Rebuilding Teamster Power in Freight
Rank-and-file freight Teamsters are working hard to rebuild Teamster Power, and TDU is helping lead the way. We’re working together to enforce the national freight agreement and helping to organize new members at UPS Freight. We’ve been going for over thirty years, and we just keep on trucking."
Jimmy Rickert, Roadway, Local 429, Reading, Pa.
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TDU Welcomes New UPS Freight Teamsters
Thousands of UPS Freight workers are joining our union, and TDU members are welcoming them to our union.
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Freight News
August 21, 2008: Trucking company YRC Worldwide Inc. said Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in China.
August 19, 2008: Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Aug.
August 1, 2008: UPS Freight Teamsters in Kansas City have rejected the Association of Parcel Workers of America for the third time by a vote of 157-58.
August 1, 2008: Little progress has been made in negotiations for a new contract covering freight Teamsters in Local 705.
AugustThe Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a new regulation effective August 25 that allows for “observed collections of urine samples.” Direct observation is required for all prio
August 1, 2008: Less than two months after members ratified a concessionary contract that IBT officials touted as saving jobs, DHL has implemented layoffs, which could be permanent cuts.
July 11, 2008: YRC Worldwide Inc. has frozen a pension plan for about 6,000 nonunion employees as it prepares to introduce a plan to cover all 17,000 members of its nonunion work force.
July 10, 2008: Allowing states to raise commercial-truck weight limits by 21 percent would save fuel and reduce traffic and emissions, boosting profits for freight haulers, an executive of the larg
June 30, 2008: The combination of rising fuel costs and the recent strike at American Axle & Manufacturing Holding Inc.
June 23, 2008: If you think that filling up your car is expensive, just be glad you don't have a 240-gallon tank and a vehicle that gets five miles to the gallon.