The square root of 2 was Local 141...

My dad once said the Congress ruined unions when mandatory meetings and voting was found "unconstitutional" and representative management took over what members had a hand in running. His local produced the last Teamster president, a former UPS driver, Ron Carey before the current Teamster president, James P. Hoffa, a lawyer, who writes occasionally at the "Huffington Post" online. His sister is a judge. I worked on some of the background history of "Germania Hall" in NYC's Bowery, where Kate Mullaney, sitting next to Susan B. Anthony (the town I went to school in Selden, NY is reportedly named after the judge who was a character witness for Ms. Anthony at trial, who had posed as a man to vote in Upstate New York) and she was the first woman elected to union management. So perhaps the problem is proper representation in whatever is organized, that in itself trouble when contracts are varied and work is in the fates of the amount of "finds" and tasks required to complete the work. Incidentally Kate Mullaney is a symbol of "white collar" labor organizing, her house now on the National Register in Troy, NY where she organized the "recyclable" snap on-off collars washed and bleached in the thousands which permitted the management "class" to wear their shirt more than one day at a time, which was done under deplorable conditions of chemical fumes and heat mostly by women workers I think. The "Germania Hall", next to noted feminist Kate Millet's place (and other artists) came down in the new development of the Bowery recently, though an historic district was declared for the west side of the street, the eastside including the Amato Opera and CBGB's was not in one. There were former Quaker and Methodist cemeteries near the current two marble nondenominational vaults, they were removed out of Manhattan we found in research. Bowery is maybe the "oldest street in America" (CUNY professor entry in Encyclopedia Americana).

The USA has some excellent programs in preservation, however, there seems to be a lack of safeguards to protect research (i.e., no law states what is turned in has to be in a final report in whatever form it was presented or data safeguarded it contained or it's final output approved by the researcher) once it's out of their hands as far as l know. Perhaps in the glacial confluence of labor and management organizations such as ACRA are the way to provide for both "sides". (American Cultural Resources Association, "A trade association for cultural resources consulting firms, promoting the business of archaeology, history, historic preservation, architectural history.")