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<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 3685542" data-attributes="member: 49065">I agree that most of the problems that are affecting this tentative were surfacing before Hoffa and his administration took office over 20 years ago,&nbsp; primarily the Central States underfunding.&nbsp; That &quot;l982 contract&quot; was a killer also and really started the two tier wage systems and that was under teamster president Jackie Presser.The real question is to whether the current International administration has made any progress in improving any of the problems that they inherited two decades ago. It does not help their reputation or resume when they negotiate contracts that leave the rank and file in the dark and then play mind games to barely pass subpar contractual language.With this tentative master contract and being in the &quot;Central&quot;, I see &quot;NO&quot; reason for us to vote &quot;yes&quot; on any of it.&nbsp; No real improvements for the sins of the past and the IBT/UPS Pension benefits are not up to par with most of the other conferences, considering that the weekly contributions (article 34 master) per member is the same if not better?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 3685542, member: 49065"] I agree that most of the problems that are affecting this tentative were surfacing before Hoffa and his administration took office over 20 years ago, primarily the Central States underfunding. That "l982 contract" was a killer also and really started the two tier wage systems and that was under teamster president Jackie Presser. The real question is to whether the current International administration has made any progress in improving any of the problems that they inherited two decades ago. It does not help their reputation or resume when they negotiate contracts that leave the rank and file in the dark and then play mind games to barely pass subpar contractual language. With this tentative master contract and being in the "Central", I see "NO" reason for us to vote "yes" on any of it. No real improvements for the sins of the past and the IBT/UPS Pension benefits are not up to par with most of the other conferences, considering that the weekly contributions (article 34 master) per member is the same if not better? [/QUOTE]

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