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IBT Approves YRC Cameras in all Trucks

The IBT Freight Division has given the green light to YRC to install front-facing cameras in all tractors to record events such as swerves, speeding, and hard braking. YRC has agreed to not use the recordings for discipline; only to “protect” drivers.

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Your Comments to Treasury Dept on Pension Cuts Due Tonight

Member and retiree comments to the US Treasury Department on the Central States Pension Fund application to slash pensions are due by midnight tonight.

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Are Concessions Funding ABF’s Exit from LTL Trucking?

On December 1, ARCBest proudly announced the $26 million acquisition of Bear Transportation Services, a logistics nonunion operation. This is in line with ARCBest management’s plan of moving from LTL to nonunion logistics companies as a primary focus and revenue source.  

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Video: Reform History at Teamster Conventions

TDU members and other reform Teamsters have taken the issues to Teamster Conventions for nearly 40 years – and won major gains for all Teamster members. This ten-minute video shows reformers speaking “truth to power” from 1981 through 2006 (when the video was produced).  

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Labor Board Expands Rights in Lab Tests

Does your employer have a sweet deal with a doctor, hospital, or laboratory? Many do. The employer pumps workers in for drug or alcohol tests—some chosen “randomly,” some after an inconsequential accident, and others after a “reasonable suspicion” appraisal by a spiteful supervisor.

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Meeting the Challenge at UPS

How UPS’s changing business model is boosting profits and destroying working conditions and good full-time jobs—and what our union should be doing about it.
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Top 5 Things We're Thankful For

Teamsters for a Democratic Union wishes all Teamster brothers and sisters and their families a Happy Thanksgiving. Here's what we're especially thankful for this year.

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Treasury Road Tour - All Out to Columbus

Retired and active Teamsters: Make your voices heard on pension cuts, when Ken Feinberg, Special Master to the Treasury Department, visits Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday, December 8. 

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The Pension Movement: How We Can Win

With only token help from the International union, a grassroots movement of Teamsters has put proposed cuts to earned pensions on the national agenda.
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The King of the Concessions Fatcats

Top Teamster officials have hit members with givebacks while taking big raises themselves. One Concessions Fatcat stands above the rest.

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