Friday, February 12, 2010

Interesting that so much energy (and members dues) is being spent on John Samulsen's face and name recognition inside and out of Local 100. This local president of little notoriety and even less accomplishment hangs around with politicians who have made their careers bashing the MTA but were never successful in changing the culture. These politicians call themselves the "Ever Expanding Coalition of Concerned Politicians" or something like that. They really should call themselves the "Ever Expanding Coalition of Bloomberg's Bought Off Bureaucrats". All they are good for is press conferences and Samuelsen stands dead center. Samuelsen keeps his silence when it comes to our raises and retro but when it comes to self promotion he's vocal as hell. Don't let him off the hook! When he shows to your location, demand that he tell you when will we get our contract.

2 comments:

Amy McCarthy said...

I think you are a 100 percent right Samuelsen and co. should not be let off the hook about when is the raise and retroactive coming but also when are the other things in the contract going to go into affect or was he so busy knocking the contract,he never read it to find out what is in it.His hatred of Toussaint was all he had to know to knock it.The Toussaint/Tate Leadership wrote a letter to the Mta asking when the raises and retroactive were coming after the judge ruled in our favor,what has the Samuelsen/Izzy Rivera administration done to find out when they are coming? You say we should let John hear it when he comes around to workplaces but really when the hell might that be?He just talks to the members on videos,I guess we should call him You Tube Samuelsen.He calls off the Mass Me mbership Meeting on February 25thwhile we face possible layoffs and cuts. a member from Track

Anonymous said...

Why dosent John let Roger come befor the excutive board on the building sail Are we realy hideing something? Why did he hire all those lossers?