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by News on September 22, 2011

in Union Politics and Transparency

By Tony Van Alphen/thestar.com

The continent’s biggest construction local is spending more than $10 million to muscle out its own staff and their new union.

In a twist to the explosive political infighting that occasionally flares up in the labour movement, the Toronto-based Labourers’ International Union of North America Local 183 is buying out about 80 employees with lucrative financial packages after they joined another union.

Several insiders say the move will effectively snuff out the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2, which represents Local 183 staff, because replacement members won’t have any allegiances and will eventually decertify it.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1057104–construction-union-pays-10-million-to-buy-off-employees?bn=1

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