARD FOR UNITED STATES LABOR AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. COMPLAIN AND THEY WILL ILLEGALLY RETALIATE AGAINST YOU AGAIN IN VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES LAW.


Organizational List: THE DISCRIMINATORY SYSTEM. TIERED BENEFITS AND JOBS WITH ALL THE GOOD JOBS GOING TO THE RELATIVES OF THE OFFICERS, HEADS AND MANAGEMENT IN VIOLATION OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW.


Organizational Effort: LOW PAYING UNDESIRABLE VENUES THAT THE OFFICERS, AND HEADS DON NOT WANT THEIR FAMILIES TO WORK AT WHICH IS EXACTLY WHERE YOU WILL SERVE YOUR APPRENTICESHIP AND NEVER HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADVANCE IN THIS CORRUPT UNION!



THE JOYCE ? ANOTHER LOW PAYING VENUE AS THE CONTRACTS CONTINUE IN DECLINE! NOT YOUR FATHERS UNION.

DON'T THINK YOUR MIGRATING UPTOWN JOYCE STAGEHANDS THE LOCAL ONE OFFICERS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS WON'T ACTUALLY RECOGNIZE YOU AS CARD MEN AND CARD WOMEN. THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION IRISH STAGEHANDS CONTROL THE BUSINESS AND YOUR CARD WILL BE VIEWED AS WORTHLESS! THE IRISH LOOP BOYS CONTROL THE BUSINESS. LATEST PATSY CALL!

THE SAME LOOP BOYS ACTUALLY LOAD IN AND RUN THE SHOWS WHILE THEY HAVE EVERYONE ELSE SCRAMBLING TO MAKE TIERED BENEFITS. TIERED BENEFITS AND TIERED UNION IN VIOLATION OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW.

350 to 500 (approximately) - number of Broadway stagehands responsible at any given time for "building, installing and operating scenery and sound and lighting equipment." (THE IRISH LOOP 2500 VICTIMS PLUS THE 350 TO 500 PLUS RELATIVES AND LOOP BOYS (WHITE, IRISH, MALES)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009; Posted: 01:08 PM - by BWW News Desk


Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has requested voluntary recognition from the Joyce Theatre Foundation as the collective bargaining representative of the stagehands employed at the Joyce Theatre.

A vast majority of the stagehands employed by the Joyce recently signed authorization cards selecting Local One to bargain collectively on its behalf.

In a letter daTed August 14, President James J. Claffey, Jr., citing the Joyce stagehands' decision to sign with the 3000-member Local One, offered to the Joyce that it select a neutral, third party to review the signed authorization cards.

"It is our firm belief that resolving the representation rights of the stagehands through voluntary recognition promotes constructive and harmonious relations between the Joyce Theatre and Local One," Mr. Claffey wrote to Joyce Theatre Foundation Executive Director Linda Sheldon. Mr. Claffey requested that the review be completed by August 26.

Voluntary recognition allows both Local One and the Joyce Theatre Foundation to avoid the hefty expenses associated with National Labor Relations Board election procedures.

For 123 years, Local One < http://www.iatselocalone.org/> has been the premiere stagecraft union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees representing 3,000 property persons, stage and studio electricians, set carpenters, sound designers, audio technicians, moving-light operators, riggers and special effects people in New York.



EDITORIAL/THE PASSING OF THE TELEVISION CONTRACTS

With the passing of Walter Cronkite, and the end of the Tiffany Network, and the reduction of all networks, by Cable TV and other factors, the Internet has additionally impacted all networks.

"TV", Bob Nimmo,MBA JESUIT FORDHAM, "It never looked better". MBA?? Master of Bulls--- Always!!! CUFF HIM DANO.


BGT played one time and revealed Susan Boyle. She subsequently revealed 300 Million Viewers. "The Internet, It Never Looked Better", as the masses ask the Nimmo Loop, and the Producers, "TV, What's that"??!!

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so long Walter, the Television Business Managers, and the TV contracts.


