July 17, 2008: Q. How do you know when a proposed contract is rotten?

A. When they use corporate sales tricks to try to get you to buy it.

July 16, 2008: Carhaul Director Fred Zuckerman made $230,695 from members’ dues last year, but some members think he actually works for the employers.

Q: Why are Fred Zuckerman and the IBT PR department lying about TDU and the Carhaul contract? A: Because the truth hurts.

July 9, 2008: Carhaul locals are holding meetings to sell the proposed carhaul deal. But the concessions are getting a chilly reception.

July 2, 2008: Below are key details of the concessions that are in the proposed carhaul contract.

July 1, 2008: Tomorrow union officials will meet in Detroit to discuss the details of the national carhaul contract.

June 27, 2008: The International Union is being even more secretive than usual about what is in the proposed tentative carhaul contract.

June 20, 2008: The IBT and carhaul employers have reached a tentative agreement to present to the members.

June 20, 2008: As Convoy goes to press in mid-June, the employers and the International are near to announcing a tentative agreement, which the members can review and vote on.

June 17, 2008: In the wake of PTS's closure, carhaul employers are trying to violate the national contract and deny the right of PTS Teamsters to follow their work.

June 17, 2008: A five-day strike by members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against financially troubled Performance Transportation Services and its subsidiaries ended June 13 when th

June 17, 2008: The Teamster strike at PTS has closed a company that was already on the way out. The fight now is to safeguard 100 percent of the PTS Teamsters’ jobs at union carriers.

June 12, 2008: As the Teamster strike against PTS nears the end, Teamsters report seeing nonunion rigs pulling cars and trucks out of a few production plants and ports.

June 9, 2008: Starting at 9 AM this morning, 1,250 Teamster carhaulers went on strike at Peformance Transportation Services.

June 9, 2008: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters sent its members on strike at 9 this morning against the nation's No.

June 6, 2008: A U.S. bankruptcy court judge approved PTS’s request for a 15 percent wage cut. Will a strike by Teamster carhaulers be next?

June 4, 2008: International Brotherhood of Teamsters-represented employees at major U.S.

June 3, 2008: Teamster owner-operators may see a little more money in their pockets if Congress passes a new law stopping middlemen from skimming fuel surcharges.

June 2, 2008: Performance Transportation Services (PTS) is the latest Teamster employer to ask a bankruptcy court to impose concessions on its workers, in this case 1,300 carhaulers.

May 30, 2008: Performance Transportation Services (PTS) is the latest Teamster employer to ask a bankruptcy court to impose concessions on its workers—and 1,300 carhaulers are facing cuts.

March 27, 2008: Negotiations for a new national carhaul agreement have begun at a difficult time for Teamsters.

March 14, 2008: The UPS, freight and carhaul national contracts all have a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) clause, to help protect against inflation eating away our wages.

March 13, 2008: The sale of PTS has been called off because there was only one qualified bidder, according to papers filed in federal bankruptcy court on March 11.

March 12, 2008: Carhaul bargaining begins on March 17 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

You can take a look for yourself at the union proposals, which TDU is making available to Teamsters.

February 21, 2008: Bargaining begins for the national carhaul contract in March, and the concessions at Allied could spread.

February 1, 2008: In late January Teamster carhaul officials met to screen contract proposals and formulate demands for the national contract that expires May 30.

January 8, 2008: The International Union has opened a very narrow window to allow carhaulers a chance to submit proposals for the new national contract.

December 19, 2007: The International Union pushed through 17.5% wage concessions for 1500 PTS Teamsters, by giving none of them the right to vote on the pay cut.

December 13, 2007: Bill Clinton has severed business ties with Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle, fearful that their deals could erupt into bad publicity damaging his wife's presidential bid,

December 5, 2007: Carhaulers are reacting with anger over the latest move to gut the national carhaul contract and pay members a bonus to impose concessions on fellow Teamsters.

December 1, 2007: Carhaulers have reacted with anger and disgust over the latest move to gut the national carhaul contract, and pay members a bonus to impose concessions on fellow Teamsters.

November 28, 2007: The Hoffa administration has cut a deal to slash the wages of 2,000 carhaul Teamsters at Performance Transportation Services by 17.5 percent.

September 24, 2007: The United Auto Workers strike at General Motors has 73,000 members on the picket lines.

June 8, 2007: Teamster carhaulers have entered the one-year countdown to the next national contract.

May 31, 2007: Teamster carhaulers at Allied Holdings now make 19¢ less per loaded mile than their brothers and sisters at other carriers.

