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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 ::
What Are the Carpenters Up To Through the early 1990?s, McCarron kept on consolidating and expanding territory. Where he expected resistance, his agents arrived without notice, backed by uniformed police officers or sheriff's deputies. According to old news reports and the recollection of ousted leaders, the agents grabbed books and money and changed the locks behind them. (Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2002.)
In 1995, McCarron was elected president of the national union, after two higher officials entangled in federal legal difficulties left the union under a cloud. Since then, McCarron has eliminated 650 local unions and consolidated the treasuries and decision-making powers of the remaining 1,050 local unions into 50 councils, much as he did earlier in the Los Angeles area, which is now under the control of his brother, who heads the Southwest Region, including Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California.
Again, McCarron's "restructuring" of the union has met some opposition. But except for British Columbia, where the carpenters have voted to break away, his opponents have failed to stop him and his accumulation of power. At the last international carpenters convention, held in Chicago in August 2000, protesters, reported the Los Angeles Times, were lonely voices outside the hall on a day when 91% of the delegates voted in favor of McCarron for a second term.
This explanation for McCarron's dominance at the convention is offered by John Kirkland, a working carpenter for nearly 20 years: [L]ocals were robbed of their autonomy and consolidated into Regional Councils that are ruled over by powerful Executive Secretary-Treasurers who serve at the pleasure of McCarron. We can no longer vote for our Business Agents and all substantive business is conducted by council delegates, most of whom are yes men. Locals are reduced to shells with little power beyond dues collection and organizing picnics.------------------------------------------- posted 10:44 PM :: reference link ::
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