Social Workers join Teamsters

As reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Saturday, April 13, 2013, 7:01 AM, Case workers in Chester County's Department of Human Services voted 96-56 Thursday to join the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters Local 384 in Norristown, the union said. The organizing effort covers 162 employees work in the department's aging, children, youth and families, drug and alcohol services, youth center and mental health/intellectual developmental disabilities units, the Teamsters said. The union said that two years ago it had tried to organize the workers, but was beaten back. - Harold Brubaker