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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Drivers and helpers for Shred-it in Pawtucket, RI voted overwhelmingly, 13-2, to join Teamsters Local 251 in Woonsocket on Friday. The 20-worker unit overcame an aggressive anti-union campaign by management throughout the organizing drive. We are proud of what we accomplished in this election. Despite the company s efforts to divide and scare us, we stood strong to win a voice on the job, said Josh Linton, a Shred-it driver who played a key role in the unionization effort. We knew better than to fall for the company s lies. I applaud my co-workers for sticking together.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The following is a statement from Marcus W. King, President of Teamsters Local 331 and Director of the Teamsters Human Rights and Diversity Commission: As we reflect upon all of the progress our country and our union have made for racial equality, we are reminded that our work is far from finished. The history of our union and the history of the civil rights movement are deeply intertwined, just as the work we do today for racial and economic justice is deeply intertwined. In 1917, the Teamsters won a clause in a contract for women laundry workers that required equal pay regardless of race – the first such color blind contract clause of its kind. Today union contracts are indispensable to narrowing the racial wealth gap. Black and white Teamsters rode buses together to Washington so they could lobby in favor of the civil rights act, just as today black and white Teamsters visit state capitols th
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