Just off the top of my head and I'm sick as hell in bed today but the teamsters organized 40,000 new members just last year. Settling they ups contract in 2007 early ahead of the 2008 next Great Depression put a lot of money in our pockets. Imagine negotiations just 6 months later? Oh yea we got this thing that was called Overnight and turned it into Ups freight. Their drivers make 28 dollars an hour and are the highest paid in the freight industry union or non union.
Because I'm like this a caring individual his work in helping the refugees in hurricane Katrina made me so proud of being a teamster. Georgia Bush was a piece of crap during this time but Jimmy brought truckload after truckload to a people and their strife that a lot of our very own country didn't raise a hand.
Oh yea how did I forget this nugget! A landmark agreement with
United Parcel Service (UPS) was reached in July 2002 for the 210,000 Teamsters employed there. Hoping to avoid a damaging strike similar to the one in 1997 negotiators at UPS acquiesced to Teamster demands, producing a contract with a 25 percent increase in wages and benefits. "These negotiations have taken place in an economic climate in which millions of American workers are seeing their health benefits cut and their retirement savings wiped out. We have shown the nation that job and benefit cuts are not inevitable," said James Hoffa Teamsters President.
Then this happened
- Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) vote to merge with the Teamsters Union by an 80 percent majority. With 32,000 active members, the BLE was one of the oldest labor organizations in the country. The BLE became the first members of the newly created Teamsters Rail Conference. Soon after merging with the Teamsters, the BLE changed its name to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) in recognition of the trainmen of the union.
- In October, 2004, members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees (BMWE) voted to become Teamsters. More than 75 percent of the BMWE’s members voted to merge with the Teamsters Union and become part of the growing Teamsters Rail Conference. “As did my father, I have envisioned one union representing all transportation workers – roads to rails, ports to planes –that would provide workers with real power on the job and the political arena.
Ding ding
- A majority of the members of the Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU) vote to merge with the Teamsters Union effective January, 2005, making it the third independent union to merge with the Teamsters in the past 18 months. The union becomes an "autonomous conference" of the Teamsters.
Hey
@Irishman Collins i know you shop at Walmart but did you ever here of A tentative agreement was reached for Teamster members working at
Costco in California in January 2007. More than 13,000 workers at 40 locations in the state are covered under the agreement.
Here's a place that died in the great 2008 2009 depression Workers at
DHL Express ratified a new national agreement in early May 2008. These were the first national agreements negotiated by the Teamsters Union in more than 30 years. “The vote from DHL Express members is a strong signal of support. We were determined to obtain the best contract that we could for members, and I believe we achieved that,” said Teamsters General President Jim H.
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