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  • NYC Carpenters rat ruling regime
    The giant, snarling, inflatable rat has been widely employed by unions in labor disputes with employers and non-union contractors in recent years, but on the lower west side of Manhattan this past August, the iconic species of rodent bared its teeth at an unusual target: The headquarters of the New York City District Council of Carpenters (NYCDC). 
     
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  • Appeals Court upholds member’s right to file pre- & post-election complaint with DOL

    In Solis v. Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided in November of 2009 to overthrow a Federal District Court decision in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that had dismissed an enforcement action by the Secretary of Labor based on her finding of probable cause that Local 234 of the Transport Workers Union had violated the LMRDA in disqualifying a slate of candidates for election to union offices.

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  • Only half a vote for adjunct teachers
    Carmine Pesca is an assistant professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Hudson Valley Community College, and a member of the Hudson Valley Community College Faculty Association. This year Pesca ran for the position of delegate-at-large on the HVCCFA'’s executive board. He lost. But he didn't lose because not enough people voted for him. He lost because not every ballot cast was counted as a full vote. In fact, because most of the ballots cast for Pesca came from part-time and adjunct faculty members they counted as only 1/2 a vote each.
     
  • In quest of fair treatment for adjunct teachers
  • 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



  • Union-oriented slate tops NY Nurses election

    N.Y. Nurses United, the pro-union opposition group in the New York State Nurses Association, chalked up an important gain in the August election of top officers. NYSNA two-year term elections are staggered. This time, of the six positions to be filled, the opposition group had nominated four and called for a write-in for a fifth. Of its four candidates on the ballot, it elected three.

  • 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.

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