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This web page provides information on our fight against fast-track legislation. The measure requires Congress to take only a quick up-or-down vote on secret trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and does not allow such agreements to be amended. It limits Congress’ constitutionally mandated oversight of such trade deals and lets others decide what’s best for America. The result is fewer good-paying U.S. jobs and unsafe food and products for Americans. Read more to find out why fast track is the wrong track for Teamsters and America.
First Student employees’ collective bargaining agreement with the company, which covers more than 21,000 workers, expires on March 31, 2015. Employees at First Student made history when they voted overwhelmingly to ratify a national master agreement on June 1, 2011, and it is time to renegotiate that agreement. Turn to this page to get the latest contract news and updates. The first round of negotiations is scheduled for January 27-28, 2015. The national contract expires March 31, 2015.
At the Hunt’s Point Produce Terminal in the Bronx, 1,300 members of Teamsters Local 202 have been working under harsh conditions without a raise several times since the recession. They are asking management for a fair wage – a pay hike of $25 a week. Management is refusing and the workers voted to authorize a strike at 4 p.m. on Jan 18. The workers who feed New York should be able to feed their families.
Teamsters are standing together to protect good jobs as Sysco, the country’s largest foodservice provider, attempts to purchase its only national competitor, US Foods. Join our campaign to demand that Sysco and US Foods honor their agreements with 11,500 Teamsters and protect the livelihoods of the men and women who make these companies leaders in the industry. LIKE our Facebook page, here.
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Taylor Farms workers in Tracy, California are standing up against poverty wages, disrespect and severe violations of their most basic rights. These 900 food processing workers in the Central Valley cut, wash and package salads and other products for the largest supplier of fresh-cut produce in the country. They feed the customers of major grocers, retailers and restaurant chains, including Walmart and McDonald’s.
With a revenue of $1.8 billion in 2012, Taylor Farms can afford to treat its workers in Tracy with dignity and pay fair wages, just like their Teamster coworkers have at Taylor Farms’ facilities in Salinas, California. But when workers came together to organize with Teamsters Local 601, the company responded mercilessly. It fired, harassed, and punished workers for supporting the union. The company threatened immigrant workers with deportation, hiring an army of union-busters to run a non-stop fear campaign. During an NLRB election for union representation, Taylor Farms deployed a goon squad of supervisors to intimidate workers. The company’s violations were so egregious that the Labor Board impounded ballots while it investigates hundreds of Unfair Labor Practice charges.
Workers in Tracy, following in the footsteps of labor leader and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, are taking their fight to the public. The workers’ struggle for a better life for their families is supported by Teamsters in California and nationwide. We are building a movement for respect for the workers who feed America.
¡Si Se Puede!
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After years of unfair regulations and lack of respect, we are fighting back by forming the Washington, D.C. Taxi Operators Association. Our association will be backed by Teamsters Local 922 and the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The Teamsters have stood in solidarity with worker struggles in other countries since our founding. With economic globalization, our ability to organize increasingly depends on our ability to build alliances with workers on a global scale.
More than ever, Teamsters are organizing and bargaining with multi-national companies. A key objective of our Global Strategies Campaign is to build strong alliances with unions around the globe who organize and bargain with common employers. Our focus is on workers in the emerging global supply chains – the infrastructure of globalization.
Globalization creates new opportunities for international worker solidarity. We seek common cause with workers around the world to build social justice for all workers and the communities in which they live.
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Teamsters at Republic Services/Allied Waste have stood together in recent years to fight for strong contracts, including going on strike and supporting their fellow striking workers. Workers continue to fight for strong contracts that include retirement security at the second largest solid waste company. This campaign page is dedicated to those ongoing efforts.
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You've heard it said that the best defense is a good offense. In the war on workers, Teamster Organizing is on the offensive! We're winning power for workers across industries and across North America. Join us!
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This Week in Labor History
March 02
Postal workers granted 8-hour day – 1913
 (From the Folks Who Brought You The Weekend: This is a sweeping, highly readable history of U.S. labor that will be welcomed by anyone interested in learning more about the struggle of American working people to better their lives through collective action. This excellent narrative surveys the historic efforts and sacrifices that working people made to win the rights we take for granted today, from minimum wage and overtime protections to health and safety guarantees to even the weekend itself.)
