Teamsters send clear message

What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?
Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested?
Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?

MW
"Alan Jones" wrote in message
...

Teamsters Send Clear Message With 50-Foot Banner Flying Over
Daytona 500

DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union
denounced Waste Management Inc. (WMI) for its ongoing assault
on minority sanitation workers by commissioning a plane to fly a
50-foot banner over the Daytona 500 speedway for two hours that
read, "WMI and NASCAR Want Some Drivers to Lose."

Houston-based WMI, the nation's largest private trash hauler, is a
sponsor of NASCAR's diversity programs despite attempting to
impose deep wage, retirement, health care and pension benefit
cuts on its predominantly minority sanitation truck drivers in
Washington D.C. and New York. The company's work force is
overwhelmingly African American and Latino. NASCAR's steering
committee is chaired by basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President, wrote a letter to Johnson
detailing WMI's reprehensible treatment of its minority workforce.
The Teamsters represent 10,000 workers at 69 Waste Management
locals nationwide.

"We are confident that when presented with the facts, Mr. Johnson
will agree that Waste Management's treatment of its workers is
shameful," Hoffa said. "If NASCAR is truly committed to promoting
diversity, then its sponsors should live up to that commitment."

The Daytona flyover comes after a wave of Teamster actions at WMI
locations across the country. Teamsters have conducted
informational picketing and leafleting in California, Washington,
Illinois, Colorado and Maryland during the past six weeks. Workers
also staged a protest at WMI's New York City headquarters that drew
hundreds of Teamster members from Local 813, which is currently in
contract negotiations with WMI.

"While it's admirable to sponsor minority NASCAR drivers, it would
be even more admirable if the company paid and rewarded its own
sanitation truck drivers decently," said Robert Morales, President
of the Teamsters National Hispanic Caucus and Secretary-Treasurer
of Local 350 in Daly City, California. Local 350 represents WMI
sanitation truck drivers and workers in California Bay area.

Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents more than 1.4
million hardworking men and women in the United States and Canada.

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"M White" wrote in message
om...
What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?
Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested?
Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?

Oh, dear lord. Not this one again. Let's see if Janal will take the bait.

Carey in Manvel

Well there is nothing in the story that says anything about the flight being
in anyway unsafe so that's not a problem.

If it were race say there would be a TFR over the area but it wasn't race
day.

Seems like free speech to me.

"M White" wrote in message
om...
What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?
Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested?
Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?

MW
"Alan Jones" wrote in message
...

Teamsters Send Clear Message With 50-Foot Banner Flying Over
Daytona 500

DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union
denounced Waste Management Inc. (WMI) for its ongoing assault
on minority sanitation workers by commissioning a plane to fly a
50-foot banner over the Daytona 500 speedway for two hours that
read, "WMI and NASCAR Want Some Drivers to Lose."

Houston-based WMI, the nation's largest private trash hauler, is a
sponsor of NASCAR's diversity programs despite attempting to
impose deep wage, retirement, health care and pension benefit
cuts on its predominantly minority sanitation truck drivers in
Washington D.C. and New York. The company's work force is
overwhelmingly African American and Latino. NASCAR's steering
committee is chaired by basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President, wrote a letter to Johnson
detailing WMI's reprehensible treatment of its minority workforce.
The Teamsters represent 10,000 workers at 69 Waste Management
locals nationwide.

"We are confident that when presented with the facts, Mr. Johnson
will agree that Waste Management's treatment of its workers is
shameful," Hoffa said. "If NASCAR is truly committed to promoting
diversity, then its sponsors should live up to that commitment."

The Daytona flyover comes after a wave of Teamster actions at WMI
locations across the country. Teamsters have conducted
informational picketing and leafleting in California, Washington,
Illinois, Colorado and Maryland during the past six weeks. Workers
also staged a protest at WMI's New York City headquarters that drew
hundreds of Teamster members from Local 813, which is currently in
contract negotiations with WMI.

"While it's admirable to sponsor minority NASCAR drivers, it would
be even more admirable if the company paid and rewarded its own
sanitation truck drivers decently," said Robert Morales, President
of the Teamsters National Hispanic Caucus and Secretary-Treasurer
of Local 350 in Daly City, California. Local 350 represents WMI
sanitation truck drivers and workers in California Bay area.

Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents more than 1.4
million hardworking men and women in the United States and Canada.

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"M White" wrote ...
What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?
Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested?
Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?


"nascar" only has arrest powers if Mike Helton is wearing his hat, badge and
sidearm and properly identifies himself as an officer of nascar and reads the
person his or her nascar rights, which under nascar law, are always open to
interpretation.

You might have the right to be silent. ...

Carey Akin wrote:
Let's see if Janal will take the
bait.

Janal's existance on this group proves two things.
1) There really are village idiots.
2) God does not get involved in Usenet.


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M White wrote:

What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?

They won't be.


Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested?

Of course not.


Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?

No.

Thank you. =)

MW

"Newps" wrote in message
...


M White wrote:

What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?

They won't be.


Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot
arrested?

Of course not.


Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?

No.

"WildWeasel" wrote in message
...

"M White" wrote ...
What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?
Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot
arrested?
Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?


"nascar" only has arrest powers if Mike Helton is wearing his hat, badge
and
sidearm and properly identifies himself as an officer of nascar and reads
the
person his or her nascar rights, which under nascar law, are always open
to
interpretation.

You might have the right to be silent. ...

Unless the track-bar adjuster is an illegal apparatus, then you beg for
mercy!

HTH

G

"M White" wrote in message
om...
What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that?
Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested?
Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'?

MW

AFAIK, NFZs (no-fly zones) can only be imposed by a combination of the DHS
and the FAA.

NFZs have been used over major sporting events (Super Bowl, World Series,
etc) since 9/11, can't comment on the Daytona 500, but it holds more people
than those last two events combined, so it's a good question.

"Alan Jones" wrote in message
...

Teamsters Send Clear Message With 50-Foot Banner Flying Over
Daytona 500

DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union
denounced Waste Management Inc. (WMI) for its ongoing assault
on minority sanitation workers by commissioning a plane to fly a
50-foot banner over the Daytona 500 speedway for two hours that
read, "WMI and NASCAR Want Some Drivers to Lose."

Houston-based WMI, the nation's largest private trash hauler, is a
sponsor of NASCAR's diversity programs despite attempting to
impose deep wage, retirement, health care and pension benefit
cuts on its predominantly minority sanitation truck drivers in
Washington D.C. and New York. The company's work force is
overwhelmingly African American and Latino. NASCAR's steering
committee is chaired by basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President, wrote a letter to Johnson
detailing WMI's reprehensible treatment of its minority workforce.
The Teamsters represent 10,000 workers at 69 Waste Management
locals nationwide.

"We are confident that when presented with the facts, Mr. Johnson
will agree that Waste Management's treatment of its workers is
shameful," Hoffa said. "If NASCAR is truly committed to promoting
diversity, then its sponsors should live up to that commitment."

The Daytona flyover comes after a wave of Teamster actions at WMI
locations across the country. Teamsters have conducted
informational picketing and leafleting in California, Washington,
Illinois, Colorado and Maryland during the past six weeks. Workers
also staged a protest at WMI's New York City headquarters that drew
hundreds of Teamster members from Local 813, which is currently in
contract negotiations with WMI.

"While it's admirable to sponsor minority NASCAR drivers, it would
be even more admirable if the company paid and rewarded its own
sanitation truck drivers decently," said Robert Morales, President
of the Teamsters National Hispanic Caucus and Secretary-Treasurer
of Local 350 in Daly City, California. Local 350 represents WMI
sanitation truck drivers and workers in California Bay area.

Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents more than 1.4
million hardworking men and women in the United States and Canada.

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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
but it holds more people than those last two events combined, so it's a
good question.

Oh, come on. Any question that includes "Would NASCAR have the
authority to have the pilot arrested?" just can't qualify as a "good
question". Just a bunch of trolling. Its really irritating me that I'm
going to have to switch my news reader to filter this stuff out.

-Robert


It's an honest question. I can't control your killfile, but I didn't mean to
**** anyone off.

MW