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New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NRCC)

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  • Victory for union democracy: Carpenters win right to elect regional council officers.

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    (See the Judge's order, signed November 25, 2003)

    In a major victory for union democracy, New England carpenters have won the right to directly elect the officers of their regional council. On October 8, federal judge Richard Stearns in Massachusetts directed the U.S. Department of Labor to order the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERC) to hold officer elections. The NERC represents 27,000 carpenters in 26 locals from Connecticut to Maine.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Carpenter reformers win in New England

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    Thomas Harrington, a Boston Carpenters official who is closely associated with the rank-and-file caucus Carpenters for a Democratic Union, was elected on September 29 to the powerful Executive Secretary-Treasurer post of the 26,000-member New England Regional Council of Carpenters. His election by secret ballot vote of council delegates, 68-65, represents a major victory for reformers in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.

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