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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 1004162" data-attributes="member: 29553">Im sorry but what building do you work in??  If you look at those promises they come pretty close to fulfilling them.  Remember they have been in 2 1/2 years.  It will take more 3 years to turn around what was damaged over the Redmond-Donato-Buhlert years!!On sups working, more members are putting in grievances and are getting paid than ever before!!  Remember no one, not even Ron Carey, can ever truely stop these bastards totally. Not one great leader or 13 members of any E/B.  It is the membership standing up together and hitting UPS in the pocket book by filing grievances!! Also the building raids have been helpful and fun to watch.  Problem is there are not enough of them.They HAVE ended go along to get along.  You will not find any of this E/B palling around with management like Buhlert and others used to.  Thats what happens when "experienced" union officials stay in too long.  They forget who is the enemy and they forget who pays their salary!!On the Funds, they have audited the funds and have reported back to us at every membership meeting as well as their newsletters.  We are no longer in the dark about such things. The H/W Fund is currently running surpluses thanks to needed changes our E/B had to make to save our fund!!  Plus secret deals are no longer happening in our local.  We get the truth.On fighting production harassment, you cant say they havent been aggressive.  Dave O's strong stand in Melville showed this board will go above and beyond for the members.  This board has enforced and encouraged members to go on the 9.5 list.  Hundreds of drivers have gone on the list and gotten paid triple time!!On 24 hour representation, they have added two extra B/As to handle PT and inside issues.  Yes the ladies who answer the phones leave at 5pm and calls do go to the machine but someone is usually in the office or in a building on-call Mon thru Fri -ALL DAY!!  There are board members who come in late in the day and work til early in the next morning.  So if you do call the hall late in the day, the machine will forward those messages to the appropriate BA and the night shift BAs can take those forwarded calls if it is an emergency.They did cut their salaries big time and they stopped the matching 401ks that Howie and the boys gave themselves.  On full time jobs, some 22.3 jobs were created.  As for FT driving jobs, UPS policy has been nationally to increase stop counts but do no new hiring (until recently atleast).On keeping members informed, it is like night and day.  We have been informed about both our pension funds as well as our H/W.  Regular informative newsletters get sent home.  Several craft meetings have been held.  Recently they have created contract committees to get the rank and file involved in what we will negotiate about.  On Teamster University, again night and day.  Seminars,craft meetings and  educational programs FOR ALL, not just the shop stewards!!Finally this E/B has honored the legacy of Ron Carey.  Before Tim and co got in the Hall, there was a picture of Hoffa up on the wall, BUT NOT RON CAREY!! Imagine that.  They not only restored Ron's rightful place in Local 804's history (remember the old board whited out the Ron Carey years from 804's magazine and timeline-WHAT A DISGRACE) , but our new board is continuing Ron's legacy (Members First) by being honest and open with us.  That has been most apparent with the current contract committee that has been formed from us the rank and file. This board will not recommend any sellout contract that Hoffa puts forward!!  This board will not concede an inch in our supplemental.  They know how much was lost the last two contracts and they are determined to fight to get that back.  Ron Carey fought hard for the rank and file. He put Members First.  So does this executive board!!</blockquote>

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