disclaimer i am mit italian but the white girl in boston believes this is the best eork in the world
see faustmanlab.org
when kevin mccaffrey republican suffolk county legislator and president of teamsters local 707 which represents nassau otb employees was asked at the union meeting at plstte deytsche on sunday july 8 why nassau otb did not have a leave sharing plan (it previoudly did) he said no one ever asked for one
unions are a scam in a dangerous world with leadership like that
if the butch lewis act has a providion for loan foregiveness down the road, it is likely a take the money now and run scam
nothing wrong with working but unions have been rsped and robbed by wall street and traditionsl family enterprises
we for the moment dis ount the fraudulent disability claims which occurred not only among long island rail road workers do
do not forget thst morgan lewis and bovkius are not your high priced errand boys but hoffa's
Multi-employer pension rally draws thousands to Ohio Statehouse
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- About 5,000 people rallied outside the Ohio Statehouse on Thursday to urge Congress to aid more than 200 multi-employer pension plans at risk of failing.
They came from as far as Utah. They carried signs and sang union songs. And they shouted their message over and over again: Fix it.
The pension funds cover more than 1.3 million retirees nationwide and more than 60,000 in Ohio, including truck drivers, bakers, musicians, miners and flight attendants. If the funds' obligations exceed their assets, pensioners' benefits will be slashed. Taxpayers could be on the hook if they fail because the plans are backed by the federal Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.
The rally, thought to be the largest here since a 2011 protest to protect public collective bargaining power, was planned ahead of a Friday congressional hearing to be held at the Statehouse.
Ohio's Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown chairs the House and Senate Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans; Republican Sen. Rob Portman is also on the panel. The committee has 16 members: four senators from each party and four representatives from each party.
The committee is holding only one field hearing, in Ohio, and it faces a Nov. 30 deadline to reach a bipartisan deal to prevent the pensions from going under. Ten of the 16 must agree to a fix to send a plan to the House and Senate.
Employers who have been paying more to shore up the plans also want Congress to act. Ohio workers, retirees and employers are scheduled to testify on Friday.
The United Mine Workers of America pension plan is on the brink of collapse. UMWA International President Cecil Roberts said the government needs to step in after creating the conditions for the the funds' struggles and bailing out the banks behind the financial crisis that led to the funds' investment losses on Wall Street.
"They should do the same for the retirees who lost their benefits and in some cases their health care," Roberts said.
Many of the employees and retirees at the rally support Brown's proposal to offer low-interest loans, named the Butch Lewis Act after a Cincinnati-area trucker and veteran who died from a stroke while fighting pension cuts. Jim Franklin, treasurer of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union Local 19 in Cleveland, is one of those supporters.
"We need some changes made. They can make simple changes that would help us tremendously," Franklin said.
Franklin said small bakers can't keep up with wages because they're paying more to cover pension plans.
Republicans on the committee oppose a bailout for the plans, which are essentially private contracts.
Doug Kalnbach, a retired ironworker from Michigan, said pensioners aren't asking for a bailout, and a low-interest loan program would mirror opportunities available to farmers. Kalnbach said without a fix, retirees may foreclose on their houses, have to file bankruptcy or spend less, which would have a wide ranging effect on the economy.
"We don't want to be bailed out, but we want a little assistance to give us a leg up," Kalnbach said. "We built America. We built all these buildings."
Man charged in deadly shooting of Cleveland man found shot in car
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man is accused in the fatal shooting a man inside a car in the city's Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood.
Richard Brown, 30, is charged with aggravated murder in the July 3 death of David Hemphill.
Brown was arrested Thursday and is jailed while awaiting his initial court appearance.
Brown is accused of shooting Hemphill, 47, July 3 on East 106th Street and Crestwood Avenue.
Someone called police about 3 a.m. and reported hearing fireworks or gunshots. Investigators found Hemphill slumped over in the front seat of an Audi with several gunshot wounds to his face and body, according to police and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner.
The car's engine and lights were still on, according to police.
Brown has 11 prior felony convictions in Cuyahoga County.
He was sentenced to six months in prison in 2017 after forcing his way into an ex-girlfriend's home, jumped on top of her as she slept on the couch and choked, slapped and repeatedly punched her in the face.
Brown was sentenced to 15 months in prison after he attacked a woman in 2015. In that case, he was at a party and groped the woman. When she refused his advances, Brown punched her in the face several time. The woman left but later returned. Brown punched out the woman's car window, and repeatedly punched her in face, causing a facial fracture.
He was convicted in 2009 of aggravated assault for purposefully crashing his car into a woman's car after a heated argument, then ran from police who came to arrest him. Brown was sentenced to one year in prison in that case.
In 2005, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison after he broke into Atlantic Gun and Tackle gun shop in Bedford Heights and stole 12 pistols and 160 bullets, valued at $6,000 total.
Brown has also been convicted of drug trafficking and possessing drugs.
