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Internet
exclusives Can
staff unionism advance the cause of union democracy? Guillermo Perez interviews
Herman Benson (full version)
Internet Free Speech: Appeals
court backs union curbs on the internet
Action
proposal: To
end the employers' arbitrary "right to reject" -- Electricians press
IBEW to defend union hiring halls.
Benson's
Union Democracy Blog: New
constiutions for UNITE-HERE and for NUHW: Calling for democracy; resisting authoritarianism
SEIU
raw power is replacing falling moral authority When
hailing Trumka, remember Yablonski!
Audio: AUD Conference -- Confronting
Corruption in Labor Unions Herman
Benson on corruption in The NYC Central Labor Council (from Building
Bridges )Herman
Benson on democratizing the union movement (from Building
Bridges )
Selected articles from
the current issue of UDR: IAM
Maine shipyard local reminds us: It's hard to resist a repressive trusteeship IAM election needless. All
20 officers coast in. In Steel Local 12-369: A woman,
and black, it's tough to be local president A formidable
force for reform in the ILA In Memoriam: Ruth S. Spitz
($100 Plus Club News #116)
Articles
from previous issues:
2009 Think
of AUD when you write---or rewrite---your will
(7/09-8/09) Steelworker
battles for democracy in ILA L. 2038 (7/09-8/09)Appeals
court backs union curbs on the internet
In the Teamsters
Union: What's the dollar cost of cruel beatings? (7/09-8/09)Steve
Early reviews views of the labor movement (7/09-8/09)New
stage in super bureaucratization of labor (on Benson's Blog)Quest
for democracy persists inside SEIU (5/09-6/09) "Continuous
standing" = farce in TWU local election (5/09-6/09) Two views: Recording
musicians clash inside the AFM (5/09-6/09) A case study:
Harassing union democracy attorneys (5/09-6/09)Solidarities forever ($100 Plus
Club News) (5/09)
Can
local union elections be run more democratically? ($100 Plus Club News)
(5/09)At
the SEIU: Harassing dissidents' lawyers, China style (Benson's Blog) (5/09)Nurses now for sale, barter,
and trade. (3/09-4/09)In the United
Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters: How to eviscerate the LMRDA, but quietly
(3/09-4/09)In the Transit and
Transport unions (3/09-4/09) Interview:
Jane LaTour on her Sisters in the Brotherhoods ($100 Plus Club News) (1/09-2/09) Change
to Win is losing it (Benson's Union Democracy Blog) (1/09-2/09) From now on SEIU
= Stern Employees International Union ($100 Plus Club News) (1/09-2/09) Three major
nurses unions unite in AFL-CIO (1/09-2/09) Rail Workers
United off to a highballing start (1/09-2/09) New democracy
battles in Musician's Union (1/09-2/09)
2008 Relentless
attack on democracy in the Machinists Union (11/08-12/08) IAM
Local 2339N: Nasty aftermath to a Trusteeship (11/08-12/08) Free Speech in the
SEIU and MEBA? (11/08-12/08) In
The Cause of Union Democracy ($100 Plus Club News 9/08)Union officers
uncomfortable with online free speech (9/08-10/08)Irony in the CWA (9/08-10/08)More
on labor’s lasting quest for ethical practices (9/08-10/08)Employer
rights and worker deaths in construction (from Benson's Blog)Reflections
on the SEIU Convention in Puerto Rico (7/08-8/08)Action
and inaction in the Operating Engineers (7/08-8/08)Shorts:
ATU 1181, CWA 1034, release time, AFSCME 372, Legal Momentum, Interfaith Worker
Justice (7/08-8/08)Maine
shipbuilders protest vs. IAM trusteeship (5/08-6/08)On the eve of the SEIU
Convention (5/08-6/08)Opposition
wins most delegates from big SEIU local (5/08-6/08)Shorts:
hiring hall records; Harbor Herald wins in Longshore Local 333; Peace pipe for
Nurses and SEIU?... (5/08-6/08)On
"democratic" centralism: Stern's illusion and democracy's nightmare
(from Benson's Blog)Nurses
ask court to back rights in NYS Association (3/08-4/08) At the Teamsters
Independent Review Board (3/08-4/08) Healthcare
leader raps Stern; quits SEIU board (3/08-4/08)Carpenters Mystery ($100 Plus
Club News 3/08) Interview
with John Martin and excerpt from Fault
Lines ($100 Plus Club News
3/08 Four
state nurses associations quit AFL-CIO union (1/08-2/08)Race,
gender and unfair hiring in construction: two cases (1/08-2/08)Black
and white can unite vs. construction discrimination (1/08-2/08)Judge
blocks Rail and Sheet Metal union merger (1/08-2/08)
2007 SEIU
rearranges 600,000 into mega locals (11/07-12/07) New
York nurses battle over union ties (11/07-12/07)Can AFL-CIO
avoid a RICO suit in ATU L. 1181? (11/07-12/07)Steel officers
instigate reform revolt (11/07-12/07)
Surrendering
to the internet: Democrats in spite of themselves?
