Labor Notes Releases Second Version of Popular Manual on Workplace Organizing
February 17, 2005: In January Labor Notes released A Troublemaker’s Handbook 2, edited by Jane Slaughter, the second edition of the popular manual on how to fight back at your workplace and win. Like the first edition, Troublemaker’s 2 is a strategy guide to organizing lessons, tactics, and strategies from the viewpoint of unionists on the front lines. Labor Notes is a Detroit-based newsletter publisher and education center for reformers in all unions. Many Teamster...
Info Blackout Continues Six Months Into UPS Talks
March 13, 2007: From MakeUPSDeliver.org—Next Monday will mark six months since our National Negotiating Committee kicked off bargaining with UPS—and the blackout on meaningful information is as bad as ever. It’s time for the International Union to tell us what’s happening with our contract.Our union has now been in intensive negotiations with the company for nearly three months. During that time, the IBT has issued just two bulletins. Each one has told us nothing, except...
It's Up to Allied Teamsters Now
March 15, 2007: Ballots on the tentative concessionary deal covering 3,300 Teamsters at Allied Holdings are now re-scheduled to be mailed on March 19, and should be in the hands of Allied Teamsters soon after that. The decision is now in the hands of Allied Teamsters. Allied Teamsters who are opposed to the concession deal will observe the vote count on April 16, thanks to a stipulated consent order won in federal court by Teamsters...
Rebuild Teamster Power in Freight
“We’ve got to get moving now on our next contract. In TDU, we’re the ones who are going to be asking the tough questions and pushing for stronger standards and better benefits.” Jimmy Rickert, Roadway Local 429, Lancaster, Penn. Contact our rank-and-file network in Freight. Click here to join an email list for news on the 2008 NMFA contract campaign. UPS Freight StickersGet it Straight at UPS Freight TDU members in Freight are launching a...
Make UPS Deliver
"We can't sit back and leave it to Hoffa and Hall. Members need to be informed, united and involved. TDU's UPS network is our tool for making that happen."Darwin Moore, Local 243 Steward, Detroit Contact our rank-and-file network at UPS. UPS Teamsters in Milwaukee sign a Make UPS Deliver banner.Make UPS DeliverMake UPS Deliver is a national network of UPS Teamsters working together to win the contract we deserve. Click here to visit MakeUPSDeliver.org. Buy...
TDU Welcomes BMWE Members to the Teamsters
November 4, 2004: On October 27, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (BMWE), who lay and maintain railroad tracks, voted by a large margin to merge with the IBT. They are now the BMWE Division (BMWED) of the Teamsters Rail Conference. Following is a message to these new Teamsters from TDU International Steering Committee member Frank Halstead. Dear Brothers and Sisters of the BMWED, Welcome to the Teamsters! We are honored that...
TDU Elects New Leadership
November 4, 2004: TDU members at our organization’s convention took time to do a little campaigning and to elect the TDU International Steering Committee (ISC) for the coming year. The committee has 15 members and three alternates. Six of them will be new to the ISC. The new brothers and sisters represent the strengths and diversity of the Teamster reform movement. Joining the ISC will be: Richard Berg, a hospital worker in Chicago Local 743,...
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TDU History How the Reform Movement Has Changed the Teamsters Union (1976-1979)In 1976 the Teamsters Union was in big trouble. Union leaders had allowed organized crime to infiltrate the highest levels of the union. Read more. Winning the Fight for Democracy (The 1980s)The 1980s were a difficult time for working Teamsters. They were years of economic recession, freight industry deregulation, and concessionary bargaining. Read more. Rebuilding Teamster Power (1991-1997)Rank-and-file Teamsters won the right to vote...
IBT VP Carroll Haynes to Step Down as Local 237 Head
March 14, 2007: Hoffa running mate Carroll Haynes will step down as president of Local 237 on March 31. But although Haynes is losing one multiple salary, he won’t need any collections from working Teamsters just yet. Haynes is staying on as IBT Vice President and Public Employee Division Director, positions that bagged him $111,432 in total compensation last year. Because he is 73, Haynes is also collecting multiple pensions while he works and sweetening...
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Rail Teamsters—Teamsters on the Right Track"Through the TDU Rail Chapter, rail Teamsters are helping to get our union back on the right track. We're fighting the carriers for strong agreements and we're promoting the unity of all railroad crafts. Get on board and help us out."Ed Michael, Union PacificBLET Div. 724, Salem, Ill.