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 ›

Trusteeships

$100 Plus Story

  • Are UBC locals really labor organizations?



UDR Story

  • Court officer's plan to clean up NYC Carpenters
    In December, in his report to the judge on the first six months of his court-appointed stewardship--70 pages loaded with a mountain of explanatory attachments--Review Officer Dennis Walsh makes a convincing case that he will really try to clean up the corruption-ravaged New York City Carpenters District Council. The effort has been a long time in coming. 
     
  • “Fear & intimidation carry the day for SEIU” - A Letter

    I read the article in Union Democracy Review on the recent SEIU vs. NUHW election at Kaiser in California (Sept/Oct. 2010). First, I appreciate very much the long and consistent support you've given to rank-and-file workers and union democracy for decades, including your on-going coverage of the struggle within and outside SEIU. Your work has helped the movement for union democracy advance, and that is vitally important in building the kind of trade union movement that we need to deal with the problems facing working people.

  • SEIU holds on at NLRB. Autocracy tops Democracy.

    In an NLRB election in October, 43,500 Kaiser healthcare workers in California got what had been denied to them in the Service Employees International Union, the right to choose which set of officers should run their local union.

  • In Steel Local 12-369: A woman, and black, it’s tough to be local president

    Stephanie Green is a woman and one of the few African-Americans in the 1,200-member Steelworkers Local 12-369, mostly white, in the state of Washington. As soon as she was elected local president in November 2005, the executive board began to give her a hard time. They refused to allow her to take office, but she succeeded in getting installed in April 2006 after a successful appeal to the international and the DOL. Still, it's been a hard time ever since.

  • SEIU raw power is replacing falling moral authority

    How things have changed for Andy Stern in five years!

  • IAM Maine shipyard local reminds us: It’s hard to resist a repressive trusteeship

    A Federal judge peremptorily dismissed the complaint filed by members of Machinists Local S6 and upheld the trusteeship imposed by the IAM international on this 3,400-member local of shipyard workers at the Bath Iron Works in Maine. The decision is a blunt reminder of how difficult it is to resist an arbitrary trusteeship imposed by an authoritarian international upon a dissident local union; and it reveals a serious flaw in the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

  • Reformers win big in California State Employees Association

    Public employees, get all the news: SUBSCRIBE to Union Democracy Review!

  • In the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters: How to eviscerate the LMRDA, but quietly

    The federal law, LMRDA, has all those fine provisions designed to strengthen union democracy. But over the years union officials, guided by their attorneys, have learned how to immunize themselves against its effects and cut the heart out of some sections of the law. The latest egregious example is in the SEIU where Andy Stern used the law's trusteeship provisions to take over a 150,000-member local, remove the elected local officers who criticized him, seize its treasury, and carve up the local.

Book page

  • Trusteeships

    Title III. A trusteeship (also called administratorship) imposed by an international union on a local or other subordinate body is presumed by the courts and the Department of Labor to be valid for the first eighteen months. The presumption of validity may be overcome by showing that the imposition of the trusteeship violated union procedures or that the trusteeship was imposed for improper purposes, such as punishing a dissident local leadership. After the first eighteen months, a trusteeship is presumed by the courts to be invalid.

    Enforcement

Syndicate content