Feeding on the lives of others. AKA bulling.

After MR arranged with CT for permission to utilize the school's email server to announce an end of the year meeting to discuss para union matters, an email was sent out to all members from MR. Within this email contained a list of union topics to be discussed. At this meeting only 13 out of approximately 85 para employees attended. The para that was instrumental in assisting administration fire a teacher and a para was there. Also in attendance was a rep who assisted only a certain member before their principal with a complaint against another member and failed to notify the other member or seek representation for that second member. MR, has confirmed in writing she received permission to use the MPS's email server from CT to write and distibute that email which contained sensitive union matters and orchestrated this charade. There were also members who just were attending a gathering and to my knowledge were not participants in this game. According to the Massachusetts Guide to the Public Employees Bargaining Law, Chapter 150E, Section 10. (a) "It shall be a prohibited practice for a public employer or it's designated representative to:
(2) Dominate, interfere, or assist in the formation, existence, or administration of any employee organization." Does anyone else concur that the meeting of the superintendent and a behind the scenes union member to violate this chapter is construed as a violation of the law and COLLUSION.

As a member of union, It Sounds like management is trying to break the union. Some of the members may have to go around the union "leadership" and drop a dime to the National.

There is new leadership in place now. That is the result of what transpired in the behind the scenes plans between MR, CT and the union email approved and sent out on the MPS server. Now CT has the union in her pocket. [:-?]

The prior officer sent us notice she was stepping down the end of this year due to personal and family reasons. She informed us she could appoint members into vacant spots. There was no need to pull this crap and work with the superintendent to control who is in office. It's corrupt. That is why I and others did not to to the meeting that was sent to us under the schools email. We aren't that stupid to not see right through it.

I worked with the former officer for four years. She fought for people's rights. Not just in the union but for her former student needs, for the hs teacher who refused to "separate the student's of color" for gay students being bullied. The school says if you see something, say something. She did and has paid for it since. She was not afraid to report to The Office of Civil Rights, The Board of Education, The Mass Commission Against Discrimination and The Labor Relations Commission. She doesn't report anonymously, she gives her name to give credibility. I've told her not to report. She told me she was raised to speak up. This is why she has been repeatedly retaliated against, had to endure relentless harassment and now having her good name and reputation smeared. I'm not saying she's a saint and she wouldn't either. I'm saying she is a good person trying to do the right thing that's all.

Can you see the teachers union doing this to their members.

I am a member that pays dues I will not go for a board. I want it the way it was when Diane Federico were in office 4 officers.

Yes it was the para who worked for years in the nurses office, hanging out with visitors like MS and TB without regard for other paras and the difficult assignments they had.

Yes many other paras complained that they were assisting multiple students, covering classes, lunch... While she had tea.

Yes this same para who planned this gathering (coo) with the help of management going so far as to being granted access to the schools email to notify confidential union information which manages had access to. Don't tell me CT didn't inquire why a non officer was placing emails. We'me not blind and we'me not dumb.

Did she step up at any time to ever offer to help the union over the 20 plus years she worked as a para, NO

Did she act as a shill for CT to remove a person who worked for ten years as a officer to please CT? You think on that one.

All the paras should quit. CT would have a stroke. Problem solved.

I would quit but who is going to pay my bills. So hard to work were it is so corrupt.

Question: why wouldn't MR send out notification of a union meeting the same way all prior officers have, interoffice. It only takes a day or two to arrive at all schools. Then it would be posted on the bulletin boards and displayed in the teachers lunch rooms never mind by word of mouth. Why go to CT unless there is an underlying purpose. This whole thing stinks to high heaven of a dirty union member(s) and management plotting the down fall of the para union. Another point. Last spring during the official election this officer,DD, was elected to two positions, president and treasurer. She still holds the treasurer position. The para ,RK, who was elected to the other two union positions of VP and secretary 'coincidentally' was terminated. Why? The then VP of the para union, KB, from mhs set up RK and assisted the then mhs principal Farrell and ETF Berman terminate RK's employment. Farrell subsequently was promoted to the Business Mgr position and Berman to Asst. Principal. Why terminate RK? Because RK reported racism in MHS. RK like the photography teacher, KM, who was terminated for refusing to follow the directive of separating the student's of color. There are so many levels of corruption here, racism, collusion, retaliation... Melrose does not smell like a rose. It's toxic.[/quote]
No one ran for positions because no one wanted to work with the"president" !!

That's bull$hit. I would have if I didn't have two jobs and kids. Look at all the years, about 15, there were only two officers MS and DF. They pleaded for help. No one stepped up and that was before DD worked here. We couldn't even get more than 15 people to show up for a meeting. So what now??? Work with rats who will sell us out??????

DD didn't even want to accept the position last year so who's $hitting who? There were four open positions including president. If people wanted it they could have ran. The only reason she accepted was she didn't want to leave a sole person that was elected in, Rita, who didn't have experience alone. Then because of KB Rita lost her job so she felt stuck.

Here we go again with the union business. Lets just let it go no harm done we have a new president. Very sneaky the way this was done but that's Melrose. We have one of the strongest union state on the map.

I do not work in Melrose but I am a public employee in another district and a former President in our teacher's union.

This all is very concerning. If it is true that a union member and your superintendent worked together to rig an election or change the current elected officers it is cause for a prohibited practice charge.

The email alone on a public server which contains critical union information ties administration in influencing the results of the meeting, a new president.

This is proof of tampering and election manipulation. Personally I find the whole thing appalling.

