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Subject: Re: truck drivers--unions
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:00:04 -0500
Very true, back in the 50's, 60's - we ran up north, and they were reports
of truckers being killed, trucks being hijacked,etc. - we also had a
trucking co., but my dad had also drove for several trucking companies and
he was require to be a union member.
delilah
At 21:25 11/17/00 EST, you wrote:
>Hi Friends
>
>I would like to back what Delilah stated regarding the Teamsters and the
>truck drivers Unions. My mother and step-father owned an inter and intra
>state Trucking Business in the 1930's through the 1950's. You either by the
>early 40's joined the Union and hired Union Employee;s or you were out of
>Business. They used not only hard core tactic's but sometimes illegal
>tactic's in forcing companies to comply with what the Union wanted. Also, if
>you were not a Union member you did not get a so called GOOD posistion in
the
>business as a driver or warehouse person.
>
>Pat
>
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