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Organizing
UPS Freight Workers Seeking Membership Pushes Beyond
9,000
In a true testament of why we
need the Employee Free Choice Act, the Teamsters’ campaign
to organize UPS Freight workers by way of
authorization cards proves that, given the opportunity, workers
will join a union. Keep up with this historical campaign where
more than 9,000 workers exercised their right to join the union
in fewer than three months.
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Safety and Health
Workers' Memorial Day is April
28th
Each
year the Teamsters Union honors the hardworking men and women
killed or injured on the job. As the Union acknowledges their injuries or
passing, we continue to fight for worker safety with the
ultimate goal to eliminate preventable job accidents. To mark
this important day, the Teamsters are providing resources online
to help with the planning of activities at local unions and job
sites.
Airline Division
Teamsters: Time to Run UAL Like a Company, Not a Tag
Sale
When
United Airlines announced that it intended to cut capacity and
then ground as many as 20 airplanes, the Teamsters piped up and
said it was time for UAL’s CEO, Glenn Tilton, to run the
airline like a company, not a tag sale. "Glenn Tilton is all too
willing to cut the fleet and slash workers’ wages, but
he’s not so eager to trim his own exorbitant pay package,"
said General President Jim Hoffa.
FedEx
Watch
Defending its Scam Illegal Contractor Model, FedEx is
Late to the Bargaining Table
Though the drivers at two
Massachusetts FedEx facilities, who drive in the company’s
profits day in and day out overwhelmingly voted to join Local 25
in October 2006, the company continues to prolong getting to a
contract. "FedEx is repeating its mistakes," said Sean
O’Brien, President of Local 25. "These drivers and
Local 25 are ready to talk and get a contract, but FedEx insists
on delaying the process and raising the stakes with an appeal
that will only result in another legal setback to its scam
contractor model.”
Industrial
Trades
School Bus and Transit Workers Drive Up Standards,
Campaign Site Gets
Face Lift
With school bus and
transit workers successfully organizing more than 6,000 workers
in the last 14 months, it became apparent that it was time the
workers’ campaign website, saw a face lift. The Teamsters
continue to organize school bus and transit yards around the
United
States, bringing respect, a
voice in the workplace, and fighting for quality safety and work
standards. Visit this campaign site today and show your support.
Freight
Can DHL Hire an Unlimited Number of New
Part-Timers Enabling the Company to Convert to a Wall-to-Wall
Part-Time Workforce?
The answer is: NO!
Several
members have inquired with this question and the information at
this link is intended to set the
record straight. No member
should hold on to unanswered questions!
BLOGWATCH
Fire
Mary Peters
Teamsters
Smiled as Senator Mark Pryor Told Arrogant Department of
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, "There Will Be
Consequences!"
The
lawbreaking member of the Bush administration, Mary Peters,
sounded like a broken record when she repeated her tired old
argument that she’s within the law by keeping the border
open to unsafe Mexican trucks at a Congressional hearing earlier
this month. Peters was accompanied by the DOT General Counsel, a
guy whose only qualification seems to be from his previous gig
as the field director for the Christian
Coalition.
Change to Win
What Obama
Did
Obama's speech was different. It
was, in a word, honest. Honest about the good and bad
deeds that lie in our history; honest about the ways that
honorable people of all races have been led astray by the legacy
of those deeds; and honest about the ways that some others have
cynically manipulated these legacies to serve their own
ends.
Airline Division
TradeWinds Airlines Crewmembers Join Local
747
When it came to crew safety
and scheduling, the workers at TradeWinds Airlines simply had
enough! On March 11th they let everyone know they had it with
the company, and with an overwhelming 93-percent voted YES to
join Teamsters Local 747.
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