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UDR Story

  • Dual power in the NYC Carpenters Union



    Throughout the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, in all of the United States, there remains one last remnant of union democracy, and that's in the New York City District Council of Carpenters. International President Douglas McCarron would like to eradicate this vestige so that the 22,000- member unit can be forced into the authoritarian mold of unionism he has successfully devised for his union everywhere else. 

  • Two Carpenter critics vindicated -- McCarron moves to trustee Empire State Council

    For at least five years, two members of Carpenters Local 370 in New York have been writing to their international president, Douglas McCarron, warning him of all kinds of problems at the Carpenters' Empire State Regional Council, but nothing happened. Then suddenly on March 10, Patrick Morin, the council Executive Secretary Treasurer, got the bad news. McCarron was scheduling two days of hearings on charges that could lead to an international trusteeship over the council.

  • Relentless attack on democracy in the Machinists Union

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    (see also Letter to Herman Benson from Leon Rosenblatt)

    In its Local S6, the 3,400-member shipbuilders local in Bath, Maine now under trusteeship, the International Association of Machinists faces increasing rank and file opposition, a federal lawsuit, and embarrassing press coverage, but it remains unmoved in its efforts to make sure that a local leadership it favors runs the local.

  • Shorts: transit, communications, release time...

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    In Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181:

  • Maine shipbuilders protest vs. IAM trusteeship

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  • How the Ironworkers and Pipefitters rig trusteeships

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  • New reform group shaping up in DC 37, New York

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    The campaign to restructure District Council 37 may be taking on new life in a new form. DC 37, with 56 locals and 120,000 members ---mostly of New York City public employees --- is affiliated with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees [AFSCME].

  • Amalgamated Transit international refuses to oust Local 1181 officers accused of mob domination

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  • Insurgent victory in ATU 241

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Book Review

  • Labor’s Civil War in California, the NUHW healthcare workers rebellion

    Cal Winslow, author of this 121-page booklet, is identified as a PhD historian trained at Warwick University; but as he makes clear, "This is not an academic exercise." It is an extended brief on behalf of Sal Rosselli's new National Union of Healthcare Workers in its battle with the Service Employees International Union over which union shall represent some 150,000 healthcare workers in California. These are the unionists who were represented by United Healthcare Workers-West, the SEIU local headed by Rosselli.

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