Tell me how 560 benefited as a union when it lost NEMF? Did you have a vote or did Myron just say this is how it will be? You guys will no long work under the NMFA with those big bad Teamsters. You will now work under a sweetheart deal with the Machinists union. Puff you are the one who brought up murder and RICO in an ABF wages thread. Did you make union scale working under the hat at NEMF? You always revert back to blaming the Teamsters for not protecting you from the mobsters. NEMF was in bed with the Mafia. How could the union have protected you from a corrupt deal between Myron and the Genovese family? Did those mobsters protect NEMF for free?
Why didn't you just call the 560 shape hall and get another job? At that time there were plenty of good union carriers that paid scale and abided by the NMFA. If I remember correctly it only took 8 days to make the list back then. When my first job went under the hat, by the mob, in 1977 I left and started shaping over in 560. I made the list in 8 working days but lost a lot of time being on the bottom. Every day that there wasn't work my steward would call the shape hall and find work for us. I had 7 W-2s that first year. 560 took care of it's members. I went on to have 33 good years in Local 560. Why didn't you just go to work for another company instead of working under the hat for the mobbed up NEMF? Back then you guys were the laughing stock of the LTL freight industry in North Jersey. I'd have left in a New York minute but you decided to stay and work under the hat..............So now after all those years you still blame the Teamsters for your not manning up and moving on.
Ahh,....thank you, Brother Crystal.......Having PM'ed you, and knowing your work history,....I know you can speak with veracity as far as what went on in the areas you're discussing.
There's a phenomenon amongst some non-Union guys that they need "justification" for their choice of employer,......knowing that they privately regret not having the protection, stability, and freedom of speech that goes with a Union employer.
So they constantly "dig" for .....reasons why they don't join, or are employed by a Union carrier. They want to make their choice a....."moral".....decision,....when actually, it was a choice more based on expediency and availability.....than a "moral" distaste of Unionism........
There are hundreds of websites out there that will actively promote that justification by magifying the smallest malfeasance by a Union official into the largest immoral mountain imaginable.............And,...who is financing them?
The fact of the matter is that,.....warts and all,.......Union membership is protected by the First Amendment........and the gun-waving Second Amenders should be promoting Unionism just as much as gun-ownership,....that is,...if they understood real patriotism......
But,.....as I've found for years,.....that the people who can quote by heart, the Second Amendment,.....are ,...90% of the time,....flummoxed, when I ask them to name the three rights and two Freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment......
If you're not promoting freedom of speech,....even AFTER you've punched the timeclock,.......do you truly understyand the responsibility of being a citizen in this country?
And,...if you're actively looking for "justification" of your....."choice".........well, then,....that would be lying to yourself.......