AFSCME takes over Michigan state employee union, amid strife
LANSING – Michigan's oldest state employee union — the Michigan State Employees Association — was placed in trusteeship Monday after years of controversy and internal feuding.
Representatives of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) International, the union's parent organization, arrived at the union's Lansing offices Monday morning, locked officials out of their computers, and sent its elected officers home, three union sources told the Free Press. They later changed the locks on the office doors, sources said.
The union, founded in 1950, is now under the control of a trustee.
Union officials said they were working on a statement but had no immediate comment.
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