The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Oct. 19 removed the longtime president of District Council 37’s City Lifeguards Local 461 after determining that the union did not allow the seasonal Lifeguards who make up almost the entire membership to participate in elections.
AFSCME Judicial Panel Member Steve Tully found that Local 461 President Franklyn Paige, who has run the local since 1996, “deprived the seasonal Lifeguards of the basic rights of union membership” and “disenfranchised” them by not allowing them to attend membership meetings.
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