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Originally posted by john70t
Went through the Teamsters strike in 1997 and they didn't pay us anything in stike wages. What, they were broke?
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IIRC, the UAW has a by-law that all spending is at the discretion of union bosses during a strike. In Peoria (where Caterpillar is based), they used to call for a major strike about once a decade. After the strike had settled, the union would be broke. Members would be losing their houses, but there were always stories of the bosses buying bigger houses or scooping up cheap real estate during the strike...