Is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees a modern-day Nero, ignoring District Council 37 hemorrhaging money while instead unjustifiably pursuing an agenda to destroy its Civil Service Technical Guild, Local 375?
On Aug. 29, 2016, AFSCME stormed into Local 375’s office at DC 37 headquarters and tossed out its eight recently-elected officers and nine committee chairs who were elected in a re-run election AFSCME itself had overseen. Given that there is no government oversight of AFSCME by the U.S. Department of Labor or any other entity when it involves a public union, the judge accepted the flimsy “justifications” given by AFSCME President Lee Saunders that Local 375 was “not democratic enough” as reason to put Local 375 under an Administratorship.
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