Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 5:33pm.
Fortunately UHW (unlike the international) has plenty of information that's publicly available. The website that was created to promote the merger of L250 and L399 is still up and running (www.seiupowerofone.org).
If you follow this link: http://www.seiupowerofone.org/resources/ConstitutionBylaws.pdf
and go to page 9, you'll see the text of the merger agreement that specifies the election of officers and the e board. No appointments there sister/brother. Nothing but good old fashioned "one-member, one-vote" democracy.
Since I can tell you're not paying very close attention, I'll remind you that this merger happened with a local-by-local vote. Just like the affiliations of 1199 back in the 1990s. Contrast that to the international style of "pooled voting" where every member of a local with 5,000 people could vote against merging with a 10,000 person local still lose, if the larger locals members voted for it.
Quit it with the red herrings and own up to your plan to take power away from members and put it into the hands of leaders in DC. Cast all the aspersions you want at labor notes, they're used to taking flak from bureaucrats. UHW (according to seiuvoice.org) has organized 2,000 workers in to their union this year. Those are real new union members, not an affiliation like SEIU pulled in North Carolina.
It must get boring to not be able to criticize OR organize.
Fortunately UHW (unlike the international) has plenty of information that's publicly available. The website that was created to promote the merger of L250 and L399 is still up and running (www.seiupowerofone.org).
If you follow this link: http://www.seiupowerofone.org/resources/ConstitutionBylaws.pdf
and go to page 9, you'll see the text of the merger agreement that specifies the election of officers and the e board. No appointments there sister/brother. Nothing but good old fashioned "one-member, one-vote" democracy.
Since I can tell you're not paying very close attention, I'll remind you that this merger happened with a local-by-local vote. Just like the affiliations of 1199 back in the 1990s. Contrast that to the international style of "pooled voting" where every member of a local with 5,000 people could vote against merging with a 10,000 person local still lose, if the larger locals members voted for it.
Quit it with the red herrings and own up to your plan to take power away from members and put it into the hands of leaders in DC. Cast all the aspersions you want at labor notes, they're used to taking flak from bureaucrats. UHW (according to seiuvoice.org) has organized 2,000 workers in to their union this year. Those are real new union members, not an affiliation like SEIU pulled in North Carolina.
It must get boring to not be able to criticize OR organize.