TRIAL AND DISCRIMINATORY OFFICERS, IRISH LOOP BOYS

Broadway Stagehands Democracy welcomes the Freedom Forum Washington DC, and The Freedom Forum Laurel Maryland, and the FREEDOM FORUM NASHVILLE TENN., for their 7th,8th and 9th visits. Freedom of the Press, Even for those working behind the scenes in Television, Broadway, and all New York City Theatrical venues under the jurisdiction of LOCAL ONE IATSE.

Free the Cohen Brothers and all Tried Against, Tiered Against, and Discriminated Against members of this Union.

We are entitled to the Jobs, Pensions, and Benefits and all Constitutional Guarantees under U.S. Constitutional Law and U.S. Labor Law.

End the Rico and Ponzi Scams against the Rank of File of this Union. While the Retaliatory and Discriminatory Officers Play in Florida (their usual here too) we are here Getting the Job Done, Our Usual!

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U.S. Labor Law allows the Mocking of Undemocratic Union Officers to maintain union democracy.


Love Telly and the boys

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The Real Stooges are much better than any of you can hope to be!

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FREE LUCKY TAKE THE BA'S

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CAMERA KEY LIGHT AND BOOM

THE MEMBERS CAMERA, KEY LIGHT, AND BOOM.

TO REVEAL, NOT CONCEAL THE DISHONEST FISHERMEN OF THIS UNION, AND THE HONEST FISHERMEN LEADING THE MEMBERS UNION.

ARE THE MEMBERS OF THIS UNION SLEEP WALKING INTO A SOCIETY BENT ON TAKING AWAY OUR JOBS, PENSIONS AND BENEFITS AND UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?

BY LAW AND UNION CARD IT MUST BE A UNION FOR ALL MEMBERS!


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Business Agents on a String, Whose controlling the String? Yes it is howdie doodie. And they are covered with it!




FOUR CLOWNS POSING AS LEGIT/MIKE, EDDIE, BOBO, KENNY.

THE POPE AT YANKEE STADIUM ANOTHER IRISH LOOP JOB

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NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY IS WHAT THEY, IN DISCRIMINATION, COMMUNICATE TO THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION!

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL THINK YOU'VE SEEN IT ALL IN NEW YORK ANOTHER LOOP JOB

Plan Your 2009 TFF!

NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY IS WHAT THEY, IN DISCRIMINATION, COMMUNICATE TO THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION! DEANS BOY! THE SINS OF THE FATHERS PASS TO THE SONS!

THE TONY AWARDS. DOLANS WHERE ARE THE JOBS FOR THE NON IRISH/ANOTHER LOOP JOB!

The Official Website of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards - The 2009 Tony Awards - Sunday, June 7th 8/7c CBS - IT'S SHOW TIME!



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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY PROUDLY WELCOMES THE SPACE AND NAVAL WAREFARE SYSTEMS COMMAND!


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LOCAL ONE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND BUSINESS MANAGERS AT LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AND CON ARTS 50 YEARS A SCAM AGAINST THE NON IRISH-AMERICAN MEN, WOMEN, AND NON WHITE STAGE TECHNICIANS!


IATSE 1 McGARTY AND WEKSELLBLATT, NIMMO AND McMAHON, WHAT IS GOING ON SHOULD WE CALL THE FEDS? PRESIDENT LINCOLN WOULD NOT APPROVE.
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WE WELCOMED THE DEPT OF LABOR










Mottos:
Fortitudine Vincimus,
"BY ENDURANCE WE CONQUER!

IN THY LIGHT WE SHALL SEE LIGHT!

IN LUMINE TUO VIDEBIMUS LUMEN...







WE ARE EMPLOYED AT ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, CBS NEWS, FOX NEWS, CNN NEWS, ALL NEW YORK TELEVISION, AND WE ARE ILLEGALLY DENIED FREE SPEECH BY OUR CORRUPT UNION!

WHY ARE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES BEING DENIED? WHY IS OUR UNION CORRUPT? WHERE ARE OUR STEADY JOBS?


FREEDOM O
F THE PRESS INCLUDING THOSE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES IN TELEVISION BROADWAY AND ALL THEATRICAL VENUES


FREEDOM FORUM WASHINGTON DC WELCOMED BY BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY NINE TIMES (9) UNDEMOCRATIC UNION LEADERS!



