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ProfessorGAC

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8. Mine, Too!

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Mon Sep 6, 2021, 06:04 PM

Sep 2021

A Teamster.
He drove a semi full of milk to the supermarkets in the south suburbs of Chicago each day.
Did that until the company decided to have a customer service rep, also union. He got that gig, so it was Chevy instead on an International Harvester.
When he was 61, the corporation closed all but ice cream operations in Illinois & Indiana because they couldn't compete with the big dairy co-ops in Wisconsin & Michigan. So, he was done, along with everybody else.
He sold Buicks, after that, until he was 67.

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Daddy was a union man. [View all] Atticus Sep 2021 OP

As Lincoln said, FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #1

Respect for your father Duncanpup Sep 2021 #2

I still pay Union Dues voluntarily True Blue American Sep 2021 #9

I'm the child of 2 teacher members in WEA union. Heartstrings Sep 2021 #3

So do I! True Blue American Sep 2021 #10

Proud daughter of OCAW here ❤ Luz Sep 2021 #4

My daddy was a Teamster for 42 years ! RANDYWILDMAN Sep 2021 #5

49 years a dues paying multigraincracker Sep 2021 #6

My Grandfather was a Teamster shop steward back in the day. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #7

Mine, Too! ProfessorGAC Sep 2021 #8

And I drive a Buick!:) True Blue American Sep 2021 #11

Look For The Union Label leftieNanner Sep 2021 #12

My father was a union organizer for the steel mills before he joined the mliitary. As a niyad Sep 2021 #13

Love this. Joinfortmill Sep 2021 #14

Thanks for sharing this, Atticus. Union! 💙 crickets Sep 2021 #15

35 years ALPA trof Sep 2021 #16

Union! 32 years! Stronger Together. Only recourse against labor abuse. Evolve Dammit Sep 2021 #17

Excellent. My father was one of the first non-African American members of the..... George II Sep 2021 #18

Retired Union Grocery Worker Sherman A1 Sep 2021 #19

Union since 1978 VGNonly Sep 2021 #20

Massachusetts Nurses Association at St Vincent's hospital in Worcester MA bottomofthehill Sep 2021 #21

Where is Trof bottomofthehill Sep 2021 #22

wow, powerful memories... thanks! I also would like to see a resurgence of union consciousness... bluboid Sep 2021 #23

for anyone who doesnt know what a hod carrier does- mopinko Sep 2021 #24

Wow. senseandsensibility Sep 2021 #25

the irish laid alot of bricks, all over the british empire. mopinko Sep 2021 #27

This is the type of hod I have carried---a v-shaped tray open at one end, closed at the other Atticus Sep 2021 #29

.. Demovictory9 Sep 2021 #26

My father also Texaswitchy Sep 2021 #28