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IATSE local 500 is no longer accepting resumes for this season.

Anyone interested in a temporary part-time call steward position for Local 500, please send us your resume. You must have computer and Microsoft Excel experience. office@iatselocal500.org

Sisters and Brothers,

There was a You Tube link to an anti-union Office Depot video. Apparently, Office Depot has since contacted You Tube and had it removed claiming a copyright violation. As many of already know, companies typically enforce their copyright claims on these videos quite vigorously. That's why there are so few of them floating around. Hopefully, some Union folks got it downloaded before it was removed.

I did some further checking last night and found that there are several web sites committed to organizing campaigns with Office Depot. Additionally, it appears that Office Depot refuses to direct deliver goods to Union offices. Office Depot will never again get a single dollar of ours.

You may read more here:
Take care, David

http://odepotunion.tripod.com/index.htm

http://www.ibew1613.org/library/quarantine.html

Follow up on Office Depot item I forwarded to all of you yesterday. I hope you all watched the anti-union video, because as you can see, Office Depot pulled it. Wayne said his union spent $18,000 with Office Depot last year, and will spend not one more cent. Sean said no more Office Depot supplies in his office.

Our Union has been doing business with Office Depot for over 20 years. In 2008 we spent over $18,000.00 with your company.

Last week I saw a video sent to me by the President of our Central Labor Committee, that Office Depot put out that trashed organized labor. As a result, I sliced up our Office Depot Credit Cards and sent them, with a letter of explanation to your CEO.

We will no longer do business with Office Depot.

As information, our Local CLC (Central Labor Committee, AFL-CIO), other local Unions notified they are doing likewise. At this month’s CLC meeting we would like to show the video to the delegates and ask all labor unions associated with the AFL-CIO be asked to take their business somewhere else.