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:: Saturday, November 29, 2003 ::
The New Unity Partnership: Sweeney critics would bureaucratize to organize By Herman Benson, Union Democracy Review
In 1995, the Carpenters and UNITE both voted the old guard against Sweeney the reformer. The other three backed Sweeney. When McCarron pulled the Carpenters out of the AFL-CIO, Sweeney announced that Carpenter locals would be barred from AFL-CIO state and city federations. In a serious rebuff, an unusual coupling of the building trades and the New Unity Partnership defeated Sweeney and blocked his move.
Wilhelm and O'Sullivan head two unions once heavily infiltrated by organized crime. Their unions, at least at the national level, were freed from organized crime, not by internal insurgency and reform, but by the U.S. Department of Justice. Wilhelm and Stern, who have both earned reputations as modern, progressive leaders, are allied with McCarron who exchanges mutual public expressions of admiration with President Bush.------------------------------------------- posted 7:03 AM :: reference link ::
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