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YRCW Contract Vote Count Today

January 08, 2014
January 8, 2014. 3:30 p.m. The ballots for the YRCW contract extension will be counted today and tomorrow. At the first postal pick up at 8 am, the post office count was 19,483 ballots. The final pick up at Noon brought about 150 more. The postal estimates may be subject to correction when the ballots are counted later. They are sorting the ballots into the various local union trays, and starting to open some ballots,...

Vote count begins on Teamsters contract at YRC Worldwide

January 07, 2014
Mark Davis Kansas City Star January 07, 2014 View the original piece Two days of ballot counting starts Wednesday morning, with the paychecks of 26,000 Teamsters and the future of YRC Worldwide Inc. hanging on the outcome. This is the fourth time in five years the unionized drivers, dock workers, mechanics, clerks, porters, janitors and maintenance workers have voted on reduced pay and benefits. Each time, the struggling Overland Park-based trucking giant has said it...

YRC Said to Seek $1.15 Billion Loan in Refinancing

January 07, 2014
Krista Giovacco Bloomberg News January 07, 2014 View the original piece YRC Worldwide Inc. (YRCW), the U.S. trucker that averted bankruptcy in 2011, is seeking $1.15 billion in loans to refinance debt, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction. Click here to read more at Bloomberg News.

Freight Teamsters: Don't Give Up, Step Up

January 03, 2014
January 3, 2014: Millionaires like Harry Wilson are getting rich off the concessions that are destroying good union jobs. Our union should be leading the fight, but Hoffa Jr. is no Hoffa. He has turned his back on freight, UPS freight, carhaul, and trucking Teamsters. Complaining in the break room won’t save our pensions or our union. But rank-and-file Teamsters standing together can take back our union.In some locals, TDU members have defeated pension cuts,...

Freight Teamsters Deserve Leadership

January 03, 2014
January 3, 2014: It has been one of the biggest failures of leadership in Hoffa’s 15 years in office. YRCW Teamsters were mailed a ballot for a five-year contract extension, without the union leadership even bargaining for them. Whatever the outcome fo the vote is, we know this for sure: the Hoffa-Hall leadership has abandoned freight Teamsters. For 15 years they have done nothing to defend our union or to organize in freight, or in...
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