Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010
Save Our Pensions
February 26, 2010: Teamsters are worried about our pensions.
New legislation could help save our benefits. But it won’t be won without strong union action.
IBT-UPS Pension Plan Keeps You in the Dark
March 8, 2010: Have you ever tried to get information from the new “IBT-UPS Pension Plan” that covers all full time UPS Teamsters in the Central and Southern Regions and the Carolinas?
Stop the UPS Full-Time Jobs Giveaway
February 26, 2010: Did the International cut a secret deal to let UPS eliminate thousands of full-time 22.3 jobs?
Time to Take on Subcontracting at UPS Freight
February 26, 2010: UPS Freight Teamsters have filed over 40 national grievances to close the loophole on subcontracting at UPS Freight.
Will the IBT take action to protect Teamster jobs?
NYC Movers Take on Years of Givebacks
February 26, 2010: Commercial movers in New York are mobilizing to end decades of contract givebacks and save their pensions and healthcare.
Status Update: Central States Pension Fund
February 26, 2010: The good news: Central States assets increased $2 billion last year.
The bad news: The fund is still in deep trouble.
( categories: Pension and Benefits | Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 )
Local 82 Members Will Clean Up Their Union
February 26, 2010: On trial for assaulting a member. Caught using thugs to dole out jobs under a sham contract. Under grand jury investigation.
( categories: Featured News | Hoffa Watch | Local Union Reform | Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 )
Brokers Take Union Work in Sacramento
By David Loyd, UPS Freight, Local 150, Sacramento, Calif.
We here in the South Sacramento service center need to be added to the report on UPS Freight subcontracting. In the past seven months we have lost 10 road jobs.
Enforcing the UPS Freight Contract
February 26, 2010: As the January Teamster Voice reported, subcontracting is a big issue at UPS Freight. But it’s not the only issue.
Please Use the Potty, Not the Package Car
February 26, 2010: UPS is fighting a grievance all the way to the national panel over a supervisor who urinated in the back of a package car during a driver’s OJS.
UPS Profits Tripled in Fourth Quarter
February 26, 2010: UPS raked in $757 million in profits in the Fourth Quarter—nearly tripling its profits over the same period last year. Overall, Brown made $2.15 billion in profits in 2009. That’s after taxes.
( categories: Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 | UPS )
School Bus Drivers Coming Together
February 26, 2010: For years, Local 854 members in New York City have had substandard wages and working conditions compared to other school bus unions in the city.
Will YRC Pension Contributions Resume in 2011?
February 26, 2010: YRC Teamsters—except in Chicago Local 710—have approved concessions that terminate participation in our pension plans until the end of this year, but resume on January 1.
Teamsters, YRC Team Up On Pension Legislation
February 26, 2010: The Teamsters and YRCW are working together to support proposed pension legislation that would help both the company and union pension plans.
( categories: Featured News | Freight | Pension and Benefits | Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 )
Local 896 Teamsters Demand Right to Elect Stewards
February 26, 2010: Teamsters at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Los Angeles are demanding a basic union principle: the right to vote for their chief steward.
( categories: Local Union Reform | Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 )
Will New Grocery Contracts Save Jobs?
February 26, 2010: Contracts covering thousands of Southern California grocery and warehouse Teamsters are up this fall.
Teamster warehouse jobs are on the line.
( categories: Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 | Warehouse )
New FMLA Rules May Bar Employers From Burning Vacation Leave
February 26, 2010: What is the most disliked rule in the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? Undoubtedly, the provision that allows employers to substitute workers’ vacation leaves during FMLA absences.
Organizing for Teamster Power
February 26, 2010: TDU’s International Steering Committee met in February to make TDU’s grassroots organizing plans for 2010.
Book Review: Hoffa and the Teamsters
March 8, 2010: A compilation of Teamster press releases can’t be real labor history. But the IBT’s new book, James R Hoffa: Messages to the Membership is worth reading for what it is: how Hoffa and his union staff wanted him presented to the members, and to the public.
Letters from our Members: Proud of TDU
February 26, 2010: Over the years TDU has been a very effective and informative organization.
( categories: TDU | Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 )
Letters from our Members: Two Enemies
February 26, 2010: Congratulations on a very informative Teamster Voice. While reading it, it occurred to me to remind our fellow Teamsters that instead of one enemy, the greedy corporations, we have two: the leadership at the IBT who go along with the corporate chiefs and threaten any member who dares to stand up for working Teamsters.
( categories: Teamster Voice 264 February/March 2010 )
