June 20, 2007: Do Hoffa and Hall still believe in the principle that powered our 1997 strike victory? When we drew the line at UPS in 1997, we did more than win a strong contract. We won a stronger future at UPS. Now that legacy is in jeopardy. In 1997, Teamster unity forced the company to create 10,000 new full-time jobs—by combining 20,000 part-time jobs. Still smarting from the 1997 strike, UPS management agreed to...

June 8, 2007: UPS management has been trying to win control over our pensions for years. After Teamsters defeated UPS’s pension grab in 1997 and won major improvements in our benefits, it looked like management’s dreams were finished. Then the 2002 “Best Contract Ever” and the pension cuts of 2003 breathed new life into management’s old ambitions to get control over our pensions. UPS Teamsters are angry over the cuts and they’re looking for answers....

“That fund is not 100 percent funded. When that fund gets to 100 percent based on their rules, they’ll do the right thing.” Tom Keegel, IBT Candidates Forum, Aug. 25, 2007 “The Plan’s vested benefit liabilities are 100 percent funded.” Memorandum to Local Union Officers from Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust August, 2007 More than nine months ago, the Hoffa administration promised Teamsters that the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust would end the...