Last week the National Right To Work Committee Alert concerned Service Employee International Union union lawyer Craig Becker, one of President Obama’s two current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominees. Today we’ll pull back the curtain on another NLRB nominee, Big Labor Lawyer Mark G. Pearce. [Added 8/6/2009 Pearce Alert with his SF-278 Personal Financial Disclosure report.]
Due the nature of some of Mr. Pearce’s art that is included in the Committee’s Alert, a censored alert is also provided. (Pearce Uncensored Alert, Pearce Censored Alert).
In his own words, Pearce says he is caught in an internal struggle between his artist and lawyer self. He writes, “That kind of sounds like I’m drowning and about to go under, doesn’t it? While I enjoy the law, I struggle at fulfilling my desire to help bring beauty to the world. Art is my best vehicle to do this, or life raft.”
Pearce defended alleged underworld connected union boss Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local President Frank Ervolino. By May 2000, Ervolino and his wife were indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling more than $235,000 in union funds. A year earlier, Court-Appointed Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Monitor Kurt Muellenberg’s office concluded that the amount embezzled was $491,000.
As you add up Pearce’s 20-plus years as a big labor lawyer, there is little to see. It is hard to pinpoint just who is Mark Pearce. But what we do know is that his actions indicate that he is against individual workers rights and supports big labor forced unionism.
So, Contact your Senators now at 202-224-3121 and ask them to stop Mark Pearce and end Obama’s payback to forced unionism bosses.
Paul:
Ervolino and his lawyer failed to return telephone calls for comment. But in union meetings held on May 8 and June 9, after news of the union fight surfaced -
the first meetings he has held since last fall – Ervolino said he has no intention of stepping down.
“I’m not going to quit, I’ve never backed down,’ Ervolino said according to Mrs. Appleton. “I will run again. I will retire when I want to.”
Coalition members said about 60 union officials attended the session, applauding Ervolino and praising his leadership. About 20 of those involved in the
coalition were at the Convention Center as well.
The Buffalo News reported last month that union sources said Ervolino and his wife had spent 17 weeks this past winter at their Florida condominium.
“He didn’t deny it: said Mrs. Appleton, who is leading the anti-Ervolino effort at Children’s. “He justified it. He said he had six weeks vacation coming this year,
six weeks from last year, and that two weeks were for a convention.”
She and Ms. Waxel also said they Questioned Ervolino about drawing salaries as president of the hospital council, the international dry cleaners, local 168-39
of that union, and Local 4 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union.
“I asked him how he could handle four full-time jobs: Mrs. Appleton said. “He said he delegates a lot of the work. I said how can you take four full-time
salaries if you delegate a lot of the work?”
She said she never got an answer and that Ervolino shut off questions from the dissidents.
In response to a petition signed by more than 500 union members asking for an inspection of their union’s financial records, an attorney representing Ervolino
responded with a two-page leiter refusing to produce the documents.
“In its present form, this demand appears to be no more than a means of harassing the current administrations of the respective unions named therein. by
engaging in a ‘fishing expedition,” attomey Mark G. Pearce wrote to Mrs. Appleton.
Pearce, who until last November was a field aHorney for the National Labor Relations Board and now is a member of the union’s law firm – Lipsitz, Green,
Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria – said the request “appears to be purely to advance the political objectives of a faction opposing the incumbent
administration. and to support the suspected raiding objectives of an outside union.”
Ms. Waxel and Mrs. Appleton said they feel that ElVOlino’s refusal to tell union members how he spends their dues will only help them in the October
elections.
“‘We think, as union members,” Mrs. Appleton said. “we have a legal right to know about these unexplained expenses.”
source: Buffalo News. Buffalo, N.Y.: Jun 19, 1995. pg. B.l, MICHAEL BEEBE – News Staff Reporter
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Mr. Pearce did not defend Mr. Ervolino at any point.