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New York City AFL-CIO Central Trades Council

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  • “Clean up our union with democracy”

    Many unions, confronted by corruption, are talking about ethics. But what are they doing about it? The Operating Engineers union has just retained an ethical officer to implement an elaborate ethical practices code. The ILA has just doubled its ethical staff to two. The New York City AFL-CIO Central Trades Council, whose former president just went to jail for stealing piles of money, has amended its bylaws ethicswise. The AFL-CIO has had ethical practices codes in several versions for 50 years. Latest to mount the ethical bandwagon after some of its important officers stole over a million dollars, is the SEIU, whose ethical codes, among the most pretentious, are applied by an intricate combination of appeals and committees.

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