Texas union members

[Alan Jacobson]

For some large companies, nominal wall-to-wall union
representation is the case, due to previous union
victories. For example, at United Parcel Service, the
Teamsters (among drivers and most inside operations
workers) has wall-to-wall representation in every
state as part of the National Master UPS Agreement
(approx 200,000 members under contract). Of course in
Right to Work states people can refuse to join the
union, so it is up to the union to recruit these
people or not, as they see fit.

Back in the day when the National Master Freight
Agreement covered 400,000 workers, that was probably
the cause of significant unionization in places that
didn't get it home grown. That was before the major
geographical industrial shift to the South so maybe
the effect was limited. The NFMA is almost kaput now,
approx 80,000 under the contract, maybe less now with
the bankrupcy of Consolidated Freightways, sad to say.

Alan Jacobson