UPS’s new program to reduce service to rural areas screws employees and customers alike. A grievance demanding that UPS bargain over the effects of rural deferment has deadlocked at the national grievance panel and will go before an arbitrator.

Watch the recording of our webinar on truck safety and how to use our whistleblower rights under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA), with Paul Taylor of the Truckers Justice Center. Click here or watch below to learn about STAA protections and how to enforce them, and hear answers to common questions.

Layoffs. Harassment. Petty discipline. UPS management is on a tear. It’s a horrible way to run a company, but sadly it’s nothing new. In 2009, TDU exposed a UPS management memo promising to cut costs by harassing employees and violating the contract. Fifteen years later, it’s the same crap and worse.

With a strike deadline looming, the Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The IBT reports that the new contract increases job security, raises wages by $8 an hour, including an immediate $4 an hour in the first year, ends two-tier healthcare, and increases pensions. Bud Teamsters will be able to review all contract changes before the ratification vote which is expected to be held next week. 

Updated: With a strike brewing, the Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch reached a tentative agreement on a new contract on Wednesday, February 28. 

Teamster tips for fighting harassment and enforcing our contract.

An organizing drive by UPS Admins and Specialists in Louisville, and a well-timed strike notice, pave the way for thousands of nonunion UPS workers to join the Teamsters.

Fed up with the status quo, Teamsters in Round Rock, Texas stand up for stronger contract enforcement.

A Black History Month Interview with Michelle Espinoza, TDU Black Caucus

Teamsters are using contract campaigns to involve members and win better contracts.