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HOURS: The Teamster contract specifically states that no limitation is placed on hours--so that workers can be forced to work seven days a week. The UFW contract insures on day a week as a holiday...
...Almaden has a management-labor health and safety committee, and is required to provide protective clothing and tools, first aid supplies, toilet facilities, and cool drinking water. The contract states that "Workers will not be required to work when to do so would endanger their health and safety." The Teamster contract does not deal with any of these issues...
BENEFITS: Many of the benefits are similar in the two contracts, but UFW contracts are more comprehensive, and the teamster contracts extent only to full-time workers have a credit union. Gallo workers do not. Almaden workers have a medical plan administered by a special staff, which covers 80 per cent of medical cost. Gallo workers also have a medical plan, but it operates through a private insurance company and covers only 50 per cent of costs. The grievance procedure for Gallo workers involves closely spaced deadlines for complaint filling, making it difficult for workers to use the process...
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT: The UFW structure includes elected ranch committees to insure that the terms of the contract are carried out. And the Teamsters? This September, the strikebreakers employed at Gallo went out on strike to protest Teamster non-enforcement of the contract...
...Teamsters Unions is responsive to the needs of the growers, not the farm workers. The Teamsters is run from above through bureaucratic appointments. David Castro, the president of the only existing Teamster local of farm workers (and presently earning $500 per week), was appointed without any election. He argues, "Suppose we had an election and it was stacked and I lost. To be very honest, I have to make sure the local is going to make it" (New York Times, November 11, 1974), Workers say that only the lowest level of the hierarchy has contact with them. As one lettuce...