2012 TDU Convention: Oct. 26-28 in Chicago
Meet Teamsters who are making a difference and arm yourself with information at the TDU Rank-and-File Convention, Oct. 26-28 at the Chicago Holiday Inn O'Hare. Take the TDU Recruitment Challenge and we'll wave your registration fee. Click here to learn more. Ask the Experts Workshops at the TDU Convention are led by Teamster leaders, labor experts, and attorneys. Learn more about grievances, safety, arbitration, pension rights, and more. Tools to Win Get the tools...
UPS Profits Up Again
April 27, 2012: UPS made just under a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2012. Brown reported profits of $970 million for the first three months of the year, up 6 percent from last year. Who delivered most of these profits? Working Teamsters, that's who. UPS's domestic revenue was up 6.1 percent. UPS's International operations grew at a slow pace, just 2.3 percent, disappointing analysts. Volume is up, but instead of meaning more Teamster...
Make UPS Deliver the Contract We Deserve
April 24, 2012: UPS Teamsters are building a nationwide campaign to make sure that any early deal makes UPS deliver the contract we deserve. Our contract at UPS doesn’t expire until Aug. 2013. But the International Union and UPS are planning to negotiate the next contract early.The Make UPS Deliver Campaign is bringing together Teamsters to win a contract that: Protects Our Benefits and Win Better Pensions Wins Higher Wages Especially for Part-Timers Protects Drivers...
What does your CEO make?
April 20, 2012: Now you can learn what the CEO of your employer makes, and information on how inflated executive pay hurts our economy. Click here to find out what your CEO makes.
Brown’s CEO Gets $2.3 Million Pay Hike
April 18, 2012: United Parcel Service CEO Scott Davis got a whopping 21.62 percent raise to $13.05 million last year according to a company filing with the SEC. Davis made $10.73 million in 2010 bringing the hike in his total compensation to $2.3 million. Davis was paid a base salary of $1.02 million, $9.45 million in shares, stock options worth $450,807, and a $566,996 bonus. Davis also got $1.51 million via an increase in the...
Shrinking Pensions for Philly-Area UPSers
April 12, 2012: UPS Teamsters are joining together to win a better contract and stop the downward slide in our pensions. The cost of living is going up. But pensions for UPS Teamsters in the Philadelphia Fund are going down every year. UPS Teamsters who retire this year with 30 years still get a good pension: around $3,900/month. But ten years from now, a UPSer who retires with 30 years will get less than $3,200/month....
Newest Member of the Teamster Board
March 26, 2012: Hoffa has appointed Becky Strzechowski as a Central Region International Vice President for the next five years. She will fill the vacancy created when Steve Pocztowski of Local 705 was elected in November, although he had passed away last July in Las Vegas, just days after he was nominated. Strzechowski got her start in Chicago Local 727, headed by John Coli and run largely as a Coli family business. She was appointed...
Calif Retirees Hit with Higher Costs
March 23, 2012: "I retired last year thinking I had a good Teamster pension with affordable health care. Last month the Teamster health plan jacked-up my family health payment to $975 a month."That's what Tom Booth, Local 896, who retired last year after 29+ years at the Anheuser Busch InBev brewery in Los Angeles, told us. "We paid for that early-retirement plan with deferred wages—why do that if members are not going to be able...
Will UPS Freight Teamsters Ever Win a Grievance?
March 20, 2012: The UPS Freight National Grievance Committee met March 7-9 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, but the International Union only managed to win one (1) grievance at those hearings. The committee deadlocked 12 cases. Under Article 7, Section 5c, the union must submit a deadlocked grievance to arbitration within ten days. However, working Teamsters are still waiting for a resolution of the lone grievance that has been taken to arbitration thus far. Another hearing...
YRC to Implement Mega-Change
March 19, 2012: YRC, with the approval of the International Union, is now moving to implement its change of operations on a fast-track. The decision of the change of operations committee is available here. The decision states in paragraph #1 that the committee agreed that the proposed change is "unique in scope" and "must be implemented expeditiously" because of economic conditions. Paragraph #1 cites Article 8, section 6(G) of the contract, which states that the...