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Bedding Down at the Red Rash Inn

I am a road driver. Some of the places we bed down are ridiculous. I wouldn’t make my dog lay in them. What rights do I have besides grieve and wait? When we find our own rooms, we get threatened with disciplinary actions. Under Article 49 in the contract, it says the company has to pay $40. Why can’t we get some relief?

- Ornery at the Road Rash Inn, Local 200, USF Holland, Milwaukee

Yellow Re-branding: Consolidation of Terminals is Starting

February 09, 2021

Now that the stock exchange shows YELL at the new marker for YRC Worldwide, what does this new branding mean for working Teamsters? First, it will mean consolidation and the need to protect jobs.

UPS Freight Sold to Canadian Corporation TFI

January 25, 2021

In a surprise move, UPS has sold UPS Freight to TFI, a Canadian trucking and logistics corporation. 

YRCW Gets $700 Million CARES Act Loan!

July 01, 2020

The US Treasury will loan YRCW $700 million under authorization from the CARES Act. $350 million will be used to make H&W and pension benefit payments, and the other $350 million will go to investment in tractors and trailers.

All YRCW Teamsters in TeamCare Get Coverage Extended

May 11, 2020
A May 9 Memo from the IBT Freight Division reports that arrangements have been made so that both active YRCW employees and employees laid off after March 1 will have the full 8 weeks of “Layoff Coverage" going forward from May 10 to continue health care coverage, if they are in TeamCare (Central States H&W). This includes both employees who have been actively working and those who may have already used up some of the “layoff coverage.”...
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