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From: rank and file email: Date: 10 Mar 2010 Comments:
Hey brother, his time is done. While he was a delegate he was a asset to Ehlich and more importantly to himself - not the local. Now he just another employee of the council and to Ehlich - a non performing liability, a kind of toxic asset so to speak. He burnt the membership and his value to the council has fallen. I am for carpenters bettering themselves in new opportunities related to the trade whether a superintendent, instructor, inspector, council representative or est. They serve the brotherhood to the betterment of the trade. The CAP director was something Marshall created to help those who needed some kind of outside assistance paid by the benefit funds. Cav was selected for the first CAP director because I guess it was AA thing. Drugs, divorce, unemployment- you must experience these pitfalls as a quailfication I suppose. It is important job and I don't know what the qualifications are other than knowing someone at the benefit fund. Greely was pick by Cav to succeed and looking at him you saw "hack" over his head. The CAP director should be a neutral entity, someone without baggage to serve those whose benefit funds pay for counseling. That means not using his position to advance himself like being a delegate to leverage his vote to the council against the leadership of the local. Thats where integrity becomes a factor.
Who are you serving? Yourself or the members? CAPs is a selfless thankless position. And then to become politically active you no longer become a neutral resource for assistance. Ideally, a delegate is one who deals on behalf on the members doing their bidding. Not the other way around as some employee/delegates do to protect their jobs at expense of the members.
Brother, Marshall's vision was to help the carpenter
help himself get back on his feet. I glad to hear you found your way back.
Hopefully others will be a resourceful as you.