(9/07-10/07)In
Canada: Steelworkers learning facts of democracy....but slowly (9/07-10/07)Who
knows what in the Steelworkers? (9/07-10/07)New
House cuts back on union democracy (9/07-10/07)The
short way to get a union recognized (9/07-10/07)AUD
Advisor says AFL-CIO No Beacon of Labor Press Freedom
(9/07-10/07)
Does
Canadian labor need an LMRDA? (5/07-6/07)How to parlay a mere
417 votes into a political fortune (5/07-6/07)Lesson in democracy from
DC37 Retirees Association (5/07-6/07)DC37 member criticizes
AUD on direct elections (5/07-6/07)Steelworkers
L. 645 still charging libel (5/07-6/07)
Operating
engineers defend their internet rights (3/07-4/07)IBEW
president Hill upholds Canadian member's rights
(3/07-4/07) Mob
ousted, reformers win in ILA Local 1588 (3/07-4/07)UA
375 hiring hall rule provides for member recourse (3/07-4/07)A
long journey: from fieldhand to "wireman" ($100 Plus Club News
3/07)
How
the Ironworkers and Pipefitters rig trusteeships (1/07-2/07)
In Food Workers Local 951: Pressuring witnesses to save a suspect election
(1/07-2/07)IBEW
local fights employers' "right to reject" Confronting
corruption charges in Operating Engineers Local 3 Teamster
elections: inspiration from the ground up (1/07-2/07)
2006 In
Memoriam: Henry Zeiger ($100 Plus Club News 11/06)On the
eve of elections in Musicians Local 802 ($100 Plus Club News 11/06)Round
2 in the internet battle in AFSCME DC37 (9/06-10/06)Blocking
Carpenters move for more bureaucratic power. ($100 Plus Club News 11/06)In
Detroit: Carpenters corruption is centralized and efficient
($100 Plus Club News 11/06)
Hiring
Hall Procedures in the Construction Trades (9/06-10/06)Railroad
workers on the right track for unity (9/06-10/06)Federal
employees can help enforce members' right to know (9/06-10/06)
Text
of New DOL rule requiring Federal employee unions to notify members of democratic
rights (7/06-8/06) Once
Again, Apathy, Bureaucracy, and Democracy (Benson's Blog)AUD Conference to assess 50 years of reform
effort (7/06-8/06) Teamster
Convention reveals fatal flaw in election rules (7/06-8/06) In AFSCME
DC37: A round in the internet battle
(7/06-8/06) In the
International Longshoremen’s Association (7/06-8/06)
Battling
corruption in United Transportation Union (5/06-6/06) NYC
schoolbus drivers demand action against indicted officers
(5/06-6/06) Book review:
Two contrasting views on union corruption (5/06-6/06) Don Taylor
and Herman Benson exchange on union democracy and Change to Win ($100 Plus
Club News #100)Democracy is alive
in Musicians Local 802 ($100 Plus Club News #100)More on Musicians Local 802
($100 Plus Club News #101)Book Review: Poor Workers'
Unions ($100 Plus Club News #99)
Danger
of democracy on the internet? Kill it! (3/06-4/06) DOL
challenges close election in Foodworkers L 951 (3/06-4/06) New
reform group shaping up in DC37, New York (3/06-4/06) Letter
to the editor: dislikes our elevator story (3/06-4/06)
Results
of 2005 AUD Best Rank-and-File Website Contest (online version)(1/06-2/06) Whose
"IBEW" is it? An Electrician on the Internet. (online version)(1/06-2/06) ATU
international refuses to oust Local 1181 officers accused of mob domination (1/06-2/06) The
eternal quest for fair hiring in construction (1/06-2/06) Chicago
Elevator Constructors battle to retain election gains (1/06-2/06)
2005 Union
democracy online survives two lawsuits (11/05-12/05) In the Operating
Engineers (IUOE) (11/05-12/05) Last
year's scandal hangs over next Plumbers convention (11/05-12/05) District
Council 37 union delegates reject proposal for direct election of Council officers (9/05-10/05) Update:
Still Subverting Union Democracy in 2005 (9/05-10/05) 100
DC 37 Pickets Demand One Member, One Vote! (9/05-10/05) Reform
breakthrough in Ohio Operating Engineers Local 18 (9/05-10/05) Fifty-two
playing cards = fearsome "Local 52" (9/05-10/05) A fine feud with no fighting!
