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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, June 27, 2004 ::
COPE: Canadian OPEIU Wants To Be Free Members for Democracy ufcw.net
Autocratic International Union Wants To Stop Them
Real rank-and-file autonomy means being prepared and willing to fight for the members' interests regardless of the wishes of the union bureaucracy. To achieve rank and file autonomy fighting against the bureaucracy may be required. This is a story about the pursuit of autonomy by a union, its locals and the rank-and-file members within the Canadian section of the OPEIU. This story may be of particular interest members of IWA Canada who will be thinking about the proposed merger of their union with the United Steelworkers of America this summer.
The Office and Professional Employees' International Union (OPEIU) has 115 Locals in the United States and approximately 55 in Canada. OPEIU was one of the first international unions to establish, within its constitution, the right of local unions in Canada to establish their own autonomous national union, if that should be the desire of the majority of Canadian members.
OPEIU Local 378 led by President Jerri New is a local that had just that desire: To be autonomous.------------------------------------------- posted 8:55 AM :: reference link ::
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