If We Had a Hammer

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 [...]

This Might Be a Job for Sal

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 [...]

How You Vote. Why It Matters

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 [...]

Summer Meetings Suspended

(This is an announcement for Teamsters Local 384 members. The most recent updates to this site continue below this post)
As usually occurs at Local 384, the summer membership meetings were suspended via a motion at our May membership meeting. The Local sent out notices that are posted on the workplace Union boards, and if you [...]

Attention Teamsters Local 384 Members:
Learn More about Worker’s Comp on April 27!

Did you know that if you’re injured at work, you have up to 120 days after the injury to report it and still be covered?
That’s according to the PA Department of Labor and Industry website. Most people don’t know this, especially if they go by “safety” committee propaganda stating otherwise. Some employers [...]