Teamsters Score 3-to-1 Election Victory in Nearly Union-Free Industry

[jdhoch]

Wednesday night, the National Labor Relations Board announced that truck drivers at the Port of Los Angeles had won a rare union election. The 46-to-15 vote is a major step forward in the Teamsters’ campaign to transform the overwhelmingly nonunion port trucking industry—though it’s no guarantee of a union contract with their employer, the $8.8 billion Australian logistics company Toll Group.
“When they tried to push us down, they only managed to make us stronger…” said Toll driver Karael Vallecillo on Thursday. ”This is just the beginning of the big war.”
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[kevster03]

That's good news. I'm glad some parts of society are moving forward, if slowly. :thumbup1:

[cyu]

More from http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13035/toll_election_victory_union_teamsters_los_angeles_ australia_nlrb_union-bust/

For most of the country’s 110,000 port truck drivers, elections aren't an option.

Alberto Quinteno said he began organizing with the union after he and some co-workers tried taking concerns to management: "You know, basic human being treatment, like a clean toilet."

Xiomara Perez joined port truckers from six other ports in a writing a letter to the Occupy movement and the broader public.

"Just like Wall Street doesn't have to abide by rules, our industry isn't bound to regulation, So the market is run by con artists... We receive Third World wages and drive sweatshops on wheels."” LA workers joined them in wearing wristbands reading,“"Our fight is your fight."

management held mandatory anti-union meetings roughly every other week

TWU says that Australian workers have good working conditions and constructive labor relations with the company. The Age's Maiden wrote of the company's U.S. workers, "by our standards, they get a pittance." TWU helped spearhead outreach to Australian media and politicians, making Toll's U.S. labor relations a national story in Australia.

"We expect the company to kick and scream every step of the way...We expect it to be a fight... You can't expect anything from the powerful people. You have to get it yourself and fight for it."

[Ocean Seal]

Oh great the teamsters.

[cyu]

Oh great the teamsters.


Oh great the Marxists?

Oh great the anarchists?

[Sea]

Oh great the teamsters.


Oh great the Marxists?

Oh great the anarchists?

Oh great the condescending!