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Hoffa-Hall Impose UPS Concessions, 


Steal Members Right to Vote




April 23, 2014: Hoffa and Hall have implemented the UPS contract, including concessionary supplements and riders that were overwhelmingly rejected by Teamster members.







According to an International Union memorandum, the UPS contract, including all supplements and riders, will go into effect on April 25 and the new Teamcare health coverage will take effect on June 1.




In the memorandum, the National Negotiating Committee repeats Ken Hall’s cover story: that the only issue holding up the rejected supplements is TeamCare. This is just a lie.




The Louisville Air Rider was rejected by a 94% No Vote because UPS’s second offer was even worse than its first offer and left unaddressed a whole series of pressing local issues: from members being forced to work off the clock to full-time jobs. 




The International Union could easily have settled the supplements by telling UPS to bargain over the outstanding local issues. Instead, Hoffa and Hall have sided with the company and forced through concessions as political payback against the leadership of Louisville Local 89 and Vote No Teamsters.  




Led by TDU, Teamster members fought for and won the Right to Vote on supplements and riders at the 1991 IBT Constitutional Convention to stop employers from imposing concessions in supplements and riders by pushing through a contract nationally.




Now Hoffa and Hall have overridden members’ Right to Vote. They claim that Article 12 of the IBT Constitution gives them the right to do it. That is a another lie. Article 12 has no such language.




Click here for complete TDU coverage.




Download: IBT’s Memorandum of Lies; The IBT Letter to Members; the IBT “Talking Points” for officials; The IBT Posting.




Conference Call Saturday, April 26


11 am East / 10 am Central / 9 am Mtn / 8 am Pacific 




Teamster members have used the Right to Vote to fight concessions at UPS, YRC and UPS Freight. Now that right is under attack.


 


Every Teamster who cares about concessions and our rights as Teamsters is invited to join this important Conference Call. 




Click here to register for the Conference Call this Saturday, April 26 and the call-in number and code will be sent to you. The call is being administered by the TDU office.




If you are using the Firefox browser and having trouble registering, email info@tdu.org with your name, local, email and phone number and we will send you the conference call number and code.






Speakers include:


  


Mark Timlin, Founder, Vote No on UPS Contract Facebook Page


 


Tim Sylvester, Local 804 President on how Teamster members and the community stopped UPS from firing 250 Teamsters in New York City.


 


Fred Zuckerman, Local 89 President on the fight against concessions at UPS Worldport in Louisville.


 



Sandy Pope, Local 805 President, on concessions and protecting our Right to Vote on Contract Supplements




WHAT:  Conference Call on New Concessions Threat


 


WHEN: Saturday, April 26.  11 am East / 10 am Central / 9 am Mtn / 8 am Pacific


 


WHO: Concerned Teamster activists, leaders of the No Concessions movement and you.


 



Click here to register for the conference call and the call-in number and code will be sent to you.




If you are using the Firefox browser and having trouble registering, email info@tdu.org with your name, local, email and phone number and we will send you the conference call number and code.

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Why Did Louisville Vote No?


The Louisville Worldport Air Supplement “final offer” from UPS management was rejected by a whopping 94% last week. That’s Teamster solidarity. 




Why are the members there so united for a better contract?




Thousands of Teamsters at the Worldport are forced to work for free, up to 30 minutes or even an hour a day. They have to wait for a shuttle at the huge airport complex to get to their work station, before they clock in, then do the same at the end of the shift. 




The shuttle system is inadequate and Teamsters, many of them underpaid part-timers, are the ones paying the price.




Local 89 members are also fighting for more full-time combo jobs.  




Click here to read more on what’s at stake in Louisville and the need for all members to stand as one during negotiations.

TDU

Action

Doing What You Are Told To Do


Well, the average person is constantly being bombarded by propaganda crafted by the elites. Why do poor people with missing teeth and high blood pressure get foaming at the mouth mad at the thought of “socialized” medicine? Why do working class people have such negative views of unions? Why do they think bombing random countries is about protecting America’s freedom? Because they’re told to feel and think that way every single day.

Reddit.

UPS

Traffic camera catches UPS truck hitting pedestrian





TUKWILA, Wash. — Brittany Jackson limped into her attorney’s office Friday. The 25-year-old has endured 5 months of wheelchairs, crutches, leg braces, physical therapy, and doctors. Injuries and medical expenses forced her to move back home with mom and dad.

And now she wants justice from UPS and one of its drivers.

Jackson’s quality of life unraveled last November when she entered a crosswalk at Minkler Boulevard and Andover Park West in Tukwila. It was less than a block from where she taught gaming design to adults. It was 5:30 p.m. when she saw the walk light and began to cross three lanes.

“The next thing I know, it was a headlight in my face and it was a tall headlight,” she recounted. “Next thing after that was I’m on the ground. I felt the wheels go over my feet.”

A UPS truck turning right, slammed into Jackson, crushing several bones. The driver stopped and walked back to the woman writhing in the road.

“He testified that he didn’t know that he had hit anyone,” said Jackson’s attorney Chris Davis. “And the reason that he stopped was because he heard my client scream.”

Davis doesn’t buy that. He says UPS driver Carl Scammon was trying to save his job when he drove off.

Jackson remembers the uniformed man walking toward her.

“He knelt down and he asked me who hit me. I said brown and yellow.”

Jackson says the driver challenged her account.

“He replied with a brown and yellow van, as if questioning me. I said no it was a brown truck, yellow light. It was a UPS truck. You hit me,” she said.

Jackson says that’s when the driver stopped talking to her and left.

A Tukwila street light camera captured the incident. The video shows the truck hitting the woman and the driver stopping. But a minute or so later, it shows the driver returning to his vehicle and taking off.

Jackson missed months of work, is still in pain, and wears a brace. She’s suing UPS and Scammon for lost wages and medical expenses.

Her attorney is asking the prosecutor to reconsider criminal hit-and-run charges. Davis says UPS has not accepted blame but after a hearing, did recently fire the driver.

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