With peak season over and volume down, it’s “hunting season” at UPS. Managers use any excuse to cut staffing, discipline members, and weaken the union. But UPS Teamsters can fight back.
UPS Teamsters are using the upcoming 9.5 list to get ready to fight layoffs and make UPS pay for forced excessive overtime. Get started early on 9.5 enforcement to trigger our contractual right to get our routes adjusted–or make UPS pay quadruple time.
A rank-and-file reform slate, United for Change Local 431, has defeated the incumbent Local 431 Fresno officers by a 60-40 margin. The results mark a clear mandate from members for a militant and active union.
The member bargaining committee representing 10,000 Teamster nurses in Michigan shut down bargaining to fight Corewell Health’s illegal plans to eliminate “pull pay” and terminate a student loan repayment program.
Some 2,000 nurses at Unity Point Health are on the verge of winning their union election to join Teamsters Local 90. Nurses voted 57% to 43% in favor of the union at Wednesday’s vote count. Some challenged ballots need to be resolved before the final results are official. But they will not be enough to reverse the outcome. Nurses are confident and ready to head to negotiate their first Teamster contract.
This spring, 2,000 workers at the San Diego Zoo tamed management with a rank-and-file campaign that won a better contract. Now, members have elected the activists who organized the San Diego Zoo contract campaign to lead the 4,000-member Local 481.
Casino workers at Horseshoe Indianapolis just won union recognition after striking for fifty days and voting to join the Teamsters.
On December 5, dealers at Horseshoe Casino in Shelbyville, Indiana will vote to join Teamsters Local 135, after 50 days on strike for recognition.