IAM’s Incredibly Sleazy Culture of Corruption
It’s been quite a while since I’ve sent an email out regarding the IAM and their catastrophic campaign to organize the Delta flight attendants – you know, that monumental con that slammed into a giant iceberg last summer and sank like the Titanic filled with screaming activists stuck in the steerage compartment several floors below the deck. And over the past months many of you have contacted me requesting an update on the Department of Justice’s investigation into alleged fraud involving that old-guard, smack-them-on-the-back, wink-wink, grease-my-palm-please-with-some-Alexander Hamiltons, industrial-style, corrupt union/organization/collection agency or whatever they claim to be these days.
Anyways, with the IAM promising to once again file for an election at Delta “as soon as early April,” according to their latest email (Feb. 25), rumor has it that the ongoing DOJ investigation might soon drop a list of names tied to last year’s card signing fiasco in which thousands of Delta Flight Attendant names were reportedly forged in order for the IAM to reach the bare minimum number of signatures to trigger a representation election.
While that hot mess will probably come to a boil very soon, in late January the Department of Labor released a big whammy concerning the IAM’s highly touted (by them of course) Pension Plan, which sounds more and more like a Pension Scam. This is important for everyone to know and carefully consider before making a monumental mistake and signing an IAM “A-card.” Because according to the IAM, “Delta Flight Attendants are phone-banking and making house calls in targeted locations around the country” – so someone might soon be pounding on your front door soon and shoving a card in your face.
Consider this – the Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against a number of current and former IAM National Pension Fund trustees alleging multiple violations of federal laws protecting employees in pension plans.
The suit alleges that IAM National Pension Fund trustees breached their fiduciary duties by:
- Failing to loyally and prudently select fund service providers, including consultants and fund investment managers;
- Regularly ignoring required procedures included in the fund’s governing plan documents;
- Creating conflicts of interest for the fund;
- Unlawfully soliciting and accepting gratuities from plan service providers; and
- Spending and permitting others to spend fund assets lavishly on unnecessary trips, parties and extravagant food, wine, and accommodations.
Oink oink – sounds like the slop must have been pretty thick at whatever grease-fest, good-ole’ boy, Vegas-style, cigar-smoke-filled-backroom-here-come-the-topless-dancing-babe-parties where the guys were blowing through hard working dues paying members’ money on goodness knows what – hookers and booze?
Oh my, shouldn’t they be a little more concerned about avoiding prison, and a little less determined to infest Delta with their brand of pestilence?
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Sincerely,
Jose Arturo Ibarra
