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UDR Story

• Big events at Musicians international convention

  By Robert Levine

  [The issues at the heart of his report were foreshadowed in UDR Nos. 177 and 179 of 2009 in which Levine and then president Lee debated their opposing positions. AFM members are encouraged to submit their own opinions. - ed.]

• Opposition wins in TWU Local 100

  An insurgent slate won control of Transport Workers Union Local 100, the 37,000-member union of New York City subway and bus workers. John Samuelsen, heading the opposition Take Back Our Union slate, was elected president, defeating Curtis Tate, the incumbent. TBOU took all four of the top citywide officers, four of the seven vice presidencies, and a majority of the incoming executive board.

• Action in the Operating Engineers: reformers campaign in Locals 18 and 66

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  In Ohio Operating Engineers Local 18

• Nine years without a contract in Lake Charles longshore local

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  ILA members: contact AUD to get the new Manual on Running for Delegate to the 2003 ILA convention.

  (In February, Carl Biers was invited to Lake Charles, Louisiana by a group of rank and file longshore workers to conduct an AUD workshop. Below is his report.)

• New democracy battles in Musicians Union

  by Robert Levine

  The most transformative event in the history of the American Federation of Musicians was a revolt in the 1950s by musicians who worked in recording studios and Hollywood sound stages against an autocratic AFM administration. The conflict, which included de-certification of the AFM in favor of a union started by recording musicians, ended with an eventual reconciliation with the AFM upon promises by the new administration to redress the musicians' grievances.