Texas union members

Alan Jacobson alanjacobson at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jan 28 12:41:45 PST 2003


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



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