union578

Ok sherry you got me now. You are actually dumber the I originally believed you were.

Anyway, Hoffa needs to not recognize anything except the IBT constitution.

What, the organizers can't organize themselves without help from the boss?

If you signed a card and believed in the reasons why you did it, then is there anything anyone can say to change how you feel and make you give it up?

Moron578, what does the "union" have to do with YRC's predicament except for the fact that the "union" has made a series of calculated decisions to keep a majority of YRC employees employed and covered in healthcare??! In short. YRC is still here because of the union.
We can't please everyone and some can't be pleased at all.

Congratulations to the workers, let me know how we can help secure a contract and we will be there.

Please do not, even diplomatically attempt to redirect my message.
In no way now nor have I ever attempted to belittle workers.

The Toll Truck workers have won nothing unless the union is able to negotiate a contract with better terms and conditions than what they have now. That is to say "if" the union is successful in securing a contract, which did not happen with Kagwest.
So the jury is still out as to whether or not the WORKERS have won anything.

Now the union on the other hand had already begun prancing around and claiming their victory at port locations across the country. So I believe even they acknowledge themselves as the big winners of this election.
They set out with Toll Truck, a non abrasive predominantly unionized company, to prove a point to their allies.
I obviously have no idea who you are, but if you have been privy to the organizing efforts of the IBT port campaign, then you know as well as I do what their intentions were with Toll Truck.

The administration at the IBT is hideous and the Port Campaign is a very good example of how they have paraded around for years frivolously and recklessly spending the members money!

I am 100% in favor of every worker in this country improving their standard of living, the 7% that involve a union and the 93% that do not.

I do not believe improvement can only be reached through the Teamsters Union.
As far as corporate greed is concerned, well I can't say that corporations aren't greedy that's for sure, but it does raise the question why you or anyone else would condone the IBT and their voluntary inclusion into that "group"; executives at the IBT unwilling to negotiate with their own employees and share the standard of living they have become accustomed to through their #1 sales product, collective bargaining.

While you call it a grudge, it is actually a commitment. I made it in 2008 and I will continue to stand by it until the problem is resolved.
With that said, I will agree with a point in your line:

"If you don't agree, do as we have done and just do what works until they come around. Keep working on behalf of the principles of unionism and their inability to do their job exposes themselves".

However, I will continue to work on behalf of the principle "workers have rights" and that is the right to choose unionization and the right to decline it. "The simple freedoms in this country are so often the hardest to attain, but justice will prevail when it is true justice that you seek."

It is amusing to me how this union stands on so many principles, especially those that 1400 Teamsters would eloquently join together and shout from the roof tops. The profound "right to organize"; while their own International Union stands firm in denying that right to their own employees!