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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.”...

TeamCare Announces YRCW Delinquency

May 08, 2020

Today, TeamCare notified all locals and sent a letter to all YRCW Teamsters that YRC and Holland are delinquent on their March 2020 contributions and that they will be unable to pay contributions for work performed in April and May, which will mean a $75 million delinquency to the H&W Fund.

COVID-19 Update for Freight Teamsters

March 18, 2020

Freight Director Ernie Soehl told Teamster officials on a national conference call that he is in constant communication with freight employers regarding responses and operations during the COVID-19 epidemic.

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