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Teamsters Organize to Defend Pensions

Mike Walden, a retired YRC Teamster from Akron Local 24, reports that the Northeast Ohio Committee to Protect Pensions has held three organizing meetings in the follow up to their well attended March meeting on pension issues. Committee members have organized a phone tree and email list to get the word out to other active and retired members. The committee has made plans to lease a bus for a trip to Washington, D.C. for the...

Central States Pension Fund: $18.2 billion

April 15, 2014: The Central States Pension third quarter 2013 financial report shows that assets increased to $18.2 billion, due to the run-up of the stock market last year. The fund made 12.2% return on investment for the first nine months of 2013, which explains the growth in assets. The report indicates that the fund has 63,000 active participants and 210,000 retirees. This information is contained in the Financial and Analytical Report and the Independent...

Thought Secure, Pooled Pensions Teeter and Fall

Mary Williams Walsh The New York Times April 14, 2014 View the original piece The pensions of millions of Americans are being threatened because of trouble in a part of the retirement world long considered so safe that no one gave it a second thought. The pensions belong to people in multiemployer plans — big pooled investment funds with many sponsoring companies and a union. Multiemployer pensions are not only backed by federal insurance, but...

Northeast Ohio Teamsters Organize to Protect Pensions

April 8, 2014: The Northeast Ohio Committee to Protect Pensions (NOCPP) is organizing to defend retirement security.    The committee was formed at a pension meeting on March 8 in Richfield, Ohio, and consists of retired and active Teamsters working together to protect our Teamster pensions. “Our first organizing meeting was very focused, commented Mike Walden, a YRC retiree from Akron Local 24. “There were a few TDU guys and other retired Teamsters who volunteered...

Texans Build Teamster Unity At TDU Meeting

April 2, 2014: Local 745 members held a TDU meeting in El Paso, Texas to talk about enforcing their contracts, the future of the union and rebuilding Teamster Power. Teamsters in El Paso are members of Local 745 in Dallas which is 635 miles away! That kind of distance takes the “local” right out of local union. So members decided to cook up some Teamster Unity of their own and organized a TDU meeting in...
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Contract enforcement starts with filing a grievance—but it doesn’t have to end there. Share strategies with Teamster stewards and activists on how to involve members in taking on workplace problems in our online workshop on Sunday, January 17.

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