Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 9:26pm.
So the fact that he ran an insurgent campaign for what was then about 20,000 members of local 250 gives him some entitlement decades later to be appointed president of 140,000 uhw members including thousands from former local 399 who never voted for him in their lives? Is that democracy uhw style? Come on! Your little fairly tale of "rank and file democracy reformers" in uhw battling the big bad dictatorship of Andy Stern just doesn't hold up under the microscope. This is just a turf fight, pure and simple.
So the fact that he ran an insurgent campaign for what was then about 20,000 members of local 250 gives him some entitlement decades later to be appointed president of 140,000 uhw members including thousands from former local 399 who never voted for him in their lives? Is that democracy uhw style? Come on! Your little fairly tale of "rank and file democracy reformers" in uhw battling the big bad dictatorship of Andy Stern just doesn't hold up under the microscope. This is just a turf fight, pure and simple.