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December, 2006
Dear Friend of Union Democracy,
We are pleased that you found the Association for Union Democracy and we hope our website is useful to you. We offer information and advice with union democracy problems, literature on your rights in your unions, and possible reference to other sources of assistance. And, if we feel it can help you, and only with your permission, we may write up your story in our Union Democracy Review. We wish we could do more, but our resources are limited.
If you feel that the AUD website is useful, please remember that if you needed or still need us, we also need you. AUD is here and available for you only because we are supported by unionists and others who understand how important democracy is in our unions and in our nation. We depend almost exclusively upon individuals like you. Please keep that in mind after you finish reading this message.
Did you email us?
We want you to know that every week at AUD we field emails, phone calls, faxes and letters from union members who do not know where else to turn, perhaps you or someone you know has emailed us. Unionists who contact us may have already talked to their shop steward, their local's business agent, their union president, the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, private lawyers, or even contacted their Congressperson about problems in their union. But rarely have these persistent union members been given real practical information about their legal rights within their unions and support for their confidence in the power of union democracy to make a real change. That is what we strive to do at AUD.
For more than 40 years we have helped workers campaign for their rights for fair union elections, non-discriminatory job referrals, equal rights for minority members, and against mob control and sexual harassment. By intervening in crucial court cases with the weight of our experience, AUD has been able to strengthen and implement union democracy law. By telling reformers' stories in our two publications, we provide a voice, and an audience, for those who may have found their own union officials unwilling to listen. In short, the service we perform at AUD is irreplaceable, and essential to a strong labor movement.
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That's why we are asking for your support, and encourage you to join us in our mission by becoming an AUD Associate for just $30 per year.*
Or, by giving just $10 a month, you can join our $100 Plus Club and get our publications every month.
If you are reading this, you know our website and we hope that it has been helpful to you. (In fact, we encourage you to email us and let us about your situation, perhaps we will even write it up, with your permission. That is what we are here for.) Even if you wish we could do more for you, this is no reason not to join us -- our limited resources prevent us from undertaking projects that we know we could do -- but simply lack the time and money for. With a total budget of just over $140,000, we have to make every penny count, and invest every moment wisely.
So please contribute now. The labor movement is going through enormous challenges and changes. Help us make sure that union democracy isn't overlooked and forgotten.
--Kurt Richwerger, Program and Development Director
*IRS regulations prohibit deduction of the first $30 of your total yearly contribution due to the publications received.
AUD depends on the financial contributions of our members and supporters to stay afloat. Without your help we can not keep paying the rent, publishing the magazine and website, and providing the legal, educational, and counseling support that rank-and-file activists need so much. We hope you will agree that this project is worth supporting. Contribute online via our secure credit card service. If you want to contribute offline, give us a call. Please consider putting AUD in your will. It's tax deductible. Federal Employees can give to AUD via the Combined Federal Campaign.
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