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Posted on 07/07/2013 3:42:45 PM PDT by UB355
In a remarkable turn, the growing investigation of a powerful local union is turning up evidence of likely financial abuse by the labor group's top staffers during last year's attempted recall of Gov. Scott Walker.
The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998 — which represents bus drivers in Milwaukee County and elsewhere — is the subject of a sweeping investigation by the parent union and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Already, the Washington, D.C.-based ATU ousted Alan Simonis as president of the local and Patrick Clemens as its secretary-treasurer for "financial malfeasance and nonfeasance while in office." The two can appeal the charges at the ATU Convention in San Diego in August.
Simonis and Clemens are being accused of misusing union credit cards and shifting funds improperly between accounts, No Quarter revealed last week.
But Rick Bassler, acting president of the local, confirmed Friday that the ATU is also charging the pair with trying to bolster the local's coffers by overstating the number of hours that staffers were working on the anti-Walker recall campaign.
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What? Union thugs doing dishonest and unethical things? Can’t be!
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998... sweeping investigation by the parent union and the U.S. Department of Labor... Washington, D.C.-based ATU ousted Alan Simonis as president of the local and Patrick Clemens as its secretary-treasurer for "financial malfeasance and nonfeasance while in office." ...accused of misusing union credit cards and shifting funds improperly between accounts... also charging the pair with trying to bolster the local's coffers by overstating the number of hours that staffers were working on the anti-Walker recall campaign.There's just no honor among thieves.
It's only remarkable to libtards..
To us it's union SOP...
Doh!
Union graft during Walker recall attempt
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