Is management playing games with your grievances? Find out how you can turn the tables on them at the TDU Convention. Join stewards, officers, and labor experts for over a dozen workshops, including Writing and Investigating Grievances, Aggressive Grievance Handling, and Preparing for Arbitration. Register online here. “I’ve just been elected shop steward, and the TDU workshops have helped me learn how to investigate and pursue grievances and fight for the members. “I’m looking forward...

June 28, 2010: Disgruntled members of Philadelphia Teamsters Local 107 briefly picketed a union meeting Saturday morning to protest a plan that would shift highly lucrative work in the movie industry to a New York local. About a dozen protesters wore placards that declared "Don't sell out our jobs" and "Keep it local" as they stood in front of a union hall in Bridesburg where a trustee with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and representatives...

June 25, 2010: An election is just months away in every Teamster local, including yours, to choose delegates to go to the International Union Convention. In the vast majority of locals, the nominations will be in January or February 2011, and the ballots will go into the mail to members 30 days following the nominations. The elections will be overseen and certified by the independent Election Supervisor and his staff. The delegates at the Convention,...

June 23, 2010: The decisions from the June National Grievance Panel, June 7-100 are out. Hoffa and Hall continue to give up our full-time 22.3 jobs without a fight. The most common grievance on the docket for the June National Grievance Panel dealt with Article 22.3 and UPS’s elimination of full-time combo jobs we won in the 1997 strike. But once again the International Union did not hear a single Article 22.3 grievance at the...

Box 10303, Detroit, MI 48210 | (313) 842-2615 TDU’s sister organization, the Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Foundation (TRF), is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit charitable foundation, dedicated to providing Teamster members with the tools they need to fight for justice on the job and a stronger, more democratic Teamsters union. Since its formation in 1977, TRF has provided grassroots education and leadership development programs to help Teamster members win important advances, including better...

Updated June 16, 2010: Allied Automotive Group has agreed to pay the full contract wage, retroactive to May 29 when their three-year concession deal expired, and will now come to carhaul Teamsters asking for a fresh concession package. Teamsters’ paychecks this week (June 18) will be incorrect; Allied has agreed to issue retroactive checks to make up the difference. For the first time in three years, Teamsters should receive the contract wage rate, while Allied...

June 15, 2010: Allied Automotive Group has agreed to pay the full contract wage, retroactive to May 29 when their three-year concession deal expired, and will now come to carhaul Teamsters asking for a fresh concession package. For the first time in three years, Teamsters should receive the contract wage rate, while Allied moves to bargain a concession proposal with the International Union. The International Union says they will now ask to review Allied’s finances,...

June 15, 2010: The UPS Freight panel deadlocked three more subcontracting grievances when it met June 9 – 11 in Rhode Island. The June panel heard and deadlocked subcontracting grievances from Tampa Local 79, Arizona Local 104, and Harrisburg, Pa. Local 776. For months now, UPS Freight Teamsters have been reporting serious subcontracting violations. After the last panel, IBT Vice President Ken Hall promised that the union is taking subcontracting to arbitration. The union has...

June 15, 2010: The New York State Teamsters Pension Plan will end 25-and-out and 30-and-out benefits at the end of the year, due to the fact that the plan is underfunded and in the “red zone.” According to the Fund’s Annual Funding Notice, dated April 30, 2010, the fund was 57 percent funded at the beginning of 2009. This puts the fund in Critical Status, called the red zone. With the run-up in the stock...

June 14, 2010: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said June 10 that a cross-border trucking program with Mexico needs to be launched and that the Obama administration would be relaunching the program. LaHood is the Obama administration's point man on the North American Free Trade Agreement cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico. He made his remarks under questioning after addressing a forum of the Canadian American Business Council. “We have worked with the White House to craft...