Jack Gaines: The 10% Executive Legislative Director

•  A new component in the LM'2's filed by ACRE with the U.S. Department of Labor is a section devoted to reporting how much time a union officer spends performing different union activities. The breakdown of Gaines' “union work” is: “Representational Activities 42%, Political Activities and Lobbying 10% , general overhead 43% and administration 5% .

•  The Executive Branch compensated Gaines more in 2005 than the International dues the Metro North BLE Local sent to the BLE International in 1999, the last full year of operation on this property.

•  Gaines principal ACRE duties include Minister of Misinformation, attempting to justify Doyle and Bottalico's compensation package from the MTA, forwarding a juvenile response from ACRE to Senator Nick Spano's May 16, 2005 letter to MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow or taking credit for the passage for the Assault Bill in 2002 (TWU Local 100 performed the lobbying for the Bill's passage). In retrospect the 10% estimation of the time spent by Gaines on legislative issues is probably generous.

•  During the Division 9 monthly meeting in 2005 Mike Doyle was asked by some members “What does Gaines do?” Doyle's response “What I tell him to do.” Apparently, Doyle does not forward many requests for legislative activity.

Local 77