"Take it Back" Slate Web Site
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 655 has elections coming up this summer. This labor local represents over 13,000 members in the eastern half of Missouri, including employees of Schnucks, Dierberg's and Shop N Save, as well as the Registered Nurses at St. John's Mercy Medical Center.
A slate has emerged with the slogan of "taking back" the union from the allegedly detached union leadership. Here is their web site.
Anybody that's working to strengthen democracy and participation within organized labor deserves support. This sort of parallels the ongoing strife within AFL-CIO, led by Andy Stern and others at SEIU. Perhaps the ACC should do a story about the efforts of the St. Louis SEIU locals, such as the "Don't Borrow Trouble" campaign, etc.
Joe Frank
(whose job as a graduate teaching assistant was deemed by the NLRB in 2004 as "a primarily educational, not economic" relationship and hence ineligible for collective bargaining rights)
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