Contract Negotiations
February 2, 2012: Employers are trying to push rising healthcare costs onto workers and their families.
January 30, 2012: LONDON, Ontario—Outside a rail locomotive factory owned by Caterpillar Inc. here, locked-out workers have set up a trailer and a wooden shack to keep warm between bouts of waving union flags and shouting slogans. In a high-profile test of union clout in Canada, they are digging in for what looks like a long struggle.
October 13, 2011: Teamster employers operate nationally and even globally. But most Teamster contracts are bargained locally—with little International Union backing.
December 3, 2010: Bus drivers in Vermont are organizing for a better contract.
June 1, 2010: Local 814 members have won a record contract that restores healthcare cuts, saves their pensions, and delivers wage increases to the lowest-paid members.
July 21, 2009: Every day it’s front page news. Another company closes, big unions take concessions, municipal workers go on furlough.
April 10, 2009: Times are tough and many employers are telling members that they have to sacrifice or they’ll lose their jobs. That doesn’t mean our union has to take cuts lying down.
August 1, 2008: Local 814 Teamsters at Sotheby’s Auction House work for a company that makes mega-profits selling priceless art to the super rich.
July 12, 2007: Ask any Teamster negotiator and they’ll tell you that healthcare is one of the top issues in any contract bargaining.
The ink is not even dry on your new contract and management is already trying to make changes. Can they get away with it?