Fellow AFGE Members, friends, family and supporters,

I urge you all to email Everett Kelley (kellee@afge.org) and Philip Glover (philip.glover@afge.org) to demand that they do their jobs and ensure accountability and transparency.

Over 10 (and counting) separate election protests have been submitted by L62 members. Yet AFGE leadership has either failed to respond or has falsely claimed that our protests are invalid despite several members pointing to internal regulations and federal law that clearly supports our rights to protest.

L62 President Candis Ralph and her friends colluded to commit election and ballot fraud. Among the long list of election violations that were committed, the most glaring were the fact that ballots were returned to the Local Union P.O Box (which Candis has access to) and that ballots were counted with no method to identify who voted.

AFGE National and District 3 have been informed of these violations yet they are deliberately turning a blind eye or helping to conceal the misconduct.

I suspect AFGE leadership is punishing my fellow members and I because I have refused to stay quiet about the rampant corruption that persists in our union. I also believe this is in retaliation to my involvement in a national rank and file initiative to hold Everett Kelley accountable to the membership during the shutdown.

The lack of accountability and transparency in AFGE is simply a microcosm of the challenges we face in our society today. Our leaders are so arrogant that they think they can do as they please and not have to answer to us (the people). 

If we can't trust our union, then who can we trust? And if they refuse to their jobs, then it's our duty to remind them who put them there.