If We Had a Hammer

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

How You Vote. Why It Matters

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