This post hits close to home – like really close – since Columbus, Ohio is flush with logistics industry companies, warehouses, airports, and thousands of freight trucks. That’s what you get with “greater access to the US market within a 10-hour drive than any other major metro.” And the floundering Teamsters Union wants a piece…

The Teamsters have contacted the CEOs of six Silicon Valley-area companies – Amtrak, Apple, eBay, Genetech, Yahoo, and Zynga – to tell them that their drivers want to join a union. According to the Union, a majority of the 120 drivers that transport those companies’ employees have signed authorization cards to be represented by Teamsters…

“This is a historic day for our Teamsters,” Teamster President James Hoffa said. “After decades of hard work and millions of dollars spent, we can finally say that corrupt elements have been driven from the Teamsters and that the government oversight can come to an end.” Oddly, many of those corrupt elements were likely led…