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[local138]

A Teamster, on January 30 2010 - 05:44 AM, said:

Brother: This is to confirm our phone conversation. Thank you for your interest in the upcoming NY-NJ TDU Education Conference. However, we will not be able to accommodate your request to participate. The Education Conference is a private event open to Teamsters who support reform in our union. TDU reserves the right to exclude participants who are opposed to our organization and its principles. We have refunded your $15 online registration fee. Feel free to share the conference attendance guidelines with anyone you might know who might share your confusion about the event. We would do not wish to have anyone make an unnecessary trip only to be turned away at the door. Fraternally, TDU Staff

So much for free speach ,opposing views not wanted.This speaks volumes about your organization. You are no better than the most corrupt Union Offical and have done more to destroy union Jobs than any company!!!!!!!!!!

[X174driver]

The answer is the 10 people that were dumb enough to pay $15 are To Dumb to Understand how to post information on the "internets machine".

[The_Silent_1]

Holy fuck..What the fuck is that?

[X174driver]

Don't get me wrong, I don't think the self appointed "Leaders" of TDU are To Dumb to Understand. I do believe the uninformed and uninvolved members that buy what they sell every election cycle are. How many "TDU" Slates have been elected into Local Union Office only to burn the friggen place down and get voted out 3 years later (if the membership is lucky)??

[EdHeisler]

TDU members should have the right to prevent non-members who want to destroy their organization from attending and disrupting their meetings.

Does anyone here think the NAACP should welcome members of the KKK into their meetings?

If they didn't try to stop outside opponents from sabotaging their gatherings, most of us would think they were whimpy or stupid or both!

It's true that some TDU'ers are stupid and/or incompetent. In that regard they are a lot like some very befuddled IBT international officers who can barely tie their own shoes while demonstrating for all of us to see, their superior skill at sitting around with their thumbs up their as$.

And you know who the lazy ones are in Washington that merely think of the IBT as their gravy train!

Meanwhile, the membership gets beaten down by the employers.

[The_Silent_1]

.... I guess they should have the right to ban people from meetings and membership.... After-all I want the same right to do so with-in the Teamsters Union for the same reasons.

[local138]

ED IS STUPID, on February 05 2010 - 05:54 AM, said:

This is funny. Last time I checked, Ken Paff was a "non-member" who wants to destroy our organization. TDU hasn't posted a single positive development about our union on their website in years. I wonder why that is? Could it be that they are trying to destroy our organization?

Your analogy is a bad one as well. Is the NAACP trying to recruit members of the KKK to join their organization? Of course not. TDU IS actively recruiting Teamsters to join their group, not exclude them. What TDU wants is Teamsters to give money but not participate in policy making because Comrade Paff is the one who takes care of that. All you have to do is look at Rich Berg and the game he talked before he got elected and started acting like Mussolini.

TDU likes to pretend that they empower members but the truth is just the opposite. They really think working Teamsters are stupid and TDU leaders are akin to Ed in that they feel most rank-and-file Teamsters are racists and ignorant like KKK members. Although Ed's analogy is a bad one, it is very revealing as far as what TDU and Ed think of rank-and-file Teamsters.

TDU only empowers TDU and at the expense of Teamster Members and their lack of clarity on who and where they get their money is proof enough .You only have to ask why they won!t post who gives them money ,it is because they are a sham who feeds itself by taking from companies as well as members.While legally they don!t have to post where their money comes from, morally if you were as true to the cause as you claim it would be easy.As far as Paff goes he is proof that there is a sucker born every minute because that is how he makes his living.

[local138]

Foreman, on February 24 2010 - 11:21 AM, said:

You "OLD GUARD" teamsters all talk the same talk about TDU...if it was not for the reforms backed by TDU who knows where this Union would be. TDU won the right for members to democratically elect our officers-and the right to vote for Convention delegates. Their are some that feel they should be all hand picked, well guess what? not REAL teamsters...I was at the TDU Ed Conference and I'm not a member and they welcomed me with open arms.

But will they show you where they get there money and tell you how they destroyed Local 138.Before you buy into their lies you need to ask all the hard questions about TDU.

[The_Silent_1]

OK...here is my tdu equation. tdu arrived on the scene in the early 1970's. At the time the Teamsters union had about 2.3 million members. Since the time of their arrival and the government forced implementation of their so called reform, we have lost well over 1 million members. How have they helped? Divide and conquer, thats the name of their employer funded game!