Democracy in tdu?

[AlJackson1962!]

MY VIEW ON WHERE TDU STANDS FOLLOWING THE 2025 TDU CONVENTION

From today's TDU website"

"6. Democracy

[Yard Dog]

Mr. Jackson I see your an old school Freight Teamster like myself.

[AlJackson1962!]

Yard Dog: I worked in freight from 78-84 and again, after getting "suspended indefinitely" by my then list job at Hospira in 2013, I made the list at New Penn. I was a fuel oil driver for ten years and worked as a freight casual during seasonal layoffs. Back in the day, before deregulation, just about every LTL freight carrier in the Northeast was under the NMFA. It was, as I expect you know, a different world. Freight was the most coveted job in the Teamsters. In Boston, a company called Reliance setup shop just down Washington Avenue in Somerville, near the Local 25 hall in Sullivan Square. That was right when deregulation started to heavily impact the industry. The son of a former Local 25 BA (and TDU member) told me: There was a time when a non-union company might drive through the rotary once, where Local 25 was located, but it would never be able to drive by a second time.

[Gus]

There used to be a time where those tactics worked, unfortunately that is not the case today. Our leadership hasn't figured that out yet, they talk as if they can do shit like that when everyone knows they can't. We need smarter strategies to deal with these times.
I'm very concerned about the Yellow lawsuit that just got revived. If the published reports are true it could bankrupt the union. This whole Yellow issue could have been handled differently and we could have saved 22,000 Teamster jobs. We're not hearing anything from the union about this or anything else in freight for that matter.

[Yard Dog]

I hope you get your money Gus