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'?

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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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