Teamsters Announce Plans to Organize UFC Fighters

[ray tango]

The Teamsters will never sign enough UFC fighters to have any leverage. No way.

If a fighter's union emerges, it will be home-grown. Not an offshoot of one of the most corrupt unions in history.

This is the only way it will work.

 

[BaggyMuffin]

If you think this is good news then you are what is wrong with humanity

 

[Gluhov]

Thanks reebok.

 

[AP_RESURRECTION]

Evil vs. Evil. This is the way to go to fight for fighter's rights in the UFC. Say what you want about the culinary union, but they have the financial pockets and political muscle to shake things up. Even if their true goal is to get back at the Fertittas and Station Casino, the process can still generate a lot of positive things for the fighters.

this is how history has slowly pieced itself together haha - that book, the prize, about the oil industry has very similar type of things happening - chase that money and hopefully good things happen

 

[TIMELESS TRUTH]

Makes me want to puke.

 

[j98]

A thread like this is good to bring out all the paid posters.

 

[wellsdj1]

I would think Dana and the fertitas would sell if they thought the fighters would vote on a union. Just my guess.

 

[Lustercross]

If you think this is good news then you are what is wrong with humanity

How much does UFC pay to be a shill????

It wouldn't surprise me if Dana contacts the moderators to complain about this thread lmao

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

LOL Teamsters. If you thought the Frittatas were strong-armed mobsters, you ain't seen nothing yet!

 

[The Eraser]

True. My dad was we a Teamster in Rhode Island during the 70's and 80's. He was making like $60K back then as a glorified janitor with wicked benefits on top of the cash. That was a lot of money for that kind of work. I went to a bunch of Teamster picnics and barbecues. The events were full of uneducated, lazy, entitled slobs and their equally uneducated, lazy, entitled families.

His local Teamster "rep" literally sold jobs to several people I knew including a few of my friends who chose not to go to college.

In the end, the Teamsters pushed for even more from his employers and literally shut down a 100 year old business full of blue collar workers.

Having managed employees from three different unions, this pretty much summarizes my opinion of unions in general. I've never worked with more self-entitled, lazy bitches in my life.

 

[Charles Lee Ray]

The government and big business sure has done a good job snowing some of you guys against unions.

The cost for joining most unions is two hours of wages a month.

Wow, you lose less than 1/80th of your wage but have somebody to represent you.

Unions are so corrupt, yeah right.

 

[FrodoFraggins]

Teamsters? Stay the fuck out of mma. Unionizing is NOT the fucking answer.

How else will fighters get a fair shake? I'm sorry but every major sport has shown why unions are a necessity, it's because the guys at the top are greedy and short sighted.

 

[philweed]

Funny how the culinary union has spent gobs of funds to keep the UFC out of New York and now they want to get involved in the MMA business. LOL You idiot supporters don't know what the hell you're doing. Unions are fucking horrible. They will in fact keep you from seeing the fights you want to watch. But hey...little crybabies are gonna cry about another person's paycheck anyway.

 

[Sinthesized]

Teamsters and unions are the scum of the world. Workers absolutely deserve fair wages and rights, but these guys take it overboard by a long shot. Whatever good they were initially intended to do has long since disappeared.

Right. If I didn't have the Teamsters at my last job, I'd have made only $16 an hour instead of $30 an hour and the insurance would be fucking expensive. Sometimes it's a necessary evil, unfortunately.

 

[Shaddows]

While I would LOVE for fighters to unite, I don't know if an organization that fights the fertitas on a personal level are the best.

Because their focal point here has nothing to do with the UFC or MMA, but the Fertiotas and their non-union Casinos.

 

[Sinthesized]

The government and big business sure has done a good job snowing some of you guys against unions.

The cost for joining most unions is two hours of wages a month.

Wow, you lose less than 1/80th of your wage but have somebody to represent you.

Unions are so corrupt, yeah right.

You hit it right on the money. I paid $60 a month for a $63k a year job.

 

[eiyuu]

Teamsters? Is this a good thing or?

Nope. Not one good thing about Teamsters getting involved with anything.

More than likely won't gain any traction though since they won't get the top names on board.

 

[BaggyMuffin]

How much does UFC pay to be a shill????

It wouldn't surprise me if Dana contacts the moderators to complain about this thread lmao

This is the equivalent of saying "I know you are but what am I?" In first grade. I didn't say anything positive about the UFC or their pay in my post. Although I do think the pay is fine and I think people like you who toss the word shill around are the scum of this forum, my post was anti teamster and about how terrible and unnecessary labor unions are in general. They had their time and place and that's not 21st century America. If they want to unionize like the players associations in the American team sports that is fine but if you think that the NFLPA and the teamsters are the same thing then you are a mistaken little man

 

[BaggyMuffin]

You hit it right on the money. I paid $60 a month for a $63k a year job.

I'm sure you deserved 30k a year is the point. Just because you had to have someone hand you money doesn't make them good or right.

 

[Voodoo Dahl]

The corporations called unions are awful for local political power, and individual freedoms. They all advocate bs card check laws, compulsory unionization, and deminished economic freedom.

They funnel dues into crony politicians, changing local elections and communities based on who will support them in exchange for donations.

There are endless ways to change a market, business or organizing, without boosting a political lobby with a track record of destroying industry.

I have seen first hand the lengths union organizers will go to, to destroy peaceful opposition.

When industries grow large financial streams, and undergo growing pains they are ripe for corporate unions to sink their teeth in.