Iron Mountain workers defy threats, join Teamsters

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBc3y-9sBte1juXch_Yso-XhViDpMbPg3TqGj1zpE0s6arAbzFFr11lsmJPTCGGpRT1ATLl1nA_XKnwDG8KuFaWa1LTR2D5f5h2SePLfZMMqyOVKf7k78gKVOkg5NOFvoj6dfFZp4beemP/s1600/Victory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBc3y-9sBte1juXch_Yso-XhViDpMbPg3TqGj1zpE0s6arAbzFFr11lsmJPTCGGpRT1ATLl1nA_XKnwDG8KuFaWa1LTR2D5f5h2SePLfZMMqyOVKf7k78gKVOkg5NOFvoj6dfFZp4beemP/s200/Victory.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>Welcome to our 24 new <a href="http://teamster.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamster</a> brothers and sisters from who drive shredder trucks for Iron Mountain. They overcame <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/11/surveillance-retaliation-and-antiunion-lectures.html" rel="nofollow">threats and intimidation</a> to join <a href="http://www.teamsterslocal728.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 728</a>.<br /><br />The drivers voted today because they want a share in the billions of dollars of profit the company is making. One worker said they are choosing to go union because the company is making changes and all the workers see is more work, with new deadlines and quotes.<br /><br />Teamsters Local 728 organizer Ben Speight tweeted:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...these brothers stood strong and united today! Proud to be a TEAMSTER!</blockquote>The new Iron Mountain Teamsters stood up to anti-union lectures, intimidation, threats and the firing of a pro-union worker. A worker recorded one anti-union lecture and shared it with <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">Josh Eidelson at </span><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/11/04/we_have_the_right_to_educate_you_workplace_indoctrination_caught_on_tape/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">Salon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">. </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px; margin: 1em 20px;">One recording captures a manager telling an activist worker one-on-one, “There’s nothing I don’t know,” “There’s no secrets anymore,” and “I am upset with you personally” for pursuing unionization without telling him. The other captures the same manager telling a group of employees in an Oct. 24 meeting,"We have the right to educate you, and we’re gonna exercise that right.”...</blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">Workers told Eidelson the company's managers are constantly harassing them not to unionize.</span><br /><br />Well, they did and we're proud to call them brother and sister. Welcome to the Teamsters!

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Another Teamster organizing victory in Georgia!

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrQGeKZvBe2BNc38lDl6OKWFrnY3QKucIBcw4rHIggnrwlM68k9UnEvdJbjAIen263klP5LX0N6OSshhgt1r_REEDhsqh6cOLzlGVpKdbL-Eq7Afa6wNxK4I9uO_FVFRRHdq9zMWUD4t1/s1600/dekalb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrQGeKZvBe2BNc38lDl6OKWFrnY3QKucIBcw4rHIggnrwlM68k9UnEvdJbjAIen263klP5LX0N6OSshhgt1r_REEDhsqh6cOLzlGVpKdbL-Eq7Afa6wNxK4I9uO_FVFRRHdq9zMWUD4t1/s400/dekalb.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DeKalb County workers celebrate.</td></tr></tbody></table>Please give a warm welcome to hundreds of soon-to-be new Teamster brothers and sisters who work as sanitation workers for <a href="http://www.co.dekalb.ga.us/" rel="nofollow">DeKalb County, Ga</a>.!<br /><br />Although the future <a href="http://www.teamsterslocal728.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Local 728</a> members had the support of their company’s CEO and county commissioners, it took months to find a solution to the state’s No Rights at Work laws. State law does not give public sector workers the right to collectively bargain. Today, DeKalb County Commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance allowing county employees to organize.<br /><br />Commissioners essentially voted to recognize the <a href="http://teamster.org/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters</a> as the workers' union representative. The ordinance takes effect Jan. 1.The 400 workers who have already signed membership applications will become members of Teamsters Local 728 that day.<br /><br />Dejuan McDaniel, an organizing committee member and front-end loader driver for 13 years at DeKalb, is excited for the future.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We have been without a serious voice for so long. We had safety issues that have been unheard. We had pay issues, mistreatment of employees. It was long overdue.</blockquote>Eric Robertson, Teamsters Local 728 business agent, said they've been talking to the workers for more than seven years. "It's been a long time coming," he said.<br /><br />The new ordinance will allow about 4,000 other DeKalb County workers to join unions.<br /><br />

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