From the Boston Globe 3 hours ago: "Should Dolan vacate his seat to take the Lynnfield job prior to the start of the third year of his four-year term on Jan. 8, the Melrose charter provides that a special election would have to be called within 90 days to fill the seat. If the seat became vacant on Jan. 8 or after, it would be filled by the president of the Board of Aldermen, according to city solicitor Robert Van Campen."
Simply put, if Dolan is selected for the job and wants to keep the current President of the Board of Alderman and local Republican Don Conn from finishing out his term, he simply needs to vacate his seat before January 8th. That would force a special election which would probably result in a Democrat being elected.
In our building we did not have a rep. at all. If we did no one knew it.
As for me, I've had a lot of jerks come and go in my life, and as I sat down to write this post, I tried to think of the biggest jerks of all of them. My list came out to Seven.
Melrose paras hope the teachers union take us on as Mary lou R. and Joanne B. our two co-presidents announced they are retiring June 2018. I believe the teachers will come forward and take paras on like they did the secretaries. If not we need members to think about running for the paras union and not like some of the dishonest members we have in office now.
I don't know about the MEA taking us. They said no according to the board. You officers ran now you need to get your butts in gear, figure this stuff out and straighten it out. How many months have you been in, seven of you and you can't get your act together? They gave you till next month. Get advice for the MTA and work together, give a little effort or get out.
I just talked to payroll and the money from taxes that President Trump is giving everyone will be in this weeks check.
Whenever I read anything so monumentally stupid it sends me into a spasm. It's your money. Trump didn't give you anything. He's just taking a little less of it. I would suggest a remedial civics class.
What's going on a the the middle school? My kid forgot their lunch so I was dropping it off when I saw Taz spinning around like a cyclone with that wild, too-old-to-be-wearing hair. I always thought Taz was male, not that I care the gender. Then I saw Porky Pig who must of trimmed the hair on their chinny chin chin and that character who can never accomplishes any thing, Wiley Coyote, whos got the para union hanging off a cliff. The only thing Wileys caught is a big brown stain on the end of the nose from Mighty Mouse which is a whole other cartoon series. The mouse might be on the way but could and has never saved the day, cause when there is a wrong to right, Mighty Mouse started the fight. Things are sure goofy over there, but that's Disney and ms is not a fun place to visit and you wouldn't want to work there. That's all folks.
Why America's labor unions are about to die. I've posted before on how the decline of this organized labor is losing. Labor's deterioration weakened workers protections. The teacher's union faces declining membership so I can not understand why the vote to have the paraprofessional has not been put into place. Right-to Work, effective since 2013, prohibits union security agreements between the unions and their companies. School districts or schools that were unionized were compelled to join a union. Now, they are not. Duty of Fair Representation to represent all workers is especially true. Personal feelings or the feelings of the membership cannot be allowed to interfere with the processing of that person. There is no union contract written that covers every possible situation that can occur. More than likely you will need to hire a lawyer.
The real name should be the Union is "WEAK" not strong. What officers thought of UNION STRONG, we were told that went out the window with the 7 officers. The results is still no transparency with other union members. It has been long enough since the last email from the weak union.