November 21, 2011: Not long ago, truckers pulled off highways across America and tuned in to someone whose CB handle was “Troublemaker.”
“I’m barely hanging on,” one driver lamented. His employer, the U.P.S. freight unit, was turning to nonunion drivers — people outside the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, he said.
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The Sixth District Court of Appeals has refused to enforce a landmark NLRB decision that Teamsters and other unions have used to organize the unorganized and stand up to employers who violate labor law.
The IBT has appointed a new Independent Investigations Officer (IIO) for a five-year term. Judge Timothy S. Hillman, who serves as the Independent Election Supervisor, is now also the IIO. Judge Hillman replaces Robert Luskin who completed his five-year term.
