Fighting Harrassment For Inside Workers
Click here to download tips on fighting production harassment for inside workers. Is management handing out excessive discipline for misloads or missorts? Here are some steps you can take to protect yourself and your fellow Teamsters. UPS has the right to expect employees, in this case preloaders and loaders, to work accurately. This is just common sense. But management frequently goes overboard from common sense to nonsense. In this article, we'll review how members can...
From ‘Vote No’ to Take Back Our Union
April 2, 2014: Had enough of Hoffa, Hall and contract givebacks? It’s time to take back our union. Teamsters members Voted No against concessions at UPS, UPS Freight and YRC. The Vote No movement armed James Hoffa and Ken Hall with leverage to go back to the table and negotiate contract improvements. Instead, Hoffa and Hall have worked hand-in-glove with management to re-vote weak contracts and push through concessions. Fed up with Hoffa, Hall and...
TDU In Action
April 2, 2014: TDU members across the country have hit the ground running in 2014, holding seminars, organizing to defend pensions, and holding education conferences to inform members and build the reform movement. St. Louis Teamsters Protecting Safety Rights Paul Taylor, lead attorney for the Truckers Justice Center and author of a book on the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA), spoke to a packed house in the St. Louis area on February 15. UPS feeder...
Will Hoffa and Hall Try to Impose the UPS Contract?
April 2, 2014: With the Louisville Air Rider headed down in flames, Hoffa and Hall are considering a secret plan to impose the UPS contract. UPS Teamsters in Louisville, Philadelphia, and Western Pennsylvania have Voted No and rejected their supplements. Now Hoffa and Hall are considering a plan to take away their right to vote and impose the UPS contract. Teamster members won the right to vote on supplements and riders in 1991 and have...
Backed by Political Leaders and the Public: Local 804 Stands Up to UPS
April 2, 2014: UPS has threatened 250 New York Local 804 members with termination. As we go to press, UPS has cut off talks with the union and has fired some of the drivers. The fired drivers were chosen at random—taking arbitrary discipline at UPS to a new low. Elected officials and the public are rallying behind Local 804 members and pressing UPS to get to the table and settle the dispute. On Feb. 26,...
Make UPS Pay for Supervisors Working
April 2, 2014: “When you work as a team, you can win supervisors working grievances, put extra money in your wallet and build Teamster unity on the job too.” Nick Perry, Local 413, Columbus Working at UPS is exhausting and the company always wants it done yesterday. It can be tempting to look at supervisors working as a necessary evil, even a helping hand. But supervisors aren’t helping us when they do bargaining unit...
MLK Jr.-"I've been to the mountaintop"
April 3, 2014: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. King was there to support sanitation workers striking to protest low wages and poor working conditions. He was assassinated the next day. Click here to read a full transcript or listen to an audio recording of the speech.
Backed by Political Leaders and the Public: Local 804 Stands Up to UPS
April 2, 2014: UPS has threatened 250 New York Local 804 members with termination, and on March 31, management fired 20 of them in a mean-spirited escalation of the dispute. Elected officials and the public are rallying behind Local 804 members and pressing UPS to get to the table and settle the dispute, as reported today in the New York Daily News. On Feb. 26, UPS fired a union activist in violation of the grievance...
9.5 Rights Enforcement Packet
Tired of excessive overtime and management stiffing drivers who try to use their 9.5 rights? Use the 9.5 Rights Enforcement Packet from TDU. The packet includes guidelines on who’s eligible for 9.5, step-by-step instructions for enforcing 9.5, and the forms you need to document a winning grievance, including a documentation form. 9.5 Eligibility Guide: A clear guilde on who's eligibile for 9.5 and instructions on how to enforce your 9.5 rights. 9.5 Enforcement Form: Use...
Right to Union Representation: It’s More than Weingarten Rights
April 2, 2014: If you’re being questioned by UPS management, you have the right to union representation—even if those questions are not part of a disciplinary interview. UPS Teamsters have rights that go beyond Weingarten thanks to our Teamster contract—and an important arbitration victory by Teamsters Local 804. UPS Teamsters have the right to union representation whenever management is conducting a investigation of any kind. This includes investigations into accidents or questions in the office...