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Teamsters JC 13 Endorse Jill Schupp for Senate

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Teamsters Joint Council 13 Gets Visit by Australian Labor Union Gives New Meaning to “Labor Solidari
Pictured center is Joint Council 13 President Marvin Kropp and to the left is Sally McManus Principa

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Joint Council 13 Endorses Jill Schupp for Senate

Teamsters Joint Council 13 endorsed Jill Schupp for Missouri State Senate in the 24th District at their Delegates meeting on November 18, 2013. We will look forward to helping Jill get elected next year. “She has been a very good friend of organized labor in her Missouri State Rep. position in the 88th District,” stated, Joint Council 13 President Marvin Kropp, and we look to assist her in this campaign. Good luck Jill!

Teamsters Joint Council 13 Endorses Steve Stenger for County Executive

On Monday October 21, 2013, Teamsters Joint Council 13 Executive Board along with the delegates of JC 13 endorsed Steve Stenger for St. Louis County Executive. (Pictured Right to left is Local 833 Mark Bruemmer, Local 610 Mike Lieser, Local 6 Ron Shy, Joint Council 13 President Marvin Kropp, Steven Stenger, Local 688 Mike Goebel, Local 600 Larry Tinker, and Local 682 Ed Kimbrell.

Teamsters Joint Council 13 Gets Visit by Australian Labor Union Gives New Meaning to “Labor Solidarity”
Organizers from the Australian Services Union (ASU) in Sidney spent the week of April 16th in Saint Louis Missouri helping Teamsters’ organizers and community activists go door-to-door in Bridgeton to inform residents about the serious health concerns created by subsurface fire in the Republic Service nearby landfill.
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10 Things You Should Know About Paycheck Deception

Since 2010, right-wing governors and legislators have attacked workers’ rights across the Midwest. These attacks have come in different forms: from stripping public workers’ collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin to an all-out ban on fair share contracts in Michigan and Indiana.

Over the past several months, Teamster members have approached me from several Locals who inquired about forming a “Teamster Horsemen Motorcycle Association Chapter” in Teamsters Joint Council 13. I have made some inquiries on forming a chapter, and believe it to be a good idea.

The Labor Movement In American History

The Labor Movement In American History By Cary Hammond Presented to Teamsters Joint Council 13 April 9, 2011 All of you know that organized labor is the foundation of the middle class in America and has been the great catalyst in creating a society with at least some measure of shared prosperity.

Labor: A countervailing force to corporate power and wealth The demonization of public employees in Wisconsin and across America is the latest demagogic tactic in the effort to marginalize collective bargaining in America. The budgetary woes facing governments are a function of the meltdown of the capital markets in 2008 and the recession. This meltdown was not caused by teachers, firefighters or police officers but by the greed of financial institutions insufficiently constrained by regulation or ethics. Malefactors of the meltdown were rewarded with bailouts; public employees are being scapegoated for partisan advantage. To what extent public employees contribute to their health insurance or pensions is a legitimate issue. What is not legitimate is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's assertion that his state's budgetary challenges require the evisceration of collective bargaining for most public employees, irrespective of monetary concessions. That Mr. Walker determined that Wisconsin could afford more than $100 million in corporate tax breaks shows that his stance is a thick slice of ideological baloney. The business and conservative groups that refuse to recognize the role of collective bargaining in creating and maintaining the middle class are conducting an unprecedented attack on unions, including in Missouri. That they are doing so a year after the Supreme Court allowed unlimited corporate contributions to influence elections is no coincidence. If the union-busters and their corporate benefactors cripple unions to the point of effectively eliminating collective bargaining, there will be no meaningful countervailing force to corporate power, either in workplaces or polling places. The ideologically extreme anti-worker forces in America will not be satisfied until American wage-earners can't negotiate for terms and conditions. At that point, the wrecking ball will have been put to what's left of the American middle class. Cary Hammond • St. Louis

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American History

Franklin D. Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms.

Remarks To Labor Leaders Regarding RTW by Cary Hammond, Truman Hotel, Jefferson City, MO November 16, 2010 I have always believed that the Labor Movement is ultimately engaged in a continuing war of ideas and this is especially so on the issue of a so-called Right-to-Work (“RTW”) Law.