More than 6,000 drivers strike Greyhound Lines, most lose jobs to strikebreakers after company declares “impasse” in negotiations – 1990
March 03
Birth date in Coshocton, Ohio, of William Green, a coal miner who was to succeed Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor, serving in the role from 1924 to 1952. He held the post until his death, to be succeeded by George Meany - 1873
The local lumber workers' union in Humboldt County, Calif., founded the Union Labor Hospital Association to establish a hospital for union workers in the county. The hospital became an important community facility that was financed and run by the local labor movement – 1906
Congress approves the Seamen’s Act, providing the merchant marine with rights similar to those gained by factory workers. Action on the law was prompted by the sinking of the Titanic three years earlier. Among other gains: working hours were limited to 56 per week; guaranteed minimum standards of cleanliness and safety were put in place - 1915
The Davis-Bacon Act took effect today. It orders contractors on federally financed or assisted construction projects to pay wage rates equal to those prevailing in local construction trades - 1931
March 04
 In his inaugural address, President Thomas Jefferson declares: “Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” - 1801
President William Howard Taft signs legislation creating the Department of Labor. Former United Mine Workers Secretary Treasurer William B. Wilson is named to lead the new department - 1913
President Franklin D. Roosevelt names a woman, Frances Perkins, to be secretary of labor. Perkins became the first female cabinet member in U.S. history - 1933
Machinists strike Eastern Airlines, are soon joined by flight attendants and pilots in the nationwide walkout. Owner Frank Lorenzo refuses to consider the unions’ demands; Eastern ultimately went out of business - 1989
March 05
British soldiers, quartered in the homes of colonists, took the jobs of working people when jobs were scarce. On this date, grievances of rope makers against the soldiers led to a fight. Soldiers shot down Crispus Attucks, a black colonist, then others, in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Attucks is considered the first casualty in the American Revolution - 1770
United Shoe Workers of America merge with Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union - 1979
March 06
The Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, a union of mariners, fishermen and boatmen working aboard U.S. flag vessels, is founded in San Francisco - 1885
The Knights of Labor picket to protest the practices of the Southwestern Railroad system, and the company's chief, high-flying Wall Street financier Jay Gould. Some 9,000 workers walked off the job, halting service on 5,000 miles of track. The workers held out for two months, many suffering from hunger, before they finally returned to work - 1886
 Joe Hill’s song “There is Power in a Union” appears in Little Red Song Book, published by the Wobblies – 1913
(The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon: In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World—the radical Wobblies. Following an intensive investigation, author William M. Adler gives us a full-scale biography of Joe Hill, and presents never before published documentary evidence that comes as close as one can to definitively exonerating him.)
With the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and were attacked by mounted police - 1930
Int’l Brotherhood of Paper Makers merges with United Paperworkers of America to become United Papermakers & Paperworkers - 1957
The federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act is enacted - 1970
Predominantly young workers at a Lordstown, Ohio, GM assembly plant stage a wildcat strike, largely in objection to the grueling work pace: at 101.6 cars per hour, their assembly line was believed to be the fastest in the world - 1972
President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to halt the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America. The order was ignored and Carter did little to enforce it. A settlement was reached in late March - 1978
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the nation’s unemployment rate soared to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession - 2009
March 07
Some 6,000 shoemakers, joined by about 20,000 other workers, strike in Lynn, Mass. They  won raises, but not recognition of their union - 1860
Three thousand unemployed auto workers, led by the Communist Party of America, braved the cold in Dearborn, Mich., to demand jobs and relief from Henry Ford. The marchers got too close to the gate and were gassed. After re-grouping, they were sprayed with water and shot at. Four men died immediately; 60 were wounded - 1932
Steel Workers Organizing Committee—soon to become the United Steel Workers—signs its first-ever contract, with Carnegie-Illinois, for $5 a day in wages, benefits – 1937 
(From First Contact to First Contract: A Union Organizer’s Handbook: This is a no-nonsense tool from veteran labor organizer and educator Bill Barry. He looks to his own vast experience to document and help organizers through all the stages of a unionization campaign, from how to get it off the ground to how to bring it home with a signed contract and a strong bargaining unit.)
