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  • Court Blocks Department Of Labor From Invalidating Election
    In the recently decided case of Solis v. Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the fairness of an election in which the union did not explicitly notify members of a change in the eligibility requirement for election to union office. This change consisted of the dropping of a previously held meeting attendance requirement.
     
  • Are UBC locals really labor organizations?



  • In Memoriam: Ruth S. Spitz

    We are deeply saddened to announced the passing of long-time AUD Board member and supporter Ruth Sachere Spitz.

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  • Resisting attack from the right; fighting the mob
    Facing the most outright attack since President Reagan broke the air traffic controllers association, unions are responding with an unusual display of labor power. Reagan destroyed the union, but he stopped short of challenging the fundamental right of unions to represent workers. The new assault goes further as the anti-union right seeks to end or drastically curb the very principle of collective bargaining itself.
     
  • 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. 
     
  • Reformers win in UPS local once headed by Ron Carey

    Teamsters for a Democratic Union (http://tdu.org) has some interesting news to report.

  • 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.

  • Steelworker battles for democracy in ILA L. 2038

    At 25, Kensey Alsman was a millwright at Bethlehem Steel serving as an observer to get a fair election for Ed Sadlowski in his 1976 insurgent run for international president of the Steelworkers union. Now at 59, having retired, only to see his health care and pension go down with the bankrupted company, Alsman is back in a mill, this time at Beta Steel in Indiana where he is a member of the International Longshoremen's Association, battling for fair elections and democracy in ILA Local 2038.

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  • Sus derechos en el trabajo y en la unión: Cómo presentar un agravio y conseguir representación de la unión

    Motivo de esta publicación El propósito de este folleto es ayudar a los trabajadores que tienen una unión a hacer el mayor uso posible de sus derechos en el trabajo. El folleto relaciona algunos derechos básicos que los trabajadores sindicalizados frecuentemente tienen en sus contratos y muestra cómo se pueden exigir esos derechos. Aunque existen muchas diferentes leyes y regulaciones que protegen sus derechos, lo más importante es siempre organizar a sus compañeros de trabajo y tomar acción. Organizarse como grupo es la mejor forma de luchar por sus derechos y ganar.

  • Three important sources of democratic rights online

    There are three important sources of union democracy rights online: the "fair use" doctrine that limits copyright and trademark law, the Bill of Rights of Members of Labor Organizations in the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), and the First Amendment to the US Constitution. This short piece introduces these sources of our rights.

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