Medrano / Right to Work in Texas
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Interviewer-"So, I want to talk about the coalition group with other groups, umm, I read somewhere there were some fears or some people were a little bit nervous organizing with the FACIL, do you?.... Mr. Medrano-No, no, no, the people that never had experience socializing and networking with African Americans have never understood coalition, they never understood that they had the same discrimination that you have, my people had. Practicing housing, school, economics, everybody. So, that coalition, we believed in it, I believed in it and the [?] believed in it, but there's others that didn't believe in that. Next comes what you talking about the union. The union that experienced since it had always been a right to work state, that's the issue, your philosophy, thats the [?] that covers the whole state. So, under the right-to-work law, that's where unionism is not strong in Texas because of that law and thats what keeps you from organizing, I don't care Walmart, any place, any where because the Right-to-work. So, if unions come in they said, they would become union bosses and this and that, then they become strong-armed people and they knew it, because the teamsters were strong and strong-marrow tactics in Texas [?] and thats where the're independant truck drivers came in and said, "You cannot start going to companies and
 
         
       
  
               
  
               
  
               
  
              