IWW founder and labor organizer Lucy Parsons dies - 1942
Hollywood writers represented by the Writers Guild of America strike against 200 television and movie studios over residuals payments and creative rights. The successful strike lasted 150 days, one of the longest in industry history - 1988
Musicians strike Broadway musicals and shows go dark when actors and stagehands honor picket lines. The strike was resolved after four days - 2003
March 08
 Thousands of New York needle trades workers demonstrate for higher wages, shorter workday, and end to child labor. The demonstration became the basis for International Women’s Day - 1908
Three explosions at a Utah Fuel Co. mine in Castle Gate, Utah, kill 171. Fifty of the fatalities were native-born Greeks, 25 were Italians, 32 English or Scots, 12 Welsh, four Japanese, and three Austrians (or South Slavs). The youngest victim was 15; the oldest, 73 - 1924
New York members of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, many of them women, strike for better pay and conditions. They persevere despite beatings by police, winning a 10-percent wage increase and five-day work week - 1926
The Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act took effect on this day. It limits the ability of federal judges to issue injunctions against workers and unions involved in labor disputes - 1932
César Chávez leads 5,000 striking farmworkers on a march through the streets of Salinas, Calif. - 1979
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TEAMCARE UPDATE
DATE: February 26, 2015
RE: TEAMCARE PARTICIPANT SERVICES – NOW OPEN ON SATURDAY
Service to our members has always been a trademark at TeamCare. Due to overwhelming call volume experienced during our peak weekday service hours, hold times have been unusually high. To address this important matter, TeamCare is undertaking a number of initiatives to resolve this service issue.
First, TeamCare is expanding hours to better serve you and your members. Although our Participant’s Services call center is typically closed on weekends, TeamCare is temporarily providing special service hours on the following Saturdays:
- Saturday, February 28th 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST
- Saturday, March 7th 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST
- Saturday, March 14th 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST
In addition to being opened on the above Saturdays, for the next three weeks our Participant’s Services call center will be open earlier, beginning at 7:30 a.m. and staying opened until 6:00 p.m. Currently, the lowest hold times are either before 8:30 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m.
Secondly, TeamCare has recently hired additional Benefits Specialists who are in the training process. Once trained, these additional Benefit Specialists will help relieve the unusually high hold times by adding more staff to answer your member’s questions.
Finally, we encourage members to register on our website at www.MyTeamCare.org where members can access benefit and claims information, their explanation of benefits, along with answers to the most frequently asked questions. Members can also email us directly from the website with any of their questions. Our website is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We appreciate your patience and are committed to providing you and your members the service you expect from TeamCare.
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Rank-and-file members of Teamsters Local 89 traveled extensively yesterday and today fighting against the scam of right-to-work in Butler, Adair, Warren and Cumberland County. Unfortunately, RTW passed in Cumberland County. However, this was only possible through a "tie breaker" by the county’s Judge Executive.
Because of the testimony of Teamsters Trey McCutcheon, Matt Ward and Bill Miller along with the Kentucky AFL-CIO’s Bill Londrigan, two magistrates who had originally supported the ordinance, were swayed against the scam. It seems that the slick, out-of-state lawyer Brent Yessin was not as effective a snake oil salesman as his billionaire masters had expected!
Teamsters Local 100 can be proud to announce that Local 100 member Mr. Paul Savil, a driver at UPS Freight in Cincinnati has been selected to serve as a Road Team Captain for the Volvo- ATA Road Team in 2015.
Front row (left to right): Danny Smith (Big G Express, Inc.); Henry Bruster (UPS Freight); Eric Ramsdell (Walmart Transportation); Richie Buitrago (Con-way Freight); Neil Kirk (Penske Logistics). Second row: Charles Demchock II (Walmart Transportation); Derrick Whittle (Cargo Transporters, Inc.); Paul Savill (UPS Freight); David Green (Werner Enterprises); Kirk Weis (ABF Freight System, Inc.); Bill West (ABF Freight System, Inc.). Third row: Russell Simpson (Holland, Inc.); Chad Miller (ABF Freight System, Inc.); Scott Woodrome (FedEx Freight); Randall Luschen (Weinrich Truck Line Inc.); John McKown (UPS Freight); Eric Flick (FedEx Freight); Tim Vogt (Con-way Freight); Bill Minor (Con-way Freight).