LITTLE RUDY HIS BROTHER, THE REILLEY'S AND THE HEADS GIVING AWAY THE CONTRACTS WHILE THE BAS LOOK THE OTHER WAY!



TRUTH / JUSTICE / FREEDOM

Our National and International Presence is truly gathering steam against those running a Rico and Ponzi Scheme against us the members of Local One IATSE! We are here getting the job done!
Only a few of the Nations who have landed on our shores and who are discriminated against in this union.


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Yes, it is not a Good Morning America for the Rank and File of this Union. At the Intersection of Broadway and Seventh, the scam against us continues. Where are our steady jobs in the theatrical and television district North of 42nd Street and South of Lincoln Center for the Performing and Con Arts!?

LOCAL ONE APPRENTICE TEST. THE FIX IS IN BY THE IRISH AMERICAN FAMILIES HERE ALSO.

THE TEST WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL APPLICANTS WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, CREED, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE, RELIGION OR SEX.

A test-taker earning one of the top forty (40) scores will be placed as a candidate on the Union’s Apprenticeship List.

For further information, please call IATSE Local 1 Vice President William Walters at 646-522-6718, Chairman, Board of Trustees John M. Diaz, Sr. at 646-522-6716, Trustee Daniel D. Dashman at 646-522-6714 or Trustee William Ngai at 646-522-6717.

The fix is in here too. Yes contact any at the above they are all an integral part of the scam. John Diaz has 100 plus relatives at the Met he and his nephews are the Department heads they control who works and when. Have a union useless union card? You wont get work. Get work and get a card. Sorry you are laid off. No work no pension accruition. We save the pension cash and all jobs for our relatives. At the Met and all Theatrical Venues and Television. Watch for John Diaz's confession soon to be posted on this blog and comment page!

50 YEARS AN IRISH RICO AND PONZI SCAM AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE!

50 Years In, Lincoln Center’s Name Is Still a Mystery

Lincoln CenterBob Serating Breaking ground for Lincoln Center on May 14, 1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower did the honors, after Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in a makeshift tent.

And so, this Monday morning, let us celebrate the Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, who gave his name to Lincoln Center, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking with an artistic and political extravaganza in the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall starting at 10:30 a.m. (See ArtsBeat for live coverage.)

Not.

Or, well, perhaps.

Surprisingly, after five decades, the origin of the word “Lincoln” in Lincoln Center “is a mystery,” said Judith Johnson, Lincoln Center’s corporate archivist. “It is one of those questions that should have an answer — because so many other places in New York have a reason for their naming. But that’s not true here.”

Certainly there is no doubt, she said, that it was decided, in 1956, to name Lincoln Center after the neighborhood in which it was built: Lincoln Square, formally the area between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues between West 63rd Street and West 66th Street.

After all, in 1906 the Shubert Organization opened a 1,600-seat theater there called the Lincoln Square, on what is currently the site of the Juilliard School. There was even a six-story loft, the Lincoln Square Arcade, where painters, sculptors and photographers toiled in studios for many years.

Abraham LincolnAP Photo/NY Public Library, Alexander Gardner Was Lincoln Center really named after the Great Emancipator?

Records conclusively show that the New York City Board of Aldermen formally named the area Lincoln Square in May of 1906. The minutes of their meetings are devoid of discussion, however, about the reason for the name. Newspapers of the time, including The New York Times and The Brooklyn Eagle, shed no light on the question, Ms. Johnson said.

As to whether Honest Abe provided the inspiration, “we couldn’t find anything that was conclusive one way or the other,” she said.

On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, “there used to be an idea that the area was called Lincoln Farms,” said Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. “Perhaps it was a long-held urban myth that dates back to the time of a rural myth.”

But the property records in the New York Municipal Archives list six local landowners in the area, and nary a Lincoln surname among them: Thomas Hall, Johannes van Bruch, Stephan de Lancey, James de Lancey, James de Lancey Jr. and John Somerindyck.

