Reply #2: A great victory, a great victory. NJ leads the way again.

[DainBramaged]

641 in Union. Mine and my ex-Father in law's old local. We both got screwed by Consolidated Freightways. He is 72 with a bad heart and living on SS waiting for surgery by the Veteran's Administration. Wasn't the Union's fault Consolidated went belly up. I think they wanted it that way to hide the theft of the pension funds.

http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-2/421/421_12_CF.shtml


THE TRUCKING giant Consolidated Freightways sent a message to 15,500 workers on Labor Day. We’re going bankrupt. And you’re out on the street. This was the final act in the company’s 20-year war on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Consolidated Freightways became a separate company only in 1996, when it was spun off by its parent company CNF, which had shifted the company’s prize assets into nonunion subsidiaries. "This wasn’t the result of a weak company in a bad economy," said a 23-year veteran driver for the company in the Midwest who lost his job in the bankruptcy.

"This is part of a plan and a policy that went on for decades. And they pulled it off in the end. They cherry-picked the profitable freight lanes, gave them to , took every last cent of their startup money for infrastructure, certainly worth hundreds of millions of dollars--all came from unionized parts of the company. Then they turn around and say the nonunion subsidiary can’t compete. Hell no, it can’t--not in those circumstances."





http://www.teamsterslocal641.org/