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Originally Posted by aces up
The fact that he has been with the same carrier/teamsters for 20 years is a tribute to the teamsters. Maybe he forgot or never knew what most non union carriers are like. If he leaves his current job he will find out in a hurry. How many drivers stay for 20 years at a non union carrier? NOT MANY. Why is he still with the teamsters? Caveman says "union bad, job hopping good."
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He(my brother) is in the teamsters, because the company drivers, where he works, unionized in the 40's, and the driver's have never voted to de-unionize. They could have, in 1985, when the terminals in Seattle / Portland, where I
used to work, the drivers voted to de-unionize, that company (where my brother works) could have done the same thing. Even when that company was down to one single driver, that driver was still in the union.
Your never going to convince me that "Unionization" is a good thing. So way try?
AVC has a problem (low wages) at AAACooper, there in southern Alabama. He has been here, in various threads, crying "UNIONIZE" and "NATIONAL TRUCKER'S STRIKE" for the last few weeks, because he obviously is getting nowhere fast, with his fellow driver's, in his "Unionization Quest".
If he is that miserable at his job, he needs to do what tens of thousands of others have done.....FIND A NEW ONE! There are union jobs out there. There are union jobs, in southern Alabama. All he needs to do is quit his crying, and go look. NorthropGrumman in Pascagoula pay's quite a bit more that $10.00 and they have billboards up and down I-10 and I-65, advertising their jobs.
He isn't willing to do that.
He claims to have been a union dock worker back in the 70's. If that is so....why did he leave that job? Because it left him?? Why didn't he use his union time, to get in somewhere similar? That was what was normally done....back then.
I don't have one single thing, against anyone whom is in a union. If it works for them...awesome deal. Just don't try shoving it down my throat. I still have my own teeth....AND I BITE!
