A long-delayed, controversial merger between the
Sheet Metal Workers and United Transportation Union is dead, a UTU official
announced.
“There will not be a merger today. There will
not be a merger tomorrow. There will never be a merger with the Sheet Metal
Workers,” UTU President Mike Futhey told attendees of a July 8 meeting in San Francisco. The
announcement was posted on the union’s Web site.
Plans to
combine the two unions fell apart last year when a group of transportation
union members filed a federal lawsuit to stop the merger, claiming they were
not made aware of potential problems between the two unions’ constitutions
before their vote. UTU members and Sheet Metal Workers officials had OK’d the
merger in 2007.
The new union was to have been called the
International Association of Sheet Metal, Rail and Transportation Workers.
UTU: Merger with Sheet Metal Workers ‘dead'
September 1, 2009
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