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1. Get Help
2. New Articles: DC37 pickets; Reform breakthrough in IUOE 18;
Fearsome Local 52; SEIU pulls plug on debate, and more.
3. Website contest heats up: deadline Nov 20.
4. New Links: autoworkers, flight attendants, railroad workers, teachers
5. Websites to watch: Future of the Union, Edwize, ICE-UFT
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1. Get Help. Need help with a union democracy problem? See our new Get
Help page for a guide to resources on our website, and an intake form
you can use to ask AUD for advice, information or assistance. The page
is under construction, feedback welcome. See the page at
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/gethelp.htm

2. Articles from the latest Union Democracy Review.

100 DC 37 Pickets Demand One Member, One Vote! -- "The same spirit
that bars you from your own union property, would bar you from
electing your own union officers."

Reform breakthrough in Ohio Operating Engineers Local 18 – "Patricia
Kohl, heading an insurgent slate, has just been elected to the
executive board of Operating Engineers Local 18… In her 2,700-member
division, she outpolled two men to win election… But the bare facts
hardly tell the full story…"

Fifty-two playing cards = fearsome "Local 52" – "The UFCWU is part of
the Change to Win coalition which stakes a claim as a great reform
movement. Obviously, one thing that it does not propose to reform or
to change is the prevailing bureaucratic mood that infects wide
sections of the labor movement."

SEIU pulls plug on "Future of Labor" discussion online. -- "Unite to
Win is dead, of course, and so is its website www.unitetowin.org.
Launched by SEIU, the website included a blog with uncensored
commentary - something previously unheard of at that level of the
union leadership. But the time for innovation appears to be over..."

See these articles and others at
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/UDR/UDRhome.htm

A fine feud with no fighting! (on Benson's Blog) – "…Even before any
battle has been engaged, the two camps already seem to have arrived at
an unspoken armistice. Many on both sides, forced by their
international affiliations to become partisans, seem shaken and
dismayed by the split. Their reaction suggests what is the probable
reality: that the new federation is on a fast track to nowhere…"
See Benson's Blog at http://bensonsudblog.blogspot.com/

3. New Links. BMWE 3014; Virginia Public Service Workers Union; Public
Service Alliance BC; Flight Attendants for Union Democracy; ROCU; UAW
Info; UAW Local 1976 info; Solidarity Now; New York City Workers for
Just and Democratic Unions; Catholic Worker; Voice of [IBT] Local 82;
New York Coalition of Radical Educators; Labor Talk [Canada];
Education Page for a Democratic Society.
See Rank-and-File links:
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/AUDLinks.htm

4. AUD Best Rank-and-File Website contest heats up: 23 entries and
counting. The deadline for submission is Nov. 20. See the list of
entries and enter your website or one you like:
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/website%20guide/websitecontest.htm

5. Websites & blogs to watch:
As Delphi and GM wreck workers' pensions, wages and jobs, get the
rank-and-file perspective on Future of the Union and other UAW sites.
See autoworker links: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/AUDLinks.htm

New York City teachers debate a proposed new contract on new official
UFT blog Edwize (pro) and rank-and-file blogs like ICE-UFT (con). Find
them on AUD feeds: http://www.bloglines.com/public/AUDFeeds

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posted on our Yahoo Groups page
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/audupdates/?yguid=182316330)