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<blockquote data-quote="959Nanook" data-source="post: 1023582" data-attributes="member: 14462"><p><strong>Re: Joke</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I understand from your position how you might feel that IBT is for drivers. I don't know the numbers but that is not entirely accurate. Not sure what kind of local you are from and what jurisdiction they have but there are Teamsters who don't have driving in their job function or it isn't their primary job function aside from PTers at UPS. </p><p></p><p>IBT represents warehouse employees, locomotive engineers and trainmen, printing and publishing employees, gas station attendants (how my dad got his start in IBT), mechanics, pilots, flight attendants, nursing home employees, hotel industry employees, law enforcement officers, corrections officers, grocery store employees, film industry employees, and the list goes on. As I said, I do not know the numbers (most are probably drivers and warehouse or at least I imagine that those two classifications probably have the largest numbers) but you can bet your bottom dollar that IBT will represent anyone they can if they can get the jurisdiction to represent them.</p><p></p><p>The same apathy that plagues the American electorate plagues organized labor. If you could unite PTers at UPS or non-driver Teamsters on a bigger scale then their voice and the strength within UPS Teamsters and IBT on the larger scale would be powerful. The structure of IBT makes it difficult to do that without coordination from IBT. I am not suggesting that it is a conspiracy or anything like that... it is what it is. Then again... IBT started out as an idea against near impossible odds and grew to what it is today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="959Nanook, post: 1023582, member: 14462"] [b]Re: Joke[/b] I understand from your position how you might feel that IBT is for drivers. I don't know the numbers but that is not entirely accurate. Not sure what kind of local you are from and what jurisdiction they have but there are Teamsters who don't have driving in their job function or it isn't their primary job function aside from PTers at UPS. IBT represents warehouse employees, locomotive engineers and trainmen, printing and publishing employees, gas station attendants (how my dad got his start in IBT), mechanics, pilots, flight attendants, nursing home employees, hotel industry employees, law enforcement officers, corrections officers, grocery store employees, film industry employees, and the list goes on. As I said, I do not know the numbers (most are probably drivers and warehouse or at least I imagine that those two classifications probably have the largest numbers) but you can bet your bottom dollar that IBT will represent anyone they can if they can get the jurisdiction to represent them. The same apathy that plagues the American electorate plagues organized labor. If you could unite PTers at UPS or non-driver Teamsters on a bigger scale then their voice and the strength within UPS Teamsters and IBT on the larger scale would be powerful. The structure of IBT makes it difficult to do that without coordination from IBT. I am not suggesting that it is a conspiracy or anything like that... it is what it is. Then again... IBT started out as an idea against near impossible odds and grew to what it is today. [/QUOTE]
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