Truck Drivers’ Ordeal Symbolic of Bush Administration’s Anti-Worker Policies

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/20/truck-drivers-ordeal-symbolic-of-bush-administrations-anti-worker-policies/

by Leo W. Gerard, Feb 20, 2008

Let me tell you a story about three truck drivers from East Liberty, Ohio. It’s a true American tale of valor and perseverance. It’s symbolic of the past seven years of Bush administration attempts to stamp out the labor movement while slashing business taxes and oversight and regulation of corporations.

The drivers are Emerson Young, John Jolliff and Steven Daniels. Young wrote a letter complaining about two bosses at TNT Logistics of North America in East Liberty.

Then TNT fired all three drivers on Aug. 26, 2002.

TNT did it, although all three had received safe driving and performance awards. Jolliff and Daniels were among 90 dock workers and drivers who listed grievances that they wanted Young to put in the letter. But Jolliff and Daniels didn’t have anything to do with writing the note. Still, TNT fired them, too.

So that letter must have been pretty foul, pretty down and dirty, to have provoked dismissal of not just one, but three meritorious drivers, right?

Let’s take a look at it. Mr. Young refers to the offending supervisors, Robert Wheeler and Jeff Basinger, with formal, courteous titles throughout: “Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Basinger.”

FULL story at link.

[blue neen]

1. Go get 'em, guys.

Keep trying!

[VP505]

2. Every time I read one of these

it makes me think of how much work is going to have to be done by our next Pres Admin just to get back to where we were in 2000. What a crying shame that its going to take so much time and effort away from moving our country ahead so that no one will have to struggle like those truckers.

[classykaren]

3. nothing will work but the employee free choice act