Lifeguards seeking to democratize their union, which has excluded most members from meetings and elections, were welcomed last month into the union’s first in-season open meeting in decades, according to three lifeguards who were present.
More than 1,000 lifeguards on the city’s beaches and pools are members of Local 461, which for more than 40 years was de facto controlled by Peter Stein, the now ex-president of sister union Local 508, which represents lifeguard supervisors.
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