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1. NY Nurses face union trial threat.

2. New York nurses battle over union ties.

3. New Book: I Just Got Elected -- Now What?

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1. NY Nurses face union trial threat. At last report 23 registered nurses face the threat of disciplinary trial in their New York State Nurses Association on charges arising out of their successful opposition to proposals that their union disaffiliate from the United American Nurses. Should there be an attempt to discipline them on these charges, it could result, to the best of our knowledge, to the most massive effort at the repression of members rights arising out of a single series of related events since the adoption of the LMRDA in 1959. The record up to now, according to our records, is held by Painters District 9 in New York where 18 faced repressive trial in 1961.

2. New York nurses battle over union ties. "Registered nurses in New York State Nurses Association are embroiled in a bitter factional fight over how they should be linked to organized labor. In a non-binding opinion poll, 60% of the voters, 2,312 to 1,533, rejected a proposal to disaffiliate from one AFL-CIO collective bargaining unit. But the battle continues. The urgent question is whether the association officialdom which, despite disclaimers, obviously favors disaffiliation, will resolve the disputed issue democratically or whether it will try to steamroller its opposition..." Read more...

3. I Just Got Elected, Now What? A New Union Officer's Handbook. AUD supporter Bill Barry, Director of Labor Studies at the Community College of Baltimore County, in Dundalk, Maryland has just written a very readable, rank and file oriented approach to what new local union officers should try to do if they believe in union democracy. Buy it from AUD.

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