Eating Their Own: Teamsters Acting Like ‘Parasite’ Stealing Other Unions’ Members

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 12th at 09:15 PM  | 

Wars between rival unions, though infrequent, go back more than a century. Now, as union membership continues its decades-long decline, union efforts to pilfer members from other unions seem to be making a comeback.

At the head of the pack is the infamous International Brotherhood of Teamsters. With efforts underway to lure workers at both US Airways and American Airlines away from their existing unions, the Teamsters are, once again, creating enemies in the union movement.

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Union Briefs: An Assorted Array of Raids, Rats, Refs & RICO…Oh MY!

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 26th at 02:00 PM  | 

With so much to write about (and so little time), here are a few selected news stories to remind us how today’s unions are all about…well…something. Solidarity Succumbs to Economic Greed: Teamsters attempt to raid TWU at American Airlines. Back in the 1930s through the 1950s, when the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) were rival federations expanding their memberships | Read More »

#OWS Hijacked: #OccupyCongress Next Steps On Unions’ Agenda

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 19th at 01:45 PM  | 

Did it really need to take two months for New York City Mayor Bloomberg to figure out that unions have hijacked the #OccupyMovement? Most sane observers knew that from the very start when when the Transport Workers Union in New York endorsed the squatters in Zuccotti Park, opening the flood gates for other unions, the Democrats, and the institutional Left to climb on board. Since then, unions | Read More »

Meet #OccupyWallSt’s @JeffRae: Rabble Rouser, Agitator, Organizer & Labor Activist

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 03:30 PM  | 

Saturday, marked the second week of the #OccupyWallSt protests. With the endorsements of union bosses now firmly in their back pockets, protesters in New York celebrated the anniversary of their campout in a New York City park by shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge. This, of course, led to the NYPD to arrest many of the—more than 700, according to the New York Times. In a | Read More »

The AFL-CIO’s Orwellian Boss To Occupy Wall St. Protesters: Daddy loves you, kids…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 1st at 07:00 PM  | 

A: Today’s union bosses. Earlier this week, led by the 38,000 member TWU Local 100, several New York unions (including three large New York  SEIU locals and the United Federation of Teachers) pledged their support to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.  The union plan, so far, is to march on October 5th from Zuccotti Park (where 200-300 Wall Street protesters have been camping since September 17th) | Read More »