After spending only six years as a rank-and-file plate maker, Kurt Freeman has been an officer in the GCIU for more than 35 years.

For the past 4 years, Freeman has served as the International President of the Graphic Communications Conference. His time at the head of your organization has been rife with mismanagement, greed and inactivity. He does not travel to meet with members on the job, preferring the company of high-priced lawyers in expensive steakhouses.

During Covid, while many members continued to work, had schedules cut or were laid off, Freeman spent the entirety of the pandemic at home in New Jersey collecting over $200,000 per year. In 2022, Freeman was paid $248,037 according to the union’s latest LM-2 report. While members have seen their pay cut as a result of a shrinking, consolidating industry, Freeman and his team granted themselves cost-of-living raises.

Now Freeman has unilaterally decided to terminate the Merger Agreement with the Teamsters preventing GCC locals the opportunity to directly affiliate with the IBT without allowing a vote by the dues-paying members of the GCC. Freeman hasn’t been transparent in any way during the past year. Remember, it was Freeman and his expensive D.C. legal team that decided they wanted to break away from the Teamsters, not you.

Freeman and his cronies are now holding on to your dues money and they will continue to spend it down while they collect their fat paychecks and retirement benefits. Once your union is hollowed out, they will turn out the lights and leave you in the dark.

Don’t fall for Freeman’s lies, misrepresentations and deceptions. Ask yourself, is Freeman doing what is in the best interests of the membership or is he doing what’s in HIS best interests?

GCC members deserve better than Freeman’s failed leadership.