[Ben Ficklin]

If and when the mexican truck drivers get here, the Teamsters will organize them.

[norton]

A large percentage, if not the majority, of semi-drivers in the Los Angeles area ARE Mexicans. Does not matter where the truck is registered (and both countries are represented);
the trucks are below standard and the driving is scary,
safety checks are "racist",
freeways around the harbor are littered with lost parts,
and there have been efforts at unionizing as independents.

(I have this recurring vision of two impoverished mexicans watching an American truck go down their dirt trail and complaining about the "Gringo invasion".)

[4Freedom]

A lesson that I learned, while I was working my way through college, is the Teamsters will cut their membership's throats.

Members pay the teamsters a flat rate per month not a percentage of what they make. The more employees the companies can hire, the more dues that the Teamsters get.

I witnessed a Teamster's Local allow their member's wages to be negotiated way down and the companies able to force old full-timers, that were at top-rate, out and replace them with a larger number of starting-rate employees.

The new contract made it very unattractive for new hirees to consider this line of work as a career, anymore.

The employers concentrated on hiring students that were looking to finance their education, so they could pursue other careers.

A very small percentage of these students ever stuck around long enough to make top-rate under the new contract.

The Teamsters collected more dues.

The Employers saved labor costs.

The union members got the royal shaft.