What's on Tap at the TDU Convention
Online registration is now closed. If you need to register for the TDU Convention, please call our office at 313-842-2600. Want to learn how to build union power and organize for change? The TDU Convention is the place to meet Teamsters who are doing just that. The TDU Convention will feature Teamster leaders, grassroots organizers and other activists who are building union power, including. Veterans of the Save the 250 Campaign Local 804 members took on...
Teamsters Voting for Change
Teamster members are voting for change. Yesterday, the 4,000 members of Dayton Local 957 voted overwhelmingly to replace their long time officers with the New Leadership Slate. Last week, the 8,000 members of Harrisburg Local 776 overwhelmingly rejected their incumbent officers in favor of a new team of leaders and business agents. Dan Webb, who won the secretary treasurer office in Local 957 yesterday, summed it up: “I feel humbled and blessed. The membership of...
Brown Giving Teamsters the Black Friday Blues
October 24, 2014: UPS profits are up and a record peak season is expected. For the first time package drivers will be forced to work on Black Friday. UPS announced today third-quarter profits of $1.2 billion. That’s an increase of 11 percent over last year. Both profit figures topped Wall Street’s predictions. For the year, UPS expects to make after-tax profits of around $4.5 billion. UPS also announced that Surepost shipments increased more than 50...
FedEx Ground: Employees or "contractors"
Five days a week for 10 years, Agostino Scalercio left his ouse before 6 a.m., drove to a depot to pick up a truck, and worked a 10-hour shift delivering packages in San Diego. He first worked for Roadyway Package System, a national delivery company whose founders included former United Parcel Service managers, and continued driving trucks when FedEx bought RPS in 1998. FedEx Groung assigned Scalercio a service area. The company, he says, had...
Supreme Court to Take Up UPS Pregnancy Discrimination
October 17, 2014: “I had to take unpaid leave during my pregnancy which caused me to lose my health insurance,” says Nichele Fulmore, a UPS package driver who became pregnant in 2003. “Most companies treat pregnant ladies as an off the job injury. It is because of a lady being pregnant that we all are here in the first place—no company should force a pregnant woman out of work. They should provide light duty for her.”...
Policy Change Punishes Pregnant Women
Teamster Local 554 member Sarah Miles, the daughter of another Nebraska UPS Teamster Jeff Benson, found out what UPS management thinks of its pregnant workers. Put on a weight restriction by her doctor, Sarah was told by UPS that no light-duty work was available, and that she did not qualify for Family Medical Leave. And Sarah isn’t the only one. When North Carolina UPS driver Nichele Fulmore was told by her doctor that she could not...
Historic Wins at FedEx Freight and Con-way
October 17, 2014: FedEx Freight workers in Philadelphia voted for this first time to join the Teamsters. Con-way workers in Laredo did the same. How can we build on this momentum? For the first time in years, there’s excitement in the air about Teamster organizing in the trucking industry. Can we turn that into some real Teamster power? Local 657 organized the Laredo Con-way terminal. Local 107 lost a vote at FedEx Freight in New...
TDU Convention & the 2016 Election
Online registration is now closed. If you need to register for the TDU Convention, please call our office at 313-842-2600. Teamsters who are looking for new leadership and a new direction in our union in 2016 will be making plans at the TDU Convention, Nov. 7-9. In 2014, Teamsters Voted No in massive numbers to reject concessions at UPS, UPS Freight, and in the freight industry. Will 2016 be the year that members vote for...
Workshops, Education & Inspiration
The TDU Convention, Nov. 7-9 at the Cleveland Airport Sheraton, features the best Teamster educational programs in our union. We will be posting a Convention program guide and schedule soon. For now, here’s a sneak peak at some of the workshops and meetings at this year’s Convention. Contract Enforcement & Grievance Handling Beating the Boss in Discipline Cases Winning Your UPS Grievances at Panel or Arbitration Dealing with Difficult Supervisors Legal Rights &...
Is that a ghost employee?
A review of the IBT’s financial report – or the $150,000 Club Report posted on this website – shows that an International Organizer made a salary of $250,000 last year. Could this possibly be true? Some members have asked that question, and the answer is No, it’s not true. But that’s what’s reported on the IBT financial report. Former Teamster organizer Tim Lewis was fired by the Hoffa administration in 2010. He went...