“We searched obituaries, archives of the parks department and many other records and couldn’t find any landowner with the name of Lincoln,” Ms. Johnson said.

And Mr. Holzer, who has written 34 books about Lincoln and the Civil War, confirmed that many historians have “looked in the archives and it is truly bizarre that there is no record of why it was named Lincoln Square.”

The whole Lincoln name thing gets even trickier. When the Board of Aldermen granted Lincoln Square its name in 1906, during a time that the city was designating many named squares, the city’s mayor was George B. McClellan.



THE LOCAL ONE IRISH AMERICAN SCAM AGAINST THE NON IRISH AMERICANS OF THIS UNION HAS TO END!

LOCAL ONE IRISH-American SCAM against the non Irish-American, AmericanWomen, Spanish-American and American-Blacks of this union. VIOLATING U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LABOR LAW. WHERE ARE OUR REAL JOBS?
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IN THIS UNION THE APOLLO THEATER AND JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ARE VENUES WHERE BLACK STAGEHANDS IN SEGREGATION WORK. ALL THE REMAINING VENUES ARE WHITE ONLY SEGREGATED WITH TOKEN BLACKS, WOMEN AND NON IRISH. THERE ARE NO VENUES ONLY FOR WOMEN OR NON IRISH. SEGREGATION VIOLATES US CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LABOR LAW, YET THIS UNION AND THE VENUES MANAGE A BROWN VS THE BOARD OF ED DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY SYSTEM. WHY? WHERE ARE OUR JOBS! LOCAL ONE FOR MORE THAN THE IRISH!

PERFORMANCE ARTIST PLAYS THE BA'S AS THE RANK AND FILE SEE THEM


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GIVE PEACE AND THE RANK AND FILE A CHANCE!

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4 PUPPETS TV- BROADWAY -THEATERS- INDUSTRIALS THE FIX IS IN AGAINST THE R AND FILE- MIKE ED BOB KEV

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DAMN RIGHT WE ARE AMERICANS U.S. v LOCAL ONE BUSINESS AGENTS AND HEADS


(Neither a Union or) "A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history". US v LOCAL ONE BUSINESS AGENTS AND HEADS

"Their crisis, is a consequence of greed and irresponsiblity."-Barak Obama



Quote the raven, 'Nevermore'.

2009 THE YEAR OF OBAMA 7


JUST A SAMPLING OF THE VISITORS OF NOTE TO BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
And the nature of light to illuminate truth.


HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT LONDON UNITED KINGDOM/ PARLIAMENT 7


London Souvenir by Vesuviano - Nicola De Pisapia

VESUVIANO-NICOLA DE PISAPIA PHOTOGRAPHER 4 VISITS



IATSE

Mottos:

Fortitudine Vincimus,
"BY ENDURANCE WE CONQUER!

IN THY LIGHT WE SHALL SEE LIGHT!
IN LUMINE TUO VIDEBIMUS LUMEN...



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON DC / FOUR VISITS


SAMURAI SEVEN


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WASHINGTON DC





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BOEING COMPANY



SPACE AND NAVAL WAREFARE COMMAND CENTER



Deloitte LLP ACCOUNTS AND SUBCONTRACTORS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND THE IRS

Ethics & Independence

At Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries, the responsibility for ethical behavior is taken seriously — by everyone, at every level. Conducting business honorably, ethically and with the utmost professionalism is top of mind for the people of the Deloitte U.S. Entities.

Personal integrity, public trust



SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO



MERRILL LYNCH NO BULL







GOODMAN THEATER CHICAGO VOTED AGAINST UNIONIZATION (PRIOR TO THIS BLOG AND COMMENT PAGE)


RUSSIAN FEDERATION MOSCOW COMRADES 6 VISITS


London School of Economics

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE


PRINCETON NEW JERSEY 7 IVY TIGERS



AIG


DEPAUL UNIVERSITY CHICAGO


ABC DISNEY CALIFORNIA



FREEDOM FORUM WASHINGTON DC FREEDOM OF THE PRESS INCLUDING THOSE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES IN TELEVISION.NINE VISITS (9)


UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY / UNITED STATES COAST GUARD / WASHINGTON DC /THE REAL McHALE





NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

PERSTARE ET PRAESTARE / TO PERSEVERE AND TO EXCEL



THE WORLD BANK WASHINGTON DC



CBS NEW YORK / CBS LOS ANGELES


MOTTO:IN THY LIGHT WE SHALL SEE LIGHT!

