Mike Hughlett Star Tribune April 10, 2013 View the original piece A Teamsters panel has concluded that the top two former leaders of Blaine-based Local 120 should be banned from union leadership positions for life and should pay fines worth tens of thousands of dollars to make up for allegedly embezzled union funds. The recommendations, which were adopted this month by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa, follow an investigation over allegations of financial misconduct...

Oiwan Lam Global Voices April 08, 2013 View the original piece An ongoing strike by Hong Kong dock workers demanding a pay raise and protesting arduous working conditions is delivering a costly blow to the city's port operators and winning widespread support from the public. A few hundred workers began to camp inside the docks on March 28, 2013 after subcontractors for Hutchison International Terminals (HIT) which runs the docks, rejected their demand for a 100 Hong...

Evan Lockridge Trucking Info April 08, 2013 View the original piece A trucker who refused to drive a truck he believed was unsafe is getting his job back in addition to lost pay, while another has been order to pay money back and has been sentenced to jail in a workers' compensation fraud case. A U.S. Labor Department administrative law judge has ordered Boise, Idado-based Cargo Express to reinstate Thomas J. Graff after he was...

Michael Corkery Wall Street Journal April 05, 2013 View the original piece Some companies are pushing to withdraw their workers from a giant Teamsters pension plan that faces a deep funding shortfall and questions about its long-term viability. Investment losses during the financial crisis and hard times for trucking companies that pay into the Teamsters' Central States Funds have sapped the fund of money it uses to pay promised benefits. With just 60 cents of...

National Consitution Center Yahoo April 04, 2013 View the original piece It was 45 years ago today that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis. The world has changed greatly since 1968, but King’s message survives intact. King was in Tennessee to help support a sanitation workers’ strike. At the age of 39, King was already an internationally known figure. Starting with the Montgomery boycott in...

Evan Lockridge Trucking Info April 03, 2013 View the original piece Representatives of the Teamsters Union are set to meet on April 19with officials from YRC Freight to discuss changes to the less-than-truckload carrier’s terminal network. YRC is looking to reduce the number of its terminals from nearly 300 to just over 265 along with closing three distribution centers in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Memphis. It’s estimated some 1,200 union workers could be affected along...

Beth Vorhees West Virginia Public Broadcasting April 02, 2013 View the original piece Sixteen people have been arrested during a protest of Patriot Coal Corp.'s bankruptcy reorganization plan in downtown Charleston today. The arrests occurred on the outside steps leading to Patriot Coal's West Virginia offices at Laidley Tower. UMW President Cecil Roberts was among those arrested after the group refused a police order to move.Thousands of union members protested Patriot Coal's bankruptcy reorganization plan....

REUTERS The New York Times April 01, 2013 View the original piece United Parcel Service has agreed to forfeit $40 million that it earned from illegal Internet pharmacies that shipped drugs using U.P.S. services, federal authorities said on Friday. As part of the settlement, U.P.S. entered a nonprosecution agreement with the Justice Department. The company also agreed to put a compliance program into place to prevent illegal online pharmacies from distributing drugs through its shipping...

John D. Schulz Logistics Management March 29, 2013 View the original piece ABF Freight System, the seventh-largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier by revenue, said today that it has made inroads on its hotly-contested contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters that was scheduled to expire on March 31, which has led to a 30-day extension for the National Master Freight Agreement. ABF officials said negotiations are scheduled to resume the week of April 8 and that...

Reuters March 28, 2013 View the original piece Sanitation Workers Go On Unfair Labor Practice Strike; Co-Workers in Evansville, Ind.  and  Urbana, Ill.  Refuse To Work In Show of SupportYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio,  March 28, 2013  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sanitation workers employed by Republic Services/Allied Waste [NYSE: RSG] went on strike in  Ohio last night to protest the company's violations of federal labor law. Workers at Republic's Carbon Limestone landfill outside of  Youngstown  put up a picket line...