Teamsters Reject 10-yr. City Pact
August 31, 2007 BY fspielman [at] suntimes.com (FRAN SPIELMAN) City Hall Reporter/fspielman [at] suntimes.com There's a fly in the ointment that threatens to disturb Mayor Daley's carefully crafted plan to guarantee labor peace through the 2016 Summer Olympics. By a vote of 279-172, Teamsters Local 726 voted Wednesday night to reject the unprecedented, 10-year deal that would lock in the prevailing wage for 8,000 members of the building trades. The contract apparently fell victim to...
Chicago Teamsters Reject Contract
On August 29, the 2000 Teamsters who move the city of Chicago rejected a ten-year contract that would have put their future at risk. Now they are demanding Local 726 hold a meeting to hear what the members want fixed to protect their jobs. "The Local 726 leadership agreed to terms that would put our jobs and seniority in jeopardy," said Vince Tenuto, a leader of the Fighting for the Future movement, which has informed...
Hoffa Announces Central States Deal
August 31, 2007: Chief negotiators James Hoffa and Ken Hall announced today they will let UPS break out of the Central States Pension Fund in an early deal to be inked by October. Then the issue will be in the hands of working Teamsters at UPS. This is an issue that will affect every Teamster-not just UPSers. Every Teamster who is concerned about the future of our union's power and our benefit funds needs to...
Hoffa Announces He Will Cut Central States Deal
Hoffa Announces He Will Cut Central States Deal Chief negotiators James Hoffa and Ken Hall issued a statement today announcing they will let UPS break 42,000 Teamsters out of the Central States Pension Fund in an early deal to be inked by October 1. Then the issue will be in the hands of working Teamsters at UPS. This is an issue that will affect every Teamster—not just UPSers. Every Teamster who is concerned about the...
Public Citizen: Groups Sue to Block NAFTA Truck Pilot Program
August 29, 2007: WASHINGTON, DC - Five groups sued today in federal court to block a Bush administration plan to allow Mexico-domiciled trucks to roam the country’s highways as soon as Saturday. The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, maintains that the Bush administration’s pilot program, which authorizes up to 100 carriers based in Mexico to perform long-haul operations within the U.S., violates several key congressional...