No Oscar for this Teamster
2001 2001-05The page as the paper published it (Wayback Machine) →
From the paper's own web edition, recovered from the Internet Archive: the text as the paper put it online, not machine-read. The printed issue of May 2001 is not held.
A Hollywood Teamster bureaucrat is giving a new and sordid meaning to the phrase, "Bad Actor." The union official says that if the Guild Writers of America strike the film studios, "his members" will cross the picket lines.
"We usually honor other locals' picket lines," Leo Reed, head of Teamsters Local 399, told The Los Angeles Times. But if there is work to be done, I'll support my members."
Ironically, the writers' contract ends May 1, the workers holiday that originated in the United States in 1886 as part of workers' fight for an eight-hour day. Chances are Reed hasn't polled the union's 4000 members to see if they really want to scab on the 11,000 writers. Nor has Reed said if he will also order the Teamsters to scab on the 135,000 actors, whose contracts expire June 30.