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David Neel has spent time in jail for a sex crime. His boss slept with an impressionable 40 year old woman, more than 6 years older than him. David Neel went after kids. What is more discussing?

Former advertising salesman pleads guilty to sex abuse

February 25, 2005 [Fox 12 Oregon]

PORTLAND -- A former advertising salesman at a Portland radio station is headed to prison.

David Neel was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one charge of sex abuse in Linn County.

After serving his sentence, Neel will be placed on parole for five years.

Neel also faces charges in Multnomah County for abusing a child during a station sponsored event at Oaks Park skating rink.

Detectives say in November of last year, Neel used his position at the Mix 107.5 to gain access to kids.

All in all David Neel was convicted of:
Felony Sexual Abuse II,
Felony Rape III,
Felony Sodomy III - two times.

Below is a link where OLCC denied this child molester a server permit. It lists out the convictions above. This guy is disgusting, and is the last person that should be throwing stones. Or maybe the women denied him, so he is jealous at his old manager.

http://oah.state.or.us/decisions/Liquor_Co…

You have the wrong neel. The David Neil in this article is spelled differently and has children in his custody. I doubt they'd let a sexual predator raise kids. Just saying.

It's worth noting that the subordinates that Mr Raley is accused of sleeping with are all 5-10 years older than him and were in every possible way willing and adult participants. Entirely ethical? Hardly. Worth news space in a marginally reputable newspaper? Not in a million years. This is the personal dirty laundry of flawed adults, nothing more.

Thanks, we are looking into it. We will be pulling records and will update when we know more.

It may be spelled Neel after second thought. But i doubt it's the same guy. He has children in his custody.

Also, i don't see how anything in his past, before working for the Fund, changes the authenticity of this article. And another thing, one of the people RJ supposedly was sleeping with (he told me directly that he was) is 25.

Great article Nathan Giles! I worked for PIRG for 6 years and this article painted a vivid picture of the kind of man RJ really was. A self proclaimed capitalist, and mysoginist. Men like that don't last here too long in a progressive place like this. Portland ran him out of town. Props to the workers. Their collective action led to his ousting. Portland is a better place without him.

I also like how the comments here supporting RJ are annonymous.

Like when RJ was drunk all those times grading women's bodies in the office by A B C or D? Yeah, I filed a complaint about that shit, too, and I was fired two days later. This was well before the union started and this was still his way of abusing women and firing those who tried to make a case out of it.

Kris Humbird, keep smoking your crack. RJ is so bad that you continued to try to hang out with him, even crash on his couch since you still live with your mom. And I am not surprised people are not naming themselves in some posts, considering how so many of my co-workers have been bullied or signaled out by union supporters when they have spoken up. So many people have left for that reason. I don't want to have people like Anya making things up stories about me too.

And this whole thing happened like 6 months ago. Some people just need to grow up.

People should read this: http://www.change.org/petitions/working-am….

The fund is such a horrible place, but then you have the AFL-CIO (CWA) affiliate Working America running their phone fundraising offices the same way. Talk about hypocrisy. Maybe CWA should be organizing their own phone fundraising offices, instead of going after other progressive groups. This hypocrisy has got to be another reason why unions are getting less and less effective.

And that petition has a whopping 33 signatures. Clearly it has the support of the public.

I doubt the AFL-CIO's workers spend 8 hours on stackable conference chairs in a basement with no windows and get fired for 2 weeks (which can actually amount to 4 working days if you're part time) of bad fundraising even if you've worked there for a decade. And i doubt they ever took ergonomic chairs away and replaced them with stackable chairs after a union vote and required a doctors note to bring in your own chairs while the directors spin around on their adjustable ergonomic chairs laughing about it. Cause that's what is happening at the Fund's Portland phone banking office. I work there currently.

http://nwlaborpress.org/2013/02/pirg-call-center-pulls-chairs-out-from-under-workers/

What's being done about the chairs? Are they OSHA qualified? If not, file a complaint. If they're not, OSHA can make them upgrade them. Or file something with the NLRB. Shocked your union hasn't already done that for you.

Things like this is what you should be focusing on. The complaints in the article sound really weird. I know it can be hard to prove retaliation, but if the management is just enforcing standards, it just sounds like some of the employees just got lazy or thought they could get away with stuff. If you were put on harder lists, what made them harder? If Schultz was the only one calling the lists, that shouldn't be hard to prove. My guess is that he just didn't do well, but the others did and that is why he was fired and they weren't. Just saying.