Call for an immediate independent investigation to get to the whole truth through the Dept. of Labor Relations.

dear concern,

How stupid are you to believe anything you read on Melrose messages. [:)s][:-?]

Please. Yes, there is a lot of junk posted here, but there's enough truth to be found for anyone with a half a brain. There's more by an order of magnitude than any of the "news" outlets in town, which provide zero, except what's fed them by the administration.

To the person who wrote- no one ran because they didn't want to work with her.

Well, she's out and a new president is in but no other officers. I guess no one ran because they didn't want to work with the new president LG either.

The lesson is things aren’t always going to go as expected.

We can all joke about it - but the topic is serious and the implications to our students - critical and immense!

No one has ever cared how someone wrote a message so it must of been your post. Leave the paras alone. You mean the Roosey Rats who a large percent went to the union meeting on RT. 1.

The father that helps get children out of the car's at the Roosevelt needs to change jobs and stay home. His behavior is not normal and should not be doing this job.

IF what you say about Marylou is true, which I had not heard that from MR, and she's spreading that around she can be sued personally. If you are saying MR said it and she didn't and she finds out who you are she'd have a claim against you.

Either way, getting in with administration on union issues is a huge mistake.

It is a true statement from Marylou herself.

You want the truth? Here it is lock, stock, and barrel.

MR works behind the scenes for management. That's pretty obvious now with the email that came out on the MPS server after discussing what she wanted to do with the super. As it was union business and confidential, CT should have denied the request as it violates Chapter 150E. But she gave permission for two reasons: MR and her are buddies and CT would jump at the chance to hurt DD as DD reported racism, bullying of gay students, adherence to IEPs and in defence of Art Teacher KM with various government agencies. Some of these charges are still pending, MR always has feed information to get cushy position. It's not new news. Not a thought for other paras working like dogs. Till the nurse was booted, or you could say forced to leave after 28 years, MR, spent her days/years hanging out in the nurses office while others were multitasking. She has never held office in the union or offered to lend a helping hand. Her reasons for starting this witch hunt is personal and to assist administration humiliate and discredit DD. Doesn't matter if it's false, the damage is done. This is an attempt to help CT and the high priced outside attorneys, Nuttle... have documents to hurt RK (the terminated employee who was newly elected as VP and Secretary lose her job remove her as an officer and discredit her eye witness account s of racism towards black mentors and a non-white disabled student) and DD.

KF went with AC to complain about coworker LC to their principal. KF never informed the union or the other member being complained about that a complaint was lodged against her. This happened last year continued through this year. LC's alleged friends all knew but didn't tell LC what was occurring. KF was also the treasurer a few years back. She never made one deposit to the bank or payment to the MTA resulting in fines. She didn't remove outgoing members or incoming. She harassed a coworker with her principal to the point the coworker asked to be transferred out it was that bad. KB harassed another para DDC to the point she left and reported the harassment. She was removed from MFs class for humiliating a child over standing but not reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag.

GS was booted from the Roosevelt by Cleary as was KB. The following year, GS had the parent of the child she was assigned to insist GS be immediately removed from their child. One of the reasons was during class time GS spent her days on the computer during class. The other issue was instead of taking the student to use the facilities in the nurses office she was assisting the student without a witness for the students sake. Not claiming she did anything sexually inappropriate it's just not her place and violates the student's privacy.

KB, what can I say. KB was the union VP and Secretary. While holding those two positions and representing a union member, RK. RK reported alleged racism by teacher SC who was hired by Berman. KB would leave the meeting she'd be representing RK at and report it to the teacher and Berman. Against MTA advice KB feed negative and false information to Farrell so they could have information, true or not, fire RK which they did. KB placed false derogatory remarks in writing and repeated statements RK made in confidence to KB as a union officer and told everyone. She did the same to DD. KB lied and said teacher SC never said its did any of the things RK reported as she was in the same class even though the mentors themselves told reporter Aaron Liebowitz as did other adults in the class. AL wanted to do a story on this but his editor went with him to see CT. The result, the story was killed and AL was reassigned out of Melrose to Malden. KB who was ousted from the Rosie due to repeatedly speaking negatively to a 3rd grade African American child. Transferred to the HM, she run out by staff: paras and teachers for assisting the HM principal in getting a new teacher fired.

It goes on and on. So who attended and we're the catalysts in holding the unofficial union meeting on June 1st which was sent out by MR on the school server with the union agenda and permission from CT?

MR, GS, KB, AC, KF some of their friends and a few other union members totalling 13 out of 80+.

I am very confused who is president DD or LC. What is going on with the MTA is Sam still our rep.?

Everyone knew the nurse was fooling around with the MHS police officer and TB. MR was in love with MS.

Everything on this string is gossip! Disgruntled employees spewing garbage.

Hope someone informs the paras on the situation if we are with officers or a board? I could not attend the end of the year meeting. The email said to check with some by-laws. The officer that I know was leaving end of the school year.

DD notified members in April she was stepping down end of the month. We have a new president Lisa Gentile. She is the only officer. I believe she is new to the system. None of those who wanted the June 1st meeting stepped up to help out. It's now obvious they just wanted to cause friction. A board is when you have more than one officer. That is called an E-board or another words an Executive Board.

Good luck to the new prez for helping the paras union. And good luck to the past prez for all you did for the union. We should try to stay strong as a union. To much interfering from Taymore,union members and the principals. Trying to make members not utilize the union is not working. So many cases would never have been resolved without UNION. Maybe some people will step up so we can have 4 officers.