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 ›

LMRDA Title Four -- Elections

$100 Plus Story

  • 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?



  • 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.

UDR Story

  • 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. 

  • Shorts: voting machines, L.A. Operating Engineers, New Mexico Machinists

    Electronic voting machines: Their use still creates problems and raises questions. The New York Times, June 28, reports on some of the latest. Represented by the NYU Brennan Center for Justice, the NAACP and the Working Families Party are in court challenging the use of new machines scheduled for the coming elections in New York State. They charge that thousands of votes could be disqualified because of ambiguous instructions on overvoting.

  • 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.

  • Irony in the CWA

    SUBSCRIBE to Union Democracy Review!

  • Surrendering to the internet: Democrats in spite of themselves?

    SUBSCRIBE to Union Democracy Review!

  • DOL challenges close election in Food Workers L. 951

    SUBSCRIBE to Union Democracy Review!

    In September 2005, the U.S. Department of Labor filed suit to compel new elections for president and three regional vice-presidents of Local 951, United Food and Commercial Workers, the only contested posts in the local's August- September 2004 mail ballot election. Local 951, with 33, 000 members throughout Michigan, is the largest in the state and one of the largest in the UFCW. It represents workers at Meijer, a chain of retail supercenters, and other retailers.

  • Longshore workers nearly defeat master contract; Federal suit filed to rerun election after widespread violations

    Longshore workers, get all the news: SUBSCRIBE to Union Democracy Review!

    An aggressive grassroots campaign by reformers in the International Longshoremen's Association nearly succeeded in defeating a master contract covering 15,000 East and Gulf Coast longshore workers. The ILA reported that the contract had passed by a margin of 55% to 45% with about 9,000 members voting in the June 8 referendum. But opponents allege serious misconduct and are calling for a revote on what they say is a concessionary agreement.

Syndicate content