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TDU Pension Meeting Slated for St. Paul Minnesota

Active and retired Teamsters in Minnesota are organizing a meeting for Sunday, March 16 to address pension issues. The meeting is sponsored by TDU and will be held at Weyerhauser Chapel on the campus of Macalester College at 1:00 pm. Ann Curry Thompson, an attorney well versed in pension law, will be a guest speaker. The meeting comes in response to Congress considering changes to pension law. Teamsters are encouraged to invite co-workers and spouses...

Organizing to Defend Our Pensions

March 10, 2014: Over 120 active and retired Teamsters packed the house on March 8 in Richfield Ohio to learn about Congress being lobbied right now to undermine pension law, and the battle to save our pensions. The meeting was organized by Teamsters for a Democratic Union and a committee of Northeast Ohio Teamsters who have been active in defending their retirement security. The committee is now planning more actions, along with outreach to Teamsters...

TDU Pension Meeting Slated for Richfield Ohio

Active and retired Teamsters in northeast Ohio are organizing a meeting for Saturday, March 8 to address pension issues. The meeting is sponsored by TDU and will be held at the Days Inn - Richfield at 10 am. Ann Curry Thompson, an attorney well versed in pension law, will be a guest speaker. The meeting comes in response to Congress considering changes to pension law. Teamsters are encouraged to invite co-workers and spouses to learn...

UPS Pension Limbo Continues

February 21, 2014: Teamsters who are ready to retire are being held hostage by UPS and the Hoffa-Hall administration. One of the selling points of the UPS contract was that 50,000 full-time UPSers who get a substandard pension from the IBT-UPS Pension Plan would get a $200 increase, retroactive to August 1. But UPS Teamsters who call the IBT- UPS Pension Plan about retiring are being told a different story. Plan reps are still telling...

UPS, IBT Strand Teamsters in Pension Limbo

February 4, 2014: Teamsters in the IBT-UPS Pension Plan were promised a $200 pension increase. But disinformation from the Pension Plan is stranding Teamsters who want to retire in pension limbo. One of the selling points of the UPS contract was that 50,000 full-time UPSers who get a substandard pension from the IBT-UPS Pension Plan were promised a $200 pension increase. The IBT’s “Contract Facts” website says that “Once all supplements and riders are approved,...
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Announcing the James "Jimmy" LaRose Memorial Scholarship Fund

Thanks to a generous donor, TDU is launching the James “Jimmy” LaRose Memorial Scholarship Fund in Jim’s honor to help low-income Teamsters attend the TDU Convention.

In January 2021, TDU lost a member and friend in Brother James LaRose. Jim was a Shop Steward at UPS Local 294, and a long-time Teamster reformer. He passed away at the age of 52 after a lifetime devoted to fighting for a stronger union. 

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