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIONS

NEW IVY LEAGUE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 7
3 VISITS


Columbia University in the City of New York






CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO



UNITED STATES GRAIN COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC




TEMPLE UNIVERSITY WISE OWLS PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA


UNIVERSITY OF BASEL SWITZERLAND


PLACER COUNTY CALIFORNIA SHERIFF


UNIVERSITY ROSTOCK GERMANY FOUNDED BY POPE MARTIN V 1419

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BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV ISRAEL


UNITED ARAB EMIRATES


EXXON MOBIL



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE


UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON


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Knowledge
The University... promotes democratic and global citizenship; cultivates an appreciation for beauty, goodness, and truth and...while preparing students to understand complex issues and express informed opinions with courage and conviction.

Community
The University is committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive and collaborative community accentuated by a spirit of freedom and charity, and marked by protection of the rights and dignity of the individual. The University values students, faculty and staff from different backgrounds and faith traditions, and is committed to creating an atmosphere of trust, safety and respect in a community characterized by a rich diversity of people and ideas.

Ethical Conduct
The University provides a values-based education that informs the development of ethical judgment and behavior. The University seeks to develop ethical and responsible leaders committed to the common good who are empowered to engage a diverse and changing world.

Compassionate Service The University embraces the Catholic moral and social tradition by its commitment to serve with compassion, to foster peace, and to work for justice.



PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANA




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Texas Board of Law Examiners


Welcome


The Board of Law Examiners is the judicial agency responsible for administering the process of determining that applicants seeking to be licensed to practice law in Texas meet the qualifications set by the Supreme Court of Texas.






FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOR THOSE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES IN TELEVISION, BROADWAY AND ALL THEATRICAL VENUES.

IN LOCAL 1, YOU ARE NOT ENTERING A LEGITIMATE DEMOCRATIC CONTRACT.

YOU ARE LEAVING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ENTERING A TWILIGHT ZONE OF BIGOTRY AND CORRUPTION, NEGLIGENCE AND STUPIDITY.

THE GOVERNMENT OF LOCAL ONE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND NOR DO THEY ACTUALLY HONOR THEIR SIGNED CONTRACTS TO REPRESENT YOU.

THEY SLEEP WITH MANAGEMENT AND WILL PUT THEIR RELATIVES INTO YOUR JOB IF THE CONTRACT IMPROVES.


BSD WELCOMES AGAIN NEW YORK


BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY WELCOMES THE SERGEANT OF ARMS UNITED STATES SENATE
, THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT, THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE UNITES STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.
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WELCOME METROPOLITAN OPERA'S 1 MILLION BOSS. THE RANK AND FILE STRUGGLE TO MAKE TIER AS THE DIAZ CLAN BANK ACCOUNT SWELLS.

FREEDOM FORUM WASHINGTON DC FREEDOM OF THE PRESS INCLUDING THOSE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES IN TELEVISION.NINE VISITS (9)


THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION HAVE YET TO SCALE THE SUMMIT OF DISCRIMINATION OF MOUNTAIN LOCAL ONE IATSE. THIS MEANS YOU TOO TRIAL OFFICERS.

WELCOME PENN STATE LIONS



BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY WELCOMES HARVARD UNIVERSITY



Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2007 by Gordon_CWE ARE HAMMERING OUR PLOWSHARSES BACK TO SWORDS!









WILL RODGERS LARIOT SEVEN AND THE MAGNIFICENT 7

An empowered
organization is one
in which individuals
have the knowledge,
skill, desire and
opportunity to
personally succeed
in a way that
leads to collective
organizational
success.





BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS IN LOCAL ONE. AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY AS A PUBLICATION.

