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  • RAILWAY LABOR ACT HISTORY LESSON: Why Can't The Wash. Post Get Its Labor History Right?
    Paul Alan Levy, esq.  is an AUD Director and an attorney for Public Citizen. This article is reproduced with permission from Paul Levy's blog http://paulalanlevy.blogspot.com.
     
    In a story published in the Washington Post last Friday [July 21st], three paragraphs about a side issue contain a remarkable number of errors that regrettably are all biased in one direction. 
     
  • 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.
     
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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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  • A Bequest to AUD

    James C. O'Neill, who died earlier this year, made a bequest of $1,000 to AUD in his will. O'Neill, an attorney in Minnesota, represented a reform group in the Minneapolis Painters Union back in 1962. He defended a group of insurgents in the Minneapolis Amalgamated Transit Union in 1981; and that same year, along with Arthur Fox, he led a panel discussion on the unions' duty of fair representation at AUD's conference in Minneapolis. Thereafter he remained an enthusiastic supporter of AUD and its goals.

    Why not remember AUD in your will? If you write your own will, it is quite simple.

  • 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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  • NYC schoolbus drivers demand action against indicted officers

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  • 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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