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  • Teamsters Reformers Win Big at New York UPS Local

    UPS Teamsters in New York City voted in a reform slate by to a 2-to-1 margin Thursday. It’s the second win in as many months for Teamsters reformers in the city, and it comes after a tireless yearlong campaign in a local with a long tradition of troublemaking.

  • Teamsters Move In Reform Leaders in New York Local
    Jane Slaughter
    Nov 23 2009 - 7:06pm
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    “It’s time to close the concessions stand,” said the candidates of the New Directions slate, and members of Teamsters Local 814 in New York City agreed. They voted 406-154 for the reformers.

  • Book Review: Embedded with Organized Labor

    One nagging factor in labor's crisis has been its internal culture of silence. Difficult issues are often sidestepped, finessed, or ignored all together. Steve Early says he learned in his early days the first rule of business unionism: “Thou shall not criticize another union.” Thirty years later, he's still banging on this rule with a prose sledgehammer—and producing some of the most insightful commentary around about the labor movement.

  • A $26,000 Pilot?

    Sometimes high-paid jobs provoke a lot of envy and resentment. But sometimes you feel a lot more comfortable when workers in certain positions are making more than a living wage. While attending the Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention Friday, I met a pilot who took home $26,000 last year as a first officer (that’s the one who sits on the right). And he’s union.

  • Movers and Shakers

    “It’s time to close the concessions stand," said the New Directions Slate, and members of Teamsters Local 814 in New York City agreed—they’ve just voted 406-154 for a reform slate headed by Jason Ide and Richie Johnson.