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Part-Time UPS Worker Hopes to Raise Wages, Runs for Teamster Trustee
October 29, 2016
By Ginger Adams Otis, New York Daily News
A part-time UPS worker from Brooklyn is hoping to send his Teamsters union leadership a message on Nov. 15: “You’re out!”
Trinidadian-born Dave Loobie, 40, is the first part-time worker to ever run for a union position at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — one of the largest and most well-known labor organizations in the world.
8 Men Awarded $5.3 Million from UPS; Effigy Hung from Ceiling
April 14, 2016
By Greg Kocher, Lexington Herald Leader
A Fayette Circuit Court jury awarded $5.3 million in damages to eight black men who had filed a 2014 lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment at UPS in Lexington.
“The verdict of the jury maybe will change things at UPS, because they really need change,” said UPS tractor-trailer driver William Barber, 54, a plaintiff who continues to be employed by the company. “...We hope UPS sees this and addresses the situation.”
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Strike Watch at Anheuser-Busch
February 27, 2024
Updated: With a strike brewing, the Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch reached a tentative agreement on a new contract on Wednesday, February 28.
Teamsters Back Proposal to Acquire Yellow Properties for a New LTL Company
February 14, 2024
Will a proposed new LTL trucking company, Next Century, be able to acquire some of Yellow’s properties and operate as a union carrier? It may be a long-shot, but Teamster locals have voted in favor of the effort.