Do you really know WHO is supporting your efforts?

Discussion in 'Truckers Strike Forum' started by TX_Proud, Mar 30, 2008.

  1. TX_Proud

    TX_Proud Light Load Member

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    Some have mentioned that the IWW has agreed to support the shutdown. Maybe reading up on this organization would be in order. Do you want a union supporting you that is has been successful in organizing undocumented workers? Are you willing to have your jobs taken over by undocumented workers?

    http://www.iww.org/en/node/4013

    By Maria Rodriguez Gil - March 16, 2008
    From the Anarcho Syndicalist Review:
    Although the Industrial Workers of the World pioneered industrial unionism 100 years ago, it hasn’t seen a significant organizing drive in the United States for decades—until a recent drive among short-haul truckers on the West Coast and an ongoing campaign by the IWW Food and Allied Workers Union, New York Local I.U. 460/640, to organize food industry workers (the vast majority of them undocumented immigrants) in New York City.
    The two-year-old organizing drive has reached about 500 workers in dozens of food industry companies and has significantly improved, directly and indirectly, wages and working conditions across the industry in the New York City area.
    Proving wrong those who claim that you can’t build a union with undocumented workers, the IWW has succeeded where traditional unions failed, becoming the only union in the country with 90% undocumented members (more than 70 have joined Local I.U. 460/640).

     
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  3. badsey

    badsey Medium Load Member

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    many of the people that unload my trucks (lumpers) are immigrants and I'm sure many are also illegal. They are part of this industry and many get paid far less than what their labor is worth. Those lumper brokers take most of the money.

    I don't agree letting illegals in, but it seems our Gov doesn't really care -sort of like the fuel cost issue.
     
  4. Hilltop

    Hilltop Medium Load Member

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    Do any of them care in any State?
     
  5. zig-zag

    zig-zag Bobtail Member

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    Fight illegal immigration If fuel has not burnt your butt, perhaps Mexican carriers will. :biggrin_2552: We better learn how to hang together, or we will all hang separately.:biggrin_25521:
     
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