... not quite!
We need just one more sig...yours!!
✅ The petition drive is underway.
If you would like a set of candidate petitions to sign:
👉email: secu4in24@gmail.com
😎 Here are the member-nominated candidates:Jean Blaine
Grew
up in Southport, N.C Graduated from UNC-CH and was a teacher in the
Johnston, Wake, Orange and Granville County public school systems. In
her spare time she reared 5 children and was a community activist.
Highly familiar with the purpose of SECU. Has appeared at the
Legislature, before the N.C. Credit Union Commission and at the SECU
Annual Meeting to publicly question current policies and procedures.
Enjoys her church group, book club, and fast friends. Lives in Granville County, writes her own speeches.
Susie Ford
Native
of Wilmington, educator, entrepreneur with BA and Masters from ECU.
Former 13-year SECU employee who served as branch VP in Wilson, High
Point and Williamston. Created and led the SECU Member Education
department at SECU, before leaving to own and operate multiple Sylvan
Learning centers in eastern N.C. Has advocated for SECU before the
Legislature, CU Commission and at the Annual Meeting. Active in her
church, married with adult children, lives in Cary, N.C. Her grandfather
held SECU account #7 out of 2.8 million members! Also writes her own
speeches.
Julian Hawes
Brought
up in Warsaw, N.C., man of his word, suffers from a rural N.C. work
ethic. Graduated from N.C.State, as an ardent Wolfpack loyalist. Retired
after a 30+ year career at SECU, serving as the SVP for eastern N.C. in
Goldsboro. SECU's premier lender and loan officer mentor. About
lending: "Listen first, decide second; put yourself in the other
fellow's shoes; and, the best collateral for a loan is the borrower's
character." Expert in finance, but understands the member-value of the $500
salary advance loan program, which he created. Married, now lives in
the Winston-Salem area. Still knows how to "prime" tobacco.
Kirby Parrish
Born
in Raleigh and hasn't strayed far. Educated in the Wake County Public
Schools and a graduate of NCSU. Veteran employee of SECU, now retired.
Led offices in Garner and Raleigh as an SVP. Instrumental in developing
the member investment and financial advisory services at the credit
union.
Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Member Loan Review Committee
Advocate - "Members need to be heard"! Always trusted, top choice of
SECU employees to represent their interests on internal committees.
5k runner, follows the 'Canes, likes touring North Carolina vineyards
and been known to taste a bourbon flight. Married with dogs, lives in
Johnston County.
... step up, this is not the time to duck!
How many have been received so far?
ReplyDeleteNeed at least one more: If you would like a set of candidate petitions to sign:
ReplyDelete👉email: secu4in24@gmail.com
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Praying for these to be on the ballot! We’ve turned ours in. We need help to save SECU. Employees are at wits end. 😭
ReplyDeleteSure hope these folks can win and stop the slide of the credit union. There has been a difference for a long time and people loved us for it but current leadership is driving us to no difference than the banks. Sad to see.
ReplyDeleteMailed mine to you on Monday :)
ReplyDelete2 OTW ....
ReplyDeleteGetting final signatures tomorrow. When's the deadline to be mailed in?
ReplyDeleteAs soon as possible is the best answer, but if yoi drop them in the mail by Monday or so they'll make it.
DeleteIf you need more sets of petitions:
Delete👉email: secu4in24@gmail.com
Oh ok. They will be in the mail by tomorrow.
DeleteThis is exciting-history in the making!!
ReplyDeletewe probably need several more 10%? in case the 'inspectors' throw some out .... jus sayin ... ;)
ReplyDeleteBetter to not need them but have them then vice-a-versa!
11 signatures going out in the mail tomorrow
ReplyDeleteNot a lot of diversity in these candidates.
ReplyDeleteInteresting comment: How did you determine that?
DeleteWhy didn’t you run for the board to diversify it?
DeleteDid diversity stop the non-whites on the board from voting for race based lending?
isn't it obvious>?
Delete@12:03, how do you know how they voted?
Delete2:03 its recorded in the official corporate minutes.
Delete@2:08, how do we get access to those minutes?
DeleteAsk mLeigh Brady publicly
DeleteIssue isn't their race, its they voted and support racebiased lending. and voted for that $6million narcissist and his executive gym. Leadership incompetence at its worst
DeleteThere's no diversity with the original 8 on the board ... just because they look different they all think alike... didn't mama teach you that 'you can't judge a book by it's cover'?
