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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
Honoring the Legacy of James R. Hoffa on the 100th Year of His Birth
Stop Nuclear Fires at Republic Landfill in Missouri
Joint Council 13 Picnic & Car Show 2012
Teamster Leadership Academy
Union News and Social Media Communication
This is What a Teamster Looks Like!
Teamsters at the State Capitol fighting for Workers’ Rights. March 2012.
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Stop Nuclear Fires at Republic Landfill in Missouri
Community, Environmentalists, Teamsters Tell EPA: Stop Nuclear Fires at Republic Landfill in Missouri
(St. Louis, MO) – Last night, more than 300 people from the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Missouri Jobs with Justice, and the Teamsters Union attended a public meeting held by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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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.
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| Teamster Horsemen Motorcycle Association |
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.
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| 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.
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| Letter To The Editor, St.Louis Post-Dispatch, By Attorney Cary Hammond |
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.
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| Remarks To Labor Regarding 'Right To Work' By Cary Hammond |
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.
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