IWW Bosses Lied to Membership in Apparent Effort to Cheat Opponent in Union Election - One Big Investigation
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Gabby Gloria Bray and Kelsey Tanabe-Walker concealed from members the existence of emails demonstrating their political ally, Roger Ezra Butterfield's, ineligibility to serve on the union's executive board. This was part of an apparent effort to block their opponent, Selena Caldera, from being seated in Butterfield's place.
  • frankenswine@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    Why would they discourage one single person from entering a 7 member board? How much damage could one dissident bring? Is it personal drama or political factions fighting? I guess I lack some essential context

    • OneBigInvestigation@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      We’ll be releasing more context and background information on the conflict in a future article. We had originally planned to release this entire story in one article, but it was over 6,000 words long. So we made the decision to break it up into four parts.