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A Laborious Undertaking: Pabol Hutta
Teamsters Local 1
Leaks happen, and that was unfortunate for Salvatore Russo. His meeting with Durr the Hutt didn't go as well as Sal wanted it to, but he did get permission from the boss Hutt to start his union racket. Word had gotten around that the Hutt had given the greenlight for what was being the called the "teamsters" on the planet to unionize- an idea that was unheard of before Sal explained to Durr how it would be profitable...if the Hutts were the ones controlling the union.
Two major camps had jumped on board quickly- the dockworkers at the industrial starports on one side and the transporters responsible for getting goods from one place on the planet to another on the other. Sal hoped that Nal Hutta would prove to be the template for all the other planets and moons, a happy and successful union that took their orders from Sal or someone of Sal's choosing and most importantly, a cohesive union that would throw their weight around to get what they want...or to be more accurate, what Sal and the Hutts wanted.
At the present, the two major camps were actively at odds with each other. A Nikto named Karap Ghoto had been elevated as spokesman for the dockworkers and was their favorite for union president. The transport faction, however, had thrown their support behind one of their own, a Weequay named Bratta Yarn. There were significant differences in opinion, with pay and benefit demands at the top of the list. The transport faction was demanding higher wages and better benefits on the basis that they ran a much higher risk to come into contact with certain death under the current AMS crisis. The dockworkers would have none of it, afraid that if the transporters got superior pay now, that advantage would continue even after the AMS pandemic had subsided. They were saying that if the transporters were going to get higher wages, they were going to walk away and form their own union without the transporters.
While it made the job of getting the union created and under the thumb of the Hutts substantially more difficult, it likely saved the gangsters' interest in controlling the union. The conflict is the reason they had not been able to come to agreement before the Sal the Hutts could direct the conversation. Two important orders of business: Get the union to agree to terms and make sure that the right president of Teamsters 1 gets installed- the one that will the Hutt puppet.
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