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Bush's War on Labor * USA - Three TNT Truck Drivers' Stories
It's symbolic of the past seven years of Bush administration attempts to stamp out the labor movement while slashing taxes, oversight and regulation on corporations
USA -The Huffington Post, by Leo W. Gerard -February 11, 2008: -- ... Let me tell you a story about three truck drivers from East Liberty, Ohio. It's a true American tale of valor and perseverance... The drivers are Emerson Young, John Jolliff and Steven Daniels. Young wrote a letter complaining about two bosses at TNT Logistics of North America in East Liberty... Then TNT fired all three drivers. It was Aug. 26, 2002... TNT did it although all three had received safe driving and performance awards... The tone, as in this passage referring to Mr. Wheeler, "He has lied to us on various occasions and we do not approve of this."... It list numerous specific complaints, including that supervisors had arbitrarily cut 15 minutes from driving schedules so drivers believed that unless they violated speed limits or falsified log books in which they documented times, they could not be paid the same amount as they previously had been for the same routes... The most confrontational statement in the letter, the one that would get the three in the most trouble, occurs here: "These drivers are being asked by dispatchers and management to do these runs and either fix their log books or turn their heads on it"... When it got the truckers' case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said, "There is little or no direct evidence on whether Young knew that the statement was false. Rather, the Board (NLRB) reached its finding of actual malice by supplementing the thin record with unwarranted inferences and misinterpretations of testimony"... While nice to be affirmed again, the drivers don't get too far with this decision. That's because the case now goes back to the NLRB -- the very one that chose to read the statement in that bizarre way... It's 2008. The three drivers were fired six years ago. Still, they're pressing on. Year after year, case after case, they persist in seeking justice. They don't have Nardelli's millions...
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