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Laborers International Union (LIUNA)

UDR Story

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.
More on labor’s lasting quest for ethical practices: from the Operating Engineers

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Pipefitters, feisty Canadians, and Pilots: results of AUD's Best Rank-and-File Website Contest 2005

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Internet exclusive. (A shorter version of this piece appears in the January-February 2006 issue of Union Democracy Review #160)

"The GREAT contests for web sites run by LabourStart and by the AUD are the "Oscar ceremonies" of the Labor Cyber World." - Art Shostak, author of CyberUnion and the CyberUnion Handbook.
Book review: Two contrasting views on union corruption

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By William Kornblum

Like deadly parasites, gangsters and labor racketeers feast on the finances and pensions of union members. This is an old and painful story for AUD members, but two new books take a hard look at the causes and consequences of union corruption. Unfortunately, only one of these books offers a detailed and critical analysis of what strategies work best to rid the house of labor of its pernicious pests.
Focusing the AFL-CIO debate: Bureaucracy v. Democracy

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Laborers Local 78: Local wins contract, but insurgents take the election.

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The New Unity Partnership: Sweeney critics would bureaucratize to organize

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New Voices at AUD construction trades conference, and Workshop Reports

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Fair hiring, fighting pension abuses, and a Bill of Rights for Building Trades Unionists were up for discussion at AUD's national conference of construction workers in Brooklyn, November 8 and 9.
Darwinian selection produces a monster

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A kind of discussion by Herman Benson

Book Review

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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