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UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters ‘Vote NO
Local 804 Members Make UPS Deliver
Whistleblowers Make Big Brown Pay
With the help of trucking attorney Paul Taylor, TDU member Tim Bishop won $100,000 in back pay and another $100,000 in emotional distress after UPS tried to fire him for recording his wait time at a meet-and-turn point as on-duty time.
It wasn’t the first time this year a member made UPS pay big time.
Click here to read more about the whistleblowers' victories against UPS.
UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters ‘Vote NO
Local 804 Members Make UPS Deliver
Challenging Discrimination
The first Teamster woman at her grocery warehouse, Arlena Dean filed a grievance to force her employer to create a locker room for women employees only to be told that she was forbidden to use it.
But she kept fighting and her persistence paid off.
Click here to read more about Arlena's story.
UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters ‘Vote NO
Local 804 Members Make UPS Deliver
UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters 'Vote No'
UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters said NO to bad contracts and YES to organizing for change.
UPS made $4.5 billion last year, and Hoffa and Hall settled short. UPS and UPS Freight Teamsters refused to follow the script. They organized a nationwide ‘Vote NO’ movement.
Click here to read more about the 2013 'Vote No' movement.
Protecting Our Pensions
Local 804 Members Make UPS Deliver
In April, retired and active Teamsters packed the Kansas City union hall and overflowed into the parking lot, concerned about the TDU report that a coalition of pension fund execs, union representatives and major corporations were teaming up to lobby Congress to make it legal to cut retirees’ pension checks.
Click here to read more about protecting our pensions.
804 Members Make UPS Deliver
Local 804 Members Make UPS Deliver
While other UPS Teamsters were fighting concessions, Local 804 members won a $400 pension increase, 150 new full-time jobs and grievance procedure reform.
Click here to read more about Local 804.
Reform Wins in Rhode Island
251 United Action, a growing rank-and-file reform movement in Rhode Island, took back their 5,500-member local when they won union office this fall.
Click here to read more about Local 251.
Local 804 Members Make UPS Deliver