1. who is thomas geoghans client?
2. what has he hired him to do? is it simply as a retainer? or for specific actions? if specific actions, what are those specific actions he's been hired to perform?
3. how much has his client paid him? is it an hourly wage? has he been paid to come to the ghanaian drivers meeting and george's meeting of drivers?
4. is it true geoghan can only perform actions his client has hired him to perform?
5. does george lutfallah have any experience in the areas of organizing social movements? or activism of any kind?
6. is it true geoghan would need $20,000 dollars as an initial fee to take on a legal action to win the right to form a union?
7. what action would this be and who would be the litigant?
8. what is the timeline for such an aciton?
8 1/2. is it true that geoghan said it may take 5 years?
9. what is the percentage chances of winning such a legal action?
9 1/2. is it true that geoghan said that there is a 50% chance of winning?
10. what is the timeline for raising $20,000 to hire geoghan?
11. what is the legal entity who would hire him?
12. who would raise the money? and how? what is the plan?
13. if some drivers at georges meeting said they would take on this responsibility, who are they? what are their names?
14. is it true that 30% of all drivers would need to vote in favor of forming a union before it can be legally taken on?
15. how would an accountable voting action take place in the cabdriver community?
16. who would count the votes? an independent accounting firm? how would they be paid? how much would that cost?

just a few questions that come to mind.

we will be reporting on what we know about this meeting, and filling out our report with opinion and conjecture, as george lutfallah declines to be interviewed.

Some great questions Peter! For answers to these questions and many more, check out the next edition of the Chicago Dispatcher.

Thanks!

George Lutfallah
Chicago Dispatcher

If, we didn't have to deal with Daley and Reyes. We would be union and taking over the city.

Unions taking over the city? Mayor Rich has been slowly but steadily outsourceing jobs to private industry. These contractors are mostly non union. They make the bucks by hiring prople for 7.00/hr. Rent out the skyway and lay off the union employees. The foreign company can hire locals for peanuts then.

How are Daley and Reyes stopping our "union?" Group power for obtaining insurance is good. Its good for other things as well. But to think we can take over is a little far fetched man.