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Originally Posted by RichieLion
I've been a Teamster for 40 years and now am retired. The Teamsters afforded me a solid middle class life and a retirement with dignity.
In order to accomplish this, we had to keep the company we worked for solvent and profit bearing.
We are not like public employee unions who have all their benefits regardless of their input or contribution or production. Teamsters had to compete in the marketplace and make their employers profitable in order to survive.
Proud to have done this for so many years.
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I agree. I have had the pleasure of managing an assorted group of public employees for the last 3 years, after being the employee in a private sector non-union job for 35years. It has been a real eye opener! I went from an arena where most loved the job that they did and were proud to be among the best to a "that's not my job" mentality. Wow!!