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1. Steelworkers battles for democracy in ILA Local 2038, by Matt Noyes.
2. Appeals court backs union curbs on the internet.
3. In the Teamsters Union: What's the dollar cost of cruel beatings?
4. Embedded with Organized Labor, reviewed by Herman Benson.
5. Two new entries on Benson's Blog: "SEIU raw power is replacing moral authority" and "New stage in super bureaucratization of labor."
6. Where there is a will...
7. Thanks to the AUD supporters who came out to the Beach Party to celebrate the work of Herman Benson!
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1. Steelworker battles for democracy in ILA Local 2038, by Matt Noyes.
"At 25, Kensey Alsman was a millwright at Bethlehem Steel serving as an observer to get a fair election for Ed Sadlowski in his 1976 insurgent run for international president of the Steelworkers union. Now at 59, having retired, only to see his health care and pension go down with the bankrupted company, Alsman is back in a mill, this time at Beta Steel in Indiana where he is a member of the International Longshoremen's Association, battling for fair elections and democracy in ILA Local 2038."
http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/197-Steelworker_battles_for_democracy_in_ILA_Local_2038.htm
2. Appeals court backs union curbs on the internet.
"The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia has upheld a union rule that places new burdens on candidates who want to use their own independent web sites to campaign for union office. The court's decision gives the green light to those nervous union officials who hope to develop new ways to limit the potential of the internet as an instrument for union democracy."
http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/198-Appeals_court_backs_union_curbs_on_the_internet.htm
3. In the Teamsters Union: What's the dollar cost of cruel beatings?
"The Teamsters Independent Review Board has been doing a scrupulous job of policing the union for corruption and expelling characters with organized crime connections. But some Teamster reformers feel that the Board has been slow in dealing with the kind of offenses against union democracy that resist evaluation in dollars, like intimidation, election fraud, and blacklisting. Which makes reports of the Board's investigation into events in Local 82 (in TDU's Convoy-Dispatch) of special interest. Local 82 union representatives, according to C-D, stand accused of vicious beatings of members who protested against the destruction of the local's contract defenses of job seniority." http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/199-What_is_the_dollar_cost_of_cruel_beatings.htm
4. Embedded with Organized Labor -- Steve Early reviews views of the labor movement, by Herman Benson.
"When Steve Early applied at the 2008 SEIU convention in Puerto Rico for press credentials as a reporter for Union Democracy Review and AUD, he was abruptly turned away as persona non grata. Not you, Steve Early! The guardians at the gate were not bothered by the UDR/AUD label. In fact, we got a nice note later explaining that we were quite welcome to send some other reporter. But definitely, NOT STEVE EARLY! And so we learned, to our surprise, that of all the people in, around, and for the labor movement, Steve is perhaps the only pro-labor activist capable of getting under the skin of some labor leaders more deeply than AUD."
http://uniondemocracy.org/UDR/200-Steve_Early_reviews_views_of_the_labor_movement.htm
5. Two new entries on Benson's Union Democracy Blog:
SEIU raw power is replacing moral authority.
"Stern has created a problem for himself: Entrenched at the height of organizational authority, he is losing the moral high ground he once occupied so prominently. Change to Win, the union coalition he led, is falling apart."
New stage in super bureaucratization of labor.
"SEIU President Andy Stern ordered four locals in California... to join together in a new district council called United Service Workers-West. Here is something drastically new in the SEIU. Unlike the various mega locals created earlier by Stern by dissolving several locals into one, these four locals each retain a separate existence, but only as desiccated shells deprived of substance."
http://bensonsudblog.blogspot.com/
6. Where there is a will...
Svend Petersen wrote AUD into his will, bequeathing a percentage of his total estate. He was a member of IBEW Local 1245. Like many electricians, he appreciated our defense of democratic rights. AUD could receive as much as $30,000.
If you write your own will, it should be quite simple: "I give and bequeath to the Association for Union Democracy, Inc., a not-for-profit organization incorporated in New York, the sum of $xx,xxx.00 for its general program." If you use a lawyer, and the process of composition gets more complicated, he or she may ask us for additional tax information. AUD is a not-for-profit organization exempt from income, gift, and estate taxes under the section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
http://uniondemocracy.org/Home/memorybequest.htm
7. Thanks to the AUD supporters who came out to the Beach Party to celebrate the work of Herman Benson!
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