Teamsters Local 100 can be proud to announce that Local 100 member Mr. Paul Savil, a driver at UPS Freight in Cincinnati has been selected to serve as a Road Team Captain for the Volvo- ATA Road Team in 2015.
By Michael G. Malloy, Staff Reporter
This story appears in the Jan. 19 print edition of Transport Topics.
American Trucking Associations last week named 19 truck drivers to represent the industry as the 2015-2016 America’s Road Team.
The drivers, who will serve as Road Team captains for two years, were selected from 31 finalists.
The new captains have 453 combined years of experience and have logged more than 30 million accident-free miles.
They competed before a panel of judges near ATA’s Arlington, Virginia, headquarters.
The competition tested drivers’ knowledge of the trucking industry, communication skills, and reviewed their community service and safety records.
During their terms, the captains will represent the trucking industry at events nationwide.
"America’s Road Team represents the best of what trucking can be: dedication to safety, professionalism and pride in an industry that delivers life’s essentials every day," ATA President Bill Graves said.
"These 19 outstanding professionals join a select fraternity," he added. "America’s Road Team has delivered the message of safety to millions, and I’m proud that these individuals will now be representing our industry."
At a Jan. 14 presentation ceremony, ATA Chairman Duane Long called the incoming class "ambassadors for life," and asked them to be role models to bring more young people into the trucking business.
"Safety will be the biggest topic you talk about, but I hope that when you meet young people, you will think about how to inspire them to come into this great industry," said Long, who also is chairman of Raleigh, North Carolina-based Longistics.
Some of the younger new captains said they hope to get out a message that driving a truck is a stable and professional job for young people to consider.
"A lot of old stereotypes are what people still think of trucking," said Tim Vogt, 36, who started driving for Con-way Freight at 21. Young people "might want to get into a corporate job, but this is a corporate job. It has all the benefits and all the opportunities."
UPS Freight’s Henry Bruster, 38, began driving trucks in the Army at 18 and started driving professionally at 22 after taking a CDL class.
"When I started, some of the older drivers were my role models," said Bruster, who been driving for UPS for 15 years. "Now the younger drivers look up to me."
Bill Minor, 40, also with Con-way Freight, is a fourth-generation truck driver and said his 7-year-old son already has expressed interest in becoming a trucker.
"You’ll always be in demand" as a driver, he added. "If something happens with your company, you go next door and say ‘I have a CDL and a good driving record,’ and they’ll put you to work." He also started driving at 21.
"We’re the new face of the trucking industry," added Ricardo Buitrago, a driver with Con-way Freight in Kissimmee, Florida. "Our goal is to come home every night safely along with those who share the road with us."
America’s Road Team, which began in 1986, has been sponsored by Volvo Trucks since 2002.
"We are proud to congratulate and support the top-notch professional drivers who have been selected as captains of the 2015-2016 America’s Road Team," said Göran Nyberg, president of Volvo Trucks’ North American sales and marketing.
Volvo was scheduled to present the team with a new 2016 VNL 780 truck late last week at its New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia.
Road Team captains will take turns traveling around the country with the truck for the next two years, talking about safety at community events and schools, and to the news media, public officials and fellow truck drivers. Captains’ fleet employers pay their salaries while they are on the road.
David Green is among the new Road Team members to benefit. As a driver for truckload carrier Werner Enterprises, he "embodies everything that’s positive within the industry," said Jaime Maus, Werner’s vice president of safety and compliance.
"They’re great ambassadors for the industry," said less-than-truckload carrier Holland Inc.’s Stephen Blubaugh, vice president of human resources. Holland driver Russell Simpson is a new captain.
"They’re professional in every way, and as an industry we need people to understand what a truck driver is," Blubaugh added.
The 2015-2016 America’s Road Team captains are:
• Henry Bruster, UPS Freight, Woodville, Miss.
• Ricardo Buitrago, Con-way Freight, Kissimmee, Fla.
• Charles Demchock II, Wal-Mart Transportation, Cocoa, Fla.
• Eric Flick, FedEx Freight, Dayton, Nev.
• David Green, Werner Enterprises, Hot Springs, Ark.
• Neil Kirk, Penske Logistics, Middletown, N.Y.
• Randall Luschen, Weinrich Truck Line Inc., Merrill, Iowa
• John McKown, UPS Freight, East Berlin, Pa.
