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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). 
     
  • 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. 
     
  • Letter to the editor: “You Have Given Me Strength And Courage”
    The following is an excerpt from a letter by a longtime leader of union operating engineers in California. Printed with permission.
     
  • Legal Decisions: ALPA v. TSA
    Section 503(a) of the LMRDA prohibits unions  covered by its provisions from making loans to union officers in excess of $2,000. In Airline Pilots Association, International (ALPA) v. Trans States Airlines (TSA), a case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in May of this year, the court ruled that the union's advance of lost pay to a pilot and union officer, fired by TSA for union activity, did not violate the LMRDA prohibition on loans to officers. 
     
  • AUD Testifies at House Hearing on Union Democracy -- House Committee reviewing DOL’s Decision to Abandon New T-1 form
  • 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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