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Petition Drive for Full-Time Jobs

April 10, 2009: Good full-time jobs are at a premium in this economy. Enforcing Article 22.3 would make UPS create thousands more full-time jobs. So why isn’t the International Union doing it? In 1997, UPS Teamsters went on strike to tell the company, “Part-Time American Won’t Work.” Today, UPS Teamsters are teaming up in a national petition drive to make UPS create the full-time jobs we’re owed under the contract. The 1997 strike forced UPS...

Chicago Teamsters Fight For Full-Time Jobs

April 16, 2009: UPS’s attack on full-time combo jobs has moved to Chicago. Local 705 Teamsters are fighting back to protect the jobs we won in the 1997 strike. Local 705 members on strike for full-time jobs in 1997.UPS has laid off 13 full-time combo Teamsters in Chicago Local 705 and eliminated more than 20 other full-time combo jobs by not filling vacant positions. The layoffs and job eliminations directly violate Local 705’s contract, which...

Information Is Power! Local 804 Members Turn Out For Education Conference

April 10, 2009: More than 50 Local 804 members turned out for a day-long educational seminar sponsored by 804 Members United. The conference focused on the problems UPSers are facing at work and what members and our union can do about them. “This is exactly the kind of thing our local should be doing,” said feeder driver Neil O’Brien. “Sharing information, building unity and making plans to build union power. That’s what it’s all about.”...

BNA Daily Labor Report: Fed Ex Threatens to Cancel Jet Order Over Pro-Union Bill

March 25, 2009: FedEx Corp is threatening to cancel the purchase of billions of dollars worth of new Boeing Co cargo planes if Congress passes a law that would make it easier for unions to organize at the package-delivery company, the Wall Street Journal said. FedEx may cancel plans to buy as many as 30 new Boeing planes should Congress pass a bill that would remove truck drivers, couriers and other employees at FedEx's Express...

Petition Drive Picks Up Steam

March 23, 2009: The national petition drive to make UPS create more full-time times is picking up steam. UPS is violating Article 22.3 of our contract which requires the company to maintain 20,000 combo jobs nationally. The company is thousands of jobs short of the 20,000 quota—and is eliminating more full-time combo jobs every day. Petitions are circulating in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego—and...
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