• Chad Miller, ABF Freight System Inc., Crown Point, Ind.
• Bill Minor, Con-way Freight, West Milwaukee, Wis.
• Eric Ramsdell, Wal-Mart Transportation, Wittmann, Ariz.
• Paul Savill, UPS Freight, Hamilton, Ohio
• Russell Simpson, Holland Inc., South Vienna, Ohio
• Danny Smith, Big G Express Inc., Shelbyville, Tenn.
• Tim Vogt, Con-way Freight, Loganville, Ga.
• Kirk Weis, ABF Freight System Inc., Rio Rancho, N.M.
• William West, ABF Freight System Inc., Roopville, Ga.
• Derrick Whittle, Cargo Transporters Inc., Fieldale, Va.
• Scott Woodrome, FedEx Freight, Middletown, Ohio
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!3
JRH Scholarship
About James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund
James R. Hoffa became a Teamster member in 1934 and served as General President for 14 years, and, in recognition of his tireless service to the union and its members, was honored as General President Emeritus for life. At the November 1999 General Executive Board meeting, then-General Secretary-Treasurer C. Thomas Keegel presented a resolution to establish the new scholarship fund. This site describes the James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund (JRHMSF) and outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures.
The James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund is an independent organization established and registered as a tax-exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Fund is established solely to provide scholarships to the child or dependent of a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and contributions to the Fund are deductible as charitable contributions to the extent permitted by law. In 2015 the Fund plans to award $1,000,000 in scholarships.
Please click here to access the Application and Academic Record Forms
*The application deadline for the 2015/2016 college scholarship is March 31, 2015.
The Thirteenth Annual "Drive for Education" Golf Tournament and Ninth Annual "Texas Hold'Em" Poker Tournament will be held this year from May 11-13, 2015. Please click here to see registration forms and to register on-line.
Special thanks to our Major Sponsors, Joint Councils and Locals who have made the James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund events possible. We salute you on our 16th Anniversary!
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Prudential Financial
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BNY Mellon Asset Management
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Teamsters Joint Council 25
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Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division
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Teamsters Joint Council 41
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Community Financial Service Association
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Teamsters Local Union 817
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ENTRUST Capital, Inc.
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Teamsters Local Union 986
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Grand Fund LLC
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The UPS Foundation
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INVESCO
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Vision Service Plan
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McMorgan and Company
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Yucaipa Companies
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There have been some problems with Teamsters
losing health benefits and prescription benefits
while filing for disability and /or workers compensation.
There is no worse time to lose you health benefits
and prescription benefits than while a member is injured or ill.
We have been working to resolve this problem.
We have been in contact with the Teamcare people
to correct this problem.
The attached link is a pdf version of the instructions:
http://www.teamsterslocal100.com/docs/contracts/STD_Procedures_and_Claim_Form_Combined___FINAL.pdf
These instructions outline the new procedures
to maintain benefits while filing for disability
or filing for workers compensation.
(When filing for Workers Compensation,
you will also need to file a subrugation agreement,
agreeing to re-pay Teamcare if and when your worker's
compensation claim is approved.)
Since changing from UPS sponsored disability benefits to
Teamcare disability benefits, the procedures have changed.
With the changes some of our brothers and sisters
have been denied disability benefits
and have been denied health benefits
and prescription benefits.
Hopefully with these new procedures,
we have addressed these problems.
If you have any questions or issues with obtaining benefits,
please call Dave Webster, 513-769-5100 ext 319
or Sam Bucalo, 513-769-5100 ext 317
http://www.teamsterslocal100.com/docs/contracts/STD_Procedures_and_Claim_Form_Combined___FINAL.pdf
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A Labor Day Message from
Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa
On the first Monday of every September, our nation honors the contributions and sacrifices of millions of working men and women. Labor Day is about remembering labor’s triumphs and the workers without whom society would not function. But it’s also about solidarity and celebrating our movement—a movement that today is alive and well and still fighting for a strong middle class.
The labor movement, and the Teamsters Union in particular, is alive and well and is still forcing change. Labor is behind the movement to raise the minimum wage and shining a spotlight on income inequality. And the Teamsters Union is still organizing new members. Many workers know that unions are the key to a better life, and Labor Day is a time to remind everyone else about that fact. That’s why the Teamsters Union has organized more than 40,000 school bus workers in the last few years; why nearly 600 paratransit drivers in Chicago and hundreds more parking workers in Boston just joined the Teamsters; why thousands of taxi drivers nationwide are forming associations with the Teamsters.
