2010 TDU Convention: November 5-7 in Chicago
It’s not too early to save the date for this year's TDU Convention, November 5-7 at the Holiday Inn Chicago O'Hare. Are you concerned about where our union is going, and ready to do your part? Then the TDU Convention is for you. Hear success stories from members and officers who are enforcing our contracts, defending our benefits, and fighting for the future of our union. Learn from Officers & Members “I’ve been going to...
Local 896 Teamsters Demand Right to Elect Stewards
February 26, 2010: Teamsters at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Los Angeles are demanding a basic union principle: the right to vote for their chief steward. They shouldn’t have to be petitioning for it, because this right is guaranteed in the Local 896 bylaws under Section 12. But Rene Medrano and other Local 896 officials ignored the bylaws, removed the elected chief steward for the bottling and packaging department, then appointed another member and canceled a...
Local 82 Members Will Clean Up Their Union
February 26, 2010: On trial for assaulting a member. Caught using thugs to dole out jobs under a sham contract. Under grand jury investigation. IBT Trade Show Director John Perry is out of control. But Hoffa tells members there’s nothing he can do. John Perry and JoJo BurhoeThe International Union’s Trade Show Division Director is on trial for assaulting a member after he filed a grievance. So is his number one enforcer, a violent criminal...
Will New Grocery Contracts Save Jobs?
February 26, 2010: Contracts covering thousands of Southern California grocery and warehouse Teamsters are up this fall. Teamster warehouse jobs are on the line. Contracts expire in September for over 8,000 Teamsters in seven locals at some of Southern California’s biggest grocers and warehouses, including Albertsons, Ralphs, Vons/Safeway, Unified, and more. The future of union jobs in warehousing is at stake. Just ask Teamsters at Ralphs. This year, Ralphs opened a brand-new automated warehouse in...
Letters from our Members: Proud of TDU
February 26, 2010: Over the years TDU has been a very effective and informative organization. We have taken on the fight to improve all Teamster members’ quality of life within the union. We have fought and won many victories for the members: winning major grievances, overturning terminations, back pay, better health benefits and better pensions—just to name a few. Workers have precious rights and TDU has always fought to ensure that these rights are upheld....
Letters from our Members: Two Enemies
February 26, 2010: Congratulations on a very informative Teamster Voice. While reading it, it occurred to me to remind our fellow Teamsters that instead of one enemy, the greedy corporations, we have two: the leadership at the IBT who go along with the corporate chiefs and threaten any member who dares to stand up for working Teamsters. Tiered wages must be eliminated. Guaranteed personal time off. Set a limit on forced overtime. No more excessive...
YRC Proposes Another Change of Operations
February 25, 2010. YRC continues to push forward with further consolidation they claim is a response to inefficiencies and poor economic conditions. One proposal would move about 300 road jobs and 100 dock and city jobs. The other reduces the number of utility employees by 18. The Change of Operations includes the elimination of some meet and turns and the reduction of road drivers at end-of-line terminals. The proposal calls for the elimination of “duplicate...
National Grievance Panel Docket
February 24, 2010: The first National Grievance Panel of 2010 runs March 1-5 in Ft Lauderdale. Click here to read the docket of cases that will be heard. The UPS National Grievance Committee settles national disputes and other grievances that have been deadlocked at both the local and regional levels.
Boycott FedEx
February 24, 2010: Dean Henderson’s career with FedEx ended abruptly when a reckless driver plowed into his company truck and mangled his leg. His doctor will decide this week if it needs to be amputated. No longer able to drive, stripped of value in our commodity culture, he was tossed aside by the company. He became human refuse. He spends most of his days, because of the swelling and the pain, with his leg raised...
Reins of Chicago newspaper delivery union seized
February 22, 2010: Reeling from the recession and general hard times in the media world, the Teamsters unit representing newspaper delivery truck drivers and pressmen in the Chicago area has been thrust into a trusteeship by James P. Hoffa. He's head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and he's been responsible for four such takeovers -- which involve booting the elected leaders, installing a new administrator and trying to rectify whatever problems are said to...