NUJ - Mincoffs Flying Circus - Motion
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London Freelance Branch/National Union of Journalists
Notice of Motion presented with Detail for Debate and Definitions for Stipulation for consideration by London Freelance Branch/National Union of Journalists at the LFB/NUJ Branch Meeting 08 Sep 08.
WHEREAS Roy Martin Mincoff, NUJ Legal Officer:
1. Issued two general denials as legal briefs thus depriving an NUJ member of his right to due process of law and right of appeal to NEC.
2. Ignored the basic precepts of trade unionism afforded to members arguably for ulterior or personal motives as substantiated in supporting documentation.
3. Committed gross professional misconduct for which his immediate supervisor Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary could hold ultimate responsibility under Solicitors’ Code of Conduct 2007 and Trades Union Congress regulations.
4. Convened a politically expedient “kangaroo court”.
BE IT RESOLVED that Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary:
1. Remove Roy Martin Mincoff, NUJ Legal Officer and NUJ staff (except John Toner, NUJ Freelance Organizer and his assistant Pamela Morton) from any involvement, legal or otherwise, with issues described in the appended position statement.
2. Instruct Professor Patrick Brown, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Seattle University School of Law, who successfully argued before Washington Supreme Court as NUJ and IFJ amicus curiae, to act as a catalyst and organize implementation of legal work as outlined in the appended proposal.
Curriculum vitae: BA summa cum laude Boston College 1981; Phi Beta Kappa. MA Boston College 1988; JD University of Washington School of Law 1993; PhD Boston College 2000; Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court; Member of the Washington State Bar Association; Admitted to practice in US District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; practiced law for four years with two Seattle firms and taught legal writing full-time in Seattle University philosophy department; and, joined the law faculty in 2002.
Proposed: Paul Trummel
Seconded:
NUJ/LFB members may email questions and comments to:
Paul Trummel <trummel@contracabal.eu>
Paul Trummel <trummel@alum.rpi.edu>
Please read the web article and the position paper first:
Without Let or Hindrance - http://contracabal.org/830-03-00.html
LFB Members can request a copy of the position paper and the resolution submitted to NUJ/FC which appealed an arbitrary decision by Mincoff which he turned into a kangaroo court. The content of that resolution had tacit approval of both John Toner and Jeremy Dear; however, Mincoff arbitrarily frustrated the initiative. NEC and Ethics Council have since ignored requests for intervention.
Paul Trummel PhD (RPI ABD), PhD (UW ABD), MS (RPI), MSc (UK), BSc (UK)
UK equivalencies in graphic communication recognized by Boston University, Northeastern University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Fitchburg State College, San Jose State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of Washington with comparability twice certified by International Education Research Foundation (IERF), a credential evaluation service accredited by US Department of Education
Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired)
International Federation of Journalists, Brussels, International Press Card GB 8953.
National Union of Journalists, London, Press Card #025057.
Fellow, International Society of Typographic Designers (FISTD)
Fellow, Institute of Paper Printing and Publishing (FIOP)
Member, Society of Authors, London - #00039806.
LFB/NUJ Member Paul Trummel has written hundreds of articles on corporate, union, and academic hierarchic abuse. He founded Contra Cabal, one of the first electronic magazines to appear on the web in 1992, for which he develops the site, writes articles, designs pages, and produces graphics.
Published in print since 1944 and on the web, without a single challenge to the authenticity of his investigative reporting, he has spent sixty years as a trade union member and elected official, twenty years as a new media industry CEO and systems designer/consultant, and thirty years as a post-graduate professor teaching computer industry executives and students of journalism, law, and graphic design while they worked toward their masters or doctoral degrees. He has attended or chaired hundreds of faculty and trade union committee meetings including national conventions.
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