All members are also requested to send a letter to the International Representatives
supporting the decision of the Trustees in this matter.
The following points should be used
when writing your letter.

*Trustees acted in the best interest of the entire membership.
*After 14 months and much hard work,
Labor and Management Trustees
with input from our Professionals made these decisions.
*None of this was a surprise. Council and Local leadership
communicated regularly the state of the funds including Madoff.
*Madoff was a fraud that even the Government missed.
I don't see
the SEC paying anyone back their money. Why should we.
*Upstate Fund Trustees should have been more diversified,
don't make us pay for their mistakes.
*Since when does the International get involved with fund issues anyway.
*Buffalo Funds asked for help from the International
some years ago and none was given.
*A change in the decisions made by the current Trustees of the Empire Fund
will have a devastating effect on membership (shrinking membership numbers,
watered down healthcare for both active members and retirees, pension issues
and financial status for active members and also retirees drawing off
annuity accounts in the current economic decline)
*Helping our Brothers and Sisters out is not a problem,
but fair is fair.
*They did not share gains with us but want us to take on their losses.

Send a letter to the following:
Douglas McCarron
General President
&
Douglas Banes
General Vice President
&
Andris Silins
General Secretary- Treasurer
at the following address

United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America
101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-546-6206
Fax: 202-543-5724


Frank Spencer
District Vice President
14 Kings Highway West
P.O. Box 375
Haddonfield, N.J. 08033
Phone: 856-428-1650
Fax: 856-428-1826

Make sure you write to them all.