Burkle Moves to Take Over IBC
November 5, 2007: Our union is teaming up again with billionaire investor Ron Burkle to take over a bankrupt Teamster employer, Interstate Bakeries Corporation, the maker of Twinkies. The IBT announced on Nov. 2 that Yucaipa, an investment firm led by Burkle, and Bimbo Bakeries are moving to take over IBC. The current IBC management wants to cut the wages of Teamster drivers, and demanding that Teamsters pay $20 a week for healthcare. The company...
Waste Management Strike Ends in L.A.
October 31, 2007: The strike against Waste Management which began on Oct. 19 in Los Angeles County is over. Nearly 500 Local 396 Teamsters are returning to work under a new five-year contract that is identical to the substandard contract they previously rejected. The new contract will move Waste Management Teamsters into an inferior healthcare plan. If the company’s healthcare contributions do not keep pace with the rising cost of healthcare, Local 396 members will...
Investigation Reveals Chicago Local 714 Corruption
October 29, 2007: The Independent Review Board (IRB) has recommended that Chicago Local 714 be placed into trusteeship. The move is an opportunity to root out corruption and allow the 8,000 members to have a local run for the members, and not for the Hogan family. The 250 page investigative report was sent to James Hoffa for action to be taken. The scathing report states that secretary treasurer Robert Hogan and president James Hogan allowed...
Chicago Tribune: Local 743's Road to Reform
October 28, 2007: He was out of work. So he took the $7-an-hour janitor's job figuring that something else was sure to come along. This was back in 1988. "There was no plan," Richard Berg explained with a broad smile and chuckle. When he started working at the University of Chicago Hospitals, friends of his wife, a physician, would ask in wonder why a 28-year-old college graduate who had been a union organizer was mopping...
Check Out Freight2008.org
Freight Teamsters and TDU have launched a new website to inform and and update members about freight bargaining: Freight2008.org. Click here to visit Freight2008.org.
UPS Teamsters Fight Givebacks
Information and unity build power. TDU is providing both to Teamsters at UPS. TDU and our Make UPS Deliver website has been the leading source of information for UPS Teamsters fighting for a good contract. While many UPS Teamsters are involved, the TDU UPS network is the only national force in our union that is producing contract bulletins and mobilizing to beat the concessions at UPS and win the contract that members deserve. That's why...
Pension Rights Center Honors TDU Activist
October 25, 2007: The Pension Rights Center is honoring Frank Bryant for his efforts to fight anti-worker pension legislation and stop UPS's Central States pension grab. Bryant, a retired Local 391 member and TDU leader in North Carolina, is profiled on the website of the Pension Rights Center, a pension rights advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.Click here to read the profile.
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