EPISODE NOTES

Record-setting amount of Teamsters come together on behalf of workers at 11^th Unity Conference; Anheuser-Busch Teamsters ratify new contract that retains them as best paid U.S. brewery employees; Oakland, Calif. political leaders rally behind Taylor Farms organizing effort; Lilly Ledbetter to join New York City Teamsters at Friday rally; Meet Marvin Kropp, president of Joint Council 13 and secretary treasurer and principal officer of Local 618 in Missouri; Report shows new jobs are not paying as well as the old ones they are replacing.

SHOW NOTES

Importance of organizing, political efforts are stressed to 1,400 attendees at Unity Conference; New Anheuser-Busch contract covering 4,500 brewery workers across the nation will provide more than $24,000 in additional wages, benefits to average employee over life of contract; State, local officials briefed about the status of Taylor Farms organizing during meeting in Oakland, Calif.; Godmother of equal pay for women to join with Teamsters at New York City rally Friday for school safety agents; Top St. Louis-area Teamster Marvin Kropp talks about right-to-work (for less), paycheck deception battles in Missouri; Study shows why former middle-class workers returning to the workforce are struggling to get by.

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