DeleteThe original 8 want this place to be just like lame a** Allegacy. No thanks. I’ll keep my member owned co-op
Delete5 more OTW!
ReplyDeleteWould be nice if we knew what their plans for SECU is, and that goes for all board member nominees. The background is nice to know but doesn’t really tell us about their vision for SECU. That would be good information to have.
ReplyDeleteYou know what the incumbents will do. Just exactly what they have been doing ever since they hired Hayes, CFO and CEO at the biggest credit union failure in the history of credit unions. Let that sink in for a minute. Got rid of Loan Review by member peer group. Instated Race Based Lending. offer some of the worst savings rates around. Have centralized decision making. Outsourcing operations as fast as possible(Crowdstrike anyone?) What they are getting ready to do to employees healthcare benefits is as bad as it gets. Retirees are going on the chopping block THIS October if Mona Moon has her way! Do you retirees know that? That THIS Board is getting ready to kick you out of the group plan? Wake up Wake up Wake up! This Board is turning SECU into just any old financial institution. One on every corner. Take your pick. Most of them pay better savings rates.This board and these incumbents do not care about your benefits or want you to have them. It hurts their profit! At a nonprofit. If you want a credit union that looks after your interest and helps folks get on their feet financially, IF these four get ON the ballot, SECU can get back to being the best financial institution in the state for state employees and their families. The Four incumbents will accelerate the move to a mediocre bank.
DeleteThe incumbents want to outsource jobs and layoff employees. A volunteer board is wanting to ruin our healthcare plan and ruin great 21st century work schedules as well. They took the rule of 85 away. Unequal interest rates. 3rd party vendor. Using consultants that don’t even know what a credit union is. We have a ceo that’s been non existent the past year and wants to preach to us about doing more with less so they don’t have to hire and train employees, but eventually wants to layoff the employees that have carried this place on its back since Hayes arrived and attempted to destroy this place. No thanks to the incumbents. They represent the dead culture status quo of corporate America. Nobody likes these other places…want to know why? They all treat their workers like s*** and secu has never been like that until Hayes arrived claiming he was going to make this the best place to work. He lied to us countless times saying the survey were anonymous and they were not. I have no trust in this board or the current executive team. It’s time for them to go and go back to what made secu great for 80 years. We did the right thing for our membership and employees. If you don’t treat your staff right…how do we expect you to treat our membership right?
DeleteWhat jobs have been outsourced?
Delete"What jobs have been outsourced?"
DeletePrinting is one ...
CEO (Gym Hayes), Ethics, Accountability, Growth, Performance, Transparency
DeleteYou've outsourced the job of managing my savings and IRA. My families too.
DeleteOutsourcing in IT. Marketing too.
DeleteWe need to outsource a few more board members now!
Deleteand get rid of the green cheese next year.
DeleteHere's a few...The entire Print department, ATM Fraud dept, Online banking (signed - project underway), several systems moved to the cloud which sunsets the need for those supporting them, IT department basically outsourced to First Citizens.
DeleteIt's intentional folks - get out while you have the control.
Please outsource our CEO
DeleteOutsource the Killer B's ... Brady, Bomba, Benesh
DeleteTime you woke up.
ReplyDeleteWait until you see how this board is screwing employees on health care.unforgivable.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean health insurance? SECU doesn’t provide or cover healthcare.
DeleteIf you think that the quality of your health insurance plan doesn't directly affect the quality of the healthcare you receive, I have a bridge to sell you.
DeleteIt's August 1. Where is merit?
ReplyDeleteanother week delay. some need to reworked again.
DeleteIt'll be in the August 15th check like always. Assuming the employee's performance warrants a merit raise.
DeleteWhat rework? Don't managers choose merit and that's it?
Delete"Assuming the employee's performance warrants a merit raise."
DeleteThen I'm guessing C-suite will be getting nada ...
... or do they fail up?
a "diverse" blue cross fixer lobbyist? Weren' he and Moon in bed together on trying to block the switch in state employyess health plan. Were they both fired over that scandal?
ReplyDeleteMona was. Not sure about the other buddy. So much for the board “expertise”
DeleteSo after having been fired there, she's trying her her wackadoodle plans here?!
DeleteWell, the leighduhship just emailed everyone. Apparently, everything is better than ever ..
