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1. Herman Benson's statement to the SEIU Ethics Comission
2. Union officers uncomfortable with online free speech
3. Irony in the CWA
4. More on labor’s lasting quest for ethical practices
5. In search of legal defense against illegal trusteeships
6. In the Cause of Union Democracy, by Michael Goldberg
7. New Book: Jeff Perry on Hubert Harrison
8. Give to AUD via the CFC and State Public Employee campaigns.
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1. Herman Benson's statement to the SEIU Ethics Comission. After three prominent leaders of the SEIU were charged with misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars, the SEIU set up an ethics
commission... The commission includes representatives of the union itself and eminent individuals independent of the union. At the commission's request, Benson submitted the following statement and was interviewed by a commission sub-panel on November 12. "...I am not completely clear on what this commission is charged with bringing back to the union. If it is asked simply to bring back a code of commandments that should guide the ethical and moral actions of union officers and members, that task would be easy and should not take long. ...If, on the other hand, the commission aims, not only to suggest a new and better code, but to propose the creation of mechanisms and institutions that might enable the union to enforce adherence to high ethical standards, it takes on a heavy responsibility not easily fulfilled." Read more: http://bensonsudblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/statement-to-seiu-ethics-commission.html
2. Union officers uncomfortable with online free speech, by Matt Noyes. "The cases of retired Marine Engineer Paul Norman and EMS Helicopter Pilot Mike Cheek, who were banned from their respective official union online forums, reflect the growing importance of the internet as a new space for member participation and the contrary efforts of union leaders to limit discussion to what they consider acceptable." Read more: http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/179-Union_officers_uncomfortable_with_free_speech.htm
3. Irony in the CWA, by Judith Schneider. "The CWA supports freedom from fear in representation elections. But what's going on in its internal union elections? Consider the cases of Kevin Condy and Victor Rosado..." Read more: http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/180-Irony_in_the_CWA.htm
4. More on labor’s lasting quest for ethical practices. Andy Stern has selected James R. Zazzali, a former New Jersey State judge, to preside over a new committee charged with the task of developing a code of ethics cogent enough to discourage SEIU representatives from misappropriating union money. Judge Zazzali is already occupied with his job as a staff member of the International Union of Operating Engineers... Read more: http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/181-More_on_labors_lasting_quest_for_ethical_practices.htm
5. In search of legal defense against illegal trusteeships, on Benson's Union Democracy Blog. "...Is it permissible for a local union to set aside money, safe from seizure by the international, so that it can be guaranteed funds to mount a legal defense against trusteeship? That question has arisen before, not in the SEIU but in the Teamsters union..." Read more: http://bensonsudblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-search-of-legal-defense-against.html
6. In the Cause of Union Democracy, by Michael Goldberg. "Many important causes cry out for the moral, material, and legal support of public intellectuals, but few of those causes find their natural constituencies as isolated and vulnerable as union reformers often are..." Read excerpts from this article by an AUD board member and leading union democracy legal scholar: http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/178-In_the_cause_of_union_democracy.htm
7. AUD supporter and longtime union activist and scholar Jeff Perry has a new book: Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. The biography of the "foremost Black organizer, agitator, and theoretician of the Socialist Party of New York, founder of the "New Negro" movement, editor of Negro World, and the principal radical influence on the Garvey movement." AUD advisor Bill Fletcher praises Perry's "thorough research and compelling analysis" and says the book "reads with a draw like that of a study of a long lost city, rediscovered and offering answers to an incomplete history."
8. This year's Combined Federal Campaign is underway. We hope that Federal Employees will choose the Association for Union Democracy (AUD) as one of the organizations to receive your donations under the payroll deduction plan. Please note our CFC Code Number: 11741. If you have chosen AUD before, accept our thanks for your continued support. We need you. We would be grateful if you would spread the word to your colleagues at work. CFC for the AUD: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Home/cfc.htm
State employees in California and New York can give to AUD through the California State Employees Charitable Campaign (look for us in the "Non Affiliate Organizations" section in the brochure of eligible organizations) and the New York State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) -- find AUD and our SEFA code in the SEFA campaign's directory of authorized organizations, under "Association for Union Democracy," under the category, "Human and Civil Rights Organizations of America." AUD's SEFA code number will vary by region of the state.
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