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  • Consolidation in the Construction Trades: Keeping the Purse Strings in the Hands of the Rank and File

    © By Leon M. Rosenblatt, Attorney at Law
    West Hartford, Connecticut

    The situation is now familiar to those of you in the construction trades: your local unions are becoming shells. The powers that were traditionally exercised by your local union have been sucked upward and usurped by district or regional bodies.

    The locals still exist, but they have no power. The real work is being done by the next-higher bodies. These district or regional bodies are called "intermediate" bodies because they are intermediate between the locals and the international.

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