RACISTS

ONLY STRAIGHT WHITE MEN NEED APPLYPART I

THERE'S NEVER BEEN A WOMAN OR A MINORITY GENERAL MANAGER AT TRIMET. 

Did the selection process include people of diversity or was Doug Kelsey pre-selected?

From ATU 757 Labor Press, "But first the Board heard from consultant Celia Kupersmith, who led the search for a general manager, Kupersmith said input was solicited from 40 organizations, 12 applicants were interviewed, and three finalists were selected from among the seven semifinalists. But the requirement that finalists present themselves publicly was a deal breaker for the other two finalists, Kupersmith said: Without a job offer they felt that publicly considering a job as Trimet General Manager would put their current jobs at risk."

TriMet names COO Doug Kelsey as finalist for General Manager

Click HERE for the article. He was fired from Vancouver BC so Trimet hired him as their Chief Operating Officer.  ahem......

Trimet's Board of Directors select the General Manager. The Governor makes it official. The Board serves at the pleasure of the Governor. They may serve two 4 year terms. Most of the current Board remains from former Gov John Kitzhauber although several will be leaving in the next few months.

Two women were appointed to the Board of Directors since Gov Brown took office:

Lori Irish Bauman, appointed June 1, 2015

Dr Linda Simmons, appointed December 14, 2016

The group below will be leaving:

Dr. T. Allen Bethel - February 28, 2018
Craig Prosser - February 28, 2018
Joe Esmonde - March 31, 2018

Knowing they're leaving, I find myself curious as to why Mcfarlane chose to retire when he did. Why didn't he wait a month or two longer particularly if you're someone who claims to care about the direction the agency's going.  Had he waited, three new Board members would've been appointed and may have voted differently then the status quo. There were 7 male Board Members. Two were replaced with women when their 8 years expired. Three will be replaced in February and March. Surely that would've made a significant difference in the selection of a new General Manager.

What I find interesting about Doug Kelsey's appointment is it mimics Neil McFarlane's in 2010:

Secretive, behind closed doors, no national provable search, no women or minority’s considered. - per Joseph Rose, OregonLive (2010)

There're also two black men Board members. One of 'em - Dr. T. Allen Bethel, who also  serves as the Boards Vice President is a homophobe !!! He's the senior pastor of the Marathon Church of God. He's been on the Board since 2010. Not exactly the type of person who shares similar values with the community, our workers and customers. This was called to TM's attention years ago but it must've fell on a Board of Directors and Governor who supported his views, otherwise it seems they would've removed him. 

 All of Trimet's General Managers have been straight white men.

I put in a Public Records request about the 12 applicants  interviewed.

That'll be part II

YOU ARE WHAT YOU SETTLE FOR

This really struck a cord. It was posted on Facebook by liberalsarecool. Not only does it speak to scum like Trump and his party but Union Representation as well. It not only applies to the top three but to your Executive Board Officers too. 

I THINK THE WORD YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS MISOGYNY

Interesting comments from someone who uses and allows others to use words contradicting the post above with the post below. He's a Cyber Bully and he uses his Blog to publicly disparage and shame women !!!

btw - congratulations Linda!!  

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mi·sog·y·ny

məˈsäjənē/

noun

1. dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

LATEST BULLYING VICTIM - 12 YEAR OLD GIRL - SUICIDE

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After months of bullying, her parents say, a 12-year-old New Jersey girl killed herself. They blame the school.

Click the link for the video and full story

"She was a loser and had no friends, they told her. At one point, according to an attorney for Mallory’s family, the girls even asked her, “Why don’t you kill yourself?”

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I can soooo relate when I hear about these horrible tragedies !!  Young people committing suicide. Older people shooting a perpetrator or doing mass shootings in the workplace. I came close myself. There was an incident, years ago, when I armed myself and stalked out one of my perpetrators... then waited ...  Obviously it didn't happen and the only reason he still walks the streets and breathes air is because he didn't go home that night. 

Trimet refuses to acknowlege how bullying and cyber bullying can affect the Agency, personally, and particularly when they refuse to enforce their own policies.  Hopefully something violent doesn't happen as a result but anyone can snap. The Agency has a long history of disparaging behavior towards their workers. They refuse to be proactive on many issues but more so when they give the bad guys free reign against anyone they disapprove of. It's retaliation. My experience with HR was abusive. They were immature. Their mindset was 'us against them' and just daring you to do something about it. Trying to force you out. It'll be a rare day in hell when workers see anything positive in how they're treated including the Agency's Union Busting practices against their representation and benefits. 

Randy Steadman

Executive Director Labor Relations and Human Resources

$219,883.00 (2015) including bonuses.

(According to 'Rantings' blog.)

He's a professional Union Buster, he even advertises online.

His wife does the same at Port of Portland

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The list below are HR policies which are intended to prevent Bullying and a hostile workplace. 

*Bullying in the workplace
*Cyber Bullying using Trimet computers / in-house email
*Cyber Bullying using your own computer against co-workers from locations outside of Trimet facilities including your home.
*Gender specific - LGBTQ
*Creating a hostile environment.
**Retaliation
**Sexual harassment
**Race / Color
**Disability
**Age

**the last 5 are also State and Federally protected through BOLI and EEOC, assumably. I say 'assumably' because these agencies tend to protect each other instead of the victims, based on my experience, and according to an ex -Union Executive Board officer.

Instead of enforcing their policies equally, they pick and choose which employees  are worth protecting. It's all based on personalities or commonalities such as race and religion. Lots of reverse racism in Management.  Also, lots of racist based decisions in hiring. For example, it's alleged that one of the black Managers only hires black assistants. Add that to a group of far right wing Christian conservative managers and it's like a hate fest instead of a group of professional productive Public employers. 

In my experience, they refused to enforce specific policies which were meant to protect me similarly with co-workers. Bullying; Hostile work environment; retaliation, HR 171 and 202 (IT); Cyber Stalking. Mobbing which continues to be prevalent throughout the Agency -  on all levels including Executives, Garage Management, White Shirts. Even their Board of Directors are aware of it but remain disingenuous in that they deny it's happening, IN SPITE OF RANDY STEDMAN'S 'SCROOGE OF THE YEAR' AWARD. 

In this country, all employees have a legal right to work in a safe dignified hate free environment !!

The thing is - if you knowingly allow and participate in the open degradation of a protected worker - you're complicit and negligent. Hypothetically, If someone were to come in the bullpen tomorrow and started shooting - can you tell me what you're doing today to keep that from happening? (and I'm not talking about metal detectors)

WHY DO SOLIALISTS TALK SO MUCH ABOUT WORKERS?