Mayor Daley dismisses talk of a Teamsters truck drivers strike
March 5, 2010: Mayor Daley today shook off a 3-to-1 strike-authorization vote by city of Chicago truck drivers and vowed to keep O’Hare and Midway Airports open even if the drivers walk off the job. “You know what? There’d be 50,000 people applying for these jobs,” Daley said. “I mean, there’s so many people out of work. If you were ever to open employment, there’d be 50,000. These are good-paying jobs. Everybody would like to...
Teamster Election Supervisor Named
March 5, 2010: The Election Supervisor has been named for the 2011 election for International Union officers. And proposed Election Rules—which will go into effect on May 1—are now available for comment before they are finalized. Richard Mark will be the Election Supervisor for the 2011 IBT officer and convention delegate elections. Mark served as the E.S. for the 2005-2006 delegate and IBT officer elections. The final Election Rules will be submitted to federal judge...
UPS to Pay Civil Penalty for Alleged Violations of Waste Regulations
March 4, 2010: United Parcel Service has agreed to pay a $53,931 civil penalty to EPA Region 7 to settle a series of alleged violations of federal laws regarding the management of hazardous wastes at its freight facility in Lenexa, Kan. According to a consent agreement and final order filed today in Kansas City, Kansas, several violations of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) were noted during a February 2007 inspection of the...
L.A. Local 848 Members Say No to Big Wheels
March 3, 2010: For many years, Jim Santangelo ruled Los Angeles Local 848 with an iron hand. Now the members realize their local belongs to them and it's paying off. Last weekend, a packed union hall shouted a big NO vote to a motion to approve spending $59,000 on a new GMC Yukon for Eric Tate, the local secretary-treasurer. Tate was appointed to the position last October as the chosen successor to Santangelo, who was...
WSJ: UPS CEO Davis Earned $6.24M In 2009 Total Compensation
March 2, 2010: United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said the total compensation paid to Chief Executive Scott Davis fell about 0.6% last year, to $6.24 million. Davis's 2009 base salary was flat at $1 million, in keeping with the package delivery giant's move to freeze management salaries amid the economic downturn. In addition, the value of stock awards included in the calculation of his total compensation slipped to $3.89 million, from about $3.97 million in...
Teamsters local probed
March 2, 2010: A grand jury is looking at allegations that top Teamster officials working at the city’s convention centers intimidated witnesses in assault cases involving union members, sources say. The grand jury, working in conjunction with Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office, has reportedly grilled a number of people tied to Teamsters Local 82, a union long embroiled in factional fights. Click here to read more at the Boston Herald.
Save Our Pensions
February 26, 2010: Teamsters are worried about our pensions. New legislation could help save our benefits. But it won’t be won without strong union action. Special Pension Coverage • Teamsters, YRC Team Up on Pension Legislation • Central States Status Update • IBT-UPS Plan Keeps You in the Dark Wall Street banks got their bailout and are back to making record profits. But Teamster pensions are still reeling from the hurt these banks put on...
IBT-UPS Pension Plan Keeps You in the Dark
March 8, 2010: Have you ever tried to get information from the new “IBT-UPS Pension Plan” that covers all full time UPS Teamsters in the Central and Southern Regions and the Carolinas? If not, consider yourself lucky, because it’s not easy. Members with questions for the IBT-UPS Pension Plan are meeting an information Brownout. Consider these Teamsters: A part-timer with three years of service in Columbus, Ohio Local 413 who plans to go full-time wrote...
Stop the UPS Full-Time Jobs Giveaway
February 26, 2010: Did the International cut a secret deal to let UPS eliminate thousands of full-time 22.3 jobs? In a tough economy, good full-time jobs with union benefits are at a premium. But the Hoffa administration has let UPS eliminate thousands of good full-time jobs that they are required to maintain by the contract. Article 22.3 of the national master agreement requires UPS to maintain the 20,000 full-time combo jobs won as a result...
Brokers Take Union Work in Sacramento
By David Loyd, UPS Freight, Local 150, Sacramento, Calif. We here in the South Sacramento service center need to be added to the report on UPS Freight subcontracting. In the past seven months we have lost 10 road jobs. Prior to June, 2008, our terminal had three sleeper teams scheduled to Harrisburg, Penn., two to Kansas City, Kan. (making a turn and a half), and two to Dallas (also making a turn and a half)....