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  • Militancy & union democracy: a radicals’ view



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  • Vindicating Clyde Summers, Unions and scholars petition NLRB: Make employers recognize non-majority unions

    Back in 2007 seven major AFL-CIO unions, including the Steel Workers and Auto Workers, petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to adopt a regulation that would require employers to recognize and bargain with unions, only on behalf of their members, in cases where a majority of the workers had not voted for union recognition. The petition was endorsed by Change to Win in 2008 when it still represented six influential unions. In June this year, 46 law professors around the country submitted a 60-page amicus brief in support of the union petition.

  • IAM Local 2339N: Nasty aftermath to a Trusteeship

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    If you have confidence in the report of an investigating committee assigned by the international office of the Machinists union, and there are people with that kind of confidence, you would agree that there were substantial grounds for imposing an international trusteeship over Local 2339N, the union which represents airline stewards in Newark, NJ. However, what followed thereafter is another story: the heavy hand of the IAM overlords at work.

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

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  • 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.

  • A sometime deterrent: The UAW Public Review Board

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  • Leadership overturned in National Writers Union

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  • UAW Toledo Local 12 forced to end ban on petitions

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    Members of the Jeep Unit of UAW Local 12 in Toledo report that their local has agreed to expunge from the unit bylaws an illegal provision which prohibits circulating petitions "without prior approval of the Executive Committee."

    In October, Mark Epley, a production worker in the Jeep Unit of the 8,500-member local, submitted a protest signed by 345 members, to the Jeep Unit's executive committee charging that a recent contract referendum violated the unit's bylaws, the UAW Constitution, and democratic procedures.

  • At the Autoworkers Public Review Board

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    The Public Review Board receives many appeals from UAW members who are dissatisfied with union decisions in grievance and collective bargaining disputes, but the board is not authorized to decide such cases unless it finds that malice, discrimination, or irrationality shaped the outcome. That aside, now and then, some cases are of special interest.

  • Can union democracy coexist with union conglomeration?

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    If the New England carpenters who are seeking to have their regional council defined as a local eventually prevail in their lawsuit (see page 8) it will be a substantial victory for union democracy. Officers of the council, which spans six states from Connecticut to Maine, would be elected by direct secret ballot of the council’s 22,000 members instead of by delegates elected in the 26 locals. But such a geographically expansive local would still present immense obstacles to any insurgent group seeking to make a change.

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