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 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 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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Make UPS [...]
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Filed under: 2008 contract, I.B.T., UPS, jobs, rights, solidarity, unionism
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Howard
You may be thinking, “Of course you’re supporting Barack Obama for President - the Teamsters endorsed him!” And while I do consider myself a good Teamster, I have my own reasons for volunteering, donating and voting for the Obama campaign. As I wrote in a testimonial on the Teamsters for Obama website:
As American workers, we [...]
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Filed under: 2008 Presidential election, I.B.T., politics, solidarity, unionism
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Howard
Our brothers over in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are waging an organizing campaign at Wackenhut Security, the firm that furnishes security services at National Parks and monuments like the Liberty Bell.
Incidentally, the Liberty Bell is where two Philadelphia area congressmen, Chaka Fattah and Patrick Murphy (my congressman), rallied with Wackenhut workers and [...]
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Filed under: NLRB, Philly, exposing anti-union propoganda, politics, rights, solidarity, unionism