AND LET'S FACE IT THEY ARE BANDITS.Picture of The Magnificent Seven,  High Quality Photos


Card? What card, you don't actually believe that you are in our union?!



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TAKES A BANDIT TO BEAT A BANDIT










TOTO THE DEMOCRACY LION

Editorial.

We believes the liberal media has gotten stronger than ever before. We believe that the strength of the media has allowed the media to control public opinion and development. The media can control the reaction to what is happening in the world and thus impact the world by reporting what is happening and comment on what is happening. A good example of this has occurred in the media coverage of Barack Obama. The media influenced public opinion on the positives of Obama and the negatives of McCain. This occurred again in the reporting of the financial crisis. The media not only reported the financial crisis, but it stimulated the public reaction to the financial crisis. Again we see the media impact on the big three automakers. The media has been reporting on the failings of Detroit for years. And now the media is reporting the fall of the big three. These reports have helped to bring about the fall of the big three.

AND SOON THE SMALL FOUR PLUS

SAFARI SEVEN LIONS





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OBAMA

EXCERPTS FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH NOT ONLY DEFINE THE NATION IN TURMOIL, BUT DEFINE THIS UNION'S TURMOIL UNDER CORRUPT AND PROBLEMATIC LEADERSHIP. ONE GREAT SPEECH!

"That's the promise of America, the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as ONE nation; the fundamental belief that I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER; I AM MY SISTER'S KEEPER. That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now."

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IWO JIMA

SISTER EMMANUELLE WOULD BE PROUD!
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA WOULD BE PROUD!
PATTON WOULD BE PROUD!


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RAISING THE AMERICAN FLAG OF DEMOCRACY ON IWO JIMA AND LOCAL ONE IATSE.


NEW SPOTLIGHT

A NEW SPOTLIGHT TO REVEAL NOT CONCEAL

THE DISHONEST FISHERMAN OF THIS UNION STEALING ALL OUR QUOTES, CREATIVITY AND JOBS.

AND OUR BEST HONEST FISHERMAN LEADING THE MEMBERS UNION.

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McQUEEN

"Our union government needs to be both shaken and stirred to make a better democratic and mixed Martini, to actually bond with the membership"
-francis albert mcqueen




U.S. v LOCAL ONE IATSE

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE) NON IRISH, WOMEN, BLACKS, SPANISH NEED NOT APPLY TO LOCAL ONE IATSE! FOR THE BEST JOBS THE STEADY JOBS, THE SENIORITY SYSTEM, GUARANTEED BENEIFITS AND ADVANCEMENT IN THIS CORRUPT UNION! NON IRISH NEED NOT APPLY.

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit v.Oakland Scavenger Co. (AND LOCAL ONE IATSE)Cite as:


in assigning the better jobs with higher pay and more guaranteed hours to the shareholder-employees, who were exclusively of SAME ancestry, and (2) by limiting share ownership to persons who were of SAME ancestry and were either members of the family or close friends of a current shareholder.28

THE YEAR OF OBAMA IS 2009!AND THE OFFICERS, HEADS, AND NEGLIGENT MANAGEMENT ARE BREAKING UNITED STATES LAW.

$1000.00 FINE

We would like to remind the heads and officers all heads and business officers should be fined, for allowing each non member, to work for each day they work, a thousand dollars. Do not circumvent your union heads and officers. It shall be incumbent upon all members to ascertain that union members are working in union jobs.

FIRST BIRTHDAY

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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY CELEBRATES IT'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!

WE WILL BE HERE AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO GET THE JOB DONE!



THE FOUR PIRATES


Four Pirates


Television Business Manager Robert Nimmo, MBA Jesuit Fordham, in his facial position ready to provide for the loop boys and management. He loves to swallow (his chewing gum)! How does your backside feel? does it still hurt? You take it from them up the air you can take it from us. Taking it front or back your favorite position at the expense of the Rank and File. You dirty Tramp!

Bob Nimmo offers his clients and membership more than 30 years of production experience. This experience has been attained in traditional theater, live events and television.

