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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. 
     
  • Legal Decisions: Serafinn vs. IBT Local 722

    Mark Serafinn, a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and former President of Local 722 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), had won a jury trial in federal district court that awarded him compensatory and punitive damages for the Local's violation of his LMRDA free speech rights. The federal district court for the Northern District of Illinois also awarded Serafinn attorneys' fees. Serafinn and the Local each appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit claiming erroneous district court rulings during the course of the proceeding.

  • Unionists gather to discuss union democracy, meet LMRDA experts

    (Part Two of a $100 Plus Club News Special Report on a University of Illinois Forum on Union Democracy & Effective Union Leadership)

    By Helena Worthen and Joe Berry

      Helena Worthen and Joe Berry were coordinators of an event on Nov 14, 2009 designed especially for elected officers of labor unions. It was sponsored by the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations Labor Education Program. Worthen and Berry are holding a similar event on March 13, 2010. Here is their perspective on the November forum.
  • UNION DEMOCRACY = UNION POWER

    (Part One of a $100 Plus Club News Special Report on a University of Illinois Forum on Union Democracy & Effective Union Leadership)

    Incumbent union officers tend to think of union democracy as a threat to incumbent power. This is a basic misconception. Union democracy is about union member power, and union member power is union power. Because union democracy activism usually focuses on deposing corrupt, ineffectual, or uncaring union officers, it is not widely understood that an effective union is one that cultivates its members' power.

UDR Story

  • Hoffa faces two challengers for IBT president
    It’s now official.  Two rival candidates will be on the ballot to oppose Jimmy Hoffa for president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the coming union election. Sandy Pope and Fred Gegare were both formally nominated by receiving support from more than 5% of the delegates who signified their choice by secret ballot at the July international union convention.  
     
  • 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.
     
  • Sandy Pope, insurgent candidate for Teamster president

    By filing nominating petitions signed by over 50,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Sandy Pope won recognition as an accredited candidate for general president in opposition to incumbent James Hoffa. In November, her candidacy was endorsed by cheering delegates at the convention of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (www.tdu.org). Teamsters elect international officers by direct membership vote.

  • New national union aims to unite nurses

    Delegates from three major unions of registered nurses, meeting in Phoenix on December 7, merged their forces into a new national organization, the National Nurses United. The three founding affiliates --- the California Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, and the United American Nurses --- report a combined membership of 150,000. To thunderous applause from some 150 delegates, one of the three elected co-presidents proclaimed that this creation of the "largest union of direct care nurses is about a century overdue."

Book Review

  • Militancy & union democracy: a radicals’ view



  • Labor’s “civil wars” ending inconclusively

    The “civil war” that Steve Early mentions in his new book is not about the class war between labor and capital, nor any war between a conservative right and a radical left in unions. It is the war that split labor’s progressive left (however you define it), a conflict that was triggered by the swift celebrity rise of Andy Stern as the new labor leader, touted, for a time, as the champion of a newly invigorated and enlightened union movement.

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