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Dear Judge Berman,

Hello I'm Bill Kane a member of local union 2287 and a i iate o t e ew
York City District Council of Carpenters. I'm writing you with the intention of you
applying with the hope that you wilt compel the District Council to appropriately
ratify the new collective bargaining agreements through member ratification.
The District Council is now claiming that the Wall and Ceiling CBA is
properly ratified and will send it to your honor for approval. From the beginning
the DC was trying to ratify the contract with as Httle member interaction as
possible. The DC website left up a posting stating that the Wall and Ceiling
contract was signed which would have led the average carpenter to look no
deeper into the fact that it was rejected by your honor for the manner it was
presented to the delegate body. It took prompting from the active members who
knew this fact for the DC to post your rejection letter recommending that the DC
utilize best practices. I knew that the delegates were going to ratify the contracts
on April 25th which was alarming because they had not provided the rules for
ratification. I went to my local union meeting a week before the vote to get
information from my delegates and the local. When I brought up the subject the
president of the eboard (also a delegate} didn't have a full grasp of the situation
so Ray Harvey (Executive Delegate) got up to say that the wall and ceiling contract
would be ratified and go back to the judge for approvaL I asked him why it was
going back and he responded for best practices or something. I was dismayed that
the conclusion was stated. How could Ray Harvey know that the contractwoutd
be ratified a week before the delegate meeting was held. Other local unions
brought up motions for their delegates to allow the membership to ratify the
contracts. I sent an email to Mr. Walsh about the foregone conclusion by Ray
Harvey and he responded that their view of their rote as delegates was skewed.
Yet Mr. Walsh let the contract be voted on anyway. The minutes for the executive
committee wear not re-ad in the- beginning of the- meeting as require-d. Judge
Berman if you attended one of these meetings you would be appalled at the
delegates. I was seriously concerned that these

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indefinitely while the members bear the brunt of their incompetence. Mr. Walsh
doesn't have to pay these people so he does little if nothing to rein them in. I
have begged Mr. Walsh to start micromanaging these individuals to no avail. The,
RO is paid by the DC and this is problematic on many levels. It puts him in a
position to side with the management when it is not in the best iBterest of the ,
members. I would remind you that the executive committee and delegate body
didn't follow the rules the last tltne and did it again. Judge I ask you to require the,
District Council to put all the contracts in the hands of the membership to ratify
that will be the only way to guarantee acceptable contract ratification. The
members have to work under these contracts so we should be granted our
democratic right to have a say about our future. Thank You your Honor for your
time and consideration. Sincerely William Kane local Union 2287
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