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The Direct Approach: Confronting Working Supervisors

January 10, 2008
January 10, 2008: “If you’re a steward always go up to a sup who is working and ask, ‘What’s going on? Why are you working?’ Or, ‘Do you need some help here?’” said Barb Ramirez from Local 206 in Eugene, Ore. “At first this takes courage, but it gets easier and it must be done to demand respect for the contract. If you’re not a steward, you can still ask these questions. If the supervisor...

BNA Daily Labor Report: FedEx Discloses $319 Million Fine for Misclassification of Employees

December 27, 2007
December 27, 2007: The Internal Revenue Service is expected to fine FedEx Corp., of Memphis, Tenn., $319 million because the company's delivery drivers should have been classified as employees for federal employment tax purposes, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Dec. 21. In FedEx's Form 10-Q, filed quarterly with SEC, the company reported that an IRS audit team has "tentatively concluded, subject to further discussion," that FedEx delivery operators should be...

UPS Contract Ratified as Supplements Approved

December 27, 2007
December 26, 2007: The UPS national contract has been officially ratified after Teamsters in New York and Pennsylvania voted to approve their supplements. UPS Teamsters in metro New York voted to approve the Local 804 Supplement by a 1,367 to 854 margin after UPS took several pension concessions off of the table. Click here to read the full story at MakeUPSDeliver.org.

Supplements Approved at UPS in NY and PA

December 18, 2007
December 18, 2007: The UPS national contract is moving toward being officially ratified as Teamsters in New York and Pennsylvania have voted to approve their supplements. UPS Teamsters in metro New York voted to approve the Local 804 Supplement by a 1,367 to 854 margin after UPS took several pension concessions off of the table. Click here to read the full story at MakeUPSDeliver.org.

New York No Vote Reverses Pension Givebacks

December 05, 2007
December 5, 2007: New York Local 804 members voted by 3 to 1 to reject the national contract and the Local 804 supplement. Now, that No Vote has paid off.Members are preparing to vote on a better offer from UPS that restores 30 & Out benefits to $3,600 a month-without key givebacks that were included in the first offer.The Local 804 Executive Board unanimously endorsed the company's first offer which would have eliminated 25 &...
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UPS has imposed new work rules that could force exhausted drivers to work up to 70 hours a week during peak. Drivers deserve a strong union response, not another Hoffa surrender.

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Teamster pension activists – organized by the National United Committee to Protect Pensions (NUCPP) - are collecting signatures on a petition to build support for legislation that would protect 10 million Americans from pensions from cuts. Sign the petition in support of the Butch Lewis Act. 

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