.....rescue pPLZz -- literary heritage preservation project

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ran Calling)
Newsgroups: misc.writing, rec.collecting.books,
alt.creative.writing,alt.publish.books,uk.legal

To : wildfire0240 (AT) hotmail.com  
Subject : ideas  
Date : Fri, 21 Nov 2003 
>
> Hi
>

Thank you. 

>
> Why not try:
>
> The Connecticut Mental Health Center
> 333 Cedar St., New Haven
> 432-4771
>

THANK YOU. 

They herd worst cases.  I was 
there once, to help a strangle 
victim speak to a 'clinician'.  
Quite the impression that 
makes : some there as likely to 
acquire a stalker as find 
support.  I doubt CMHC could 
provide a worthwhile referral. 
   
>
> If you are a Canadian citizen you may 
> be able to get some emergency help 
> from:
>
> The Consulate General of Canada
> Three Copley Place, Suite 400
> Boston, MA
> 02116, USA
>
> Tel: (617) 262-3760 Fax: (617) 262-3415
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

USA birth, Canada acculturation & education.  
Emergency help was --is it still?-- the place 
of the labor union.  My union office is silent 
upon learning that a claim for unemployment 
compensation benefits (UCB) should have been 
filed over 1.5 years ago.  That doesn't mean 
the union membership or any union membership 
or anyone cannot be willing to help, and
I need help classically.  

Here's what should have happened over 
1.5 years ago.  

Worker is placed on leave by means of a
baffoonly motivated ambush, then traumatized 
at home by the employer for weeks afterward, 
only to be pounced upon anew by the employer 
while trying finally to engage the union. 

That much harm extant, rescue help was 
already necessary when the union became 
involved.  

Labor unions must know excessive interferences 
with workers' lives happen and discourage it, 
first of all.  Secondly, the union should 
always instruct any worker immediately to 
file an unemployment (UCB) claim.  In my 
case, the union became involved after 4 weeks 
of leave, and the grievance meeting wouldn't 
occur until 3 weeks into the future.  

I wasn't instructed to file a UCB claim 
because the union was uninformed & misinformed 
about UCB.  Remedy: Help make sure all 
labor unions & all occupational health
offices have copies of the jusidiction's
unemployment benefits information.  Connecitcut
has a cogent pamphlet that would mislead
no one, but you don't get that until after
you file a claim.

In reality, to be eligible for UCB, a worker 
on (nonviolent) leave need only be able to 
work full-time temporarily for any other 
employer, same field, different field, any 
field.  

             Well, not quite.  A clown 
placed on leave to overcome alcoholism 
cannot be applying each week for temporary 
full time work as a surgeon, pilot, or 
cowpoke, but a carpenter injured in, say, a 
car accident, can apply for temporary full 
time work as a clown, DJ, or telemarketer 
until the back injury or broken arm heals, 
permitting return to work for the heavy 
carpentry employer. 

A UCB claim pays beginning with the week 
in which the claim is filed.  Retroactive 
payments for earlier weeks of the leave 
period aren't granted unless there is 
good cause for late filing.  At 4 weeks 
after I was placed on leave, I may have 
had 'good cause' to request the backdating 
of coverage to the beginning of my leave 
period, since employer error caused the 
ambush & chaos up to the union taking 
over, & the employer withheld info about
UCB.

My union remainded misinformed 
about UCB for all the months that the 
grievance process dragged on, thinking
that to be *unemployed* one had to be 
laidoff, fired, or quit.  How do you 
think it feels now for me to know that 
my silent union may be hoping I do not 
qualify for UCB at my rescheduled 
hearings on December 01? These hearings 
have been postponed already 3 times 
because of hardship.  The union could 
have helped prevent that hardship, went 
silent instead.  

This isn't normal or permissible hardship 
that has beset me in New Haven's homeless
realm, be sure.  I am seeking review of 
the 4 times that I --serious, quiet, 
polite, busy I-- have been thrown out 
like a carcass by New Haven's homeless 
shelters into the night since learning 
in July that I should have filed a claim 
for UCB at the start of my leave period 
over 1.5 years ago.  People are hurt in 
New Haven's homeless world because lack
of supervision leaves discretion to 
harm in the hands of peabrains who 
couldn't spell noon backwards.

Allieviation of accumulated hardship 
that never should have been is what I 
need --like total rescue along 
philanthropic lines as I would prefer.  
Meanwhile, one hotel in New Haven is 
sponsored by my union.  

http://www.hereunion.org/hotelguide/default.asp

Omni New Haven Hotel At Yale
155 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: (203) 772-6664

Tomorrow I will ask that hotel to
let me have even a free room, considering
my unprecedented situation.  But the 
union membership could help out there,
please.  From such a non-harming base,
I can expediently begin reconstructing 
my life, beginning with being rested & 
safe in preparation for UCB hearings 
that I was entitled to attend over 1.5 
years ago, but at the latest last 
September before New Haven's homeless 
world went awry on me.

>
>mscougall wrote:
>> You identified the union and several 
>> individuals but not the university. Why?
>

A generalization is in order.  No 
university should harm, certainly not 
repeatedly, incoherently, manipulatively.  
Universities have a special place, in 
civilization harborers of learning, 
springboards to fruition & humanity.  
Universities, unlike many employers, have 
at their disposal forces of security 
officers.  Sending that power force on 
an innocent female because of your 
fantasies & a wrong phone number is 
baffoon, not even a reasonable mistake.
The university has more to be ashamed
of than the union etc.  The union is
identified because it still can and 
should help and provides a real world
element that could substantiate
that deprivation here is not a
story.  

>
> What was said in the original e-mail 
> and why won't you see a physician and 
> get cleared to work? 
>

Did get cleared back to work by my
primary care physician.  The email
was confidential & sent appropriately;
no more to say to an unintended, improper 
audience.  The uni required me to show 
it to a physician. That I did.  The uni 
afterwards reneged on the grievance 
agreement, maybe, in part, because of 
the failure of UCB awareness.