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Too Little, Too Late from the IBT Leadership

October 09, 2006
Pension Legislation Loss August 9, 2006. Late in the evening of August 3, the U.S. Senate voted to approve a piece of pension legislation which contains much of the “Red Zone” cut-back language that rank and file Teamsters have fought hard to get removed from the bill. President Bush is expected to sign it. Thanks to rank and file action, a portion of the red zone was cut that would have let funds cut benefits...

UPS Management Wins On Pension Bill

August 18, 2006
UPS won critical new leverage in their campaign to take over our pension funds when the House and Senate passed the misnamed Pension Protection Act. The Act includes UPS’s baby, the “Red Zone” amendment, which legalizes cutting pension benefits that employees have already earned. The New York Times called UPS “another of the bill’s winners”. The Times reported that, “U.P.S. had been eager to increase its control over such troubled plans as the Teamsters’ Central...

Coming Soon: After Election Central States Cuts to H & W

July 17, 2006
July 17, 2006: The big health care cuts that the Hoffa administration just slapped on Michigan freight Teamsters will spread to freight, UPS and carhaul Teamsters throughout the Central and Southern Regions. The Central States trustees are staying quiet about the cuts until after the election for International officers. Then the “surprise attack” will come down. For the third year in a row, the contractual August 60 cents per hour increase in employer contributions in...

Red Zone Delegation Report Back

July 17, 2006
July 17, 2006: In May, a delegation of Teamster local officers and members, some of them pictured above, converged on Washington to meet with Congressional reps about dangers for Teamsters in pending pension legislation. In particular they were on Capitol Hill to deliver a message: the Red Zone Amendment, which would allow pension funds to cut benefits already earned, must go. “The Bible says ‘confront the devil and he will flee from you,’” North Carolina...

Michigan Freight Teamsters’ Health Benefits Slashed

July 17, 2006
July 17, 2006: Effective August 1, all Michigan cartage Teamsters covered by the NMFA will have major cuts in medical coverage, as a result of moneys diverted from their fund to the Central States Pension Fund. The Michigan Fund informed all affected members of the cuts in a July 3 letter. The Michigan Fund reported that the Hoffa freight leadership diverted money from health coverage over “emphatic objections” of the health plan. For the third...
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