Hoffa-Hall
Waving the White Flag at UPS
The Hoffa administration says it’s “Not the right time” to enforce the UPS contract.
Officials offered plenty of excuses, but no action plans for contract enforcement, during a national conference call for UPS shop stewards.
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Five Changes to Strengthen UPS Contract Enforcement
IBT Vice President and Package Division Director Ken Hall says local officers and members are to blame for weak contract enforcement because they bring cases “with no facts.”
Here are five changes the International Union could adopt today to increase contract enforcement. Read the rest …
No Cost-of-Living Raise Again This Year
There will be no cost of living raise this year for UPS Teamsters.
Last year, UPS Teamsters should have gotten a 15¢ cost-of-living increase but our bargaining team gave UPS a pass on any COLA raise in the first year of the agreement—a giveback that cost UPS Teamsters $1,950 over the life of the contract. (Hoffa gave himself a $12,500 COLA raise last year.) Read the rest …
No Justice on Full-Time Job Elimination
National Grievance Panel Comes Up Empty
The National Grievance Committee meeting in Philadelphia, June 8 to 11 was the International Union’s opportunity to make UPS create all 20,000 full-time combo jobs that are required by Article 22.3 of the contract.
Hoffa and Hall continued to let management have its way with eliminating the full-time jobs we won in the 1997 strike. Read the rest …
UPS Teamsters Request Meeting With Ken Hall
Thousands Sign Petition; Deserve Answer from IBT
UPS stewards have sent a letter to International Union Vice President and Package Division Director Ken Hall to request a meeting before the national grievance panel to deliver thousands of petition signatures and ask the IBT to take action to stop the elimination of full-time combo jobs.
Click here to read the letter to Ken Hall.
Minimum Wage Tops Our Contract in Washington State
The good news is that the starting wage for UPS part-timers in Washington State has gone up. The bad news is that the raise is only a nickel—and it took a hike in the state minimum wage to make it happen.
That’s right. The minimum wage in Washington State is now higher than the starting wage in the biggest Teamster contract. As of Jan. 1, the minimum wage in Washington is $8.55. The starting rate for part-timers is $8.50. What an embarrassment. Read the rest …
Full-Time Jobs Deal Goes Through in Seattle
Local 174 Gives UPS $1 Million To Reverse 22.3 Layoffs
Seattle Local 174 has ratified the agreement that gives UPS back a multi-million grievance settlement in exchange for UPS’s commitment to reverse recent 22.3 layoffs.
Click here to read more about this deal.
“At a time when many Local Unions in the West and all across the Country are losing full-time 22.3 jobs, we will be creating and guaranteeing jobs in Local 174′s jurisdiction,” said Secretary-Treasurer Rick Hicks.
The fact that local unions “all are the country are losing full-time 22.3 jobs” is precisely the problem. Local union officials need to tell the International Union it’s time to enforce Article 22.3 and require UPS to maintain 20,000 full-time combo jobs. Read the rest …
Brownout Continues on UPSers’ Concerns
If you haven’t noticed any coverage of UPS issues in the January/February issue of the Teamster Magazine, that’s because there isn’t any. Once again, the International union has nothing to say about a single contract enforcement issue.
The same is true for the last “UPS Teamster” newsletter we got from the International. That magazine which is directed specifically at UPS Teamsters featured six pages of ads from Kiplingers Personal Finances and not a single word on the problems we face daily on the job.
There’s no UPS news on the Teamster website either. We’re all for organizing UPS Freight and want to hear about it. But there are other Teamsters at UPS….around 250,000 of us.
We need to speak up and speak out. Or Hoffa and company will continue to give UPS Teamsters the silent treatment. Read the rest …
Texas Full-Time Jobs Massacre
UPS management is moving to eliminate every Article 22.3 job at the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport on Feb. 12.
This is the single largest cut since UPS started slashing Article 22.3 full-timers last year. In all, the company is planning to eliminate 120 Article 22.3 positions at DFW.
Download a bulletin on the UPS Full-Time Jobs Massacre.
Your Money or Your Full-Time Job
Local 174 To Give UPS $1 Million To Save 22.3 Jobs
Our union’s failure to enforce the Article 22.3 full-time jobs provision of the contract has forced Seattle Local 174 members to make a devil’s choice: your money or your jobs.
When UPS laid off dozens of Article 22.3 Teamsters, Local 174 filed a grievance and promised to win back the jobs.
Now local officials have cut a deal that would give back a separate grievance victory worth $1 million or more. In exchange, UPS would put laid off 22.3 Teamsters back to work and guarantee a minimum number of 22.3 positions in Local 174′s jurisdiction.
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UPS Cuts More Full-Time Jobs in Sacramento
UPS management announced it will lay off all 22.3 local sort positions in the Rocklin, Calif. building as of Jan. 30. Local 150 Teamsters in these positions were given two choices: go driving or work a split shift—preload from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. and then the local sort shift from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Read the rest …
New Rules Weaken Overtime Protection at UPS
Under a contract loophole, UPS and the International Union have agreed to new restrictions that will make it harder for drivers to file grievances against excessive overtime.
Our contract is supposed to protect package car drivers from unwanted excessive overtime. But in a memo dated Dec. 18, the International Union announced that it had negotiated new guidelines that will make it tougher for members to file excessive overtime grievances.
Click here to download a copy of the memo. Read the rest …
DFW Night Sort to Close; More Full-Time Jobs Threatened
UPS will shut down the night sort operations at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) in February—a move that could threaten 70 or more full-time Article 22.3 jobs.
The midnight sort at the Columbia, S.C., air hub will be shut down around the same time. UPS previously eliminated more than 30 Article 22.3 jobs in Seattle at Boeing Field. Read the rest …
Hoffa Has the Hammer to Nail Down Full-Time Jobs
Our International Union has a major weapon that can break through company stonewalling and make UPS deliver the 20,000 full-time jobs guaranteed by our contract.
In the Central Region, the union has the right to strike over deadlocked grievances. When a grievance in the Central Region is deadlocked, the union has the right to strike—and to extend picket lines across the country. (Article 5, Section 3 of the Central Region Supplement.)
President Hoffa has rightly said that the right to strike on grievances gives our union a “Hammer” when the company is violating the contract and deadlocking grievances to avoid resolving the problem. That is exactly what is happening now. Read the rest …
Did UPS “Pants” the Teamsters?
Host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” Says Brown “Pummeled” The Teamsters
Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, went off on our new contract at UPS, telling viewers that the company “pantsed” and “pummeled” the Teamsters and that “Jimmy Hoffa must be rolling over in his Giants Stadium grave.”
Cramer cited the contract as one of the major reasons that UPS is a good bet to deliver higher profits over the rest of the year. Read the rest …
