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PROTEST * USA - Teamster against Cummins at Dallas Trucking Show
Scores of Teamsters swept through the event hall at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas on Saturday
Dallas,TX,USA -ByM Products & Industry News -30 August 2007: -- ... To protest continuing labor abuses at diesel engine manufacturer Cummins, Inc.... Wearing bright red T-shirts and holding a banner reading "Cummins: Stop Every Abuse," workers passed out thousands of fliers decrying Cummins' sustained anti-worker operational strategy over the past 15 years and the trail of broken lives, uncertainty and worsening health care coverage that it leaves behind... Cummins' sustained union-busting campaign has involved 21 union decertification attempts and led to multiple strikes. Between 2006 and 2007 alone, breakdowns in labor relations at Cummins resulted in strikes in Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Spokane, Washington; South Charleston, South Carolina; and Louisville, Kentucky... The emotional and economic pressure of these strikes has created severe hardships for workers and their families. In one case, a Cummins worker in Portland, Oregon, who committed suicide, cited despair over the long strike in his last will and testament...
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