Teamster Rail Workers Revolt vs Driving Solo
August 19, 2014: There’s a rank and file rebellion brewing among rail workers, and Teamster engineers are in the thick of it. They are fighting back against a deal made secretly by the conductors union with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway. Most rail engineers belong to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLET) which is a part of the Teamsters Union. The organization leading the charge against the deal to allow one-person crews is...
Central States Extends YRC’s $100M Debt till 2019
August 15, 2014: The Central States Pension Fund has given YRCW an extension until 2019 to repay $109 million that YRC owes the pension fund. This was revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in the 2014 First Quarter Report filed by the Independent Special Counsel on July 30. That report, along with the Financial and Analytical Report obtained by TDU, indicates that the fund’s assets fell from $18.7 billion to...
Louisville Take Back Our Union Meeting Slideshow
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Take Back Our Union!
August 11, 2014: Over 200 Teamsters turned out on August 9 in Louisville, Kentucky and Dayton, Ohio to hear Fred Zuckerman, Sandy Pope, Tim Sylvester and Tony Jones talk about the growing coalition to take back our union in 2016. The meetings were sponsored by Take Back Our Union. The Dayton meeting drew Teamsters from Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Akron, Columbus and Lima, Ohio, as well as Dayton, and a few who made the trip from...
Take Back Our Union in Louisvile
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Trusteeship Hits Chicago Local 710
July 31, 2014: James Hoffa yesterday imposed an “emergency” trusteeship over Local 710, and appointed Chicago Teamster boss John Coli as trustee. The trusteeship follows a July 17 report by the Independent Review Board on the lack of financial controls in the local union. Many members of Local 710 are eager to clean house in the next election, and want to know how this trusteeship will affect those efforts. A trusteeship is “presumed invalid” after...
Hoffa Escalates Attack on the Right to Vote
July 30, 2014: The Hoffa administration is escalating its attack on Teamster voting rights. Hoffa administration lawyers are filing new papers with Judge Loretta Preska in a bid to end fair, independently supervised elections in the Teamsters. The case could be decided as early as September. Judge Preska can’t just hear from Hoffa. She needs to hear from us. More than 3,000 Teamsters have signed an Open Letter to Judge Preska, including 1,744 who have signed...
Big Brown Gets Busy in 2nd Quarter
July 29, 2014: UPS made $454 million in after-tax profits and transferred liability for future retiree healthcare costs to Teamcare. UPS announced $454 million in profits for the 2nd quarter today. That’s down from $1.07 billion for the same period last year. But don’t cry for Big Brown just yet. The company’s 54% drop in profits is explained by a one-time charge. UPS posted a one-time $665 million after-tax charge on its books related to...
Local 584 Members Challenging Forced Merger
UPDATE, August 6, 2014: Local 584 is being forcibly merged into another New York Teamster local to prevent members from voting in new leadership this fall. Support Local 584 members who are demanding their constitutional right to vote on the merger. Click here to demand that President Hoffa respect members’ Right to Vote on any local union merger. Local 584 members have been gearing up to defeat their incompetent union officials in a local union...
Corruption-Free? Not so Fast
July 24, 2014: Hoffa claims there’s no need for an anti-corruption body in our union because corruption is a thing of the past. Meanwhile, two Hoffa campaign donors have been busted this week on charges of stealing members’ dues and taking employer payoffs. The Hoffa administration has retained two attorneys who formerly worked for President George W. Bush to try to end the members Right to Vote, and also the Independent Review Board (IRB). The...