Believe who you want

It has been stated that the two statements I claim Sam Schwarz made to me on June 2, 2011 at the union hall while I was meeting with Evette talking about the financial report was not made. The person stating this is Khris Alexander who states that he was at that meeting. It is true that Khris did not hear Sam’s threat statement. I do feel it is import to share some more factual information about that meeting so you can have more information to determine if Khris Alexander’s statement truly represents what took place.

On June 2, 2011 I meet with Evette at our union hall shortly before 1pm. She and I started talking about my concerns in her office with the office door open. Only Evette and I were in her office at that time. We had been talking for about 10 – 15 minutes when Sam (only Sam) walked in the room and joined the conversations. At this time it was only Evette, Sam and I in the room when Sam stated “By the way if you have a specific thing that you want to know about, you have to be specific. You can’t go on a fishing expedition because the department of labor is going to say you are on a fishing expedition and we are going to report that. I don’t know what Evette is going to do, I do not know what Jon is going to do but I am going to tell the membership hey you went on a fishing expedition. Is that what you want to hear?” Now to me that sure sounded like a threat or a type of intimidation. I am not worried who he tells what so that threat didn’t do much to me other than piss me off.

Khris entered the room about 3 – 5 minutes after Sam had entered and Sam’s “threat” had already been made, so of course Khris did not hear it. So Sam was in the room for about 15 minutes and Khris was in the room for about 10 minutes. Sam and Khris left to office together. Khris only heard the last 10 minutes of conversation and cannot truly account for all of what Sam had said to me.

You now have my side of the facts to look at as well. It is ok to believe what you want about who you want. It might matter what I say or it might not. The only documentation about that meeting I have is my notes, my copies of the Meeting Minutes from past meetings, my spread sheets of the reports and the reports reprinted for me by Evette that clearly show that the newly printed reports do not match the same reports that was given to us at our meetings. Not a single report Evette printed that day match any of the reports I had saved from our past meetings. That appears to be our union officer’s standard operational procedure. I am not bashing our union; I am standing up for my rights as a member to be reported accurately. I am sharing this information with other members to allow them the opportunity to do the same. If enough members feel the same as I do than maybe a change might be made. Fear and intimidation can only last so long. Sam use to scare and intimidate me and now he just pisses me off. I am sure I have pissed him of more than my share as well. I cannot and will not except the responses of “that is just how it is” and “you just have to accept it”. Our members do not have to accept anything they do not like.