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  • Court Orders NYSNA Winners Seated

    In August 2011, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) conducted an election for a number of its officers and directors at large. The anti-incumbent slate won every contested seat, thereby gaining control of the Board of Directors.  According to NYSNA bylaws, they were supposed to be declared elected at the union's annual membership meeting in September and their terms were to commence at the meeting adjournment.  But they were not seated until October 27, and it took a federal lawsuit to do it.  What happened?  According to the Judge Richard J.

  • Shorts: Kaiser vote, L.A. Operating Engineers, Respect Our Crafts, A Budget Workers Union?, Dolores Paskal, NY State Nurses
  • “Fear & intimidation carry the day for SEIU” - A Letter

    I read the article in Union Democracy Review on the recent SEIU vs. NUHW election at Kaiser in California (Sept/Oct. 2010). First, I appreciate very much the long and consistent support you've given to rank-and-file workers and union democracy for decades, including your on-going coverage of the struggle within and outside SEIU. Your work has helped the movement for union democracy advance, and that is vitally important in building the kind of trade union movement that we need to deal with the problems facing working people.

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  • RAILWAY LABOR ACT HISTORY LESSON: Why Can't The Wash. Post Get Its Labor History Right?
    Paul Alan Levy, esq.  is an AUD Director and an attorney for Public Citizen. This article is reproduced with permission from Paul Levy's blog http://paulalanlevy.blogspot.com.
     
    In a story published in the Washington Post last Friday [July 21st], three paragraphs about a side issue contain a remarkable number of errors that regrettably are all biased in one direction. 
     
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