Originally published 7/22/2011
The following words are from my experience and are the result of being and continuing to be the victim of Cyber Bully/Stalking.
From Chris Day's ATU Presidential bid:
update - many of the links referring to his blog no longer work as he's removed the blog.
When ya single out ONE UNION MEMBER through the BLACKBALL process (THREE TIMES) 'cause ya don't have the ability to resolve yer own conflicts that would not exactly INSURE yer intentions to represent ALL MEMBERS EQUALLY! Mr. Day has a history of filing to have a member blackballed from Union Representation. Mr. Day wants to be your next Union President AND he's got BlackBall on his mind. Mr. Day additionally has a history of reporting Union members to the former Director of Transportation as well as to the garage manager (while he was a Union Officer) and to HR BEFORE and AFTER he was employed. (in fact just a mere week ago). He also has a history of supporting his partner in his partners various and sundry write ups and other forms of abuse against me and other Union members. THIS IS NOT INSURING ALL MEMBERS ARE OR WILL BE TREATED EQUAL. Who's on his list next - is anyone safe?
MY DOCUMENTS (as have been published on this site) SUPPORT that Mr. Day more than MISREPRESENTS himself. Regarding: Blackball petitions, "These guys walked up to us and asked us to "sign something for the Union." "Read something? There wasn't anything to read."; "That's the last time I'll ever sign something without reading it. He pressured me into signing it." "He's my friend. We worked together some other place, no, I'd didn't investigate but of course I'm going to support him." (etc). This was changed to "I didn't know I was signing a petition to have someone blackballed." Additionally, some of the **signatures are different on each of the petitions and one petition lacked a signature making it illegal. Documents I've collected from his blogs consistently prove he changes the meaning of words in order to justify his grievances. And he owns THREE (3) websites that claim he is ATU757, So when you click on it you think you're going to ATU but you're actually going to something Mr. Day created to make you think you're going there. It's waaay deceitful! He's got the official ATU logo and banner and advertises the Rantings blog as though they're all associated. The only association between Chris Day and Al Margulies is between themselves. Will the real ATU 757 please stand up? ...and they did by sending him a cease and desist letter. (which, btw....he didn't do)
Mr. Day not only abused (me) a co-worker and Union Sister publicly - in the workplace - through e-mail to a multitude of co-workers and others in Portland on his blog and the Rantings blog but he was investigated for "RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE VIOLATIONS and INTERNET VIOLATIONS" (HR-171 and HR 202).
Day NEVER approached me with an apology. He's never apologized to the Union including over 3,400 Union members from all properties for forcing a discussion regarding his personal problems INSTEAD of allowing the Union to conduct Business during regularly scheduled meetings AND I'm not aware if he apologized to any of the signatories of his petitions for not being up front with them. He took the entire month of April away from every Union member DURING a time when EVERY meeting was essential.
One of the ways we have of determining someone's ABILITY and QUALITY to run for office is by looking at their support -looking at who's backing them - be it financial or personal.
A.) Mr. Day's biggest supporter is his life partner (*John Olsen) who writes up and calls in on Union members on a fairly regular basis. He wrote me up to HR SEVEN times. The life partner of a wanna be Union President should share similar values. I believe they do and I believe Mr. Day AND Mr. Olsen (regardless of how they portray themselves) share the same set of moral values.
B.) Mr. Day receives legal and personal advice from Jeff Welch, former blogger from the Peugeot Sound area. Mr. Welch is an outspoken ANTI-UNION FEE OBJECTOR. "Thank you again for your support... Check out the comments under both letters. Mr. Welch referred to me as a 'bitch' which is a statement that supports his belief that ALL women are 'bitches'.
Additionally, Mr. Welch refers to the ATU attorney as "incompetent". Again, another derogatory comment against a woman he's never met or talked with. Whether you like her or not isn't the issue, but at the very least you gotta respect someone who's spent years working in the background to better conditions for Union members against the bureaucratic anti-Union system. She's also published two books from a series. A far cry from 'incompetent'.
C.) Al Margulies. Margulies' list of controversies is a growing testament to the character of a man who has no use for anyone unless they can benefit him. He has a history of secretly recording and video taping co-workers and others without their knowledge and publishing them on his blogs. He has and continues to Cyber abuse me through his blogs and through partnering with Chris Day to create a hostile work and community environment for me. Margulies and Day partnered up in the publishing of their respective blogs for the BLACKBALL effort. Margulies Blog provided information about our Union benefits to those following him which ended up with Trimet receiving the highly publicized Golden Fleece Award. His videos caused many of the anti-union conservative anti-tax sentiments we're feeling today regarding contract issues.
Everything Day publishes is also published on Rantings. The latest show of Margulies character would be his continued open support for Chris Parker. Mr. Parker is the former bus operator admitted sexual abuser of a ***14 YO child. MARGULIES is now requesting his viewers contact Parker's attorney to let him out of jail because he believes:
FEAR NOT THE INDIVIDUAL RUNNING FOR OFFICE AS MUCH AS THEIR FOLLOWERS FOR WITHOUT THEIR FOLLOWERS THEY WOULD CEASE TO EXIST.
*But Olsen can because he's NOT a Union Officer, nor is he trying to be one. My objection remains with Day who acted before he was hired and while he was a Union Officer and is currently a wanna be Union President.
**Image below depicts Margulies admission that he was drunk (or legally incompetent) while signing one of the petitions.
***(...and the child continues posting on Ranting's blog)
