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Teamsters Warehouse Workers Face a Bankruptcy Court Designed to Protect Bosses, Not Workers [1]

Bruce Vail
In These Times
October 8, 2014
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Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are mobilizing their forces in the wake of an unexpected attack by a notoriously anti-union warehousing company looking to undermine workers with back-room tactics in federal bankruptcy court.

The Keene, New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers’s actions could prove to be an immediate threat to the livelihoods of about 1,100 Teamster members in the Mid-Atlantic region, the latest in a series of damaging anti-union maneuvers by the company. The action also highlights the growing market power of C&S, a low-profile company that has quietly grown into the nation’s largest warehousing corporation.

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[2] http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17225/teamsters_warehouse_workers_face_a_bankruptcy_court_designed_to_protect_bos
[3] http://www.tdu.org/issues/warehouse