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  • Reformers win in UPS local once headed by Ron Carey

    Teamsters for a Democratic Union (http://tdu.org) has some interesting news to report.

  • Race, gender and unfair hiring in construction: two cases

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    Holden in Operating Engineers Local 98

    Anthony Holden, has been a member of the Operating Engineers for 28 years; he is one of the rare black members of the 1,500-member Local 98 in Massachusetts. Because he is trusted as a standup unionist, he has been elected and reelected to the local's executive board many times, even though the membership is almost exclusively white. In all this time, he remained independent minded and outspoken, not hesitating to criticize the business manager when he felt it necessary.

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

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    In Ohio Operating Engineers Local 18

  • New York Teamster charged: RISE uncovers corruption before its demise

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    In one of its last acts before Edwin Stier dissolved the project, RISE uncovered the derelictions of Anthony Rumore and brought the facts to the Independent Review Board, the federal court-appointed body charged with exorcising crime from the Teamsters union. Rumore is president of Joint Council 16 in New York and of the 3,900-member Local 812. He is charged before the IRB with forcing his business agents to act as his bag men and as his personal errand boys.

  • ATU bus drivers win two week strike

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    One thousand bus drivers won a two week strike against four private companies that provide para-transit service to the elderly and disabled for the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City. The strike was led by members of the Drivers Coalition, a rank-and-file caucus that organized to demand better representation in Amalgamated Transport Union Local 1181.

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