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<blockquote data-quote="705red" data-source="post: 726667" data-attributes="member: 5229"><p>I come from a local that has an election every 3 years. Now I will agree sometimes change can be good. We (upsers) where once the red headed step child of the Teamsters here. We have always been about 2/3rds of this local, but UPSers would not care or even vote. We had some good UPS reps and than they where all fired by the sec/treas at the time Gerry Zero. He put feight, DHL and other crafts in to our buildings and screwed us all over.</p><p> </p><p>That came back to bite him, we got a slates together with a UPSer in the top spot, with some freight and railyard members. I remember guys from TDU saying that Zero could not be beat. This only motivated us, we had no representation! I watched guys that were close to teh slate get canned and upheld at panel. </p><p> </p><p>Well after some fist fights and alot of campaigning, we for teh first time voted out an incumbent slate from 705. We didnt win by a few votes it was a 1,000 with 4 slates running. We have a YRC driver that has ran a slate teh last 9 elections knowing he doesnt have a shot. Thats 27 years straight he has ran and this last election he fot a little over 200 votes and he will waste our money next election and run again. This last election the current slate received more votes than the other 3 combined, and our local spent $100,000 to hold this election. Not including all the money the slates raised to run for office, that money could be better off spent on voting Hoffa out! IMO</p><p> </p><p>I have heard good things about 177's leadership and have not heard one reason why this Mark wants to run an election. I have not heard what he and others plan on doing that would make the local stronger, better and more involved. Maybe this mark is related to my 27 year guy that runs for ****s and giggles!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="705red, post: 726667, member: 5229"] I come from a local that has an election every 3 years. Now I will agree sometimes change can be good. We (upsers) where once the red headed step child of the Teamsters here. We have always been about 2/3rds of this local, but UPSers would not care or even vote. We had some good UPS reps and than they where all fired by the sec/treas at the time Gerry Zero. He put feight, DHL and other crafts in to our buildings and screwed us all over. That came back to bite him, we got a slates together with a UPSer in the top spot, with some freight and railyard members. I remember guys from TDU saying that Zero could not be beat. This only motivated us, we had no representation! I watched guys that were close to teh slate get canned and upheld at panel. Well after some fist fights and alot of campaigning, we for teh first time voted out an incumbent slate from 705. We didnt win by a few votes it was a 1,000 with 4 slates running. We have a YRC driver that has ran a slate teh last 9 elections knowing he doesnt have a shot. Thats 27 years straight he has ran and this last election he fot a little over 200 votes and he will waste our money next election and run again. This last election the current slate received more votes than the other 3 combined, and our local spent $100,000 to hold this election. Not including all the money the slates raised to run for office, that money could be better off spent on voting Hoffa out! IMO I have heard good things about 177's leadership and have not heard one reason why this Mark wants to run an election. I have not heard what he and others plan on doing that would make the local stronger, better and more involved. Maybe this mark is related to my 27 year guy that runs for ****s and giggles! [/QUOTE]
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