The Real Jim Sheard? Who is SHE? Jim Sheard, running with Gegare as Sec Treas. (unbelievable) proved his true worth to the Teamsters this week.
Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska Conference of Teamsters had their elections this week. Sheard had been on the board for 1 term. This time, when elections came up, he could not even get a second to nominate him. Many commented, "Arrogant B*)_&" or "Ignorant". Sheard has a reputation of having the IBT negotiate his contracts like the Bus Contract he brags about and Sheard has the IBT do his organizing and is the biggest user of Joint Council Funds for everything his local does.
To top of Sheard's failure to get a 2nd, that day, he sent his wife over to rant and rave in an animated attack on the President of the MOKANNEB. Easy to see who would be running the GST office if Gegare won. "And our NEW SEC TREAS, MRS. Jim Sheard"......
On Top of that, it was said at the MOKANNEB conference that Jim Sheard is going to retire after his loss in this election. It is reported he has made a deal with Brad Slawson to try to merge Local 554 into 120 before he leaves, making himself eligible for about $100,000 in Severance Pay from 120.....Bought with the Local 554 Treasury. I hope the 554 members are watching out because Slawson pulled this with Dakotas and Iowa Locals already. Iowa 238 and 90 have told them to 'shove it'.
Local 554 members better be going to the meetings to save their proud Union Traditions.
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Posted January 10 2012 - 10:47 AM
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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Posted January 10 2012 - 12:15 PM
I thought 544 already merged into 120? 544 has historical roots with the Teamsters Strike of 1934. We celebrate it every year in the warehouse district here in Minneapolis. Last year, Brother Ali (the white Muslim rapper) played a street show along with some other great bands. I picked up a 1934 Local 544 shirt and had hot dogs. Took my kids. Got pictures.
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Posted January 13 2012 - 03:02 PM
I thought 544 already merged into 120? 544 has historical roots with the Teamsters Strike of 1934. We celebrate it every year in the warehouse district here in Minneapolis. Last year, Brother Ali (the white Muslim rapper) played a street show along with some other great bands. I picked up a 1934 Local 544 shirt and had hot dogs. Took my kids. Got pictures.
You have 544 and 554 mixed up. 544 is in Minneapolis.554 is the idiot Sheard's Local. It's in Omaha, Nebraska.
You have 544 and 554 mixed up. 544 is in Minneapolis.554 is the idiot Sheard's Local. It's in Omaha, Nebraska.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris. 1910.Theodore Roosevelt
