Paul Shukovsky BNA Daily Labor Report October 21, 2013 View the original piece October 21, 2013: Minutes before picketing was to begin, union negotiators representing almost 30,000 grocery store employees in western Washington state reached agreement on a contract with representatives of Safeway Inc., Kroger Co. and Albertsons LLC chains. The grocery chains and the unions have been negotiating since March with a key issue being the elimination of health care coverage for thousands of grocery...

Tim White WPRI October 22, 2013 View the original piece The highest ranking Teamsters official in New England is facing possible disciplinary action for comments he made at a union election rally in Rhode Island. Click here to watch the video and read the original piece. Sean O'Brien, the powerful vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a top lieutenant to labor president James Hoffa, is facing possible suspension from the union for...

JOC Staff The Journal of Commerce October 17, 2013 View the original piece The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents about 3,300 conductors, trainmen, yardmen and traffic coordinators at Canadian National, is gearing up for a strike or lockout in its relations with the Class I railroad on Oct. 28. Ongoing talks, following the expiration of the union members’ contract on July 22, broke down between the two parties on Oct. 7. The negotiations are...

Rhonda Smith BNA Daily Labor Report October 17, 2013 View the original piece Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have approved the final rider included in a collective bargaining agreement with DHL Express that covers about 2,000 workers employed nationwide by the logistics company, the union announced Oct. 11. IBT said approval of the rider paves the way for implementation of a national master agreement between DHL and the Teamsters that retroactively takes effect...

Cole Stangler In These Times October 17, 2013 View the original piece Alex Adams, 71, worked in the trucking industry for 36 years before retiring in 2003. Five years later, Adams was diagnosed with cancer in his larynx and tonsils. As a result, he now takes food through a feeding tube and has to deal with a number of ongoing medical costs. Fortunately, as a member of the Teamsters, he regularly paid in to the...

Susan R. Hobbs BNA Daily Labor Report October 14, 2013 View the original piece Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have voted to approve six regional supplements to the national collective bargaining contract with United Parcel Service Inc. that was ratified in June, leaving 11 more supplements that must be approved before the national agreement covering 237,000 workers goes into effect, the union announced Oct. 11. Union procedures require the approval of all supplements...

Betsy Morris The Wall St Journal October 11, 2013 View the original piece Teamsters union members at some local bargaining units again rejected parts of their contract with United Parcel Service Inc., prolonging the package and delivery giant's labor headaches as it enters the busy holiday season. In a vote on Thursday, Teamsters-represented workers at UPS rejected two of seven supplements or riders to the master contract, further delaying ratification of a deal that was...

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes October 09, 2013 View the original piece A diverse slate of local leaders pledging to take a firmer hand with management, increase transparency about contract details, collaborate with other postal unions and community groups, and mobilize members has just won national leadership of the American Postal Workers Union. The Members First Team, headed by now President-Elect Mark Dimondstein, won seven of the nine seats it contested, the APWU announced last night. The stakes...

Betsy Morris The Wall Street Journal October 01, 2013 View the original piece UPS is caught in a rift between the leadership of the Teamsters union and its rank-and-file members over labor contracts, a development that could unnerve corporate shippers and hurt its holiday shipping business. UPS's labor issues were supposed to be mostly settled in June, when the company's domestic package-delivery employees—a majority of its U.S. workers— approved a new five-year national master contract...

ABF News Brief 30, 2013 View the original piece ABF Freight System, Inc., and the Teamsters have reached another contract extension through October 29, 2013, as the two parties work through the process for resolving the two remaining supplemental agreements to the ABF National Master Freight Agreement. The national agreement was approved on June 27 by a majority of Teamster employees. As previously noted, the increases in contributions to health, welfare and pension plans that...