Current and former Union/Organized Labor members who are DUers & all DUers that support LABOR stopin

[bobthedrummer]

HELLO! former Local 232 member; UFCW Informational Picket Captain in sucessful COPP's campaign; former IAM member. My father was a lifelong Teamster.
:hi:

[Brickbat]

1. Member, National Writers Union-UAW Local 1981; former member, Newspaper Guild.

Spouse of member, BLE and UBCJA.

[mike_c]

2. Good morning!

Member, California Faculty Association (CFA), the union of California State University faculty, coaches, librarians, etc. Chapter vice president and Faculty Rights Chair (grievance officer) at my campus.

Solidarity!

[mod mom]

3. Never been in a union, but helped protest Ohio SB5 for those who are!

:hi:

[JimDandy]

20. Same here.

[Morning Dew]

4. Teamster in the '70s

Labor supporter - always!

[IBEWVET]

5. IBEW

Been union for 25 years. Hello to all the brothers and sisters.

[Permanut]

6. AFSCME Council 75 Checkin' in!

Local 328! Father was Amalgamated Transit Union, don't know the local.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Former member of Local 535, SEIU, proudly checking in!

:hi:

[monmouth]

8. I'll say hi on behalf of son standing in the picket line (Verizon) today..n/t

[Luminous Animal]

10. Good luck to your son and his comrades!

[monmouth]

18. Many thanks..n/t

[mitchtv]

9. CWA 9410

checking in

[Trey9007]

11. Former Member of CWA loca 4998, and IBEW local 21 ........

Although I've been lucky, and have been working with some pretty decent non-union contractors, I know the value of a good bargained for contract. Hopefully, some day the labor wing of the Dem party, will become the Tea Party of the left.


CARD CHECK YES!

[Ship of Fools]

12. Member in good standing -- American Federation of Musicians -- HI!

[Greybnk48]

13. AFT TAUWP.

Lifelong Democrat and strong Union supporter.
:hi:

[Kingofalldems]

14. NALC

[Cleita]

15. I was a Teamster a long time ago. I don't remember

the local, but it was the best paying job I had in that era.

[Nailzberg]

16. IATSE

:hi:

[geardaddy]

17. Member National Writers Union/UAW Local 1981

[pintobean]

19. UBCJA

:hi:

[Worried senior]

21. Husband was a teamster, local 200 Milwaukee

until he was disabled. He's still a teamster at heart.

[Canuckistanian]

22. Former UBCJ Local 27 Toronto checking in

I also organized a union at the company I worked for in 1993 for the CEP (Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union).

[Jim Lane]

23. Two different unions but I don't remember the local numbers, it was too long ago

Before law school I worked for a while for the University of Massachusetts, so I joined the Massachusetts State Employees Association.

Before that I worked a couple summers in a tannery and belonged to some union for leather workers.

Most lawyers don't work in union shops, though. My support for the labor movement is now cheering from the sidelines.

[NNN0LHI]

24. Current member in good standing. UAW - Local 588

[yewberry]

25. OPEIU (AFL-CIO) here, husband is ILWU.

:hi:

[redwitch]

26. Hubbie is a wobblie.

:-)

[lonestarlib]

27. Former member of CWA. Worked in office of Iron Workers

Local 481--in Texas!

[hay rick]

28. NALC.

Solidarity.

[October]

29. Hubby is ALPA! Proud union liberals here!

Read "Flying the Line," about the history of ALPA. Fascinating. Not much has changed!!!

[Crabby Appleton]

30. Former Teamsters Local 413 & United Steelworkers Local 2342

[benfranklin1776]

31. Greetings brothers and sisters.

My family has been involved in the labor movement for generations. Two of my uncles were blacklisted and beaten trying to start the USWA near Pittsburgh and another became a plaintiff in NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel the case in which the United States Supreme Court under pressure from FDR recognized the constitutionality of the Wagner Act (the NLRA-National Labor Relations Act) and enshrined in our law the principle that the right to organize for collective and concerted action and to collectively bargain is a fundamental right under American Law. I was proud to serve as a grievance man in a Steelworkers bargaining unit representing professional employees in Pittsburgh.
Fundamentally what is lost today in the national discourse is the simple fact that workers create the wealth of this nation and are entitled to their rightful share of their creation. Unions are a vital means to achieve that goal and to advance the cause of workers generally as they fight for laws that benefit all workers. As our bloody labor history shows, the robber barons and the malefactors of great wealth will, unchecked by law or organized labor, will inevitably use their workers as disposable commodities and rob as much as they can from the fruits of their labors.

[NNN0LHI]

33. That is probably one of the best posts I have ever read on DU since coming here

Thank you very much for posting your thoughts and experiences.

Don

[xmas74]

32. Former ASFCME,

with possible future prospects I'm not ready to discuss quite yet.:)

[roody]

34. California Teachers Association eom

[Ignis]

35. AFM, Local 47 (former)

:hi:

[Scout]

36. MEA/OPT member here! n/t

[LeftishBrit]

37. k&r & hello

from a member of UCU (British union for university and college teachers), and one who saw what was done to unions under Thatcher!

[quiller4]

38. We are both retired. I'm a former member of UFCW 367 & 21 & SEIU 6

Spouse is a former member of Teamsters 498, IAM 751, Teamsters 599 and 117 who retired as a business rep for 117 in 2003.

[Lucian]

39. Former Teamster here.

I belonged to the Graphic Communications Conference International Brotherhood of Teamsters local M1. It was the best paying job I've ever had and I had the best benefits.

I will continue to support labor unions until I die.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

40. As a non-Union worker --

everything I have on the job - protections, benefits, wage, time off -- I owe to Unions. Thank you! :loveya: