With the Amazon Project, the Teamsters are taking a different approach that doesn't rely on the traditional National Labor Relations Board election process that allows employers to run sophisticated anti-union campaigns and involves the task of running elections warehouse by warehouse.
Instead the Teamsters plan to focus on a series of pressure campaigns involving work stoppages, petitions, and other collective action to push Amazon to recognize a union and bargain over working conditions. This tactic mirrors how the Teamsters organized its first members, horse drivers, grave haulers, and beer wagon drivers, who did not have union rights in the early twentieth century, using shop floor strikes, city-wide strikes, and other mass collective action in the streets.
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Teamsters are the obvious natural fit, and they have the size and experience to make it happen.
Teamsters get a bad rap for Hoffa, but God damn of they aren't good at solidarity. If you're throwing a picket or trying to organize, always reach out to the teamsters. It's them and IBEW that still have brawlers that can't wait to punch scabs and cops.
Yeah, they do slowdowns over nearly nothing, and have shut down the port over the Iraq war and BLM. They're the closest thing the US has to a French union.
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Teamsters are the obvious natural fit, and they have the size and experience to make it happen.
Teamsters get a bad rap for Hoffa, but God damn of they aren't good at solidarity. If you're throwing a picket or trying to organize, always reach out to the teamsters. It's them and IBEW that still have brawlers that can't wait to punch scabs and cops.
Makes me proud to be trying for an IBEW apprenticeship
Steven Crowder posting his Ls to his channel lol
Aren't ILWU still somewhat radical? I remember :brace-cowboy: implying it at one point, which is why he pushed to organize Anchor Steam with them
Yeah, they do slowdowns over nearly nothing, and have shut down the port over the Iraq war and BLM. They're the closest thing the US has to a French union.
Hell yeah
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It's awesome to see real unionising strategies being used in the US instead of the neutered bureaucratic elections you usually see.