Teamsters in Action
Texas Teamsters Take Action
At the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, UPS dissolved more than 100 full-time combo positions in February. Members filed grievances, but got the brush off by Local 767 officials.
Instead of getting discouraged, members got active. They contacted TDU and organized a meeting with TDU Southern Region organizer Willie Hardy.
“Our TDU meeting got members informed and united. We’re following up by joining the national petition drive to tell Hoffa that it’s time to enforce the contract,” said Local 767 shop steward Sandy Gustafson. “Union members need to stand up, make our voices heard and take back our union.
Members Launch National Petition Drive
Create All 20,000 Full-Time Combo Jobs Required by the Contract
UPS is denying thousands of Teamsters full-time job opportunities—in violation of our union contract. Now working Teamsters are getting together to do something about it.
UPS Teamsters from across the country are launching a national petition drive to make UPS deliver more full-time jobs.
The petition drive was launched on a national conference call organized by Teamsters for a Democratic Union that brought together stewards and other concerned UPS Teamsters.
Click Here to Download the Petition.
Click Here to Download an Informational Leaflet to pass out to other Teamsters.
Chicago Teamsters Fight Retiree Healthcare Cuts
Chicago Local 705 UPS retirees are mad as hell, and they’re doing something about it. They’re mad because UPS management suddenly raised their monthly health and welfare contribution from $50 to $157.58 for a single retiree and $315.17 for a retiree and spouse.
Local 705 and two retirees have filed a class action suit in federal court against UPS, and reportedly they are considering other actions as well. Read the rest …
New Contract Delivers Time Off In Chicago
In its new contract with UPS, Chicago Local 705 won an additional optional day. Teamsters with more than 30 years also won an additional vacation week.
After giving some drivers the extra optional day, management tried to claim it had made an error and that drivers wouldn’t get the additional time off until 2009.
Local 705 stood firm and the company backed down. Thousands of UPS Teamsters in Chicago are now enjoying extra time off this year.
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Billboards Blast UPS Safety Violations
Local 177 has tried for months to get UPS management to address dangerous safety violations in the hub in Edison, N.J. Now the local is going public with its concerns.
The New Jersey Turnpike is now home to two prominent billboards letting UPS know it’s time to protect employee safety. Read the rest …
New York UPS Teamsters Vote for Change
UPS Teamsters in New York have overwhelmingly voted for changes that will put more pension and contract information in the hands of the members.
At a meeting on April 20, New York Local 804 members approved two changes to their local union bylaws by more than 90 percent. Read the rest …
UPS Stewards Launch New Website
Stewards in Albany Local 294 have launched a new, unofficial website to keep members informed.
Members can go to the website to get local UPS news, contract enforcement advice, information about benefits and more. Check it out at www.albanystewards.com Read the rest …
Local 29 Feeder Drivers Defend Seniority
For two years, UPS management has been violating drivers’ seniority rights in Virginia—and getting away with it.
Now drivers have turned the tables on the company to stop the violations. Read the rest …
Chicago UPS Teamsters Win Showdown Over Sups Working
UPS agrees to create more jobs
Chicago Local 705 has won a major showdown with UPS over supervisors working. By threatening the company with a strike, Local 705 forced UPS to create more than 200 package car and part-time jobs and to curb future supervisors working violations.
The victory is the culmination of a multi-year campaign by Local 705 to take on supervisors working violations. Read the rest …
No Vote in New York Local 804 Wins Better Offer
New Offer Preserves 25 & Out; Blocks Wage Diversion
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.
On Wed., Dec. 5, Local 804 will hold an emergency meeting to brief shop stewards on a new and improved contract offer.
Under the terms of the proposed new deal, the Local 804 30 & Out pension will be restored to $3,600 a month—without key givebacks that were included in the first offer, which would have eliminated 25 & Out pensions for new hires and diverted 10 cents in members’ wages to subsidize UPS’s pension costs.
The Local 804 Executive Board unanimously endorsed the company’s first offer. Read the rest …
Penn. UPSers Voting on (Slightly) Improved Offers
Ballots have been mailed to UPS Teamsters in the Central Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania supplements to vote on better contract offers.
Against the advice of the International Union, these UPS Teamstersvoted to reject the national contract and their supplements.
Their No Vote got UPS to put better offers on the table
The improvements in the new offer are limited—and many members feel more could have been won. Read the rest …
What the Vote Results Show
Organized Members Made a Difference;
Hoffa-Hall Pension Surrender Weakened Contract Fight
Teamsters for a Democratic Union launched the Make UPS Deliver campaign and website to combat the information Brownout and fight for a strong contract.
We didn’t achieve all of our goals by a long-shot. But we put information in the hands of tens of thousands of Teamsters. And the vote results show that members can make a difference when we’re organized.
Where members mounted an organized Vote No effort, the Hoffa-Hall givebacks were contested and sometimes defeated. Read the rest …
Local 804 Members Take Action to Win Better Contract Offer
Bargaining will resume on the Local 804 supplement which was rejected by a 3 to 1 vote. The company wants to settle the contract by the end of the year. So members may be voting again quickly.
Local 804 members are organizing an emergency contract meeting for Sunday, Dec. 2 and distributing a new contract bulletin that outlines what members want to see in any new offer that is put to a vote.
Lessons of the Make UPS Deliver Campaign So Far
The Make UPS Deliver campaign has proven that working Teamsters at UPS can make a difference when we work together in a coordinated campaign.
Through Make UPS Deliver, stewards and members got contract information in the hands of tens of thousands of Teamsters. Our Vote No campaign scared both the company and the IBT—and they responded with the most expensive contract PR campaign in Teamster history.
The biggest obstacle we face in defeating this concessionary contract is the sheer size and scope of the Teamster-UPS sales job. Read the rest …
Members Wage Proud Fight Against Concessions
Top Teamster Officials Out of Touch With Ranks
UPS Teamsters across the country have reacted with anger and outrage to the proposed tentative deal that delivers massive givebacks to UPS ten months before our contract even expires.
Hoffa, Hall and the local union officials who have embraced this concessionary contract have exposed how out of touch they are with rank-and-file UPS Teamsters. Read the rest …
