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BNA Daily Labor Report: Court Denies Action on Hours of Service Rule

January 29, 2008
January 29, 2008: In a brief order issued Jan. 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a request that the court enforce its orders overturning parts of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's rule limiting the maximum hours that truck drivers may drive and work (Owner-Operator Ind. Drivers Ass'n v. FMCSA, D.C. Cir., No. 06-1035, order 1/23/08). In a one-sentence per curiam order, the court denied requests that it...

International Softens Up DHLers for Concessions

January 23, 2008
January 23, 2008: Bargaining at DHL is set to restart in February and the International Union is softening up members in advance for concessions. The Hoffa administration’s latest DHL update plays up Wall Street concerns about DHL’s financial losses in its U.S. operations and warns that “there is immense pressure on them to turn around operations.” Here are few things Hoffa’s PR Department forgot to mention: DHL’s parent company, Deutsche Post, is the world’s largest...

Kansas City Star: Teamsters Debate Freight Deal

January 22, 2008
January 22, 2008: by Randolph Heaster for the Kansas City Star: Mail ballots on a proposed new contract have reached the hands of nearly 50,000 YRC Worldwide Inc. employees, and supporters and opponents of the pact are making their cases as voting proceeds.The Teamsters’ national freight negotiating committee last month reached the tentative five-year agreement, and more than 300 Teamsters local officers reviewing the contract overwhelmingly approved it at a Jan. 8 meeting.In a letter...

Organizing Drive Grows at UPS Freight

January 22, 2008
January 29, 2008: A majority of workers at terminals employing more than 3,200 UPS Freight employees have signed Teamster cards. UPS Freight workers in Georgia, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Detroit, Memphis, New England, Southern California, Oakland and Seattle have all submitted union cards. These new Teamsters join the 125 UPS Freight employees who now have a union contract in Indianapolis. Ken Hall, the Parcel and Small Package Division Director for the Teamsters, will head...

Freight Teamsters Fight Givebacks

January 18, 2008
January 18, 2008: As ballots arrive on a concessionary contract, Freight2008.org is answering misleading IBT PR by providing Freight Teamsters with the facts. The Hoffa administration has put its PR machine in overdrive—selling the concessionary freight contract with outright lies. One Freight Update put out by the International Union claims that ABF management wants members to reject the contract. The bulletin was a cynical ploy to get ABF Teamsters to “stand up to ABF” by...
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