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Union mergers and consolidation

$100 Plus Story

  • 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). 
     
  • More Legal Decisions

     

  • Are UBC locals really labor organizations?



UDR Story

  • Shorts: Kaiser vote, L.A. Operating Engineers, Respect Our Crafts, A Budget Workers Union?, Dolores Paskal, NY State Nurses
  • Carpenter groups in NY and NJ split from UBC
  • NY/NJ Council augurs badly for NYC Carpenters
  • 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. 

  • 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. 
     
  • 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. 
     

Book Review

  • Militancy & union democracy: a radicals’ view



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