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To educate, inform, motivate and organize members
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To promote and restore Union Democracy and Member
Rights. A Union without Democracy, fails in it's mission to serve the members it represents. Unions were founded
on the premise of Democracy and structured to protect worker rights, provide fair wages and benefits and ensure safety on
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To act as a deterrent against any act of Union Corruption. |
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To foster, promote and encourage our fundamental
rights to Freedom of Speech and Assembly. |
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To empower all necessary resistance against any
effort or entity that would attempt to dismantle this cause. |
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To assist, foster and promote the representation,
prosperity and advancement of BAC Local # 3 NY and within all of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
trade members in the United States and Canada. |
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Bricklayers Members for Union Democracy is a Non
for Profit Member Committee, where Members Represent Members. |
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DISCLAIMER: |
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We are not Officers, Business Agents or Field
Representatives for the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local # 3 New York or the International Union of Bricklayers and
Allied Craftworkers or any of it's affiliates. |
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We will not suggest or imply, at any time, seceding
from the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Union. |
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Who Needs Democracy? |
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Everyone who already belongs to a union or who needs
one also needs union democracy. But in addition, union democracy is so important to our whole society that unions are the
only type of non-governmental organization for which Congress has found it essential to legislate democratic rights. In the
Wagner Act (1934) Congress determined that the public interest required the right of workers to select unions of their own
choosing for collective bargaining. In the Landrum Griffin Act (1959) Congress determined that the public interest also required
that workers have the right to elect union officials of their own choosing. To this end the law contains a "bill of rights"
for union members modeled after the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. In legislating for democratic unionism, Congress
was not serving some narrow pressure group intent on special privileges. It recognized rather that a free, democratic labor
movement is a distinguishing mark of a free nation; that for millions of members, democracy within their unions has an impact
on their daily lives even greater than civic freedom in general; that only a membership armed with democratic rights can get
rid of racketeering and end the looting of union health and pension funds; and that all Americans benefit from a clean, democratic
labor movement. Who needs union democracy? All of us. When democracy is repressed in any union, the bell tolls for all American
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Thank You!
The Association for Union Democracy
500 State Street, Brooklyn NY 11217 USA
Phone: 718-855-6650 or Fax: 718-855-6799
E-mail us: aud@igc.org
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