Teamsters Protest Union Meeting

by | Jun 20, 2010 | Corruption, News

20100620_Philly_Teamsters_picket_meeting_on_shifting_film_work.html.jpg Members of a Philadelphia area Teamsters local have picketed a union meeting that was called to announce a change in work offered to members in the lucrative movie industry. The changes were proposed after a Teamsters Independent Review Board report in February found that Local 107 had used a system of “favoritism and nepotism” to award jobs in the movie industry. The IRB is a three-member panel established under a 1992 federal court decree aimed at ferreting out corruption and organized crime in the union. The change would shift the Philadelphia based work, currently performed by members of Local 107 in Philadelphia, to a local union based in New York. The change would negatively effect roughly 200 members. Teamster Tony Sgrillo said it best in commenting on 107 President William Hamilton, who was a no-show for the announcement. “If he can’t give the work out with favoritism and nepotism, then he doesn’t want it,” Sgrillo said. “If he can’t have it, nobody can.”

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