Teamsters appeal to “Top Chef” for employment by threatening to bash in Padma Lakshmi’s face

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[chessplayer]

"Angry that the show had not signed a Teamsters contract and that the production hired local PA’s to drive cast and crew vehicles, the dozen or so picketers from Boston’s Teamsters Local 25 kept at it for hours, raining down racist, sexist and homophobic threats and slurs as staffers came to and left the set that summer day…"

[Dagnabitt]

If you notice the mark or scar on her right arm - are you gay?

[Radix]

I personally know a lot of these Local 25 guys. Most are ordinary workers, but the real thugs are absolutely true believers in their religion, and they would stomp your brains in just as soon as look at you if they were certain they could do it unseen or protected by this incredibly corrupt government that we have here in this Moscow on the Charles.

[njslim]

Most of the “female” ones are butch........

[miss marmelstein]

No, it's a macho world but the Cooking Channel/Food Channel isn't the real world and it's loaded with gay guys (and the lesbo contestants on Chopped!). Start with Ted Allen (who at least doesn't flaunt it), Alton Brown, the fat broad with the weird blond hair...suspicions about Paula Deen’s son...and let's not forget that crazy gay pastry chef who has his own show. He's a freak. (Sorry I can't remember his name). I think he's French.

[expat1000]

John King, Milton’s Deputy Police Chief, said the Teamsters were “threatening, heckling and harassing.” The first officer on the scene, he said, had to call for back-up after the Teamsters “gave the officer trouble.” Reading from the police report, he said the Teamsters were “hostile, swearing, and refusing to let people come in and out.

Officers repeatedly tried to de-escalate the situation.” When more police arrived, the Teamsters went to the show’s hospitality tent and “harassed the crew there.” When the officers went there, King said, “A group of them slashed the tires on 14 different cars owned by the crew.”

[DaveA37]

“A group of them slashed the tires on 14 different cars owned by the crew.” .......

At least they didn’t cut anyone throat, YET.

[chesley]

One of the reasons that I grew up conservative was because I early saw that liberals, i.e., labor unions, were nothing but bullies, and could only rely on violence to get their way.