Another lesson from Transit Workers' Local 100; union reformers can be corrupted by power and wealth.
[ 05 April 2006: Message edited by: CUPE_Reformer ]
From: Real Solidarity | Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 05 April 2006 12:32 PM
Thanks CR for the interesting article. This is timely to me because there is a movement to concentrate power into fewer "well-meaning hands" in my own local. We were facing a smaller elected executive and more appointed (& thus non-voting) functionaries to carry out the workload. We were also being asked to approve longer terms of office for the executive, which by it's very nature reduces the executives accountability to the membership. Fortunately, the official restructuring plan recently failed, but the desire is still there and in practical terms I'm sure it will be unofficially persued.
From: Port Hope, Ontario | Registered: May 2004
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posted 05 April 2006 01:42 AM
