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NY Times: Conservative Organization Accused of Offering Help in a Labor Dispute

July 22, 2009
July 22, 2009: WASHINGTON — The American Conservative Union, which bills itself as the nation’s oldest conservative grass-roots lobbying organization, has found itself fending off charges that it put its principles up for sale. In a letter sent last month to FedEx, the group offered its support in a bitter legislative dispute with United Parcel Service, but said it wanted a contract of up to $3.4 million to wage a campaign to win support for...

TDU Protects Your Right to Information

July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009: Teamsters have a right to discuss union issues and exchange union-related literature at work. TDU is at work defending and expanding that right. Teamsters have the right to distribute Convoy Dispatch [now Teamster Voice] and other union-related materials at the workplace, during nonwork times and in nonwork areas. Most Teamsters take these rights for granted. But some employers need to be reminded of this fact, via legal action to protect the rights...

IBT Strikes Out at UPS Panel

July 21, 2009
If the Teamster National Grievance Committee was a UPS employee it would be fired for poor job performance. Our union won just four out of 59 cases at the last national grievance panel. The decisions are in from the June meeting of the National Grievance Committee in Philadelphia and the results aren’t pretty. In four days of hearings, the highest UPS grievance body under the contract ruled in favor of the union just four times....

International Union Fails to Enforce Contract, Protect Full-Time Jobs

July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009: Last month’s National Grievance Committee meeting was the International Union’s opportunity to make UPS create all 20,000 full-time combo jobs that are required by Article 22.3 of the contract. Instead, Hoffa and Parcel Division Director Ken Hall continued to let management have its way with eliminating the full-time jobs we won in the 1997 strike. The number of full-time positions lost in violation of Article 22.3 has reached the thousands. UPS Teamsters...

Close the FedEx Loophole

July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009: Congress may soon vote on a bill to close the FedEx loophole that makes it harder for FedEx workers to unionize. For years the corporation has used its lobbying muscle to be classified as an airline. This puts FedEx under the Railway Labor Act, which makes it much harder for workers to organize a union. Every other freight and parcel carrier—including UPS—is covered by the National Labor Relations Act. Both UPS and...
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Video: Teamster Officials Sell UPS Contract Deal Before It's Done

June 25, 2018

Hoffa’s negotiator Denis Taylor has kept the contents of his tentative contract deal with UPS secret, even from the members of his own National Negotiating Committee. But that hasn’t stopped them from selling a contract that is not even finished.

Hoffa, UPS Reach Handshake Deal

June 21, 2018

UPDATED--7:40PM.  Hoffa’s chief negotiator Denis Taylor and UPS have reached a handshake deal on a national contract that includes two-tier Hybrid Drivers that would deliver ground packages on a lower pay scale.

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