It's Not Over

Please don't let this become out 15 minutes of fame. We have been beat down ever since deregulation. Isn't 28 years enough?

Why are we as Owner Operators being treated like lesser beings? Why does the government refuse to let us organize so can help each other make a decent living wage?

Here is how they took away our rights in 1974

[FONT=verdana,arial]Initially, we note that appellants do not question that Conley would have sustained irreparable injury in the absence of preliminary relief. Moreover, appellants do not dispute that their picketing is properly enjoinable as an illegal combination in restraint of trade, if such activity does not fall within the labor exemption to the anti-trust laws. Thus, if the district court was justified in believing that Conley had shown a reasonable probability of success at final hearing, the preliminary injunction must be affirmed. Only a clear abuse of discretion will justify appellate reversal. United States Steel, supra.
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Appellants essentially argue that unlike the situation confronting this Court in 1970, FASH is now a 'labor organization' under the National Labor Relations Act, and appellants, notwithstanding their independent contractor status, are seeking traditional labor objectives. Thus, they argue they should be exempt from the anti-trust laws. We disagree.
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Even assuming arguendo that FASH is a 'labor organization' and appellants are seeking traditional labor objectives, appellants have nonetheless not shown the primary prerequisite for exemption from the anti-trust laws, i.e., that their dispute with Conley involves an employer-employee relationship.


[/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial]And here is what William Hill the leader of FASH had to say in November of 1978 in a radio interview.

[/FONT]We would like to get every steel hauler in the nation into our organization whether you call it a trade association, you could call it a union, whatever you want. . . . (W)hen I talk about price, that's charging the mills what they're going to haul steel for and Our people are the people with capital investments, they are the people that have investment and responsibility for their equipment. They are people who have to maintain that equipment. But they have nothing to say on what a load of steel will be hauled for, the price a load of steel will be hauled for from here to Chicago. It's the middleman, the broker, the guys that have a certificate with the ICC that have no capital investment that is saying we'll charge you 10 cents per hundred weight to haul this load of steel.

And the court ruled that Hill and FASH were in violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act in 1979.

Why are they so afraid of us having a voice?

The time to do something about it is now. Please keep this thing going while we have momentum.
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