For far too many people, Labor Day is seen simply as a day of rest. But for a growing set of U.S. workers, there is no break from trying to earn enough to support their families. Despite a dip in unemployment during the past few years, low pay continues to plague many employees while their corporate bosses rake in record profits.
The roots of the American middle class' economic decline are decades in the making. Spurred by a decline in union membership, fewer manufacturing jobs and an increase in the service economy, it has gotten harder and harder for workers to make ends meet. And those changes have been exacerbated by trade deals like NAFTA that have led to more than a million lost jobs.
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
Corporations are increasingly looking to friendly lawmakers on the Hill who are only too happy to reduce the "burden" on billionaires while rank-and-file workers suffer. Despite being a nation that gave birth to the epic failed energy conglomerate Enron Corp. and mega-banks that drove the U.S. into a recession and threaten to do so again, for too many in Congress, there is no limit to obstacles they will hurdle for their corporate cronies.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the average worker. That's why we have tobacco field workers living in squalor and getting sick and injured while working for the minimum wage in North Carolina. That's why we have fast-food workers who are victimized by successful companies allegedly stealing their wages. And it is why we have thousands of low-wage workers taking to the streets over and over again to say enough.
Hardworking Americans find themselves at a crossroads. With the November elections looming, they need to carefully consider their options to help turn the U.S. economy in a positive direction. It starts with backing candidates who place the people above the powerful.
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It's Labor Day weekend, an opportunity for workers to relax, reflect and take pride in our accomplishments and the knowledge that we have changed our country for the better.
But it’s also a time for us to pledge our support for our brothers and sisters who are fighting tooth and nail every day just to get by, who are languishing without the good jobs and fair wages they need to support their families. In this country, someone working the minimum wage makes $290 a week. You and I both know that’s not enough to feed a family and keep a home warm in winter, let alone be able to buy your kids back-to-school supplies.
This weekend is Labor Day weekend, but Election Day is coming. We’ve got a big fight on our hands now, a fight that will determine whether workers continue to struggle or whether we can revitalize our communities that have been devastated by big banks and corporate greed.
Will we elect officials who’ll raise wages and create jobs or ones who’ll give more tax breaks to corporations and CEOs and leave workers behind?
We need to raise the standard of living in this country. We need to raise workers’ share of the fruits of our own labor because it’s not right that CEOs are the only ones profiting from our sweat. We need to raise the number of kids who go to college and the number of seniors who retire in security and comfort. We need to raise our voices. We need to roll up our sleeves and fight.
It starts with raising the minimum wage. It ends with an economy that works for everyone, not just corporations and CEOs.
It starts this weekend. It ends on Election Day, with victories for elected officials who will fight for working people every single day they're in office.
Will you join me, brothers and sisters? To fight not just for ourselves, but for all working families—and for the future of the country we love?
It’s going to be a tough fight, but you and I have never shied away from one of those before, not when workers’ lives are on the line. Let’s stand together and win this one in November.
(copied from an AFL-CIO letter sent to union leaders this weekend)
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TEAMSTERS LOCAL 100
SUPPORTS THE
MEMBERS
OF THE BUTLER COUNTY
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
INDEPENDENT UNION.
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Below is a notice sent by email this weekend
from the City of Cincinnati
Human Resources Department:
Just wanted to provide an update on the retro mass pay increase.
As you are aware, AFSCME, CODE, and Teamsters employees
received a 1.5% COLA that was implemented this pay period.
The effective date for CODE was 7/7/2013, for AFSCME it was 8/18/2013,
and for Teamsters it was 10/27/2013.
Retroactive pay was also calculated and paid using those dates.
For the retro pay, employees will see either RET,
which designates pensionable earnings,
or REN is used for non-pensionable earnings.
REN applies to overtime and is also used for any retro paid
to any employee who terminated employment prior to August 3,2014.
Some employees were temporarily promoted during this period and their
retro may not have calculated correctly if they were temporarily promoted to
a non-represented position or if they moved between D0 and D0C.
HR is currently working to identify those individuals to ensure that the retro
calculated correctly and to correct, as needed.
