Education Articles
February 26, 2010: What is the most disliked rule in the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? Undoubtedly, the provision that allows employers to substitute workers’ vacation leaves during FMLA absences.
February 26, 2010: TDU’s International Steering Committee met in February to make TDU’s grassroots organizing plans for 2010.
March 8, 2010: A compilation of Teamster press releases can’t be real labor history. But the IBT’s new book, James R Hoffa: Messages to the Membership is worth reading for what it is: how Hoffa and his union staff wanted him presented to the members, and to the public.
January 18, 2010: Following the Seven Tests for Just Cause can help protect Teamsters from discipline or discharge.
January 29, 2010: Warehouse jobs are brutal. Production standards and mandatory overtime take a toll on our bodies.
December 7, 2009: With profits down, management is turning up the pressure on package drivers.
Teamsters are coming from across North America for the 2009 TDU Convention, Nov. 6-8 at the Cleveland Airport Sheraton.
July 21, 2009: Every day it’s front page news. Another company closes, big unions take concessions, municipal workers go on furlough.
July 21, 2009: Thousands of Teamsters are laid off or working less than full time. Now some 50,000 working and laid-off Teamsters at YRC are voting on an economic relief deal that would take them out of the Teamster pension plans for the next 18 months.
July 21, 2009: The following rights are protected by the National Labor Relations Act: