March Of The Teamsters: Big Rigs Rolling

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Donna (below) at the wheel of her big rig joins the Teamsters marching for the WGA:
(photos courtesy of Jim Stevenson):

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Teamsters "Hollywood" Local 399 boss Leo Reed (below) leads the Teamsters march:

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9 Comments »

  1. I want to see a convoy of trucks crashing through the studio gates doing 88 just like in the famous song Convoy by C.W. McCall whose lyrics are still apropos.

    Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin’ through the night
    Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
    Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
    We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
    Convoy… Convoy…

    Comment by Anonymous — November 20, 2007 @ 5:51 pm

  2. That makes it Official. Now that fellow who ran out into the street and “Fired” the Teamster for not crossing the picket line has a “world of hurt” waiting for him. And it is going to be awkward when the Teamsters’ Union sends that same driver out to fill the empty slot.

    Comment by Dave — November 20, 2007 @ 5:51 pm

  3. Leo Reed was hilarious. He should become a writer after the strike is settled.

    Comment by Tom Grey — November 20, 2007 @ 5:55 pm

  4. What a beautiful display of old-fashioned human struggle!

    It’s almost as if the WGA is nearing the end of Act II in their own epic: the glorious, orchestra-swelling moment where they’ve gathered all the strength and courage and, with all the pain and suffering behind them, they will march triumphantly into the third act and finally achieve what they’ve deserved all along.

    Meanwhile, the studios will only look evil if they balk at this point.

    Bravo!

    Comment by an observer — November 20, 2007 @ 6:22 pm

  5. That’s it, the Teamsters are just so much cooler than we could ever hope to be. Leo Reed? Fantastic.

    Comment by Lorelei — November 20, 2007 @ 8:05 pm

  6. I grew up in a blue-collar town that still believed in organized labor, even in the darkness of the Reagan/Bush 80s. Even today, in “Bush’s America.”

    I am proud of my future WGA brothers and sisters and of all union workers in Southern California today.

    Stand strong, and justice will be done!

    Remember, remember the 5th of November…

    Comment by Guy Fawkes — November 20, 2007 @ 10:27 pm

  7. Leo WAS hysterical, best lines of all… he almost seemed like a caricature of HIMSELF! Maybe someone Bobby DeNiro might impersonate in a role.

    I wish someone could post a transcript of his Speech, he was the big Hit today…

    Along with the Lollipop Guild.

    Comment by PJ - Writer — November 20, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

  8. Leo Reed is the only real deal in Hollywood, Tom Short the studios front man, we all remember how the I. A. started as scabs in the 1940’s
    GOD BLESS THE TEAMSTERS LOCAL 399.

    Comment by ttTomTomm — November 21, 2007 @ 8:51 am

  9. The group of nurses led the chanting as the mob moved off from Ivar with a good one–it’s parodied from my alma mater and sounds a little more contemporary and fun than most of the tired old strike chants:
    You know it
    You tell the story
    You tell the whole wide world this is Writers territory

    I think it is terrifically on point in this strike.

    Comment by Sylvia Stoddard — November 21, 2007 @ 11:05 am

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