LETTER FROM NEPBA PARENT ORGANIZATION REGARDING NAGE
Let’s Set the Record Straight! The International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO
There appears to have been some recent confusion about whether or not YOU have the right to join a police union, the New England Police Benevolent Association (NEPBA) an AFL-CIO Local of the International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO. This confusion has been spuriously generated by the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), a subsidiary of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). I apologize for all of the acronyms, but we need to be certain about whom we are referring.
Make no mistake. YOU have the absolute right to leave NAGE and join the NEPBA and they know it. Here is why.
In 2005, SEIU left the AFL-CIO and formed a group called Change to Win. They are no longer affiliated with the AFL-CIO in any way shape or form. They do belong to the Central Labor Council and State Labor Federation, but that membership is not the same as being an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. They have asked the Massachusetts Department of Labor to abort YOUR election based on an article in the AFL-CIO Constitution that forbids the raiding of one AFL-CIO union by another. We call this Article XX. Article XX simply does not and never has applied to raiding of members by an AFL-CIO affiliate, which NEPBA IS from another group which is NOT an AFL-CIO affiliate – PERIOD!
I hope this allays any concerns you might have about YOUR election, YOUR representatives YOUR future and YOUR union.
Here’s a quote from the former AFL-CIO President in his September 4, 2008 letter regarding raiding and Solidarity Charters:
“Thus, any difference in treatment between locals of the AFL-CIO’s national union affiliates and local unions with Solidarity Charters stems from the decision by SEIU and the other national unions to disaffiliate from the AFL-CIO, thereby relinquishing their locals’ right to affiliate with the AFL-CIO’s state and local bodies, Article XX protection, and other national AFL-CIO constitutional rights and protections.” –John J. Sweeney
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