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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

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>Black Teamster lives matter

>Philando Castile was a worker and member of Teamsters Local 320. He had been employed in St. Paul public school cafeterias for 14 years. At the time of his assassination, Castile was nutrition services supervisor at the J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School.

>Children loved Philando. “He was [as] much a teacher than any teacher in that building,” said Joan Edman, a retired worker at the school. “He remembered their names. He remembered who couldn’t have milk. He knew what they could have to eat and what they couldn’t,” said Edman, who added that “five hundred real children are directly impacted.”

>“He was just a nice, caring person who worked at the school, who should not be dead,” said Andrew Karre, whose 8-year-old son attends the Montessori school. (Time, July 7, 2016)
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Justice for Philando Castile!

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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

1 week ago

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Sylvia Woodhouse, Forever Present in our hearts!
USW Local 8751, Boston School Bus Union and Team Solidarity, just received news of the tragic and untimely passing last night of our beloved Union sister, Unity Team/ Team Solidarity activist leader and dearest friend, "Miss Sylvia". Sylvia demonstrated a fierce love for Justice, a rock solid militancy in battle and a gentle, caring kindness which exemplifies true solidarity. She helped to lead our union in its formative years. She had a sweetness and humor that was infectious. She will be sorely missed. Our deepest heartfelt condolences to her family. Sylvia Woodhouse Presente! ... See MoreSee Less

Sylvia Woodhouse, Forever Present in our hearts!
USW Local 8751, Boston School Bus Union and Team Solidarity, just received news of the tragic and untimely passing last night of our beloved Union sister, Unity Team/ Team Solidarity activist leader and dearest friend, Miss Sylvia. Sylvia demonstrated a fierce love for Justice, a rock solid militancy in battle and a gentle, caring kindness which exemplifies true solidarity. She helped to lead our union in its formative years. She had a sweetness and humor that was infectious. She will be sorely missed. Our deepest heartfelt condolences to her family. Sylvia Woodhouse Presente!

Mehtab Haider Kazmi

1 week ago

Mehtab Haider Kazmi shared an event to Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers's Timeline.

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Al-Quds 2017

Jun 23, 4:30pm

Copley Square (Boylston St., and Darthmouth St.), Boston

Let's stand united with all humans of conscience-be the Jews, Christians or Muslims for the sake of haqq (truth) and to show support for the innocent civilian victims of global Zionism, false flag ope...

Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

2 weeks ago

$$ Trillions for Union Jobs, Healthcare, Housing, Education, Renewable Energy and Food, Not for War!

Solidarity with the United National Anti-War Coalition!

June 16, 2017

Local 8751 Pledges Solidarity and Support and Wishes All Success to
the United National Anti-War Coalition at its Conference in Richmond, VA

We regret that we are unable to be with UNAC at your important and timely conference in Richmond today, but our thoughts and solidarity are there with you. As we gather this morning in the bus yards at 4:00 AM, we’re watching and sharing the news from our homelands around the world – from Alabama and Georgia, Haiti, Cabo Verde, Vietnam, Honduras, Trinidad and Ethiopia. Top of the news today is massive new U.S. troop movements to Afghanistan; yesterday it was 3 dead soldiers and hundreds more from that nation which has been under attack and occupied by the U.S. since 1979, a year we struck to win our first contract.

Yesterday the news included bodies in the streets of Port au Prince, shot down during a demonstration against the U.S./U.N. “selected” government. The day before, it was U.S. troops participating in the slaughter in the Philippines. Last week it was horrible video of wealthy Venezuelans, cheered on by the billionaire, gangster Trump administration and its Secretary of ExxonMobile, burning and stabbing to death a Black supporter of the first bus driver president in world history. Not long ago it was the Mother of All Bombs obliterating a country Afghani town and dozens of cruise missiles slamming into a Syrian airport, both independent countries on the other side of the planet.

We fight the Veolia/Transdev corporation and the City of Boston every day as its millionaire CEO’s and sponsor politicians steal our time, fire and suspend us, slash our and our children’s routes, conspire to cut budgets, and constantly attack our hard-won union rights…but the people of Somalia, Korea and Yemen never did anything against us. We have friends and family in Flint, Michigan who’ve been poisoned and still can’t drink the water that Veolia and its criminal co-conspirators were paid to pump from that filthy river. We have friends and family who are being snatched up by ICE and who can’t travel home to bury our loved ones. We have friends and family who are being evicted or foreclosed from our homes, who are literally hungry in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, who are being kicked off their health insurance and denied disability benefits, who are working low-paid jobs at nursing homes and hospitals into their old age and often until death, having no savings to enjoy retirement. There are children on our busses who disappear every week into the new, very expensive, pre-fab juvenile prison on the edge of Franklin Park.

We say our war is at home. We demand with UNAC that all U.S. troops be brought home immediately! We call with UNAC for trillions of dollars for housing, healthcare, union jobs, education and healthy food for all! We have been in the streets nearly every week for months to protest fascist-minded politicians, police violence against our children and our LGBTQ family, ICE repression of our co-workers and war-budgets that slash our rightful social services. We look forward to joining all the forces of UNAC in your plans to take the streets in massive protests to end the U.S. war machine once and for all.

Andre Francois, President
Steve Kirschbaum, VP
Garry Murchison, Grievance Committee
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Team Solidarity- the Voice of United School Bus Union Workers

2 weeks ago

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New England Carpenters Demand Workers Comp for Undocumented Worker Detained by ICE

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