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Scandal Rocks Local 1505 IBEW
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Dec 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/26/98
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Zagami Helps former President Osborn land Raytheon Management Job
Local 1505, IBEW which represents over 3,000 workers at Raytheon's
Massachusetts plants was hit with the biggest scandal in its history Sunday
12/13/98. Arthur Osborn, Local 1505's President of six years and Business
Manager Mike Zagami's handpicked assistant business agent, turned his back on
the members he once represented by taking a high level job in Raytheon's labor
relations office.
Although initial reports were sketchy and neither the Local 1505 nor the
Raytheon Company would comment when questioned, all evidence points to the fact
that while Zagami and Osborn were negotiating the 1998 collective bargaining
agreement, Osborn with the full knowlege and consent of Zagami was negotiating
a job for himself with Raytheon's labor relations office.
Many members expressed both shock and disbelief at Osborn's move from the
union's negotiating team to the company's negotiating team. Even more puzzling
is newly elected Business Manager, Mike Zagami's, aid to Osborn in his efforts
to escape the local.
Osborn's new job at Central Records has in the past been held by former Local
1505 chief stewards. Most members were shocked to learn that he first
interviewed for the job over ten months ago, just about the time that Local
1505 and Raytheon began collective bargaining sessions for the 1998 contract.
Members could only speculate why the novice business manager did not
immediately fire Osborn as an assistant business agent and remove him from his
critical position on the union's negotiating team. Osborn's behavior was
clearly a conflict of interest in the eyes of the members.
Since customarily, Raytheon notifies the business manager's office when a full
time union representative applies for a management position many members could
only speculate Zagami's motives for keeping Osborn on his team for these many
months. Some members attributed Zagami's inaction to his inexperience and lack
of negotiating savvy that forced him to keep the lame-duck president on his
team. These same members stated that Zagami had surrounded himself with an
entire team that had absolutely no negotiating experience and therefore was
forced to retain Osborn.
Other members suspect that Zagami's other assistant business agents, David
Whalen, Stan Lichwala and Strefon Treadway, encouraged Zagami to assist Osborn
efforts to leave the union for fear that Osborn would form his own team and run
against Zagami in 1999 for business manager. The 1999 elections in June will
certainly focus on Zagami's own record of leaving the union to become a
supervisor in 1982 before his return to the union when he was scheduled to be
laid off as a supervisor. Many members have concluded that Zagami's work on
Osborn's behalf convienently eliminated a polical rival.
Some members interviewed outside plant gates on Monday 12/14/98 felt that the
circumstances surrounding Osborn's suspicous departure from Local 1505 should
be investigated by the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of
Labor.
Local 1505, IBEW which represents over 3,000 workers at Raytheon's
Massachusetts plants was hit with the biggest scandal in its history Sunday
12/13/98. Arthur Osborn, Local 1505's President of six years and Business
Manager Mike Zagami's handpicked assistant business agent, turned his back on
the members he once represented by taking a high level job in Raytheon's labor
relations office.
Although initial reports were sketchy and neither the Local 1505 nor the
Raytheon Company would comment when questioned, all evidence points to the fact
that while Zagami and Osborn were negotiating the 1998 collective bargaining
agreement, Osborn with the full knowlege and consent of Zagami was negotiating
a job for himself with Raytheon's labor relations office.
Many members expressed both shock and disbelief at Osborn's move from the
union's negotiating team to the company's negotiating team. Even more puzzling
is newly elected Business Manager, Mike Zagami's, aid to Osborn in his efforts
to escape the local.
Osborn's new job at Central Records has in the past been held by former Local
1505 chief stewards. Most members were shocked to learn that he first
interviewed for the job over ten months ago, just about the time that Local
1505 and Raytheon began collective bargaining sessions for the 1998 contract.
Members could only speculate why the novice business manager did not
immediately fire Osborn as an assistant business agent and remove him from his
critical position on the union's negotiating team. Osborn's behavior was
clearly a conflict of interest in the eyes of the members.
Since customarily, Raytheon notifies the business manager's office when a full
time union representative applies for a management position many members could
only speculate Zagami's motives for keeping Osborn on his team for these many
months. Some members attributed Zagami's inaction to his inexperience and lack
of negotiating savvy that forced him to keep the lame-duck president on his
team. These same members stated that Zagami had surrounded himself with an
entire team that had absolutely no negotiating experience and therefore was
forced to retain Osborn.
Other members suspect that Zagami's other assistant business agents, David
Whalen, Stan Lichwala and Strefon Treadway, encouraged Zagami to assist Osborn
efforts to leave the union for fear that Osborn would form his own team and run
against Zagami in 1999 for business manager. The 1999 elections in June will
certainly focus on Zagami's own record of leaving the union to become a
supervisor in 1982 before his return to the union when he was scheduled to be
laid off as a supervisor. Many members have concluded that Zagami's work on
Osborn's behalf convienently eliminated a polical rival.
Some members interviewed outside plant gates on Monday 12/14/98 felt that the
circumstances surrounding Osborn's suspicous departure from Local 1505 should
be investigated by the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of
Labor.
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Mar 22, 2015, 5:14:23 PM3/22/15
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It's 2015. Osborn has since taken over all of labor relations at the company headquarters. In the 20 years Osborn has helped re elect all his co union leaders from 1995 union leadership that was in power with him in 1995. Osborn helped George Noel in 1999 election. After the 2000 strike Osborn helped get Noel elected over Mike Zagami in the 2002 election. Noel a former 1995 chief steward. Since Noels election the membership has lost everything of value and it started happening mid contract without opposition by Noel. Ethical breaches with 1505 member PAC money. Noels penchant to give the political cope money donated by members to special interest in order to get appointed by Deval Patrick to a directors position with the department of labor in Massachusetts. Noel changed the rules so members no longer voted on where the money should go. Noels job at the DOL was bought and paid for by 1505 member dues money. Both Noel and Osborn are a conflict of interest on a grand scale. Corruption runs deep with the company Raytheon being the winner. Raytheon has for themselves 1505 bought and paid for surrogates. Johnson the present 1505 business manager was appointed by Noel in 2008. Dave Johnson first order of business was to secretly give away the local pension for new hires. Both take from 1505 members and give it to the corporation Raytheon to enrich themselves.
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