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Socialist Action /May 2001
No Oscar for this Teamster
A Hollywood Teamster bureaucrat is giving a new
and sordid meaning to the phrase, "Bad Actor." The union official
says that if the Guild Writers of America strike the film studios, "his
members" will cross the picket lines.
"We usually honor other locals' picket lines,"
Leo Reed, head of Teamsters Local 399, told The Los Angeles Times. But if
there is work to be done, I'll support my members."
Ironically, the writers' contract ends May 1, the
workers holiday that originated in the United States in 1886 as part of
workers' fight for an eight-hour day. Chances are Reed hasn't polled the
union's 4000 members to see if they really want to scab on the 11,000 writers.
Nor has Reed said if he will also order the Teamsters to scab on the 135,000
actors, whose contracts expire June 30.
Socialist Action /May 2001 |