Author : James R. Earls
Publisher : Rlm Publishing Company
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Labor
ISBN : 9780971869721
Book Description
A twenty-six year feeder driver of United Parcel Service, and a former Chief Union Steward for teamsters Local 402, carries the reader on a rare behind the scenes journey into one of this nation's little known relationships between a Teamster employer and corrupted Teamster union official's. The reader will learn firsthand of the disconcerting daily battles that are still being waged on the battlefields of corporate America by UPS Teamster employees whom are all in a struggle for their mere survival while engaging in one of the most brutally abusive labor relation's campaigns that has ever been unleashed against the working class of America. The reader will learn about the old guards secret alliance with United Parcel Service, and the role they both play in the undermining and abuse of the very American union worker that the old guard Teamster officials had sworn to protect. The corrupt actions of these two powerhouses will be exposed to show that they are continuing to engage in covert attempts to weaken and destroy the Teamsters union from within. James had lost almost everything in his heroic fight for the preservation and protection of both the workplace, and union rights in the infamous Huntsville, Alabama facility and in the old-guard controlled Local 402 union. Read about the solidarity that once existed in Huntsville and how the Huntsville facility became one of the worst labor relation's nightmares that was ever known to UPS's corporate managers. You will discover the managers who were engaging in this abusive and draconian labor relations campaign and how it had affected countless of UPS workers thought this location. You will come to learn the reason why James had gained the reputation of being one of the most hated reform minded union stewards in the Alabama District not only by UPS's management, but the old-guard Teamsters union bosses as well. You will see exactly how James became a radical Teamster member.