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IUOE Local 15

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  • Letter to the Editor: IUOE

    Contributed by James H. Thomas
     
    I would have liked to start out this article about my union, the IUOE, on a positive note. However, for a very long time I have been troubled by where my union has been in the past, and now where it has arrived.
     
    Turmoil from coast to coast, all-out war against anyone speaking out and worse, schemes against workers entitled to pensions and other benefits. The IUOE International uses its vast resources for all the wrong reasons and against the wrong people: their own members.
     

  • Action and inaction in the Operating Engineers

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    Think of a town that's plagued by deaths, arson, and robberies, and yet the mayor and police don't seem to have the time or inclination to do anything about it because they are preoccupied by a campaign to stop residents from cluttering up the streets by passing out unauthorized handbills. That act of imagination could prepare you for these events in the International Union of Operating Engineers:

    Local 150: Take the 22,000-member Local 150 which represents operators of heavy construction equipment in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana.

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