IBT VP Must Pay Back $100K Plus
October 9, 2007: Thanks to TDU, International Union Vice President, and former Local 237 president Carroll Haynes is being forced to repay more than $100,000 in improper payments. Haynes received the payments from the company that manages the Local 237 health plan. Local 237 launched an internal probe after Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) brought the improper payments to light. As part of our preparations of the $150,000 Club, our annual report on Teamster...
Letters From Our Members
Freight ‘08: Raise the Wages I’m 58 years old now and I’m back to working casual. Our dock rate is just $16 an hour—that’s unreal. I hope the new contract will bring better wages and stop giving back to these companies. The CEOs are making an outrageous amount of money. We need to get higher wages, increase the pension, and protect our retirees. David Bowers Local 397, Yellow Erie, Penn. Ashamed of Hahs Don Hahs...
UPS Wants to Divert Work To UPS Freight
If management gets its way in contract negotiations, UPS will soon be diverting packages to UPS Freight, the company's nonunion freight carrier. Sources close to the negotiations have told Traffic World, a leading industry publication, that UPS is pushing for work rule changes that would allow them to move packages from its parcel to freight divisions. Corporate consultants love the idea. “It's nonunion. It would be more cost effective,” said one industry expert. It would...
$150,000 Club Study Shows Where to Cut the Fat
August 23, 2007: This year’s analysis reveals that more than $20 million in Teamster dues was paid last year to the highest paid Teamster officials, each of whom bags $150,000 or more a year. Teamster contracts and benefit funds are under attack—and our union’s power is on the decline. But salaries for top Teamster officials remain on the rise, draining dues that could be used to organize the nonunion competition and rebuild Teamster Power. Those...
Ron Carey Speaks Out
Ron Carey speaks out in a new book on the 1997 UPS Strike. Read the interview the Hoffa administration did not want you to see. In a book released on the 10th Anniversary of the Teamster strike victory at UPS, author Deepa Kumar spoke with former General President Ron Carey about his struggles with the company and old guard Teamster officials culminating in the 1997 UPS Strike. Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the...
Teamsters Reject 10-yr. City Pact
August 31, 2007 BY fspielman [at] suntimes.com (FRAN SPIELMAN) City Hall Reporter/fspielman [at] suntimes.com There's a fly in the ointment that threatens to disturb Mayor Daley's carefully crafted plan to guarantee labor peace through the 2016 Summer Olympics. By a vote of 279-172, Teamsters Local 726 voted Wednesday night to reject the unprecedented, 10-year deal that would lock in the prevailing wage for 8,000 members of the building trades. The contract apparently fell victim to...
Chicago Teamsters Reject Contract
On August 29, the 2000 Teamsters who move the city of Chicago rejected a ten-year contract that would have put their future at risk. Now they are demanding Local 726 hold a meeting to hear what the members want fixed to protect their jobs. "The Local 726 leadership agreed to terms that would put our jobs and seniority in jeopardy," said Vince Tenuto, a leader of the Fighting for the Future movement, which has informed...