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Mr. Sullivan, take down that Web site

http://www.therealutu.com/

NASHVILLE-- The funding by the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA) of a Web site critical of fellow AFL-CIO member UTU and the UTUs elected leadership is an unwarranted and unprovoked aggression, UTU International President Mike Futhey said Aug. 20.

SMWIA President Mike Sullivan has "no right" to take "pot shots" at the UTU, "tear down the UTU" or "tell UTU members what to do," Futhey told more than 1,000 UTU officers and members attending a regional meeting here.

The anti-UTU Web site -- calling itself, "The Real UTU" -- is funded and maintained by the SMWIA, according to information obtained by the UTU Legal Department and previously delivered by Futhey to Sullivan. Sullivan never responded, after saying he would look into it, Futhey said.

The aggression aimed by the SMWIA at the UTU appears as retaliation by a frustrated SMWIA, following a federal-court ordered preliminary injunction against a merger with the UTU that was to have been implemented Jan. 1, 2008.

The federal court, in halting the mergers implementation, ruled that the UTU membership had not been given, for examination, a constitution for the proposed merged union. This was in violation of federal law.

The result, according to four UTU rank-and-file member plaintiffs who successfully sought the injunction, is that the UTU membership was not aware of conflicts between the existing UTU constitution and the SMWIA constitution when it voted to approve the merger.

"I was all for the merger that promised craft and general committee autonomy," Futhey said. But before he took office Jan. 1, Futhey heard former UTU President Paul Thompson -- an architect, with Sullivan, of the merger -- announce that the intent of the merger was to subvert union democracy and "get accomplished what couldnt be accomplished through democratic procedures."

Among those accomplishments intended by Thompson was an end to the UTU's long and cherished craft and general committee autonomy.

In issuing the injunction June 26, the federal judge recommended that Sullivan and Futhey sit down and jointly write a constitution to be submitted to the UTU membership for a vote. In spite of three meetings between Sullivan and Futhey, Sullivan has "not responded" to the courts suggestion to write a constitution, Futhey said. "I am not going to give away this democratic [UTU]," Futhey said.

"I have never said Im against this merger," Futhey said. "Im against what was sold to us and what is [trying to be] crammed down our throats." He said Sullivan should be talking about members' rights and following the recommendations of the court, not attacking the UTU and its elected leadership in Tokyo Rose fashion on a clandestine Web site.

"I will not stand down, I will not retreat and I will not surrender until our members have the right to vote on their own constitution," Futhey said.

August 20, 2008

-- Edited by Snippy at 20:51, 2008-08-20

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Troll,
You just talked me into a yes vote.




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