Karen Friedman Detroit Free Press July 23, 2012 View the original piece By Friday, 42,000 salaried General Motors retirees will have made a critical financial decision that will dictate whether they have a secure or insecure retirement. GM is requiring these loyal old-timers to either exchange their lifetime monthly pension benefits for a onetime lump-sum payment or continue to receive equivalent lifetime monthly payments paid by Prudential instead of GM. Understandably, after years of serving the...

Charles Pauka Transport and Logistics News July 10, 2012 View the original piece United Parcel Service Pty Ltd (UPS) workers are pursuing their right to strike as the company’s refusal to negotiate a fair agreement places their livelihood in jeopardy, according to acting national secretary of the Transport Workers Union Michael Kaine. “The TWU represents hundreds of UPS employees along the eastern seaboard inNew South Wales,QueenslandandVictoria, and thousands of members working for TNT across the...

Seth Clevenger Transport Topics July 02, 2012 View the original piece UPS said it has completed testing of its "plastic trucks," a composite-bodied vehicle that's lighter and uses 40% less fuel than its current package cars, and will soon add 150 of the new vehicles to its delivery fleet. This vehicle, named the CV-23, weighs about 900 pounds less than the company's standard P70 package car, which has a traditional aluminum body, UPS said. The...

Kevin P. McGowan BNA Daily Labor Report July 02, 2012 View the original piece The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Yellow Transportation Inc., and YRC Inc. have settled for $11 million an EEOC suit alleging that the trucking companies permitted the racial harassment of black employees at a now-closed Chicago Ridge, Ill., facility, EEOC announced June 29 (EEOC v. Yellow Transp. Inc., N.D. Ill., No. 09 CV 7693, preliminary approval granted6/28/12). Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox of the U.S. District...

Tricia Manning-Smith Komo News June 30, 2012 View the original piece SEATTLE - Some of the crews who haul away garbage in the Puget Sound region can't reach a labor contract agreement with their employer, Waste Management - and now they're threatening to strike soon, claiming they fear a lock-out. The Teamsters union got them fired up and sent them out Saturday to take their message to the streets. Two of those who went out...

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission June 29, 2012 View the original piece Class of Black Employees Suffered Hangman's Nooses, Racist Graffiti and Epithets, Harsher Discipline, and Tougher Work Assignments, Federal Agency Charged CHICAGO – An $11 million consent decree entered here today in federal court has ended the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) race harassment and discrimination lawsuit against a major transportation company. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox granted preliminary approval of the decree....

Bill Mongelluzzo The Journal of Commerce June 27, 2012 View the original piece The nation’s two dock worker unions may take the lead in forming a maritime labor alliance to protect their jurisdiction against encroachment by non-maritime unions or non-union employers. The presidents of the International Longshoremen’s Association on the East and Gulf coasts and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union on the West Coast have already discussed such an alliance that would presumably include...

Jane Slaughter Labor Notes June 26, 2012 View the original piece A series of one-day sympathy strikes by Teamsters in five cities helped convince the giant waste-hauler Republic Services to back off a six-week lockout of its workers in Evansville, Indiana. The lockout was Republic’s attempt to convince the workers to gut their pensions. In May and June workers in California, Michigan, and Illinois honored picket lines set up by locked-out Indiana workers. Republic is...

Bruce Barnard The Journal of Commerce June 25, 2012 View the original piece United Parcel Service launches its 5.16 billion euro ($6.6 billion) cash bid for Dutch rival TNT Express Friday in a major expansion of its presence in Europe's package delivery market.  The offer period for the 9.50 euro ($12.06) per share bid runs through Aug. 31 “unless extended,” the two companies said. UPS reiterated it is seeking support from at least 80 percent...

David Twiddy Kansas City Business Journal June 20, 2012 View the original piece A YRC Worldwide Inc. subsidiary is planning to hire 450 over-the-road and local city drivers in Midwest markets. In a release Wednesday, the Overland Park-based trucking company (Nasdaq: YRCW) said Holland is focusing on recruiting drivers in the areas of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Holland, one of YRC’s regional brands, is seeing increased demand for next-day delivery and already hired...