November 7, 2008: This year isn’t the first time UPS management has tried to avoid creating the full-time jobs they promised. When UPS refused to create the full-time jobs we won in the 1997 strike, filmmaker Michael Moore sent Sal Piro to collect on behalf of working Teamsters. Today, UPS is at it again. UPS is violating the contract which requires the company to maintain 20,000 Article 22.3 full-time jobs. The company is thousands of...

How can we get our union back on the right track? That was the subject of Dan Campbell’s closing speech at the TDU Convention. Dan CampbellLast Christmas my wife and I bought ourselves one of those GPS navigation devices. The thing is pretty cool. You turn it on, it acquires the satellite and determines our location. Then you type in where you want to go and in just a few seconds it plots out the...

November 7, 2008: ST. LOUIS - The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. said Thursday the union's members ratified a five-year contract with the brewer. The agreement covering more than 6,500 workers at the company's 12 breweries includes wage increases totaling 15 percent in the next five years. Click here to read more at Forbes.

November 6, 2008: DENVER—A bankruptcy judge ruled Oct. 31 that Frontier Airlines may terminate its current collective bargaining contract with mechanics and other employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Denver (In re Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc., Bankr. S.D.N.Y., No. 08-11298, 10/31/08). Judge Robert Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of Frontier in its motion for Section 1113 relief from its current contract...

November 5, 2008: A bankruptcy judge has ruled that Frontier Airlines may break its contract with its mechanics union but placed restrictions on the company's contentious effort to move heavy-maintenance work overseas. Under the Friday ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain in New York, Frontier can outsource the heavy-maintenance work only as a last resort, officials with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said. Click here to read more at the Denver Post.

November 3, 2008: Oak Harbor Teamsters have been standing strong on picket lines for six weeks, and you can help. Over 600 Oak Harbor Freight Teamsters in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho went on strike at the end of September after the company broke the law and bargained in bad faith. You can help by telling some of Oak Harbor’s biggest customers to stop supporting Oak Harbor’s unfair labor practices. Click here to send a message...

November 3, 2008: The market turmoil of recent weeks has been brutal to 401(k)s. But beyond highlighting the woeful inadequacy of many Americans' retirement savings, the meltdown puts a spotlight on some longstanding pitfalls of 401(k)s themselves -- and makes it even more urgent that investors guard against them. This year through Oct. 30, the average 401(k) account balance dropped roughly 18% to 23%, depending on the participant's age and tenure with the plan, according...

October 22, 2008: Current and former drivers for FedEx Ground who were misclassified as contractors instead of employees would receive another $9.1 million in reimbursements for job-related expenses under a tentative ruling from a court-appointed referee, an attorney for the drivers announced Oct. 20 ( Estrada v. RPS Inc., Cal. Super. Ct., No. BC210130, tentative post-remand accounting report 10/8/08). Retired California Superior Court Judge William J. Cahill's Oct. 8 ruling on nearly 50,000 expenses submitted...

October 22, 2008: USF Holland, in a letter to the union dated October 17, has given up on its proposal for an addendum to the freight contract to have road drivers perform more dock and yard work. Instead, they are reactivating their proposed Change of Operations and asking that it be heard in November. Holland is the nation’s largest regional freight carrier and a subsidiary of Yellow Roadway. Holland’s previously proposed addendum, to expand road...

October 13, 2008: Waste Management profits are up. And so are their attacks on Teamster members. Today, the company announced higher than expected third quarter profit of between 62 and 63 cents per share. That’s up 15 percent from last year’s third quarter results of 54 cents profit per share. The announcement comes two weeks after Waste Management busted out of the Central States Pension Fund in Milwaukee. Milwaukee WM Teamsters will now be in...