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Now Available! Three New Additions t...
The Union Member’s Complete Guide (2nd Edition) I Just Got Elected- Now What? (3rd Edition) Welcome to the Union
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buil...
*Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” As the expression goes “everything old is new again.” Just when it seems the concerns of days gone by are at their most anachronistic, they resurface with a vengeance. From an uptick in Eighties nostalgia, to a (brief) uproar in the Democratic Party debates over […]
UDR #217 Now Available
Union Democracy Advocate J.J. Popio Elected Executive Secretary of Gasworkers 555 | NLRB Will Review Deferral Standard | Department of Labor Conducts Second Rerun in NALC Branch 40: Incumbents Prevail
$100 Plus Club News #137
UFT Leadership Election |Review: All We Do Is Talk Steel |Review: Knocking On Labor’s Door
Make Them Proud…
Within the last year, those of us who care deeply about the state of union democracy in the labor movement have lost two great allies to the cause; Ed Sadlowski of the United Steelworkers and Larry Hanley of the Amalgamated Transit Union. Both of these union leaders tower over many of their contemporaries in their […]
Announcing AUD’s CFC Campaign!
AUD is again a participant in payroll deduction plans for various public sector employees. These include the 2019-20 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) and the 2019 Our Promise: California State Employees Giving at Work Initiative. Federal and Postal employees: we invite you to select AUD, code #11741 when it is time to designate an organization to receive […]
In Memoriam: Larry Hanley
In Memoriam: Larry Hanley We at AUD are shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Larry Hanley, International President of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU). Hanley spent much of his life engaged in a remarkable effort to reform his local, ATU 726 in Staten Island, New York. That successful effort over the […]
$100 Plus Club News #136
Janus: The Aftermath
Ham and Eggs to go, please
There is an old English proverb about scarcity which goes: “If we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham.” It often seems the labor movement finds itself in the same situation; “If we had more democracy, we could have a more democratic unionism, if we had unionism.” When […]
