The local Teamsters group in Bethlehem, PA (773) is striking at Coca Cola to protect their pensions and receive better wages. To no one's surprise, Coca Cola announced that they plan on outright replacing the striking workers.
Time to flood their application process with BS resumés!
The Coca Cola job site is here.
Contact info for Abarta Coca Cola.
Let's work some magic. ✊
Edit 1: Edited to add link to article (thanks for posting u/YeeterOfTheRich!), and added the Coca Cola job site.
And of course thank you, everyone, for your support and solidarity.
Edit 2: Just caught up with a lot of comments, looks like the recruitment sites aren't actually leading to applications. Removed them for now, will add more links soon so we can flood em out. Sorry about that!
Edit 3: Added link to contact Abarta Coca Cola and an article mentioning Coke's plan on replacing the workers (including a quote from Coke).
As of this moment there isn't a GoFundMe page or anything similar to support the striking workers. Working on getting info about direct support from Teamsters 773 - as soon as there's an update on that it'll be posted here!
Edit 4: Hey, received word from Teamsters local 773 that while there isn't an official GoFundMe for the striking Coke workers at this time, support can be shown in the following ways:
- If you're local to the ABE area in PA, join the workers on the picket line
- Donate food, water, handwarmers (she specifically mentioned water and handwarmers), etc. to the Teamsters 773 office (located in Hokendauqua, PA)
- Spread the word! Speak up in support of workers uniting against corporate greed
Concrete mixer drivers are on strike in Seattle. Six companies, 12 locations, 34 gates with picket lines manned 24/7. We have shut down construction (turns out you can’t do a goddamn thing without concrete) but the news won’t cover us. I guess workers rising up isn’t as newsworthy as the 20th straight month of the same fucking COVID coverage. We had a toy drive today to benefit the striking workers and received probably an easy thousand toys, if not more. Fuck the media - we have the community. And Tom Morello from Rage is going live on Instagram with us tomorrow morning. We won’t quit until we win.
PS - company owners are currently on vacation in Italy even though the workers they “care soooo much about” have been on strike for a fucking MONTH. Because they won’t let us have HEALTHCARE IN RETIREMENT (even if we pay for it). Wow I can’t believe people hate the rich, after all they’ve done for us. Assholes.
ETA: it’s Teamsters Local 174. Info here: http://teamsters174.net/teamsters-local-174-construction-concrete-cement-strike-information/
Local feeder with 20+ years?
Heres the data We finally are about to see militants brought back into power. I personally know communists on the future executive board. This is huge news that is going to affect the trajectory of US labor more than the current strike wave. A great day for Teamsters and a great day for labor.
Edit: I put a comment below with a bit of background on our slate and what these results mean.
>New election filings at the NLRB: ... 140 sanitation workers for Republic in Winder, GA are organizing with Teamsters Local 728, in the biggest election filing in Georgia in over two years.
Source: https://whogetsthebird.substack.com/p/weekly52
Just a *speculative* FYI regarding the "circumstances outside our control" that the Winder office of Republic Services has been referencing a lot lately. I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the threads thus far.
So I have been working at a jobsite that is going to be a big distribution center 2 hrs from home, installing CCTV/access control. This place is basically going to be just a place where truck drivers drop their trailers, and pick up new ones while warehouse workers unload and load them. It's far enough from the city that it's cheap land and cheap labor but close enough that an hourly LTL trucker won't cost the company big bucks. The windshield time to and from the jobsite and the jobsite itself had me thinking about automation and how they could just have autonomous trucks drive loads from across country, drop them here and have a human drive them to their final destination. So I hit up my cousin, who is a Teamster truck driver for YRC, driving LTL (basically you make several local stops and go home at the end of the day, vs over the road where you take a big load from Pennsylvania to Colorado etc).
This guy is not a leftist or political at all, he doesn't know shit about capitalism or socialism or neoliberalism. He's a truck driver that likes to drink beer, go fishing, grill steaks and pressure his sons to play football. When I asked him if he thought automation would take over trucking, he told me that he didn't think so because big companies don't like to invest in the sort of infrastructure that it would need to be viable.
Basically, in order for the first phase of self-driving trucks to be viable, they would need to only drive on highways. A robot truck would pick up a trailer at a specialized warehouse outside of the city and drive it 300-500 miles to another specialized warehouse and drop it, so that a human could take it to it's destination in an urban/suburban location. To do that safely would mean installing censors in millions of miles of highway, or at the very least, some sort of network of censors next to the road. It would cost tens of billions because of how many miles of road we have in this country.
If you look at ISPs, big companies don't want to invest this kind of infrastructural money because it hits their short term P & L. They lobby the govt to do it, but the govt doesn't want to spend that kind of money on the real economy, opting to spend it on the finance sector to get a short term boost to GDP.