(on Benson's Blog)SEIU
pulls plug on "Future of Labor" discussion online
(9/05-10/05) At
the Carpenters Union convention in Las Vegas
(Oct. 05)One
Person One Vote on AFSCME DC37 delegates agenda (Oct. 05) IATSE
showdown in Waikiki (7/05-8/05)Feds file
suit vs. rackets in ILA longshore union (7/05-8/05)Battling Corruption
in the ILA: a partial chronology (7/05-8/05)Top Plumbers international
officers expelled (7/05-8/05)Action
in Operating Engineers locals 18 and 66 (7/05-8/05)AFL-CIO split poses the question:
must Labor bureaucratize to organize? (Benson's Blog)Social
Security office attack on AFGE splits union leaders (5/05-6/05)Insurgent victory
in ATU 241 (5/05-6/05)Notice to federal employees re: the CFC (5/05-6/05)ACLU
& Public Citizen sue in IBEW Local 46 election (5/05-6/05)A glimpse at labor's
projected future (on Benson's Blog)How the Sweeney
camp ignores its own first principle (on Benson's Blog) Harvey for TDU Charges
Teamster IRB Coddles Top Hoffa Aide (3/05-4/05)If you can't woo 'em, sue 'em!
-- An ingenious twist in punishing dissent in the SEIU (3/05-4/05)NY Postal
Union needs a lesson in democracy (3/05-4/05)IATSE
Local 798 Update (3/05-4/05)LMRDA 105: "Dear Mr. Hoffa...show that
you care!" (3/05-4/05)Making
a splash: SEIU's Unite to Win (1/05-2/05) Matt
Noyes on AUD and the Internet ($100+ Club News, March 05)Focusing
the AFL-CIO debate: Bureaucracy vs Democracy (1/05-2/05)Rank
and file give IATSE 798 and extreme makeover (1/05-2/05) Will
the DOL permit unions to evade secret ballot elections? (1/05-2/05) Federal
unions must let their members know (1/05-2/05) AUD's
brief to the Department of Labor (1/05-2/05) UA's
Maddaloni and Patchell Ousted ($100+ Club News, January 05)Interview
with UA reformer Frank Natalie ($100+ Club News, January 05)
2004 Reform
movement spreads in the ILA Longshore union (11/04-12/04)Local
509 asks questions about democracy in the SEIU (11/04-12/04)In
quest of democracy at Amalgamated Transit Convention (11/04-12/04)Screen
Actors Guild officers unnerved by actors' internet free speech (11/04-12/04)
Longshore
workers nearly defeat master contract (9/04-10/04)FAQ on court supervision of the ILA (9/04-10/04)MASS merger in SEIU Local
888 (9/04-10/04)RISE
uncovers corruption before its demise (9/04-10/04) IATSE
600: Internet democracy triumphs over super centralization (9/04-10/04)Divided
appeals court denies Carpenters direct election
(9/04-10/04)
The
fall of RISE in the Teamsters Union (6/04 - 8/04)A double miscalculation
ended RISE (6/04 - 8/04)Dockers campaign
against ILA master contract (6/04 - 8/04)ATU drivers
win two week strike (6/04 - 8/04)Court
forces Ironworkers to democratize its constitutions (6/04 - 8/04)Court
deals setback for democracy in Carpenters union (internet
only 7/04)
Reformers
win big in California State Employees Association (1/04-3/04)What happened in Iowa and
New Hampshire? (1/04-3/04)
Laborers Local 78:
Local wins contract, but insurgents take the election.
