AFSCME DC 37

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• Democracy in AFSCME DC37 in NYC

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  Part One: How to parlay a mere 417 votes into a political fortune

  An opposition group has collected over 2,000 signatures on petitions calling for mail ballot elections in Local 372, an affiliate of AFSCME DC 37. Fewer than 600 local members voted in the last election of union officers, a trivial number even by the most lenient union standards -- the local has 27,000 members.

• Operating engineers defend their internet rights

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• Round 2 in the internet battle in AFSCME DC37

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• In AFSCME DC37: A round in the internet battle

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• New reform group shaping up in DC 37, New York

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  The campaign to restructure District Council 37 may be taking on new life in a new form. DC 37, with 56 locals and 120,000 members ---mostly of New York City public employees --- is affiliated with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees [AFSCME].

• 100 DC 37 pickets demand: One member, one vote!

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  One hundred members of AFSCME District Council 37, from various locals, picketed their union's headquarters in Lower Manhattan on September 27, chanting loudly in unison: One member, one vote. They want to change the system for electing top district officers. Currently, officers are elected by council delegates from some 50 affiliated locals. The picket line, demonstrating for direct membership election, is the first sign of a serious campaign within DC 37 for the change.

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• AFSCME DC 37: reform fails the test

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  The whole structure of DC 37’s highly-touted self-reform process, erected to remedy years of scandals, has collapsed ignominiously in the face of its first major test.

• In Canada: Auto Workers and Carpenters defy U.S. internationals

  In July, the Canadian Auto Workers union was suspended from the Canadian Labor Congress in a dispute over congress rules which, like the AFL-CIO no-raiding pact, forbid one affiliated union from taking members from another. In defiance of the congress, the Canadian Auto Workers welcomed into its ranks 30,000 members of eight Ontario locals of the Service Employees International Union. According to Buzz Hargrove, CAW president, 11,000 of the SEIU members voted to disaffiliate in workplace balloting; and 95% of the votes supported the CAW in a government collective bargaining election.