08/18/2008 - 12:34pm
Hundreds of St. Louis Teamsters and families rallied today in downtown St. Louis to show support for Anheuser-Busch workers nationwide in the wake of the purchase of the iconic American beer company by Belgium-based brewing giant InBev. Carrying rally signs that said “InBev: Keep Your Promises!,” rally participants, along with Teamster trucks, overflowed Kiener Plaza next to the famous St. Louis Arch.
This full story appeared first at Budwatch.com; it is printed here with permission.
08/14/2008 - 3:39pm
If you ever wonder what Teamster Power is all about, you should get to know a little something about Local Union 786 President Mick Yauger.
The Chicago-based union leader is a decorated veteran, and the IBT Helmets to Hardhats liaison.
In March 2007 a Dwight, Illinois solider was killed in Iraq. Lance Corporal Ray Holzauer was Lori Fraher's only son. While attending the war hero's funeral, Lt. Governor Pat Quinn was asked to assist Lori with some construction problems at her home. What came from that discussion is a whole lot more than "some construction fixes."
07/28/2008 - 10:25am
The news about the huge rally in Oakland on July 22, where the Teamsters
joined together with more than 3,000 environmental, community and labor
advocates to call for clean air and good jobs at the Port of Oakland -
throuigh the implementation of a comprehensive clean trucks program,
reminded me of a guy at Netroots Nation who asked me why labor and the
environmentalists are not working together. Clearly he was not fully
aware of what labor is doing, or alternatively, thought labor should be
doing more.
This is a cross post from Union Review.
07/07/2008 - 1:05pm
On June 28 and 29 hundreds of FedEx Express workers in the Memphis area were reached during what is now known as the largest house visit blitz in Teamster history.
07/02/2008 - 1:28pm
The Employee Free Choice Act is proposed legislation that every union and nonunion worker needs to understand, stand behind, and mobilize around in seeing it passes. The Employee Free Choice Act would ensure that workers have a free choice and a fair chance to form a union. In its rawest form, the Employee Free Choice Act will allow workers to choose to form unions without the fear of being fired.
06/27/2008 - 10:22am
The fifth annual Teamster Organizers Conference kicked off in downtown Memphis, Tennessee with an energetic gathering of nearly 400 International Union and local union organizers from across the United States and Canada.
06/26/2008 - 10:06pm
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa lead a rally today in Memphis, Tn. with hundreds of Teamster members, organizers and FedEx Express mechanics to throw his support behind their efforts to form a union.
06/18/2008 - 3:42pm
Teamster Ready Mix drivers from Local 200 in Milwaukee voted 110-4 to extend their contract into 2011.
The drivers, who work for a number of Ready Mix companies, including Meyer Material, Central, Sonag, Ace, New Berlin, Ojibwa, Ottawa and Okauchee Ready Mix, were concerned about their future retirement benefits. Talk of the weak economy and possibly concessions by the employers of the Ready Mix Association in the upcoming 2009 negotiations also got Local 200 leaders moving on a plan of action.
06/13/2008 - 11:24pm
Lenders Pull Plug on Company
PTS announced today that it was shutting down, effective today, and Teamster carhaul negotiators are setting the record straight about the company's demise.
06/06/2008 - 1:34pm
For most of the 35 years at Federal Express, the hard work and dedication of the Express workforce delivered the profits that fueled the so-called “People-Service-Profit” slogan. But something happened between 1998 and 2000 when Federal Express became “FedEx” and the company bought RPS/Caliber. Those people – the workers at Express – who delivered all those years of profit saw more and more money going to acquisitions and less and less money put into their wages and workplace benefits like health care and pension.
The acquisitions have only quickened since 2000. FedEx Express profits funded the $1.2 billion purchase of American Freightways, the $2.4 billion purchase of Kinko’s (now something called FedEx Office????) and the $760 million purchase of Watkins. FedEx Express profits funded the $1.8 billion build-out of the Ground network. FedEx Express profits funded the purchase of ANC in England, the purchase of DTW in China and the purchase of PAFEX in India.
