It is a fact, known only because he was not smart enough to cover his tracks, that “Hearnia” is Thomas Bethel. He comes here and blasts Captain Hearn because that is all he can do - nothing in his record or platform is positive. Bethel has pillaged the Union and hurt its members and their families. If elected, he will deliver the AMO bound and gagged to Mike Sacco and the SIU.
I have sailed around the world with Captain Hearn. He is the best Captain I met in 30 years at sea. He is also the kindest man I’ve known and has the calmness and patience you find in people who are 100 years old. He still loves going to sea. He is dedicated to his family first, then his church, and then his career. When we’d go ashore overseas he would visit a church before meeting the rest of us for a beer. Personally, I am a better man for having known him.
At $333,000 a year, plus a huge expense account, Bethel is here on payroll time taunting his victims and amusing himself. Don’t be incited by him. Pay your dues, mark your ballot across the full AMC slate, and get it in the mail today. In the last 2 elections the AMC did not carry a majority and the few who were elected caved in. Their positions have been eliminated in this election by Bethel who has packed the Board with stooges like Murdoch & Murphy.
Say one thing positive about your accomplishments for the membership, Bethel.
You sold out the Defined Benefit Plan to the employers. You wrecked the pension. You cashed in your buyout for untold millions. You pay yourself 50% more than successful Union presidents. You publicly supported the racketeer Michael McKay. You fly around the country in chartered jets and stay in swank resorts at the member’s expense. You rammed a mulitmillion dollar construction project past the members in a phony referendum. You undermined the Constitution by stealing the top job with your phony “Resolution 3”. You had an immunity deal during the racketeering grand jury. You renamed the Union AMO-SIUNA as a prelude to handing it to Sacco. You have no education, no license, and no concern for the lives you damage. To you, the men in this Union are a commodity to deal and double deal.
McKay’s judge said corruption in the AMO was “pervasive” and that the Union was his “personal piggy bank.” Ychangenow?..because nothing has changed yet.