STONE COLD FRAUD: JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF GST CERVANTES DEFRAUDING IAM MEMBERS

As my campaign continues to review GST Cervantes’ Weekly Reports, we are finding many examples of flat out fraud. Even more disheartening, IAM attorneys and IAM Headquarters leadership have circled the wagons around GST Cervantes and have refused to forward to me 86 other Weekly Reports, even though we have a legal right under the law to review these reports. At this point, we do not have to guess what they are hiding.

In this particular instance, GST Cervantes is in Houston, as usual, and claims to have performed “membership education” on Sunday, October 2, 2016 and Monday, October 3, 2016. No “membership education ever took place on Sunday and Monday October 2nd and 3rd. GST Cervantes then flies first class back to Washington DC, spending $747.10. Unbelievably, she then returns to Houston on Thursday, October 6, 2016 to attend LL2198’s meeting, which there is no official union business purpose for attending. Then, she spends the weekend in Houston and claims she is performing union business. GST Cervantes claims “membership education” on Friday, October 7, 2016, which never occurred. On Saturday, October 8, 2016, GST Cervantes claims she attended “AFL-CIO membership meetings,” which also never occurred. On Monday, October 10, 2016, she stays in Houston and again claims fictitious “membership education.” On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 she flies back to Washington DC on union members’ dues dollars.

This entire sad episode of fraud and theft cost IAM Members $2,714.03 in fraudulent first and business class airfares, per diem and personal car mileage. THESE ARE FACTS.

Where is the IAM Executive Council? Why are they looking the other way and, by doing so, encouraging the theft of IAM Members’ dues dollars? Did the Executive Council let all the district and local leaders who they hoodwinked into signing form letter endorsements for Dora Cervantes tell them that all the fraud and theft would be uncovered? Did the Executive Council tell these IAM leaders that GST Cervantes was already forced to pay back thousands and thousands of dollars in unapproved expenses?

This is a very sad chapter in the history of our Great Union, the IAM. We need REAL LEADERSHIP, WITH REAL INTEGRITY.

This is the exact reason I am running to be the next IAM General Secretary Treasurer. Our Union needs change. We need to restore integrity, honor and transparency in the highest offices of our Union. I implore IAM Members and leaders to hold GST Cervantes accountable and vote for me, Ian Scott-Anderman as the next IAM GST.

READ THE WEEKLY REPORTS