Bob is serving in his third term as Television Business Manager. He has an MBA from Fordham University. Bob says, "My dad was also an officer. We manage the rico and ponzi loop and we hold illegal, unethical trials against union members desiring to have and practice their legal and constitutional right to free speech as delineated in the Landrum-Griffin Act and upheld by Federal, US Court of Appeals, US Supreme Court. The free speech they want a seniority system, and the jobs, pensions and benefits their cards and US law allow the rank and file members."



MBA FROM FORDHAM AND HE CANNOT MANAGE AN ETHICAL AND LEGAL SYSTEM? SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE AND IT IS NOT US!

Bob Nimmo participated in the Illegal Trial against the Cohen Brothers and Really against all Democratic Memebers of Local One Iatse. Here is what our MBA from Fordham had to say after the 2006 Elections as published in the Local One Iatse Spotlight:


TUBE TALK FROM THE SPOTLIGHT 2006:

Quoting Bob Nimmo MBA from Fordham, "Thank you to all who voted in the November elections. It is now our responsibility as Citizens to Hold Those WE Elect ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW THEY RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF A HUMANE SOCIETY AND ORGANIZED LABOR".

MORE BULLSHIT MORE LIES!

REALLY NOW BOB NIMMO, MBA FROM JESUIT FORDHAM, AND THEN YOU A PHONY TURN AROUND AND BRING THE COHEN BROTHERS TO TRIAL FOR ALLEGEDLY OPERATING A WEBSITE ALLOWING MEMBERS FREE SPEECH.

HOW DOES THAT HELP LABOR? THE REAL HELP IS FOR THOSE OF YOU, AND YOU INCLUDED IN YOUR RUNNING AN ILLEGAL SCAM AND CORRUPT UNION AGAINST THE RANK AND FILE MEMBERS OF THIS UNION.

HERE BOB NIMMO WE THE RANK AND FILE OF THIS UNION ARE HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR VIOLATING US CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, LABOR LAW AND RUNNING AN ILLEGAL UNCONSTITUTIONAL TRIAL.

YOU NEVER HELPED LABOR. YOU CORRUPTED LABOR AND YOU NEVER LIFTED ONE FINGER TO DEMOCRATIZE LABOR AND FREE THE COHENS AND ALL DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF THIS UNION.

YOU BOB NIMMO ARE A FRAUD AND A CHEAT. WE ARE PAYING YOU TO BE A LAWFUL UNION LEADER. AND THIS YOU ARE NOT! "HUMANE" YOU ARE NOT. A CROOK AND A FRAUD, YES. BEYOND A SHADOW OF DOUBT! YOU ALL ARE!




Read the comment blog and support the rank and file members and union democracy! The comment blog starts here.

NEWS, INDUSTRY, OBITS AND COMMENTS BELOW (THE BLOG WILL RETURN WHEN THE TRANSFER IS COMPLETE)



HANDCUFFS

WHATEVER THE TIME ZONE,
THE CLOCK IS RUNNING OUT: ON ASSOMA

AND ANY OFFICER MANAGING A DISCRIMINATORY AND RETALIATORY SYSTEM.

TIME FOR A CHANGE! BYE, BYE McGARTY, McMAHON, WESKELBLATT, NIMMO!



THROW AWAY THE KEY!


I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

We will continue to sit on their backs until the job is done.



BOB IGER AND MICKEY MOUSE

BOB IGER

President and CEO, Walt Disney

My father wrote in my sixth-grade yearbook quoting Hamlet - Polonius to his son, Laertes: "To thine own self be true." I was 12 years old, but it had a powerful impression on me then, and I've often thought of it since.

HEY BOB NIMMO AND EDDIE MCMAHON, MIKE WESKELBLATT AND KEVIN MCGARTY: HOW COME I RECEIVED GOOD ADVICE AND YOU DID NOT? WHAT'S UP? WE ARE PAYING FOR UNION STAGEHANDS NOT THE NIMMO LOOP!

GOT YOU BOYS!! SHOULD WE CALL THE SHERIFF?



ROBIN AND THE MERRY MEN GETTING THE JOB DONE!

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BROADWAY STAGEHANDS DEMOCRACY.