December 9, 2008: Con-way Inc., the second-largest U.S. trucking company, slashed its 2008 earnings forecast to as much as 20 percent less than analysts’ average estimate and cut 1,450 jobs as freight volumes fell.
Click here to read more at Bloomberg.TDU members have organized for decades to completely end the Two-Thirds Rule and increase rank-and-file power in contract negotiations. This week, those changes will become a reality, thanks to united action by the O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United coalition.
The Constitution Committee voted today to recommend that the IBT Convention vote to eliminate the Two-Thirds Rule, require rank-and-file members on all contract negotiating committees, and ban the International from imposing contract supplements and riders that are rejected by the members.
The IBT Convention starts this coming Tuesday, June 22, and the fight is on to win major changes to our Teamster Constitution.
