Truck Drivers and Dockworkers Fight Back Against Teamster Union Intimidation
Employees seek to throw out union after union bosses’ ugly campaign of harassment and coercion
Seattle, Washington (March 5, 2009) — Employees from nine collective bargaining units of Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc. have filed decertification petitions seeking elections to oust the Teamster union as the workers’ monopoly bargaining agent.
With help from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the employees – drivers and dockworkers – filed the decertification petitions with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking secret ballot elections to determine whether the workforce wants to retain the Teamster union as their monopoly bargaining agent.
On September 22, 2008, Teamster union brass called a strike against Oak Harbor Freight. Teamster union operatives picketed Oak Harbor Freight’s clients with the goal of discouraging them from doing business with the company. Teamster union bosses sought publicly to damage Oak Harbor Freight’s reputation and openly celebrated when clients refused to do further business with the company.
Teamster union bosses organized a subsequent campaign of intimidation and harassment of Oak Harbor Freight employees who continued to work during the strike. Teamster union partisans participated in ambulatory strikes, in which they stalked and picketed Oak Harbor Freight drivers on their daily routes.
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elective labor group
would it be possible in texas to start a union or organization which would elect its members and use it within a company thats employees are almost entirely involved in another union with a contract. Could we have a seperate contract from the present union with the company. I want to start something that is beneficial to company and employee alike and oust the lazy overpopulated union at the company I'm working for.