Comments on: Union Shakedown Alleged At SC Employment Agency

By: Lynn Simmons

Lynn Simmons — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:02:35 +0000

This is not a Union. It is an organization that you are of no obligation to join. DHEC has them too but no one is obligated to join them. Fees are paid from the employees own pocket. It is illegal for State Employees to have a Union!

By: SCESCemployee

SCESCemployee — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:05:46 +0000

Neutral Reader’s comments above are on the mark. Richardson is the one claiming travel reimbursement between her W. Cola condo and her home in York County. Outright fraud. Haley used a high power state auto for personal use for his entire tenure as executive director. State law requires him to reimburse the state for every single personal mile he enjoyed. The fraud going on at SCESC is easy to find – why is the state leadership ignoring SCESC? Because they too do not want anyone (the media!) to look at them also? It is easy to ascertain extremely low morale at the ESC. Talk with anyone not promoted in the last ten years by halley. Since the commissioners do not like marshal, it should be interesting what becomes of that smug character next year. And yes, IAWP is certainly not a union by any means, but membership appears to help in being in good graces with halley, and now foster.

By: Designated Driver

Designated Driver — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:05:10 +0000

Bitch still won’t give me head. Will, tell Bin to get down there and get to work.

By: Wake-up Call

Wake-up Call — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:46:46 +0000

It’s about time those in Columbia whom we elected wake up, get off their behinds and do something about this agency. From all the corruption and cover-up in this agency by Halley, Marshall, Price, the Commissioners and many more of those in the Columbia office, its become an embarrassment to those hard working “on-line” staff working in the local offices. The crooks, liars, and thieves sit in their offices in Columbia making their fat paychecks and stealing from the taxpayers and already over-taxed business owners while those in the local offices work their fingers to the bone, get mistreated by customers and no one seems to care!!!!! When is SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE going to get bold enough to stand up, clean house and say this corruption will no longer be tolerated! I commend those who have come forward and spoken out “openly” about the wrong-doings going on in that agency. Many more need to follow instead of hiding their names and faces- for God’s sake, speak up for yourselves and what is morally and ethically right. If a man stands for nothing, he will fall for anything. Don’t let them do this to US anymore! Let’s join together and take it to the Statehouse in Columbia!

By: Neutral Reader

Neutral Reader — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:54:42 +0000

The Employment Security Commission has serious problems and should be completely revamped as a new workforce agency. Its current set-up with unintelligent commissioners as the “oversight” is a joke. The commissioners care only about preserving their jobs and nothing about the agency and the public they serve. They continue to abuse their power including consistently claiming travel expenses from their “home” cities even though two of them live in Columbia. They are also completely to blame for keeping someone as inept as Roosevelt Halley as the executive director all these years. He is the primary reason ESC has fallen to its current level of ineptitude.

Saying all this, IAWP is not a union and should not be construed as such. It is a non-profit, educational association. IAWP has a formal certification program, and sponsors numerous training programs to try to encourage employees to maintain and upgrade their professional skills. The attacks on this association by this website are totally unwarranted but the criticism for ESC should continue until it is reborn into new 21st-century agency.

By: SCESCemployee

SCESCemployee — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:45:46 +0000

More importantly is how the extremely overpaid, smug, arrogant, and truly stupid commissioners, haley, marshall, price, and now foster, are allowed to lead SCESC employees and discourage new ideas. These sorry excuses for state employees are absurd. Someone needs to investigate the financial and travel fraud that has been going on for well over ten years.

By: the Goober

the Goober — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:47:03 +0000

What would one expect, from a Greasy Good Ole Boy? Look at the pictures, included with Memo –> he wears Mayonnaise on his head!

I am surprised Foster is capable of Penning an inter-office memorandum, or a letter. his ways, and lack of Education will befuddle himself. He will Probably fall victim to his own ‘Lack of Penmanship’ skills.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:32:40 +0000

The IAWP (International Association of Workforce Professionals) is no more a union than the AMA (American Medical Association. The IAWP is essentially an association to educate these employment counselors to better do their job. See http://www.iawponline.com Isn’t that what we want the Employment office to do?

By: beentook2

beentook2 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:26:58 +0000

Who gives a rat’s ass. Let them suck on the State’s tit till it shrivels up and drops off. If it ain’t Foster and the three dumb asses who call themselves “Commissioners” ripping off all they can stuff in their underwear, it will be someone else. These characters could care less about what I write, you write or anyone else writes. If someone 40 years ago had told them they had to pay up or get fired, they would have been marching in the streets screaming their collective heads off. Today, this will not get a ripple. Why, because the ones who could change the system are as back stabbing, cork screwing, double dealing as they are. If you steal from an honest man, he will try to get his money back honestly. If you steal from a crook, he won’t say a word. He just will find a way to steal it back. This week it is a toss up as to which is the biggest nest of cockroaches: Governor’s Office, State Legislature, ESC or Fairfield County School District. My vote goes to the fat bastards who call themselves legislators.

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:05:17 +0000

Geeze – Andy, I usually don’t take Fit’s side on anything, but there seem to be some very serious problems here and this letter is definitely one of them!