Hoffa’s original running mate Bill Hogan, Jr. was banned from our union by the IRB after he was caught engineering a sweetheart deal with a nonunion temp agency to undercut Teamster convention workers. The scheme would have slashed wages to $8 and eliminated all benefits. CHECK THE FACTS: Independent Review Board Decision barring Billy Hogan and Dane Passo, May 20, 2002 and decision of Judge Loretta Preska, August 22, 2003.
Ten thousand Teamster nurses at Corewell Health East in Southeast Michigan have reached a tentative agreement on a first contract after more than a year of tough negotiations, management stonewalling, and a strike authorization vote.
UPS hauled in $22.8 billion in revenue in the first quarter and made $930 million in profits. Big Brown projects to make $91.2 billion in revenue for the year and $8.7 billion in profit – all this according to their newly released second quarter earnings report.
