Friends, please post and circulate. Thanks, Matt Noyes

1. AUD Stickers!
2. New Articles: IATSE, ILA, IUOE and more
3. New Links: Carpenters; Operating Engineers; Flight Attendants…
4. Benson talk on internet radio
5. Benson's Blog: AFL-CIO split poses question
-----------------------------------------

1. AUD Stickers.
For your hardhat, lunch box, locker, bulletin board or anywhere it
makes sense to post a "silent agitator" for union democracy. Union
printed. $3.00 for the first sheet of 12 stickers. $2.00 for each
additional sheet (buy more, save more!) Thanks to AUD intern Tristan
Masat for the design. See the stickers here:
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Resources/tshirts.htm#stickers

2. Articles from the latest Union Democracy Review #157:

IATSE showdown in Waikiki
"Four years ago …the dissidents numbered but a handful and
focused on the union's failure to deal with the outsourcing of film
and television jobs, this time they showed up in force and came with
an agenda for democratic reform."

Feds file suit vs rackets in ILA
"Skeptics will ask: Can it succeed this time after all else
failed? But optimists can reply that this time there is a new element:
A strong organized reform movement, independent of the old
officialdom, has emerged up and down the East and Gulf Coasts."

Battling corruption in the ILA: a partial chronology
"The federal government's RICO suit against the ILA comes after a
long history of corruption on the East Coast waterfront and of
resistance to it. What follows is a partial summary of that
record…"

Top Plumbers international officers expelled.
"The UA General Executive Board, in familiar fashion, awarded the
discredited duo the usual golden parachutes, including full salaries,
benefits, and free use of union cars until the end of 2006. The GEB
concluded, "...in light of their resignations, the GEB considers the
matter closed."…But it would not remain closed!"

Action in Operating Engineers locals 18 and 66
"Kohl and Gonter are not mere token candidates; they are running
hard-hitting campaigns. And that's not an easy thing to do in this
14,000-member local spread out over 89 counties in Ohio. It is
venturesome; some say, courageous."

See the articles and a full list of contents:
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/UDR/UDRhome.htm

3. New Links.
Save Our Brotherhood; Local 18 Members Voice; A New Day in ODOT;
Standing Up 4 Change (Yahoo Group); Communicate or Die. Revived links:
MEBA-UNITED; Carpenters for a Democratic Union International.
See Rank-and-File links.
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/AUDLinks.htm

4. Herman Benson on internet radio?
Building Bridges recorded a talk given by Herman Benson this summer at
AFSCME 1930. Hear the talk (followed by a funny interview with Labor
cartoonists Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki).
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=13402

5. Benson's Blog: Split in AFL-CIO poses question: must Labor
bureaucratize to organize?
"The notion that this motley collection could ever convince other
unions to do precisely what they themselves will not and cannot do is
ludicrous. It will never happen. But in any event, even
hypothetically, the Stern scheme is mostly irrelevant to the big,
sometimes intractable, problems facing unions in today's
climate."
See Benson's Union Democracy Blog: http://bens
onsudblog.blogspot.com/

(An RSS feed is available on the AUD homepage. These updates
are also posted on our Yahoo Groups page
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/audupdates/?yguid=182316330 )