Furthermore, the self-driving truck "startup" industry is mostly comprised of grifters that want to follow the same path as Uber or Tesla: rake in the investor cash based on hype, and do damage control on why you aren't deliver
... keep reading on reddit ➡>You ever see such a place for rain? > >The kid had been watching the reverend. He turned to the man who spoke. He wore long moustaches after the fashion of teamsters and he wore a widebrim hat with alow round crown. He was slightly walleyed and he was watching the kid earnestly as if he'd know his opinion about the rain. > >I just got here, said the kid. > >Well it beats all I ever seen.
The dude seems to never reappear in the novel. Are there such tradition in Wild West genre where a complete stranger plays a major role in a scene and just disappears? Is it some literary device to depict the meaninglessness of the percieved significance of an event and to hint possibilities of entirely different worlds of different men never to cross again once departed? This teamster is confusing the hell out of me. I read through the novel again but could not figure out who he is. Is he reference to a real life teamster or anything?
And Republic Services are looking to bring in strike breakers.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/chula-vista-mayor-sanitation-strike-wages-not-sustainable-county-of-san-diego-republic-services-trash-pick-union/509-d96fa33c-d366-435b-a9f0-2bea4b4564aa
As a local who is affected by this (with a mountain of trash piling up in my building's garage) I support this strike 100%.
I want to bring a wider recognition of this strike, and hopefully get your help in gunking up the wheels of Republic Services strike breaking plans.
So I have 10% of my population as teamsters getting paid way more than everyone else, yet they won’t do anything at all.
I have 5 different buildings with full supplies / 3 teamster stations. Is this a bug?
What do you guys/gals think of unionization/unions in general? Do you think you’d want / benefit if we were part of a union? I’ve delivered to a customer who told me he was part of Teamsters for his company. He mentioned he drove a garage truck. His union Teamsters pays for his and his families health insurance , he gets 25+ an hour, and gets employee contribution to his retirement . I’m sure there are union dues, but man… I’m sure I’d would be worth it. And I’m sure we wouldn’t be worked like slaves rushing and running and such. Would love to read thoughts/ opinions/ anything people want to share. It feels like amazon tries their hardest to not make it happen
What’s the angle? No interest or the Mafia simply took the money and never paid back?
Hi All,
A little background. I'm in my late 30s and my dad is in his early 60s. A lot of stories on here have resonated with me because they remind me of some stories my dad has told me over the years. He's a real deal union guy. He's a truck driver. He's been a steward and he has never had a problem with fucking with bosses. I worked at his place in the early 2000's to find out his nickname was the General. Here are his stories (Law & Order sound)
In the early 80's, he worked as a loader and a driver at a smallish freight terminal in Philly. The terminal manager's name was Al or as they called him Uncle Al, but in a spiteful way. Al was a dick and didn't care about what the loaders went through on their day to day. On an outbound shift, there would be about 20 guys loading and 2 forklifts. The idea was they would use pallet jacks for all but the heaviest freight. Al could have bought more fl's but he didn't because that would affect his bonus. Al would also bitch that freight wasn't being loaded quickly enough. They had cake and eat it too kind of situation.
At the time, my dad was about 22-24. His father was also a teamster so the culture was ingrained into him, just as it is me even though I went a different direction. So, every night, my dad would break a pallet jack and throw it in the dumpster. The more Al bitched, the slower things got. Someone mentioned to Al that maybe things would move faster if they had more fl's. Al lost his mind and told them he'd remove the two fl's if they bitched again. So someone said, "well we don't even have enough pallet jacks anymore." Al flipped out even more. He accused them of stealing all of the pallet jacks. He called the cops and the cops being what cops are, searched the employees trucks and cars. It never, ever occurred to him that someone was just throwing them out. And every night, another one went missing. They were down to 3 or 4 pallet jacks at this point. My dad estimates he broke and trashed at least 2 dozen pallet jacks.
Freight continues to slow down, Al continues to try to make life harder on everyone via write ups, reposting bids, taking on shitty freight and I'm sure other things. The union guys couldn't care less. Overtime became plentiful and they like fucking with bosses. They could have lived with this in perpetuity.
After several weeks of this, Al's bonus is shot anyway. He's forced to cave. He winds up buying 40 forklifts and pallet jacks went the way of the dinosaur.
This conclu
... keep reading on reddit ➡Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2021, Teamsters Union Elects Hoffa Critic Sean O’Brien as New Leader, https://www.wsj.com/articles/teamsters-union-elects-sean-obrien-as-new-leader-11637334914?st=2bjmflpw5nivwc9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink.
Excerpt: “We’ve got to organize unorganized workers,” he said in a recent interview. “Basically we have to rebuild this whole organization and take it to a level that it hasn’t seen in decades because it’s been led by complacency.”
