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:: Saturday, May 15, 2004 ::
Brunswick union local fights merger By TERRY DICKSON, The Times-Union
BRUNSWICK -- A carpenters and millwrights union has filed a lawsuit and is asking for a congressman's help in preventing its forced merger with another union based in Savannah.
Members of Carpenters and Millwrights Local 865 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brunswick to stop an order from Douglas McCarron, general president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, that it merge with Local 256 in Savannah.
At a meeting Tuesday with U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., union members accused McCarron of heavy-handed practices and of wanting to get his hands on Local 865's treasury.
In a meeting of nearly 100 of the local's 370 members, leaders vowed to fight.
"The bottom line is Mr. McCarron wants our money,'' said Ed Lashley, a former financial secretary of the local.------------------------------------------- posted 8:11 AM :: reference link ::
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