May 14, 2007: According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (see link below), Allied CEO Hugh Sawyer will not have to apply for food stamps anytime soon, as he continues to make big mon

May 9, 2007: Two shareholders who own 337,000 shares of Allied Holdings filed a class action suit charging that Yucaipa owner Ron Burkle conspired in 2006 with the leadership of the Teamsters to ta

May 9, 2007: Allied Holdings Inc.

May 2, 2007: A major shareholder in Allied Automotive Group has filed a class-action suit charging that Yucaipa and the Hoffa administration entered into a secret conspiracy in May of 2006.

May 2, 2007: Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle has stirred up controversy with his effort to take control of a big chunk of the nation's car-hauling business, with some help from former Presid

April 28, 2007: Shareholders of Allied Holdings Inc. claim that billionaire Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos.

April 20, 2007: On May 9, a hearing in federal bankruptcy court in Georgia could mark a new era for Teamster carhaulers.

April 16, 2007: The Hoffa administration, Allied CEO Hugh Sawyer, and billionaire investor Ron Burkle breathed a sigh of relief today when 3,300 Allied Teamsters narrowly approved concessions.

April 6, 2007: Associated Press: Allied Holdings scored two victories this week, winning bankruptcy court approval of its Chapter 11 plan-disclosure statement and its request to enter into a $15 mi

April 4, 2007: When Teamster members at Allied got their ballots to vote on proposed concessions, they were told "There is Only ONE Plan to Save Allied."

April 2, 2007: Allied Teamsters are currently voting on concessions that could gut the carhaul national contract. The votes will be counted on April 16.

April 2, 2007: Allied Teamster carhaulers are voting on a tentative concession deal that’s been pressed on our members by a bankrupt company.

April 2, 2007: Leaseway drivers got a shock in March when they pulled into the Selkirk, N.Y.

March 29, 2007: The Justice Department and Allied Holdings Inc.'s shareholders are urging the bankruptcy court not to approve the auto hauler's Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement.

March 22, 2007: Allied Teamster carhaulers are voting on a tentative concession deal that’s been pressed on us by a bankrupt company. Those concessions could devastate an entire nation

March 19, 2007: Sopris Capital, an investment firm, has made a bid to the bankruptcy court to take over Allied, with a proposal filed on March 15, 2007.

March 15, 2007: Ballots on the tentative concessionary deal covering 3,300 Teamsters at Allied Holdings are now re-scheduled to be mailed on March 19, and should be in the hands of Allied Teamsters

March 9, 2007: At the Atlanta meeting on March 3, carhaulers demanded to vote on the spot, to be sure their votes were fairly counted.

As U.S. Allied Teamsters may soon be voting on drastic concessions, Allied Teamsters in Ontario and Quebec are standing united, with pensions and wages being key issues.

When your union president writes to you that “it may or may not be that some modifications to the contract are necessary,” then sit on your wallet, because someone may be reaching for it.  On

March 5, 2007: From the LA Times: "On Friday, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing in Georgia disclosed plans for Yucaipa to take over Allied Holdings Inc."

Carhaul Contract Under Fire

July 2006 - Allied Automotive Group’s 3,800 US Teamsters got a raise on July 1 when the 10 percent cut imposed by the bankruptcy court expired with

Allied Systems, the largest carhauling corporation, is going to court on April 26 to void the contract covering 4,000 U.S. Teamsters and impose a 10 percent wage cut.

The nonunion attack against carhaul Teamsters continues unabated. Teamsters in Selkirk, N.Y., Hazelwood, Mo., and Baltimore are the latest casualties.

In a March 26 letter to its employees, Allied Systems revealed that back on Jan. 8 they requested the elimination of the June 1, 2002, contractual wage increase and health and welfare increase.

Allied is in the process of giving away the yard jobs at seven GM plants, reportedly about 200 Teamster jobs.

Detroit Local 299, the largest carhaul Local in the US, has signed a 90-day Supplemental Addendum which allows Allied System to use $12 per hour non-union labor to deliver cars to dealerships in South

In the July-August issue of Convoy Dispatch, we exposed the concessions to the carhaul contract and warned that they could spread. It’s already happening.

Recent deals designed to allow carhaul employers to attract business are in clear violation of the national contract and raise questions about which direction the division is heading.

Auto Truck Transport (ATT) drivers across the country will soon get a chance to vote to become Teamsters.

It has become very apparent that the International Union and the Carhaul Division are behind moves to lower drivers’ pay scale by 15 percent at a few terminals, with the danger that the wage cut cou

The Hoffa administration hired a polling firm in May to ask many of the 4,000 Teamsters employed by Allied Automotive Group if they would accept mid-term contract concessions.

February 8, 2006: Allied management sent thousands of carhaul Teamsters a letter dated January 31 stating that, unless they are given more concessions from Teamsters, then they may “seek appropriate