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Legislation aimed at saving the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund from bankruptcy has a much better chance of making it through the new Congress, the union tells FreightWaves. The ...
Some Hoffa supporters claimed that Carey had forced a strike to draw attention away from his legal troubles, but most observers concluded that the union could not accept the company's final offer (which included a 1.5 percent raise for full-time workers, no raise for part-timers, and withdrawal from the Teamsters' multiemployer pension plan ...
UPS wanted to back out of the plan, and offer their workers a new pension plan that UPS would control. [6] Ultimately, UPS agreed to keep their workers in the union benefits plan. [19] [3] UPS agreed that they would from now on be required to discuss any future package weight limit increases with the Teamsters. National Impact:
The decision not to endorse has put headquarters at odds with its many local bodies that are supporting the Democratic nominee.
UPS Teamsters approved a new contract in November 2007 with a five-year term covering 240,000 workers. The contract will increase wages annually and increase funds that provide pension, health, and welfare benefits. [50] "We…have negotiated an agreement that will greatly benefit our members at U.P.S. as well as Teamster members in other ...
Retired Akron-area Teamsters have more hope that their monthly pension checks, in danger of being significantly cut, are secure for years. Retired Akron-area Teamsters see hope but wait for full ...
Hoffa intended to publish a book accusing Fitzsimmons of "selling out to mobsters" and giving large low- and no-interest loans from Teamsters pension funds to mob-related businesses. [42] [43] However, Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975, removing the last significant opposition to Fitzsimmons's re-election. [44]
TDU was started in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s, as an alliance of socialists who had taken Teamster jobs and a layer of militant truck drivers who had been organizing against contract concessions, [1] after the federal government exposed extensive corruption in the union, which included leadership raiding union-held pension funds, collusion with organized crime, and collusive collective ...