Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Howard
Oh wait, we do:
But UPS is thousands of jobs short of the 20,000 full-time combo jobs required by the contract. And every day management is eliminating more of these jobs.
President Hoffa has bragged that our union has a “Hammer” to stop employers in egregious cases like this: the Right To Strike on deadlocked grievances.
No one [...]
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Filed under: 2008 contract, I.B.T., Rank-and-File, Teamsters Local 384, UPS, jobs, rights, solidarity, strikes, unionism
Posted on November 14th, 2008 by Howard
I remember walking a picket line in the summer of ‘97, the year we won contract language guaranteeing the first 10,000 article 22.3 full-time jobs. Though we won that contract language in ‘97, we didn’t see the first of those jobs for almost two years, as management dragged their feet on creating those jobs.
I’ve heard [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2008 by Howard
Teamsters across the country have been receiving mailers about the upcoming election, many of them featuring actual Teamster members explaining why they’re voting for Barack Obama this year. This past week, one of those fliers bore a face familiar to Local 384 members. The member featured in this one was none other than Local 384 [...]
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Filed under: 2008 Presidential election, I.B.T., Rank-and-File, Teamsters Local 384, elections, politics, poverty and wealth, solidarity, unionism, video
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Howard
Make UPS Deliver shares some disturbing news out of Washington state:
UPS has eliminated dozens of full-time Article 22.3 jobs in Washington State. In many cases, long-time full-timers are being forced to go back to part time.
The company eliminated nearly 40 Article 22.3 full-time jobs in Seattle Local 174 in the Boeing Field, Redmond and Seattle [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Howard
I’m on vacation this week, which takes me away from the grind of UPS and being an onsite steward for one week (and reminds me of just one of the many great perks of being a union member). It also gives me a little more free time to read up on recent union news:
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