what do you think of the machinists union compared to teamsters? our shop is organizeing, MENFs name came up a few times with no real explation. I understand there was a problem and i dont mean to bring up bad memories. any help in my self-education would be greatly appreciated . I hope I am not intrudeing on your boards.
when i worked out of 02, it was the machinists union. suposedly, a long, long time ago, NEMF was teamsters, but things from here get muddled in conjecture and opinions and rumors. i heard many of the stories. the one story why it isn't teamsters anymore is because some guys either from one terminal or several terminals pulled a "wild-cat strike". supposedly then, at my former terminal (02) the owner of the company, had several passenger vans pull into the yard, several drivers got out, hooked up to as many trailers as possible, and drive off the property. all of this by the way, was witnessed by a (now retired) owner-operator who i am friends with, which he (the o-o) was leased on with NEMF.
you ask a "comaprison" to the machinists union to the teamsters..........
you would have been better off asking the "comparision " to apples & oranges........
you can't compare the 2 unions.
and YES, the machinist union, is "sleeping" with nemf management, and the owner.........a pretty well known situation many of us are aware of........
you must be relativly new to nemf.......