Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> John Lacny wrote:
> but there is something to be said for the Master Freight
> >Agreement and all it meant.
>
> Yeah, but could it survive trucking deregulation?
I had forgotten about this completely, but if you go back to the time in which that agreement was negotiated you will (I think) find the editorial pages, etc. filled with predictions of doom if the man at the head of the Teamsters could stop all movement in the nation with a word. Or something like that. In general, there was real fear of union power in this case.
Carrol