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TDU Member Wins $140,000 Victory
August 11, 2010: Standing up is paying off for Juan Carlos Rodriguez and other school bus drivers. Standing up is paying off for Juan Carlos Rodriguez and other school bus drivers. Consolidated Bus Transit (CBT) was recently forced to pay Rodriguez $140,000 in back pay and benefits for illegally firing him. When Teamster drivers at CBT got together to enforce their contract, they faced threats and retaliation from their employer and Local 854 officials. TDU...
Bus Drivers Unite for a Fair Contract
August 11, 2010: Teamster school bus drivers in New York City demand an end to a substandard union contract. For years, Teamster school bus drivers and escorts in New York City have received substandard wages and overtime pay compared to ATU Local 1181 members who do the same work for the same owners. Now, Local 854 members at Consolidated Bus Transit are uniting to put an end to their substandard union contract. “We’re tired of...
International Breaks Silence on 22.3 Jobs
August 16, 2010: For two years, the Hoffa administration looked the other way while UPS eliminated full-time jobs. Now Hoffa and Ken Hall are kicking the problem back down to the locals. For two years, the Hoffa administration has looked the other way while UPS has eliminated thousands of full-time combo jobs in violation of Article 22.3, which requires the company to maintain 20,000 combo positions. The International refused to hear a single grievance on...
Socking It to UPS
August 11, 2010: A package car driver has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing the company of violating labor law by requiring drivers who wear shorts to buy socks with the UPS logo from the company. Unfortunately, when it comes to socks, our contract rights stink. The problem goes back to the 1993 contract negotiations. The company was absolutely dug in to not agree to shorts. Our union won the argument...
Quarterly Profits Nearly Double
August 11, 2010: Profits are skyrocketing at UPS while working conditions continue to bottom out. UPS executives announced that Brown hauled in more than $854 million in the second quarter. Brown’s profits increased by 90 percent compared to the second quarter last year. That’s $400 million more in profits. In all, UPS made nearly $1.4 billion in profits after taxes in the first six months of this year alone. Package volume continues to increase. UPS...
Long Hot Summer at Brown
August 11, 2010: “It’s been a long, hot summer at UPS. The loads are so heavy it looks like peak some days. We still have members laid off, but management keeps cutting routes and piling it on. Package drivers are out past eight o’clock. It’s not right.” Todd Hartsell, Local 90 Des Moines, Iowa “The company and union repeat over and over: ‘Be glad you’re employed’.” David Dethrow, Local 688, St. Louis “All is not...
New Workshops at the TDU Convention
Check out these new workshops for the TDU Convention, Nov. 5-7 in Chicago. Getting Results without Grievances Is management getting its way while you get bogged down in the grievance procedure? How to avoid getting stuck and resolve workplace problems through organizing and action. Dealing with Different Kinds of Supervisors The boss who won’t make a decision. The fake friend. The bully. How to protect members and enforce the contract by tailoring your grievance tactics...
The Hoffa-Hall Record at UPS
August 11, 2010: Do you want them negotiating another UPS contract? Can we afford more of the same? The Full-Time 22.3 Jobs Takeaway UPS's Record Profits and Our 35¢ Raise The UPS Pension Divide No Protection from New Technology and Production Harassment Passing the Buck on 9.5 Violations
The Full-Time 22.3 Jobs Takeaway
August 11, 2010: Hoffa and Hall surrender one of the biggest gains of the 1997 strike. Teamster members united to win labor’s biggest victory in decades in the 1997 UPS Strike. But Hoffa and Hall have surrendered one of the biggest gains of that strike: full-time combo jobs. Uniting under the slogan Part-Time America Won’t Work, members demanded that the company create good-paying full-time jobs by combining low-wage part-time jobs. We won and UPS was...