(1/04-3/04) Who will police the Longshoremen's
ethics code? (1/04-3/04) UAW Public Review Board, a sometime deterrent
(1/04-3/04) Leadership overturned
in National Writers Union
(1/04-3/04) The RISE program: trying
to discuss Teamster reform at a Cornell University forum (1/04-3/04)
Results
of AUD rank-and-file website contest (special 2/04)Letter
to Carpenters on the fight for direct elections (special 2/04)AUD
Brief opposing a stay of judge's order in Harrington v. Chao (special 2/04)
2003 The
New Unity Partnership: Sweeney critics would bureaucratize to organize (11/03-12/03)
Free
speech under attack from within in the National Writers Union, UAW 1981
(11/03-12/03)Victory
for union democracy: (with judge's decision
and order to the DOL)(11/03-12/03)
Student
labor activists support union democrac y (9/03-10/03) Can
the IBT police itself? (9/03-10/03)(9/03-10/03) SAG members nix merger
with AFTRA (9/03-10/03)
Electricians
rally at international union headquarters .(5/03-6/03) ILA
Baltimore local threatened with trusteeship (5/03-6/03)DOL's proposed LM report form
a mixed bag (5/03-6/03) The
DOL: arbitrary and capricious by nature (3/03-4/03)Nine years without
a contract in ILA Lake Charles Local (3/03-4/03) IBEW members to rally to
take back the union .
(3/03-4/03) UAW Toledo Local 12 forced to
end ban on petitions (1/03-2/03)New
voices at AUD construction trades conference (1/03-2/03)
2002 IBEW
delegates demand due process in hiring (10/11 2002)Is Teamsters
Union safe for dissenters? An exchange. (10/11 2002)Using the
Internet for Union Democracy (10/8/02) For
union democracy in action, watch NYC public employees (8/9 2002) Reformers win majority in
harbor workers local 333, ILA (8/9 2002) AFSCME
DC37: reform fails the test (6/7 2002)At the UAW Public Review
Board (6/7 2002)Free speech
irritates UFCW (4/5 2002)AUD at Charleston ILA
meeting (News 4/02) Court challenges
DOL on Carpenters Regional Council (press release 3/02) The "politics"
of DOL enforcement 2/3 2002 Charleston Longshore
unions win major victory 2/3 2002 California State Employees
fight to stay in SEIU 2/3 2002 Carpenters
reformers win in New England 12/1 2001-2002
2001
Suspect BLE-UTU referendum
blocked by federal court 10/11 2001Are all insurgents
good? Incumbents, all bad? 10/11 2001"Some unions
hate to say, "you have rights." 8/9 2001"Coming
out for union democracy: AUD at Pride at Work" 8/9 2001"Court strikes down
ATU restrictive rule." 6/7 2001"Pipefitters
win points in battle for democracy." 4/5 2001
"In
Canada: Auto Workers and Carpenters leave U.S. internationals " 3/2001Democracy runs express
in NYC Transit election " 3/2001 "Darwinian selection produces
a monster" by Herman Benson, (with cartoon on election rules)12/1 2000
2000 "Snapshots from the IBEW"
12/1 2000"Reformers jolt Carpenters
convention" by Mike Orrfelt. 10/11 2000"Long struggle
pays off: judge orders IAM to inform members of rights" 10/11
2000"The Fox and the
Chicken Coop" -- comments on the proposed Teamsters Ethics Code. 3/4
2000"Some Modest
Proposals for a Teamster Code" 3/4 2000"Let Your People Know!" --about
Section 105 of the LMRDA requiring unions to inform members of their rights
under the law. 3/4 2000
