ok so Carp city council man Joe Armenrdariz finally resigned on Monday..according to his enablers at the News-Press, Joe is moving on up to the north county Orcutt where more friendly conservatives and opportunities await with open arms...you can drink and drive and they'll congratulate and promote you!! the non-profits that is..the heirs to tire fortunes...run to them...but whatever you do Joe, don't run into me!! I heard Orcutt is like Texas, fulla steers and queers!!or maybe Joe is moving to be closer to #69??? love conquers all!!
but what's with these: 09/27/2012 - 8:30 am 1400375 Joseph James Armendariz Diversion Violation James E Herman SB8 09/27/2012 - 8:30 am 1422868 Joseph James Armendariz Arraignment on Complaint Cont James E Herman SB8
diversion violation? more complaints?? hmmmmm ..some lessons you just gotta learn for yourself...good luck to his kid..and the Baron's kid...but that old adage the apple not falling far from the tree applies.. I believe that was what Peter Lance once told me that.. and remember this gentlemen: being a good father, a good role model for your kids is job #1!
so let this be a warning to you: if you spend your life in nonprofits getting drunk and smearing public employees, you might end up in Orcutt!! otherwise Godspeed!!
let's see..how's Joe's ol' nonprofit pal Lanny Ebenstein doing? well, he still writes for the corrupt News-Press but only a few times a month now...gone are the repetitive rants about public employee pensions after all his initiatives against collective bargaining failed to reach the ballot....now Lanny wants to drill for more oil.....
Kevin Costner who won an Emmy for the Hatfields and McCoys mini-series has another hearing concerning his hedges....missed that one on Tuesday..another demurrer thingie...
there's a hearing for local golfer Fred and Thias Couples....Thias died in 2009 of breast cancer so I don't know what's going on with that one??
oh shit there's a gal who I thought was gonna take her DUI seriously and she's apparently in trouble again..DAMN!! another trial??? I hope that's a misprint....
now, everybody..shape up or ship out!
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The National Labor Relations Board today confirmed a thorough determination by a federal Administrative Law Judge, Clifford Anderson, finding in May, 2010 that the Santa Barbara News-Press had bargained in bad faith with the collective bargaining representative of its newsroom employees, the Graphics Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, since the day bargaining began, in November, 2007. The Board’s decision, which also affirmed that the News-Press had committed many other unfair labor practices, adds yet more support for the notion that the News-Press is a major labor relations outlaw operating outside the ordinary constraints of reputable businesses in California, and indeed, the nation.
The finding of bad faith bargaining means that the News-Press feigned a sincere interest in bargaining, when in fact its conduct at and away from the bargaining table betrayed a disinterest in reaching a fair agreement, since it made and insisted on proposals that were intended to deny newsroom employees the voice in the workplace they voted for, and rejected the standard collective bargaining practice of having a neutral arbitrator determine whether the parties violated the contract; Ampersand insisted instead on being able to change wages and other economic terms even during the duration of the contract, and on having the last word on management’s potential violations, demanding that they be decided by co-publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger. As the Board put it, “[Ampersand’s bad faith bargaining was . . . aggravated, . . and its proposals were so extreme that they would leave employees and the Union with fewer rights and protections than they would have without any contract at all.” In addition to the bad faith bargaining finding, the NLRB found that the News-Press violated federal labor law by, among other violations:
n Scott Steepleton terminating bargaining committee member Dennis Moran based on trumped-charges;
n Using temporary employees to undermine the newsroom bargaining unit;
n Failing to give annual merit raises to newsroom workers as it had done in every year until the union won an NLRB election;
n Encouraging employees not to cooperate with NLRB investigations of its wrongdoing;
n Don Katich unilaterally announcing a change in productivity standards for the newsroom;
n Katich warning employees not to share information about employment conditions and the content of internal employee meetings with non-SBNP employees;
n Laying off writer Richard Mineards;
Once again – for the third time – the NLRB has found News-Press management witness Scott Steepleton to be not credible; in this case he literally fabricated conversations with employees that did not happen at all.
As remedies for the unfair labor practices, the Board ordered the News-Press to:
n Cease and desist its bad faith bargaining;
n Pay the union’s costs of bargaining, since the News-Press’ bad faith bargaining forced the union to waste considerable time and resources in trying to engage the News-Press at the table;
n Reinstate and make Dennis Moran and Richard Mineards whole for all lost wages and benefits;
n Extend the bargaining certification year by an additional 12 months;
n Reinstitute annual merit pay practice and policy;
n Have a high company official read, or attend the reading to employees of, a Board Remedial Notice.
Indeed,
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