HR Liaisions were advised last week to notify Lisa Berning of the employee's
name and CHRIS ID number and the Divisions affected.
We will make every effort to correct any identified errors
as quickly as possible.
Lisa Berning is te HR contact for the technical aspect of the pay increase.
Thanks very much.
For Teamster Workers at the GCWW, our next scheduled raise is
October 27, 2014.
We have 1% raise, which is tied to all other City Bargaining Units.
We included a "Me Too" clause, where if any other City Employees
receive a larger wage increse (larger than 1%),
we will rexceive that larger wage increase.
This year both the Firefighters Union and the Police Union
are in contract negotiations.
Neither of these groups,
representing more than 1700 City Employees,
have received a raise in about six years.
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The New UPS Contract Books are HERE!
Ask your steward or your business agent
to bring some into your work area.
Cheers to the UPS team for installing this ramp
this week for an elderly client in KY! #UPS
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UPS TEAMSTERS VOLUNTEER
TO CLEAN-UP BOTANICAL GARDEN
AT CINCINNATI ZOO
Thank you to volunteer teams from UPS, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati Zoo and Avondale Community Council for giving back and making a difference in the neighborhoods around the Zoo. Special thanks to the Cincinnati ToolBank for supplying the tools.
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WEINGARTEN
The term "Weingarten Rights" refers to a U.S. Supreme Court decision (420 US 251, 1974) which ruled that an employee has the right to a union representative in any interview the employer might hold that is intended to investigate a possible discipline charge against the employee. Often compared to the Miranda rights of criminal suspects charged by the police, there is a crucial difference: unless the union contract requires it, the employer does not have to tell the suspected employee that he or she has this right to union representation. The employee must ask for the representation!
The Weingarten Rights simply put are:
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The right to be informed, in advance, of the subject matter of disciplinary interviews.
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The right to union representation at such an interview.
Still there is the question of what to do when these rights are violated. Normally, the rule is to follow orders and file a grievance, or in this case an unfair labor practice charge, afterward. If you are required to attend such an interview, and your request for union representation is denied, the best advice is to attend the meeting but respond to any and all questions by simply repeating your request for representation.
Remember, if your request for union representation is denied,
The role of the union representative in a Weingarten meeting:
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Ask for time to talk in private before the meeting;
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Take notes & record the names, dates questions;
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Secure "due process" and fair treatment;
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Be sure that the grievant is not railroaded;
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Object to any attempts to anger or frighten the grievant;
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Call a timeout to caucus or recess as needed;
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Ask for questions to be rephrased or explained as necessary;
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Make no permanent or undo-able decisions at that interview;
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Right after the interview, call your union staff.
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GET A WITHDRAWAL CARD!!
If you leave your job FOR ANY REASON, please contact the Local 100 office at (513) 769-5100 and
speak with Lisa (ext. 325) to get a withdrawal card. This will stop your union dues obligation while you are not working.
Or, you may fill-out the withdrawal card request below and bring it to the Local 100 office.
The fee to obtain a withdrawal card is $0.50.
WITHDRAWAL CARD REQUEST
NAME __________________________________________________
ADDRESS _______________________________________________
PHONE # _________________ SS# (last 4 digits) _____________
EMPLOYER ______________________________________________
LAST DAY WORKED________________________________________
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Did you know that labor unions made the following 36 things possible?
- Weekends without work
- All breaks at work, including your lunch breaks
- Paid vacation
- Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Sick leave
- Social Security
- Minimum wage
- Civil Rights Act/Title VII - prohibits employer discrimination
- 8-hour work day
- Overtime pay
- Child labor laws
- Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
- 40-hour work week
- Workers' compensation (workers' comp)
- Unemployment insurance
- Pensions
- Workplace safety standards and regulations
- Employer health care insurance
- Collective bargaining rights for employees
- Wrongful termination laws
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
- Whistleblower protection laws
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) - prohibits employers from using a lie detector test on an employee
- Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
- Compensation increases and evaluations (i.e. raises)
- Sexual harassment laws
- Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Holiday pay
- Employer dental, life, and vision insurance
- Privacy rights
- Pregnancy and parental leave
- Military leave
- The right to strike
- Public education for children
- Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 - requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work
- Laws ending sweatshops in the United States
Thank a union member by buying union-made in America products!
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