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Clevelanders once formed a rebel Canadian government
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Clevelanders once formed a rebel Canadian government.
One hundred and eighty years later, a panel of experts will discuss this little-remembered 1838 rebellion against the two countries' common enemy, Great Britain, which still ruled Canada.
The panel will gather on Friday, July 20, at the Cleveland Marriott downtown as part of the 40th annual meeting of SHEAR, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. The rotating academic conference takes place July 19 through 22 this year in Cleveland. Some of the panelists have contributed to a forthcoming book on Canada's so-called Patriot Wars from McGill-Queen's University Press.
Andrew Bonthius of Shaker Heights will attend. The Cuyahoga Community College historian has contributed a chapter to that book called "Bald Eagle Over Canada: Cleveland's Dr. Samuel Underhill and the Patriot Rebellion of 1837-1838." That majestic bird became a symbol for rebels in either country.
The Canadian rebellion was a year old when what's remembered as the Patriot/Hunter convention was held at an unknown site in Cleveland, mostly by locals. Bonthius sees a few good reasons for our city's role. It was close to Canada, the border hadn't been clarified yet, and people moved between the two countries often and at will.
What's more, he says that Clevelanders were more rebellious than Canadians. Many hated Great Britain and wanted to drive it from the continent. Many also were populist Democrats, opposing paper money, debtors' imprisonment and distant control of politics and banks.
Clevelanders were keen on politics in general, Bonthius says. Long before the City Club arose as the so-called Citadel of Free Speech, there was already a Polemical Association of Cleveland. The association debated the issues of the day and furnished many participants and leaders for the rebellion.
The rebels' leader, William Lyon Mackenzie, formerly Toronto's first mayor, did not attend the convention in Cleveland. But up to 160 other people, including physician Sam Underhill, gathered here for seven days and chose two locals to lead the new government: for president, A.D. Smith, a Cleveland justice of the peace and for vice president, a colonel and wholesale grocer surnamed Williams, whose first name has eluded historians. The conventioneers also formed a Canadian national bank and raised some funds.
Bonthius says it's not entirely clear whether the local rebels meant to merge the two countries or govern one from the other. But he thinks they probably wanted to create a second republic to the north and govern it from there.
Ohioans supported the rebellion and supplied many of its several thousand troops. An Akron Patriots force united two long-time foes: Jim Brown, an infamous counterfeiter, and Samuel Lane, that town's mayor and sheriff. Geauga County residents petitioned against our nation's neutrality laws. Lucius Versus Bierce, who lived in Ravenna and lawyered in Akron, was named commander in chief of the Army of the Northwest and led the burning of a British barracks in Windsor, Ontario, before being driven back.
But Canadians provided little support. Bonthius says native North Americans and runaway slaves tended to consider the British kinder than the Americans, even though the rebels had promised to follow Britain's lead in banning slavery.
During SHEAR's meeting, members will discuss several other historical topics and tour downtown, the Kirtland Temple, the Western Reserve Historical Society, Shandy Hall in Geneva and the American wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cleveland's Friday sun might turn to thunderstorms: On the patio weekend weather forecast with Kelly Reardon (video)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For this weekend's forecast in Northeast Ohio, cleveland.com wanted to check out the new Pinstripes patio in Pinecrest. The new restaurant is set to open officially for the first time Saturday, after a celebration party Friday night.
Remember: every Friday, cleveland.com meteorologist Kelly Reardon ventures out to the Cleveland area's best patios to give the weekend weather forecast.
Watch the video above to see what's ahead this weekend.
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Police identify, arrest suspect in Elyria shootings
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ELYRIA, Ohio -- Police arrested one of two men wanted in a pair of shootings that happened earlier this week, including one that injured a man outside an Elyria bar.
Dejon Boone, 19, is charged with improper discharge or a firearm, improper handling of firearms inside of a motor vehicle, possession of marijuana and other charges in the pair of shootings.
Police arrested Boone about 5 p.m. Thursday when they saw him in a 2013 Volkswagen sedan on Bond Street, and recognized Boone, a passenger, as the man involved in the shooting.
The charges stem from two incidents.
Two women told police that someone fired shots into their Garden Street duplex about 3 a.m.
Antwan Dormendo, 25, of Cleveland, was also shot by two men who walked into the parking lot of Bailey's Bar & Grill in the 800 block of West River Road, according to police reports. He survived the shooting and was hospitalized for treatment.
Boone was taken into custody without incident. Detectives found a loaded handgun inside the glovebox, along with 65 grams of marijuana and two scales, police said.
Adrian Oliver, the driver of the car, was also charged with improper handling of firearms inside of a motor vehicle and possession of marijuana. A police report did not say whether Oliver had anything to do with the shooting.
Boone and Oliver were taken to the Lorain County Jail where they will be held until the posting of bond or an appearance in court. The investigation remains ongoing as detectives continue to pursue leads on additional suspects involved.
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