Building Trades Have Some Success As Talks Go On with Unhappy Leaders
At a time when the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept. is reeling from dissension, BCTD leadership has restored a sense of unity within its ranks by announcing April 3 that the teamsters would return to the organization after bolting in 2005.
BCTD President Edward Sullivan told delegates at the group’s 2006 legislative conference in Washington, D.C., that BCTD and the teamsters had entered into a “solidarity” pact. Under its terms, the union will be allowed to participate in the department as partners at all levels and teamster President James Hoffa will have a voice on BCTD’s Governing Boards of Presidents, but no vote.