Hospital Teamsters Unite for a Fair Contract
January 8, 2015: A new leadership team took office in Rhode Island Teamster Local 251 last year after members organized a grassroots movement for change.
Public Sector
TDU in Action—Public Sector
"TDU has helped us learn what we need to do as Teamsters in the public sector to win better contracts and stronger union representation."
Duke Clark, City of Chicago Communications
Local 726
Public Sector Newswire
Teamsters Local 72 complaint against NYS Thruway Authority
Times Union
02/27/2013
ALBANY — The Teamsters local that represents state Thruway Authority workers has filed an unfair labor complaint alleging its members were improperly threatened with layoffs if they failed to make concessions during contract talks.
There's Something Happening Here
Chicago Tribune
09/27/2012
Teachers go on strike in Chicago and Lake Forest. Chicago symphony musicians walk out. Machinists walk picket lines in Joliet, and Wal-Mart warehouse workers stop working in Elwood. Gov. Pat Quinn gets chased from the state fair by angry government workers, and talk of a state workers strike is rumbling.
Chicago Teachers Raise the Bar
Labor Notes
09/20/2012
The Chicago Teachers Union has done the seemingly impossible. At a time when teachers are pilloried in the press and attacked by Democrats and Republicans alike, Chicago teachers walked out for seven days in a strike that challenged every tenet of the corporate agenda for overhauling education.
Judge strikes down Wisconsin law restricting union rights
NBC News
09/18/2012
A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers.
Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday that the law violates the state and U.S. constitutions and is null and void.
The law took away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most workers and has been in effect for more than a year.
Colas' ruling comes after a lawsuit brought by the Madison teachers union and a union for Milwaukee city employees.
Teamsters' picket highlights era without salary increases
nwi.com
06/12/2012
Teamsters members working for years without a pay raise conducted an informational picket Friday morning outside the Lake County Government Complex's main entrance.
Hoffa Slaps Trusteeship on Local 2010
June 1, 2012: Our newest Teamster local has been put into trusteeship. Local 2010 is the Coalition of University Employees, which affiliated with the Teamsters in 2010. CUE represents nearly 14,000 employees throughout ten campuses of the University of California.
NY Times: Don't Cut Pensions, Expand Them
March 16, 2012: On Thursday morning the New York State Legislature agreed to a deal limiting pensions for future public employees. The state thus joins 43 others that have recently enacted legislation curtailing public retirement benefits.
Hoffa Moves Toward Trusteeship in Newest Teamster Local
March 15, 2012: The Hoffa administration is on the fast track toward trusteeship in Local 2010, the statewide local of clerical and allied services Teamsters at the University of California.
Ohio Voters Veto Union-Busting Law
December 2, 2011: Anti-union politicians tried to ram through the worst union-busting law in Ohio’s history.
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