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  • Legal Decisions: Holschen vs. IUPAT

    In Holschen v. International Union of Painters, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals case decided this April, the Court affirmed the Federal District Court’'s decision to dismiss, on summary judgment or directed verdict, all of Holschen'’s LMRDA claims against the Union.

  • Legal Decisions: Serafinn vs. IBT Local 722

    Mark Serafinn, a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and former President of Local 722 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), had won a jury trial in federal district court that awarded him compensatory and punitive damages for the Local's violation of his LMRDA free speech rights. The federal district court for the Northern District of Illinois also awarded Serafinn attorneys' fees. Serafinn and the Local each appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit claiming erroneous district court rulings during the course of the proceeding.

  • IBEW Rank and File Rally for Union Democracy - President Hill and Rank and File Group Engage in Spirited Debate

    AUD was invited to observe and report on a rally by a group of IBEW rank and file, on April 15th in front of the IBEW international headquarters in Washington D.C. This is the group's second march on D.C., with the rallying cry this time being “Take Back Our Union.”

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  • Teamsters IRB focuses on Local 82, a danger spot

    Eddie Flaherty, a member of Teamsters Local 82 in Boston, was beaten so badly that he ended up in the hospital. His attacker was a local staff employee, a felon who got the job right after his release from prison. Flaherty, the victim, was a critic of John Perry, Local 82 secretary treasurer.

  • Test case in Hawaii: More respect for members’ rights in IBEW?

    Just when it seemed that the air was lightening up inside the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and there might be a budding new tolerance for the give and take of dissent, along comes Local 1357, the 1,200-member local in Honolulu. Liane Miwa, shop steward back in the 90s and later a unit chairperson, now faces charges in the local for her e-mail message addressed to "working members of the IBEW" asking for their "help" in posing various questions to the union.

  • 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.

  • Longshore workers in novel contract referendum

    Members of the International Longshoremen's Association were set to vote in November on extending their contract covering the whole East Coast. The union administration urges ILA members to vote yes. An organized opposition campaigns hard for rejection. The issues in dispute, to an outside observer, are complex, even bewildering. All that would be normal and could hardly attract attention. But what is unusual and does command interest is the extent to which the opposition has won the ability to reach the membership with its message.

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