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Why All UPS Teamsters Should Care About The Central States Pension Fund

April 10, 2009
May 1, 2009: If you are a UPS Teamster in the West or the East, then the problems in the Central States Pension Fund won’t affect you, right? Wrong. UPS’s pullout has financially devastated the Central States Pension Fund. And the company plan that replaced it is a ticking time bomb of retirement insecurity for nearly 50,000 UPS Teamsters in the Central and Southern Regions. This may not affect your pension directly, if you’re a...

Contract Violations That Kill Teamster Jobs

April 10, 2009
April 10, 2009: Volume is down at UPS and layoffs are up. Our union can’t reverse the economic slowdown—but our union can protect Teamster jobs by holding UPS to the contract. Contract Violations That Kill Teamster Jobs • New Overtime Guidelines Hurt Working Teamsters • New Jersey Local Challenges UPS Over Supervisors Working UPS has responded to the economic slowdown with record layoffs and job cuts. Drivers across the country are reporting an increase in...

NJ Local Challenges UPS Over Sups Working

April 10, 2009
April 10, 2009: New Jersey Local 177 bargained groundbreaking contract language on supervisors working in the new contract. Now that language is being put to the test. Representing more than 8,000 Teamsters in New Jersey, Local 177 is one of the largest and most powerful UPS locals in the Eastern Region. Local 177 is one of a handful of large locals with its own supplement to the UPS national contract. In the last bargaining round,...

New Overtime Guidelines Hurt Working Teamsters

April 10, 2009
April 10, 2009: Drivers and our families are being hurt by the new Opt-In/Opt-Out guidelines agreed to by the Hoffa administration. The new system has led to more intimidation, more excessive overtime and more layoffs. It’s wrong. Intimidation Aaron Nightingale, Local 150In my building, intimidation is a major factor in keeping drivers off the 9.5 Excessive Overtime list. Drivers have been told they will be subject to extra reports and will basically have a camera...

Petition Drive for Full-Time Jobs

April 10, 2009
April 10, 2009: Good full-time jobs are at a premium in this economy. Enforcing Article 22.3 would make UPS create thousands more full-time jobs. So why isn’t the International Union doing it? In 1997, UPS Teamsters went on strike to tell the company, “Part-Time American Won’t Work.” Today, UPS Teamsters are teaming up in a national petition drive to make UPS create the full-time jobs we’re owed under the contract. The 1997 strike forced UPS...
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UPS/UPSF Strike Authorization Vote

May 15, 2018

Ballots are being mailed today on voting to give strike authorization to the IBT at UPS and UPS Freight. We urge all Teamsters to Vote Yes—download and distribute new UPS and UPS Freight bulletins to spread the word.

ABF Contract Passes - Some Supplements Rejected

May 10, 2018

[Reprinted from ABF Teamsters United]Teamsters at ABF have ratified the proposed contract by 58% which restores some of what had been lost in the 2013 contract, but falls short of what most ABF Teamsters expect and deserve.

We will post a link to the local by local results as they become available.

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