Lies and intimidation.
I'll post some examples of the lies about this particular Gardena event that were posted at centers nationwide as well as being read in many preshifts.
One form of intimidation comes in the form of cornering fencesitters.
When we filed a petition at NHS, it was quite coincidental that management was up everyone's ass playing the nice guy, telling blatant lies, pulling drivers into offices for one on ones, mandatory locked door meetings, bombarding guys and gals in the fuel bay and other areas where they were never seen before.
Showing a 9 minute video clip of the Overnite ULP strike documentary that was taken completely out of context because it conveniently started minutes after showing management encouraging anti guys to provoke fights and initiate violence then it conveniently ended just before it was explained how many members of Overnite management were found guilty in multiple cases of hiring someone to intentionally cut brake lines and destroy equipment in an effort to blame teamsters for it.
Everyone here has a family to look out for and bills to pay. If I wasn't balls deep into this campaign and scouring every lead to every story and getting both sides of it, I'd probably fall for it too.
Fear is a powerful thing and this corporation knows it.
I can sit here and say I was pulled out of my truck and beat up by red shirt thugs in the parking lot at NHS and everyone would scream at the top of their lungs that it is bullcrap and want proof but when the management says a guy was drug out of his truck and teamsters beat him up, everyone runs with it.
Until you can look at things objectively, you'll forever be a close minded individual whose arrogance and ignorance will forever be blind to the truth as well as the big picture. This can be said about people from both sides but the ratio is far greater with the 'strong' folks.