Teamsters Memo Signals Rift Between Major Unions
HuffPost
The Teamsters are ending a “no-raid” pact with the machinists' union. The change could lead to turf wars over membership.
Leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has formally opened the door to the union poaching members of a fellow union, setting up the possibility of an internal fight within organized labor.
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien sent a memo to the union’s officers and organizers on May 23 informing them he had nullified their “no-raid” agreement with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), according to a copy of the memo obtained by HuffPost.
No-raid agreements forbid unions from trying to organize one another’s members so that they defect to the other union. The AFL-CIO has a long-standing policy that bars raiding among its member groups, but the Teamsters are not part of the 60-union labor federation, only the IAM is.
The hard-charging O’Brien has made a name for himself tussling publicly with corporate giants like UPS and Amazon as well as Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill. He went viral last year after trading insults and nearly coming to blows with a GOP lawmaker in a Senate hearing.
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