January 5, 2015: The YRCW Board of Directors, including two nominated by James Hoffa, has handed the top two executives a $10 million bonus. “What happened to ‘equality of sacrifice’” asked Frank Fullerton, a YRC road driver out of Local 728 Atlanta. “This is a slap in the face to every YRC employee and retiree, who has given up wages, pensions and vacations. And the IBT goes along – one more reason to dump Hoffa...

December 23, 2014: Contract concessions, pension cuts and attacks on our rights. The 2014 Teamster Hall of Shame tells the facts and names the names. Ken Hall: Imposes Contract Over 94% No Vote An incredible 94 percent of UPS Teamsters in Louisville Local 89 Voted No to reject their supplement. Thousands more Teamsters in Western Pennsylvania and Philadelphia rejected theirs, too. A real union leader would have used this leverage to bargain improvements. Instead, Ken...

December 23, 2014: Teamster members fought back in 2014, taking on concessions, organizing to save their benefits, defending members' right to vote, and more.  Members can look to these campaigns with hope as we organize to rebuild Teamster power in 2015. Vote NO! UPS Teamsters across the country united to reject a historic 18 local supplements and riders in the largest anti-concessions campaign in the U.S. UPS Freight Teamsters Voted No too. While Hoffa and...

December 15, 2014: Congress has passed pension cut legislation. Our Campaign for Pension Justice will make our voices heard from Capitol Hill to the Central States Pension Fund. We’re not going to stand by and let this happen without a fight. Yesterday, TDU held a conference call with over 400 Teamsters and retirees—and we are just getting started. Click here to join our Campaign for Pension Justice. Our Campaign for Pension Justice will make our...

December 15, 2014: The lame duck Congress has attached pension cut legislation to the end-of-year spending bill that will pave the way for the worst pension cuts in Teamster history. Leave it to UPS to find a way to make billions off this disaster. UPS lobbyists fought for and won a special interest loophole that shifts $2 billion in the company’s pension responsibilities on to the backs of Teamster retirees in the Central States. These...

UPDATED December 16, 2014: Get answers on the pension cut deal and what it means for you. The ink is still drying on the pension cut deal that was attached in the dead of night to Congress's spending bill. Some questions can be answered now. We will update with new information as it becomes available. Does this bill mandate pension cuts? No. This bill permits “deeply troubled” pension plans, those which could become insolvent over...

December 13, 2014: Congress has officially passed the spending bill that includes pension cut legislation that was attached as an amendment to the budget bill. The legislation guts federal pension protections and will pave the way for pension cuts in the Central States Pension Fund. Teamsters have questions and deserve answers. TDU lays out what the bill means for Teamsters in our Frequently Asked Questions.  The biggest question of all may be: how did Hoffa...

December 12, 2014: Thomas Nyhan testified in Congress and lobbied hard – with our pension money and staff – to get the pension-cut bill passed. Now, he got his wish: a 163-page bill sneaked through Congress, tacked onto the budget.  We propose some small measure of equality of sacrifice, which is a basic principle of the labor movement.   The executives of the Central States Pension and Welfare Funds should take a 30% cut, to...

December 11, 2014: We need your help NOW! The House is poised to vote on the omnibus spending bill, which includes provisions that would allow pension plan trustees to cut the hard-earned pension benefits of current retirees – as a purported solution to shoring up certain financially-troubled multiemployer plans. Click here to contact your members of congress and tell them to strip the pension cut ammendment from the omnibus bill. Sign up for email updates...

UPDATED December 13, 2014: There's still time to fight Congress's last-minute pension cut deal by calling and emailing your Senators today. Do it now. The vote could come Monday on the budget bill. Here's how to reach your Senator:  http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/8438/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9861   Click here to read AARP's letter of opposition. Click here to read a Statement from the Pension Rights Center. Click here to read a Statement by Senator Tom Harkin. The proposed pension cuts amendment has now...