Notice: This is the development version of the new AUD website. We are adding and changing content and design. You can help us by testing this site and telling us about glitches and possible improvements. Use the contact form. Volunteers are welcome! Special thanks to Virginia Boggs for her help uploading articles and troubleshooting.

Home ›

rank-and-file organizing

UDR Story

  • “Faculty Majority” defends academic democracy, but how?
    A discussion piece
     
  • Hoffa faces two challengers for IBT president
    It’s now official.  Two rival candidates will be on the ballot to oppose Jimmy Hoffa for president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the coming union election. Sandy Pope and Fred Gegare were both formally nominated by receiving support from more than 5% of the delegates who signified their choice by secret ballot at the July international union convention.  
     
  • In IBEW Local 3

    Brandon Perrone, journeyman electrician and union democracy advocate, ran for business manager of IBEW local 3 this past election cycle. With no slate, few campaign resources, and no organizational machinery to speak of, Perrone still managed to secure 556 votes, not too bad when only 3,800 of the 34,000 eligible members bothered to vote. Recently, Perrone raised the hackles of local officials by protesting the elimination of "New Business" and "Good of The Union" items from local meeting agendas. 

  • Remembering Machinists’ Lodges 701 and 113



  • Grassroots discussion site for NYC Carpenters
    To give carpenters a place to discuss, debate and even just vent about what'’s going on in their union, John Musumeci, former treasurer of Local 157, has transformed his own internet site into an online discussion forum for the whole council. 
     
  • IBEW brass undercuts members' vote petition
    In November 2010, members of the International Brotherhood of Electricians started a Facebook group to organize a movement for one member, one vote in elections for international union officers. [OMOV!]  
  • Florida Carpenters decry total disregard for democracy



  • Democracy resurgent as Marine Engineers Vote



$100 Plus Story

  • An interview with Ken Crowe, author of The Truckers
    Kenneth C. Crowe has covered labor for Newsday and has won numerous journalism awards. His works include America for Sale (1978) and Collision: How the Rank and File Took Back the Teamsters (1991). Here he talks about his new novel with our $100 Plus Club News. See our review of The Truckers

    $100 Plus News: What made you write the story now? Were you working on it for some time?

Book Review

  • Militancy & union democracy: a radicals’ view



Syndicate content