And your boss sleeping with subordinates - if it is as rampant and as bad as you make it out to be, I can't believe again that your union isn't sticking up for these girls. What is the purpose of having a union? With all the charges the article says that were already charged, it seems that if this was an actual issue with the workplace, something would have been done a long time ago. Again, just saying.

Don't get me wrong, I hope you get a contract soon, it just seems that this is a bunch of petty stuff.

OSHA is no longer aloud to mandate ergonomic chairs. Only advise.
As far as the lists go you obviously have no idea how our call center operates. We switch lists constantly. The list I call is changed 20-30 times a day. Sometimes I'll call a list for 2 minutes before I look back up at the screen and I've "rolled" to another list. These lists get old and eventually only consist of members that haven't answered their phone 15-20 times. You can imagine how angry people can be when they finally answer their phone after ignoring the same # for weeks. Some lists are filled with people who have only given a donation once, and five years ago. Some lists are filled with people who give a donation every time we call. We have different "quotas" or expectations for each list. Some lists have more realistic quotas than others. There are also lists within lists. Like people who never give with credit card vs people who always do. You're not only paid based on how much you raise per contact but also if they give on credit card or require you mail them a pledge envelope.

So you can see how easy it would be for the Fund to manipulate the numbers and lists they're calling and then fire someone for not meeting their fundraising quota.
As far as the union not stepping up for these poor mistreated women, most of them don't work at the fund any more. The one that filed the suit still does and she took matters into her own hands and filed the suit.
That being said, it's not like Referd Raley is some sort of horrible sex predator. Yes, he's done some shady things, but all the incidents I'm aware of were with with consenting adults and were more of a harassing nature. A couple good examples is when he told people he slept with two different girls that he hadn't and told people that an older gal he actually was sleeping with was basically date raping him regularly via alcohol. Defaming all three woman to boost his "bro-status" .

You are walking a pretty thin line here. If, as you claim, they took away ergonomic chairs from you and gave you bad chairs, why did the union never file a charge with the NLRB then? The thing with chairs is that there are a lot of things that an employee can do or request to make them better. Better sitting posture, a footrest, a back support. How long have the chairs been there? If a short while, you can still do something about an issues still, if for awhile, like several months, then this seems like whining.

And I have worked in a call center. What I can't understand is if the lists are "bad" why aren't more people failing at the job? Call centers - union and non-union - are known for high turnover. I've know in previous jobs co-workers, and even myself, have complained about these sort of things. But the reality was always when I decided to focus on doing the job right, I was always fine. Almost every time in previous jobs when people struggled or failed on the phones it was because they didn't want to be there anymore, not because of anything with the lists. Companies typically don't want to pay people to come to work just to make them fail. That is a lot of money they spend for little in return.

With your boss, it is pretty extreme accusations you make. You should be careful about doing things like this, you could open yourself up to a whole lot of trouble for defamation if this is not true.

http://www.nonprofitwatch.org/greencorps/n…

^^^ RJ had no friends outside of the fund. I felt bad for him. It's true that when he left the job he had no one. I started to wonder if, like the Catholic church his supervisors turned a blind eye to the way he was running his office. I often wondered how many bridges he burnt as the fund bounced him from city to city campaign to campaign. Working for him was like working for Danny Devito in Taxi. I can't believe I ever felt bad for him. He was disrespectful and often mean. I hope the new managers can find a way to respect the people that work for them and not be dismissive, hostile and irresponsible like he was.

I have been working in the TOP for awhile, and what is said above is so far from the truth. He has been trying to avoid us TOP people for awhile. Talk shit all you want about RJ. Look at the people that have listened, we are in good shape. Ive got a lot of job security, and I am winning campaigns. In the end, we will still be winning campaigns. I can talk shit about about a lot of people, but it accomplishes nothing.

Like I said, the statement above is not true. I was a fundraiser for a couple years, RJ helped me become an activist. Its easy to make him a bad guy, but most people, most of all John, would be a lot worst off if not for this person. Im glad i am not in that environment anymore, as RJ would say..."you are dead end people."

I cant wait to fly to Denver.

There is no such person as Karl Novotny. This is rj! What a joke! I've worked at the TOP the entire time rj worked there and there has never been a person with this name. And this person uses the exact same rhetoric as rj to a t. Its pretty frustrating when you can have someone come on here with a fake name and spread lies.

You admit rj calls his employees "dead end people" while simultaneously sticking up for him? Wow.

Nuff said