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From the LVRJ: Union leaders of Yellow Checker Star Transportation cab drivers vowed on Friday to widen the 13-day strike but acknowledged that possibly their best chance had slipped away.
“We have to figure out ways to spread the strike; it’s got to get broader,” said Mike Goodwin, president of the Office and Professional Employees Union, told about 540 drivers at a meeting at the Rio. This meant not only dissuading the replacement drivers the company has started to hire but squeezing its revenue stream.
But United Steelworkers Union officials in Albuquerque threw in a surprise hurdle when they decided on Tuesday to sign the contract offer from Frias Transportation Management without putting it to a drivers vote. This averted the possibility of simultaneous work stoppages at Frias, the largest local cab company, and No. 2 Yellow Checker Star affecting more than half the operating permits known as medallions
Various venues around town have reported little or no disruption during the current strike, but feared that a double walkout would wreak havoc on the visitor industry.
“We should put a big, giant rat in front of the Steelworkers,” said Michael Reid, a Yellow Checker Star Driver. “We need an approach to deal with this treason.”
Goodwin told strikers, “I know everybody is angry about what happened at Frias. Nobody is more angry than me.” http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/organized-labor/taxi-union-leaders-pledge-widen-13-day-strike
First, it is kind of funny that a union from a rival company back stabbed the Yellow Checker Star Transportation former employees.
and the drivers who went on strike? Well, they don't have a paycheck, cannot collect unemployment and maybe get a small strike check from the union in which they can buy a bag of chips and a soda.
The strikers who went out on strike were fools to listen to their union and now most of the workers have been blackballed from working in the Las Vegas area.
Meanwhile, the union leaders are living high off the hog off these strikers union dues.
Meanwhile, the salaries of their union leaders is as follows:
PRESIDENT: $333,45
DIRECTOR-ORGNZ/FIELD SERV: $318,656.00
SECRETARY-TREASURER: $263,407.00
DIRECTOR-COMM/ED/RESEARCH: $194,658.00
http://www.unionfacts.com/union/Office_%26_Professional_Employees
Can you say suckers?
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