Save Our Pensions Campaign

TDU is uniting Teamsters and retirees together to save our pensions. We won a major victory when the Treasury Department rejected the Central States pension cut plan. But more than 400,000 Teamsters and retirees still face the threat of cuts. We're fighting back. We worked our whole lives for our pensions—now we are working together to defend them. 

TDU has joined forces with AARP, other unions, the Pension Rights Center and labor allies to support pension reform legislation that will strengthen our pension funds and save our benefits.

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Uniting Teamsters to Strengthen Our Pensions

April 17, 2008: Teamsters for a Democratic Union is a movement of Teamsters who want to make our union stronger and more accountable to working and retired Teamsters. We believe our pension funds belong to the members and are a key element of Teamster power and Teamster pride. We work to support and strengthen our Teamster pension funds. We work to defeat employers’ moves to break out of pension funds, and other corporate attacks on...

Local 355 Members Get Answers on Pension Questions

April 9, 2008: After two months of demanding more information about the pension cuts in Local 355, members are finally getting some answers. On March 1, the Local 355 plan cut the accrual rate for working members to zero. That means that members’ pensions are frozen and working Teamsters are earning zero retirement benefits for any of their hours worked since March. Last weekend, Local 355 President Denis Taylor told the membership meeting that he...

What Does the New Pension Law Mean for Your Benefits?

March 27, 2008: What’s in store for Teamster pension funds under the Pension Protection Act? Members will start to learn more this month when some Teamster plans officially enter the Yellow Zone and Red Zone. Hundreds of thousands of Teamsters will get reports this month on the funding status of their pension fund. These funding notices are required by the Pension Protection Act (PPA) of 2006 which went into effect on Jan. 1—and some of...

New England Pension Fund Plans More Cuts

March 27, 2008: The third largest pension fund in the Teamsters Union is reportedly planning new benefit cuts. Employer and union trustees at the New England Pension Fund reportedly disagree about what kinds of cuts are needed and are debating different proposals. As Convoy Dispatch goes to press, Teamster members in New England have not been informed of these developments by the fund or its union trustees. In fact a Special Notice about the Pension...

Hoffa Lies Again About ‘No Pension Cuts’

March 27, 2008: How many times have officials in the Hoffa administration sold a contract by promising—in writing—that Teamster pensions will be “maintained and possibly improved,” only to turn around and deliver pension cuts? Hundreds of thousands of Teamsters went through this routine before. Now Hoffa is at it again. In March, 8,000 DHL Teamsters received a bulletin in the mail selling a contract deal. It states: “The amount [negotiated in the deal] is sufficient...
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Rome is Burning

Time is running out for disgraced IBT Vice President Rome Aloise. He will appear before Judge Barbara Jones in a hearing on April 6. The architect of the Vairma-Herrera campaign is expected to be suspended or barred for life from the Teamsters. 

Sign a Thank You Note to the Pension Movement Activists Who Just Saved Our Pensions

The Butch Lewis Emergency Pension Relief Act was just signed into law. Sign a Thank You message to the activists who built the movement that saved the pensions of 400,000 Teamsters and 2.5 million workers. 

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