April 28, 2010: Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 have reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract.
Union officials said they will recommend that members approve the new contract when they take a ratification vote on Sunday.
Click here to read more at Seattle PI.
Today, UPS released its first quarter earnings report. The company made $1.7 billion in profit for the first quarter. Profitability beat expectations.
Last year, Local 771 members elected new local leaders on a program of building union power by involving members. Now nearly 500 grocery Teamsters at Albertsons have won a new contract that includes record wage increases and benefit improvements.
