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marble falls

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7. I've been a Teamster. My dad was a Teamster organizer. No doubt about it: the drivers got ...

Reply to MarineCombatEngineer (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 6, 2021, 03:16 PM

Aug 2021

... treated good. I wasn't a driver. That year Fitz and his goons sat in Las Vegas and wrote a new rule that said anyone holding two offices in the union would get two checks.

All the Teamsters did for me was send me a magazine once a month.

Don't get me wrong. I believe in unions, my grandfather was a miner and hardcore UMW, I always felt the AFL/CIO always looking out for us working stiffs.

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