Trusteeships

In certain situations a national union may take control of the administrative and financial affairs of a local union by placing it in a trusteeship. The McClellan committee found that in some cases a trusteeship was established not to protect union members from incompetent or corrupt officials in the local union but to control the pension and dues money of the local or to stifle political dissent in the union. The Landrum-Griffin Act limited the ability of a national union to place a local under trusteeship and required the national to explain why a trusteeship that lasts more than six (6) months has not been terminated.