What Does the Proposed DHL Deal Deliver?
March 14, 2008: The proposed deal with DHL delivers for management, but what does it deliver for DHL Teamsters in return? That’s the question DHL Teamsters are faced with. Help keep other DHL Teamsters informed. Click here to download a new leaflet on the proposed contract deal. Get the latest DHL updates from TDU. Click here to sign up for email updates. Do you have a comment or a question? Click here to contact Teamsters...
Local 355 Pension Cuts Accrual to Zero
March 14, 2008: Trustees in the Maryland Local 355 Pension Fund have cut the fund’s annual accrual rate down to zero. Last year, a UPS Teamster in the Baltimore fund earned an accrual of $191. But effective March 1, Local 355 members in the pension fund stopped earning any additional increase to their pension. Denis Taylor, the head of Local 355, will not give members a timeline for when the freeze will end. "Over 150...
DHL Tentative Agreement Revealed
March 12, 2008: The proposed DHL agreement is now available, and unfortunately it contains the same disastrous givebacks previously exposed by TDU—including unlimited low-wage part-timers. The only new news is bad news. Many Teamsters hoped that regional supplements would provide protections that would stop DHL from converting into a low-wage part-time operation. But the two regional supplements that have been revealed so far—the Central Region and New England supplements—provide no such protections. So far, the...
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Carhaul Bargaining Begins
March 12, 2008: Carhaul bargaining begins on March 17 in Scottsdale, Arizona. You can take a look for yourself at the union proposals, which TDU is making available to Teamsters. Click here to see the union’s proposals for the Master Agreement. Click here for the union’s proposals for the Central & Southern Supplement. We will post the Eastern and Western supplement proposals as they become available. Keep in mind these proposals can be added-to and...
Waste Management Pays for Trashing Oakland
March 11, 2008: Waste Management continues to pay the price for recklessly locking out 481 Teamsters in Oakland last summer. The company has been forced to pay $7.9 million to settle legal action taken by the city of Oakland, after Waste Management caused garbage to pile up across the city by locking out Local 70 Teamster for four weeks. Waste Management will spend $4.86 million to improve trash pickup and recycling services and pay $3...
More Ex-Local 743 Officials Indicted
March 10, 2008: A former president of Chicago Local 743, who resigned to try to avoid criminal prosecution, has now been indicted. The reform team that drove him out of office is hard at work moving Local 743 in a new direction. On March 6, Robert Walston became the latest disgraced Local 743 official to face federal prosecution on charges that they conspired to steal ballots and rig the 2004 local union election. Walston mysteriously...
DHL Teamsters Say NO to Concessionary Offer
March 6, 2008: DHL Teamsters are reacting strongly against the concessionary first offer that will be put out for a vote later in March. In discussions, meetings, leaflets, and on the DHL Teamsters’ own website, concerned members say: send them back to the bargaining table. DHL management is going to have to improve their second offer by addressing members’ concerns: protecting jobs and a good union future. The current offer would hand DHL management its...
New Bulletin: Speak Up to Protect FMLA
March 4, 2008: Once again, employers are pushing to make it harder for workers to take time off under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). On February 11, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued proposals for new rules that would open loopholes for employers to deny leave to workers who need to take time for an illness or to take care of a family member. These proposed rules are still under consideration. Now is the...
BNA Daily Labor Report: New Security Credentials for Drivers?
March 4, 2008: The American Trucking Associations is urging shippers and chemical facilities not to force drivers of hazardous materials to obtain a new security credential that is used for port facilities, saying those drivers already have a credential that requires a full background check. In a letter to the Dangerous Goods Advisory Council dated Feb. 22, ATA encouraged chemical plants not to demand extra credentials from hazmat drivers who have already passed a security...