ReplyDeleteAsk our Leighda about our health plan. see if she/her will tell the truth.
DeleteWhy did you say she/her? “ See if she/her will tell you the truth?”
DeleteMailed seven today. Was out of town on vacation, hopefully they aren't too late.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteMr. Blaine - I know you won’t post this, but I get that you have a perspective. I really do. But you are guilty of the same thing you accuse Leigh and the board of. Lack of transparency. If you really believe the facts are in your favor, why not allow free and open debate here.
7:08 pm [from a frequent commenter!]
DeleteWell first, thanks for stating that you believe Leigh, the Board and I aren't transparent. Can't answer for them, but...
I will make a public commitment to you to post your point of view, if you will do two things: 1) attach your name to your comments and 2) include your picture, so we'll all know who you are - that would be transparent wouldn't it?
So far you have never been willing to do those two simple things, not sure why not?
Hope we can all get to meet you soon!
His name is on all his comments. Not me and not you either. Why don't you encourage your friends in Admin and on the Board to answer some questions. Let's start with Why Race Based Lending? Or "Tiered Lending" as y'all like to call it. And let's have more than everyone else is doing it. the a paper rate was available to A rated folks always. Always. was and is. Now you guys are punishing folks that ALWAYS paid back their loans AND not screening out the ne'er dowells. Never never have you logically explained WHY
DeleteWe need a live debate between Jim Blaine vs Leigh Brady and Board. 1 vs 9 and my money is still on JB. Hard to defend corruption over good morals and a successful track record
Delete7:08pm is just an a - hole. We all know the tpye. Move on. ignore the idiot.
DeleteYes ignore the creeps. move on.
DeleteMove on. Little yappy dogs, probably minatur-minded poodles by the sound of it.
DeleteThe executives and board are just plain weird at this point. Who wants to exploit people for economic gain? Especially the people that work and carry the company for you! WEIRD!!!!!! HELP OTHERS!!!!
Delete@12:15 it’s kind of psychotic if you think about it
DeleteWhat’s weird is destroying the average person’s ability to buy groceries, gas, energy and rent/housing and then claiming the economy is great...
Delete@12:35 and it’s even weirder when the ceo sends out an email out to employees bragging about corporate profits while we can barely afford basic necessities. Corporations needs to be held accountable…not only secu but corporations across America are price gouging. You can vote whoever you want…but if corporations are allowed to exploit the current economic conditions by raising prices and exploiting labor by taking benefits away and only bragging about corporate profits…then it ultimately doesn’t matter who you vote for when corporations are allowed to do whatever they want. The economy is doing well….for the 1%. It’s working how it’s suppose too.
DeleteShould be their last email, but the board approves ... so there ya have it!
Delete@5:40 Bingo.
DeleteYou won’t see your material conditions improved until workplaces are democratized. SECU was democratized which is why many SECU employees don’t really understand how corporate America works. You’ve been sheltered. Outside of SECU, most companies treat their employees like s*** to keep it simple. Outsourced or laid off like they never mattered meanwhile the ceo and executive team collects big checks while they sit around and talk about ways to make more profit. That’s what they are trying to take away from you. A democratized workplace
DeleteThe American economy has been on the decline for decades. Multiple industries shipped overseas due to corporate greed. It didn’t suddenly improve from 2016-2020 and then all of the sudden retank again. The economy for the working class has not seen any improvements arguably since the 60’s.
Delete200,000 jobs were shipped overseas during 2016-2020….the fairytale economy didn’t exist for the working class during that time. Jobs were lost. Income inequality further expanded. Homeless crisis worse. Secu has been shielded.
Current employees are afraid for their jobs and their families. They can’t sign anything. It’s a hostile workplace, SECU! Staff members have been fired, demoted and isolated for no reason other than “You have been at SECU too long!”. Zero Merits and pay cuts for longtime employees, not part of the click sororities or fraternities!
ReplyDeleteAs a current non-executive employee I strongly disagree with this statement.
Delete@8:26, then you are somehow isolated or in one of the "favored" areas, because the comment above is absolutely true for most employees. Have seen it over and over since the takeover.
DeleteReal facts!
Delete18 more signatures OTW! Should be delivered Monday
DeleteOnce these four are on the ballot, I would like to see a debate between them and the incumbents. Is this a possibility before the election.
ReplyDelete