Waste Management Lock-Out Ends
July 30, 2007: The four-week Waste Management lockout of 500 Teamsters ended on July 29 when members of Oakland Local 70 voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract. Management took the offensive to force concessions, including on health care, as a first step to attack the big Los Angeles contract that is up this fall. They miscalculated. The Teamsters got broad support, and as trash piled up, community sentiment turned against Waste Management. Read more...
America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike
July 27, 2007: Watch the video that shows how our union won 10,000 full-time jobs, record pension increases and labor’s biggest victory in decades. Next month, we will celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of the 1997 UPS Contract Victory—labor’s biggest win in 25 years. “America’s Victory: the 1997 UPS Strike” reveals the keys to our union’s success—and the strategies we need to put in place to win today. Mobilizing Members: Our union’s year-long contract mobilization united...
UPS Pressroom: UPS Generates Solid 2nd Quarter Results
UPS released its second quarter results today. The company reported a 7.2% increase in earnings per share, and 10.5% jump in LTL revenue. To read the UPS press release, click here.
Don’t Let DHL Pull Out of the NMFA!
July 25, 2007: DHL Teamsters are uniting to save the national contract. Download the Draft Contract that would gut members’ rights and find out how you can help keep DHL in the NMFA. For years, DHL has wanted to bust out of the NMFA and cut its own deal that includes part-timers like UPS—and other sweetheart terms favorable to the company. Our union has always said NO. But now, the International Union is negotiating a...
BNA Daily Labor Report: Election Sought at Second UPS Freight Site
July 23, 2007: Daily Labor Report: The newly formed Association of Parcel Workers of America (APWA) July 20 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a representation election at the UPS Freight terminal in Gaffney, S.C., an NLRB official told BNA. Patricia Timmins, an NLRB regional attorney in Winston-Salem, N.C., said a hearing should be held in 7-10 days to decide when an election will be scheduled. UPS Freight will have an...
Bloomberg News: UPS Freight Says Some Teamsters Are Using 'Deception'
July 10, 2007: Bloomberg News: By David Mildenberg -- United Parcel Service Inc., the biggest employer of Teamsters members, said some of the union's locals are using a "campaign of deception" in an attempt to organize the company's freight-hauling unit. "Some locals across the country have been telling employees there will be a Master Teamster Agreement, accompanied by regional supplemental agreements for UPS Freight," Jack Holmes, the unit's senior vice president of operations, said in...
Will IBT Answer Attack by UPS Freight?
July 23, 2007: Our Teamsters Union needs to respond to the anti-union attack by UPS Freight management. After UPS Freight issued a letter attacking our union and denouncing a “campaign of deception” by some Teamster locals, IBT chief negotiator Ken Hall angrily told the media that, “Evidently when they purchased Overnite, UPS also purchased Overnite’s union-busting legacy.” Hall warned on July 10 that “Unless UPS retracts the letter,” the union would “respond in kind.” But...
Would $4 Billion from UPS Fix Central States?
July 18, 2007: Some defenders of management’s pension proposal claim that a $4 billion withdrawal liability payment from UPS would fix Central States and safeguard members’ benefits. Unfortunately, that’s just not true. Find out why at www.MakeUPSDeliver.org
Freight Contract Proposals Due by August 13
July 18, 2007: The International Union has requested all freight Local Unions to hold Contract Proposal Meetings by August 3, and to submit proposals to be received in Washington by August 13. We encourage all freight members and stewards to take the time to submit proposals. A copy of the form to use is attached. (There is one form for the master (Articles 1-39) and one for the supplement). You can make copies to submit...
SF Chronicle: Take Out the Trash, Judge Tells Waste Firm
July 18, 2007: A judge ordered Waste Management garbage haulers on Tuesday to collect all the trash in the East Bay as irate customers vowed not to pay bills for pickups that haven't happened. In the midst of a 16-day labor dispute in which nearly 500 union drivers have been locked out of their jobs, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Keller ordered the company to abide by its contract with the City of Oakland....