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If you take a look at the actions of the Organizing Department over the last decade, the behavior, certainly less than admirable, speaks for itself.
Consider the National Bus Campaign and First Student. Since spring of 2006 when this campaign kicked off in Baltimore, not ONE single contract included PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS. Not ONE single CONTRACT included decent health care and in most of the contracts the pay and grievance procedures are a joke.
There are NON-UNION facilities in this company producing EQUAL or BETTER PAY and BENEFITS than MOST of the TEAMSTER CONTRACTS. Why would the IBT want to TARNISH TEAMSTER HISTORY by choosing to REPRESENT a CLASS of WORKERS that this UNION COULD NOT ADEQUATELY PROVIDE FOR?
The LOCALS and JOINT COUNCILS don't want to deal with these bus drivers. They are expensive and a lot of trouble. Why? Because their contracts leave TOO much room for improvement.
The majority of the bus drivers don't utilize the grievance procedures, because they were CONTENT with their EMPLOYER to begin with.
The small groups you see represented in IBT FLIERS and VIDEOS are not PLEASED because the Teamster Contract has enhanced their lives, they are pleased because the IBT sends them all over the COUNTRY to claim they have!
You might find a shop steward that will brag on the union, but not because their life was improved. It is because their life was changed and all of the sudden they hold, what they believe is an important position, which can probably be identified as their highest attainable rank. None the less, if you see a First Student worker bragging on the union it is either because they are dating the BA, have been placed in a position of power, or they enjoy the camera flash and a plane ticket now and then.
While employed with the IBT, I appeared in more than a dozen fliers and brochures. Not one time did I ever write the caption and the comments included were not my own. They were written by the IBT organizing department.
Members certainly shouldn't believe what they read and base the success of the union on what comes out of the Marble Palace.
I challenge anyone to visit a First Student Site, at every single one of them you will find a good size group that DON'T want TO be in the UNION.
First Student TEAMSTERS do nothing more than CUSHION the CASH FLOW for the IBT, it is YOUR LOCALS that pay for the expensive REPRESENTATION.
It was not and will never be "a successful endeavor" because the SUCCESS of a UNION can not be based on the NUMBER of ELECTIONS you WIN. The contracts are an embarrassment to COLLECTIVE BARGAINING and to the membership of the Teamsters Union.
The only reason you are not continuing to see more DE-CERTIFICATIONS is the pitiful 7 page national agreement. Any moron could read that "PAMPHLET" and see that all it did was secure the UNIONS ability to continue collecting their dues. Nothing more!
Well congratulations to the IBT and to the Membership thereof; for taking a WORKERS MONEY and giving them a piece of paper that in no way has any hope of IMPROVING their STANDARD of LIVING.
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In Topic: "HOT OFF THE PRESSES!" Teamsters vs. Teamsters
February 01 2012 - 10:00 PM
IBTJC32, on February 01 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:
I was told that when the GCIU merged into the Teamsters that they brought with them some organizers that were under contract. If GCC/IBT organizers are under contract then so should the rest of the IBT organizers. Of course if the IBT organizers are ever under contract we will always have that tired old road ***** Sherry claiminig it was her tireless efforts that made it happen. Here is the main complication, IBT organizers want to be Teamsters, not mine workers or SEIU, and the Teamsters have a conflict of interest in negotiating a contract with themselves. It's just not as easy as it sounds.
Yes. Johnson was one of those GCC organizers you speak of. However, he as any other Union worker, does not bring the CBA with him. There contract is between GCC organizers and the GCC it has nothing to do with the IBT. They are not one and the same.
I nor you can make it happen. It is up to the bargaining unit *******!
In Topic: "HOT OFF THE PRESSES!" Teamsters vs. Teamsters
February 01 2012 - 09:02 PM
11:58pm, on February 01 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:
So I have to admit that I've become curious about possible outcomes for the topic at hand.
We have what most of you call "non rank and file organizers" filing for recognition.
What then will come next? Who will be their bargaining agent? Another union? Perhaps the IAM. What will be their conditions of employment? If they fail to organize new members will the IBT membership be stuck paying their salaries for life? There is a reason that since the beginning of time organizers have been temporary and "at will" employees. I think my questions scratch that surface.
Curious to hear all the wonderful thoughts and answers to these questions from TEAMSTERS, not from Sherri Henry. BTW Sherri, the IBT was just held accountable. Or maybe you didn't see the results of the last election.
We have what most of you call "non rank and file organizers" filing for recognition.
What then will come next? Who will be their bargaining agent? Another union? Perhaps the IAM. What will be their conditions of employment? If they fail to organize new members will the IBT membership be stuck paying their salaries for life? There is a reason that since the beginning of time organizers have been temporary and "at will" employees. I think my questions scratch that surface.
Curious to hear all the wonderful thoughts and answers to these questions from TEAMSTERS, not from Sherri Henry. BTW Sherri, the IBT was just held accountable. Or maybe you didn't see the results of the last election.
Temporary employees will be excluded and
"since the beginning of time organizers have been temporary"
Is an inaccurate statement. Organizers at the IBT did not become "temporary" in an official capacity until April 2008.
Anyone regardless of their employer or their employment status is "at will" unless they are included in a CBA or they are employed in a state that requires just cause termination.
In Topic: "HOT OFF THE PRESSES!" Teamsters vs. Teamsters
February 01 2012 - 08:52 PM
11:58pm, on February 01 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:
So I have to admit that I've become curious about possible outcomes for the topic at hand.
We have what most of you call "non rank and file organizers" filing for recognition.
What then will come next? Who will be their bargaining agent? Another union? Perhaps the IAM. What will be their conditions of employment? If they fail to organize new members will the IBT membership be stuck paying their salaries for life? There is a reason that since the beginning of time organizers have been temporary and "at will" employees. I think my questions scratch that surface.
Curious to hear all the wonderful thoughts and answers to these questions from TEAMSTERS, not from Sherri Henry. BTW Sherri, the IBT was just held accountable. Or maybe you didn't see the results of the last election.
We have what most of you call "non rank and file organizers" filing for recognition.
What then will come next? Who will be their bargaining agent? Another union? Perhaps the IAM. What will be their conditions of employment? If they fail to organize new members will the IBT membership be stuck paying their salaries for life? There is a reason that since the beginning of time organizers have been temporary and "at will" employees. I think my questions scratch that surface.
Curious to hear all the wonderful thoughts and answers to these questions from TEAMSTERS, not from Sherri Henry. BTW Sherri, the IBT was just held accountable. Or maybe you didn't see the results of the last election.
Which election would you be referring to?
