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This summer, organizers from the United Farm Workers Union rallied some support for the UFW's latest boycotts--of Gallo wine and lettuce picked by Teamster...
...Louis found itself without a daily newspaper last week. Teamster Local 610 struck the Post-Dispatch after negotiations between the paper and its truck drivers and delivery men deadlocked. Wages were at issue, but the chief dispute involved the job security of the 32 men who heave bundles of papers on and off the trucks. A new automated delivery system can do much of their work. The Post-Dispatch offered to train the men for other jobs; Teamster negotiators said no, that the men must remain in their present slots. When the Newspaper Guild supported the Teamster action, the rival...
...representatives just wanted a "neutral" resolution in the face of the UFW-Teamster struggle in California," Frank said yesterday. "They hate to take sides between the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO" which supports...
...come these union-hating growers welcome Teamster advances rather than negotiate with a worker-controlled union? Growers, not surprisingly, prefer to deal with bosses who have nothing in common with the men and women who spend their lives bent over in the fields (When you read the terms of the contract this unholy alliance produced, you'll see just how well the Growers and Teamsters get along -- and why it only took them all of two days to write that contract...
Once M ore W ith Feeling: All people of goodwill can support the farm workers in their non-violent resistance to the Neanderthallic conditions imposed on them by the Grower-Teamster consortium, by 1) Boycott table grapes, starting now! 2) Contribute money to help feed the workers who now will miss the few months when they can earn any wages. The money you send will be used for basics: food, clothing, medicine. Their need is staggering. 3) Continue to boycott iceberg lettuce and A & P Stores...