BNA Daily Labor Report: Election Sought at Second UPS Freight Site
July 23, 2007: Daily Labor Report: The newly formed Association of Parcel Workers of America (APWA) July 20 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a representation election at the UPS Freight terminal in Gaffney, S.C., an NLRB official told BNA. Patricia Timmins, an NLRB regional attorney in Winston-Salem, N.C., said a hearing should be held in 7-10 days to decide when an election will be scheduled. UPS Freight will have an...
Bloomberg News: UPS Freight Says Some Teamsters Are Using 'Deception'
July 10, 2007: Bloomberg News: By David Mildenberg -- United Parcel Service Inc., the biggest employer of Teamsters members, said some of the union's locals are using a "campaign of deception" in an attempt to organize the company's freight-hauling unit. "Some locals across the country have been telling employees there will be a Master Teamster Agreement, accompanied by regional supplemental agreements for UPS Freight," Jack Holmes, the unit's senior vice president of operations, said in...
Will IBT Answer Attack by UPS Freight?
July 23, 2007: Our Teamsters Union needs to respond to the anti-union attack by UPS Freight management. After UPS Freight issued a letter attacking our union and denouncing a “campaign of deception” by some Teamster locals, IBT chief negotiator Ken Hall angrily told the media that, “Evidently when they purchased Overnite, UPS also purchased Overnite’s union-busting legacy.” Hall warned on July 10 that “Unless UPS retracts the letter,” the union would “respond in kind.” But...
Would $4 Billion from UPS Fix Central States?
July 18, 2007: Some defenders of management’s pension proposal claim that a $4 billion withdrawal liability payment from UPS would fix Central States and safeguard members’ benefits. Unfortunately, that’s just not true. Find out why at www.MakeUPSDeliver.org
Freight Contract Proposals Due by August 13
July 18, 2007: The International Union has requested all freight Local Unions to hold Contract Proposal Meetings by August 3, and to submit proposals to be received in Washington by August 13. We encourage all freight members and stewards to take the time to submit proposals. A copy of the form to use is attached. (There is one form for the master (Articles 1-39) and one for the supplement). You can make copies to submit...
SF Chronicle: Take Out the Trash, Judge Tells Waste Firm
July 18, 2007: A judge ordered Waste Management garbage haulers on Tuesday to collect all the trash in the East Bay as irate customers vowed not to pay bills for pickups that haven't happened. In the midst of a 16-day labor dispute in which nearly 500 union drivers have been locked out of their jobs, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Keller ordered the company to abide by its contract with the City of Oakland....
Trash Talks Make Progress
July 17, 2007:San Francisco Chronicle: East Bay garbage company officials and union leaders met Monday with Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums declaring progress toward ending a 2-week-old garbage driver lockout that has resulted in piles of accumulated garbage. Meanwhile, an Alameda County Superior Court judge postponed a hearing Monday on whether to compel Waste Management Inc. of Alameda County to end the company's lockout on the grounds that it is a threat to public health and...
AP: Oakland leaders go to court to try to get trash picked up
July 11, 2007: Oakland, Calif (AP) - Mayor Ron Dellums and other city officials went to court Thursday in an effort to settle a trash company labor dispute and get piles of stinky garbage picked up. But officials with the company, Waste Management Inc., said the city's quest for an injunction is unnecessary because the company has already hired more temporary workers to replace locked out garbage truck drivers. The problem started in early July...
PR Newswire: Teamster, Political Leaders Pledge Support and Solidarity With Locked Out Workers
July 11, 2007: PRNewswire-USNewswire: Hundreds of union members locked out by Waste Management Inc (WMI) on July 2 turned out at a rally held in front of the company's Davis Street Transfer Station to hear pledges of support from local politicians and labor leaders from across the country. Workers from Teamsters Local 70, Machinist Local Lodge 1546 and International Longshoreman and Warehouse (ILWU) Local 6 are in their second week of an ill-conceived lockout by...
UPS Bargaining Suspended
July 13, 2007: National negotiations with UPS again went nowhere this week, and are now temporarily suspended. Bargaining in some supplemental areas is scheduled for the week of July 16. Read the full story at MakeUPSDeliver.org