UPS specialists and administrative workers at the Louisville Centennial Hub have ratified an agreement that brings them under the national UPS contract and paves the way for more than 5,000 nonunion admins and specialists nationwide to also become Teamsters.

The short answer is Yes. Teamsters and retirees are free to use the term Teamster and our union’s logo. But you need to know the Do’s and Don’ts.  

Last Thursday, rank-and-file rail Teamsters launched a campaign for direct elections in the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Workers (BMWED-IBT). 

Members in some areas are reporting that managers are calling drivers into the office based on in-cab sensors that supposedly detect distracted driving.

Four more Teamster officials have been suspended for corruption charges, bringing the total of officials suspended to 14 of the 18 Western officials charged last summer by the Teamster Independent Investigations Officer (IIO). Four cases are still pending.

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.