Question everything this company is telling you. They would not be pushing back this hard if they didn't fear the Teamsters.
We were handed this flyer by members of "leadership" last Wednesday as we were leaving the yard for the day after parking our tractors. They had the nerve to stall dozens of drivers who were off the clock and trying to go home after a hard day's work with this leaflet laced with sarcasm.
Our drivers only seen fit to give both sides of the story.
Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers
ROBERT BOROSAGE
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra day off. But this Labor Day arrives with working families struggling to stay afloat.
Working family incomes haven’t gone up in the 21st century. Inequality reaches new extremes. Corporate profits are reaping a record portion of the nation’s income, while worker wages wallow at record lows. Three-fourths of Americans fear their children will fare less well than they have.
This Labor Day, we should do more than celebrate workers – we should understand how vital reviving worker unions is to rebuilding a broad middle class.
The raging debate on inequality and its remedies often omits discussion of unions. Inequality is blamed on globalization and technology that have transformed our workforce. Remedies focus on better education and more training, with liberals supporting fair taxes to help pay the cost.
This misclassification game is just one way that big companies have been rigging the rules to give themselves an edge, getting around what We the People set down for our democracy.
The result, of course, is even more people paid even less with even worse working conditions. And the bad players get an advantage that drives out the good ones.
Like misclassification, this game-rigging, cheating, edge-seeking, rule-bypassing stuff is everywhere you look. (Rigged trade deals, corporate tax "deferral" and inversions, corporate campaign donations, too-big-to-fail banks, congressional obstruction, etc., etc...) This rigging of the game in favor of the ultra-wealthy gets worse and worse.
Why is this so? Because the rules set down by our democracy can't be enforced unless We the People can organize to be powerful enough to overcome the great wealth and power of a few ultra-billionaires and their corporations. Without the ability to organize, we are on our own as individuals against great wealth and power.
This is where labor unions come in. Working people organizing into a group so they are not fighting this power alone as individuals gives them a chance to demand a slice of the pie.
