freight

  • Interview: Reformer Challenges Hoffa for Teamster Presidency
    Jane Slaughter
    Oct 11 2010 - 11:39am

    Sandy Pope, a local president in New York, announced she will run against James Hoffa for the presidency of the Teamsters, in a three-way race. Pope criticized Hoffa for bargaining weak contracts, and said the union needs to re-organize trucking.

  • Shortcuts Hamper Unions in South, Say the UAW’s Fired ‘Freightliner Five’

    Tiffany Ten Eyck

    Pounding the pavement in a two-month tour of cities throughout the Midwest and West Coast, four fired United Auto Workers members have been busy speaking to supporters in a quest to get their jobs back. Questions about the effect concessionary bargaining and shortcut neutrality agreements may have on the future of new member organizing in the South are frequently raised at their meetings. . . .


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  • Teamsters Trade Gains of 1997 UPS Strike for Deal to Organize Members at Freight Division

    Mark Brenner

    In mid-November Teamsters at United Parcel Service approved a controversial five-year agreement, more than eight months before the expiration of their current contract. . . .


    Yes
  • Postal Workers Fight Privatization With Private-Sector Organizing

    by Leah Samuel

    In March, 350 employees of the Alan Ritchey, Inc. (ARI) Mail Transport Equipment Service Center in Chicopee, Massachusetts voted 205-130 to join Local 497 American Postal Workers Union.

    The Chicopee campaign is part of a national effort by the APWU to counteract the privatization of mail services.


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