Over 4,500 rank-and-file workers have been hung out to dry by their union local in New York City.
The Village Voice had an intriguing editorial about the Carpenters Local 157 union. Apparently the local is infested with corruption, and not just recently either. The editorial reports:
“…the Carpenters union has been unable to climb out of a 30-year-long quagmire of corruption.”
But just as troubling, William Callahan, the union's court-appointed independent investigator, had this to say to Carpenters union chief, Douglas McCarron:
“…Local 157 as ‘a mismanaged mess where [business agents] come and go as they please, following few, if any, rules.’”
Sadly, in an instance like this when the union hierarchy turned its back on its own, it goes to show that union bosses are more concerned about their own well-being than actually respecting the rights of the workers they claim to “represent.”
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local 747 syracuse
Yes you talk about corruption, the local 747 in syracuse spends $600,ooo a year at the holiday inn and loses a contract to build an addition. that money comes from our health and welfare fund at over for dollars an hour that we have no access to other than paying our health insurence. In years that adds up to many thousands of dollars we have no right to at any time. It is money lost never to be recoverd other than letting union fat cats spend it on what they want. Thats my money and I want it.
The fruits of compulsion
The saddest thing about this situation is that there isn’t much that the members can do about it. In a non right to work state like New York, especially with the thuggery that infests so much labor movement there, the rank-and-file have few options.
Bismarck