UPS Freight National Grievance Panel: Subcontracting Out Our Work Remains Issue
September 28, 2010: The next meeting of the UPS Freight national grievance panel will be in San Diego on Oct. 13-15.
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September 28, 2010: The next meeting of the UPS Freight national grievance panel will be in San Diego on Oct. 13-15.
June 15, 2010: The UPS Freight panel deadlocked three more subcontracting grievances when it met June 9 – 11 in Rhode Island.
May 25, 2010: Teamster representatives will meet with UPS Freight management in Providence Rhode Island for the quarterly national panel on June 9-11.
April 2, 2010: IBT Vice President Ken Hall says that the UPS Freight National Panel is doing an “outstanding job.”
April 2, 2010: Article 44 contains the following language that drivers can use to protect jobs from subcontracting: “However, if sufficient freight is generated in the future to provide loads ret
UPDATED March 10, 2010. The results are back from the March UPS Freight national grievance panel, but they aren’t pretty. Out of 27 grievances heard, the union won only five cases.
March 9, 2010: UPS Freight Teamsters nationally have been demanding union action on widespread subcontracting violations. And they seem to have gotten the ear of our Teamster leadership.
By David Loyd, UPS Freight, Local 150, Sacramento, Calif.
We here in the South Sacramento service center need to be added to the report on UPS Freight subcontracting. In the past seven months we have lost 10 road jobs.
February 26, 2010: UPS Freight Teamsters have filed over 40 national grievances to close the loophole on subcontracting at UPS Freight.
Will the IBT take action to protect Teamster jobs?
February 26, 2010: As the January Teamster Voice reported, subcontracting is a big issue at UPS Freight. But it’s not the only issue.