Teamsters

As UPS beats Q3 expectations, critical supply chain workers authorize a strike to protect healthcare benefits.

Following the announcement to authorize a strike vote last month, union-represented aircraft mechanics and other workers for UPS made that initiative official today.

The Teamsters said that a strike by UPS aircraft mechanics would halt the company’s global shipping operation, noting that the company delivers more than 1.6 million packages a day during the lead-up to the holidays.

Warehouse workers for freight transportation and logistics services provider XPO Logistics in North Haven, Connecticut and drivers for XPO in Aurora, Illinois both voted for Teamster representation.

The Teamsters union is expanding efforts to organize employees at XPO Logistics, from ports to less-than-truckload terminals and warehouses.

Representing North Haven, Connecticut-based warehouse workers for freight transportation and logistics services provider XPO Logistics, Teamsters Local 443 said yesterday it filed for Teamsters representation. This follows similar action from earlier in the week, when Illinois-based XPO Freight (the former Con-way Freight LTL group) also filed similar action, according to a Teamsters statement.

Industry analysts contend that the Teamsters are not declaring a strike outright, but rather, voting to give their leadership permission for such an action.

More than 410,000 Teamsters and retirees in 25 states are threatened with pension cuts under a little-known law passed largely in secret in the final days of the last congressional session.

A new threat to U.S. West Coast port productivity surfaced yesterday, as the Teamsters began organizing independent owner-operated truckers.

FedEx Freight and Con-way Freight, two of the largest non-union Less-than-Truckload carriers in the nation, are battling organizing efforts by the Teamsters union in a closely watched unionization effort.

FedEx Freight and Con-way Freight, two of the largest non-union LTL carriers in the nation, are battling organizing efforts by the Teamsters union in a closely watched unionization effort.

FedEx Freight and Con-way Freight, two of the largest non-union LTL carriers in the nation, are battling organizing efforts by the Teamsters union in a closely watched unionization effort.

At issue in Southern California is what truckers maintain are unfair labor practices — being treated as independent contractors rather than employees.

Teamsters retirees from the trucking industry currently enjoy some of the most generous pensions in America—up to $3,500 a month for 30 years of service from any unionized trucking company that contributed to multiemployer pension plans that once covered the industry like a warm fuzzy financial security blanket. But those pension plans, once thought to be the “Cadillac” of all retirement plans, are in deep financial trouble. And there doesn’t appear to be any bailout coming from Washington.

Teamsters workers on Sunday approved a revised contract offer from Overland Park-based YRC Worldwide Inc., an outcome both sides called critical to the struggling freight hauler’s future.