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January 30, UJPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters formally opened negotiations on the National Master Contract. The current contract, which covers 230,000 workers, expires at midnight on July 31. [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2016 M2 COMMUNICATIONS National Mediation Board (NMB) has dismissed challenges filed by Flexjet and Flight Options against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the board said. Allegations stem from [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2016 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Teamsters Union has increased pressure on Flexjet and Flight Options management, calling on customers of the airlines to tell management to prioritize its workers. [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2016 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Airline Division has sent a 'Section 6 Notice' to OneSky, LLC parent company of fractional share airlines Flight Options and [...]

United Parcel Service of America Inc (UPS) is trying to rebuild its business as well as its relations with employees following a two-week strike by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Despite the company's agreement to increase salaries and combine part-time positions into full-time jobs, negative effects of the strike remain. Union officials claim that UPS has not followed the terms of the contract such as creating new jobs. Some employees, meanwhile, charge that the company is trying to retaliate for the walkout. UPS management, for its part, claims that employee morale is high., Despite returning to profitability after last year's strike, UPS is striving to overcome lingering resentments within its workforce. 'It was two weeks that felt like two years,' says Lea Soupata [...]

It's already hard for union activists to remember the exhilaration of beating UPS last August. The union press was full of hope that the strike victory was, at long last, [...]

The August 1997 strike against United Parcel Service ended in victory for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United States' largest trade union. Examining the economic circumstances of the strike and the issues at stake - including part-time work and pensions - Rothstein shows that this victory did not signal a reversal of the secular decline in union influence in the United States, contrary to what was claimed at the time. He traces declining union membership to the ease with which employers can lawfully frustrate union organizing efforts, concluding that only new legislation could bring about a revival of union strength. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

It's a historic strike and a migraine headache. But the UPS walkout may be just the first of many battles to come over higher wages. IMAGINE THE BLUSHING BRIDE-TO-BE, ready [...]

ZAANDAM, NETHERLANDS -- Many observers in the grain-based foods industry are awaiting with interest this summer a resolution of the contention between Royal Ahold n.v., a Dutch international food retailer, [...]

An obscure dispute about rubbish could reshape agency working COMPANY A hires company B to hire employees for a project. These employees work for company B, but do they also [...]

It's Overnite, by a knockout. That's the final count in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' three-year unfair labor practice strike against Richmond, Va.-based Overnite Transportation Co. The Teamsters union called [...]

The Teamsters union, turning up the heat on United Parcel Service in its current contract talks, is seeking an immediate 25 percent dues increase from its 1.4 million members. Teamsters [...]

A month-long strike by truckers against Landover, MD-based Giant Food is apparently affecting the supermarket chain's market share. As of mid-January 1997, Giant remained at loggerheads with Teamsters Local 639. The strike has reportedly caused shortages of private-label goods in Giant's aisles. Some analysts believe that Giant, facing tough competition from Safeway, may find it difficult to recover from the strike., LANDOVER, Md. (FNS) -- The monthlong trucker strike against Giant Food here has led to some shopper defections that appear to be cutting into the retailer's market share, leading analysts [...]

The Scrapbook admits it has not paid too much attention to Twinkies in recent years. Our taste in--what shall we call them?--recreational foodstuffs tends to run in other directions; and [...]

The carriers claim their business has returned after last year's strike...but some analysts say gone for good. A year has passed now since the strike by the International Brotherhood of [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its Teamsters Airline Division have expressed strong support for an ABX Air pilot who was terminated for his refusal [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The Teamsters Union yesterday announced that it is assembling a team of experienced experts to ensure its membersâ[euro](tm) jobs and interests are protected under the [...]

To small trucking companies working the ports in California, using independent contract drivers to haul containers creates a symbiotic relationship, giving owner-operators the freedom they prize and the companies critical [...]

YRC Worldwide clinched a deal with reluctant bondholders last month with a lot of help from its good friends, the Teamsters. As a core group of bondholders held back from [...]

Unionized pressroom employees at the Los Angeles Times, who ratified their first contract just last December, are claiming unfair and even retaliatory treatment from management, and are planning a Monday [...]

Yonkers food distributor to liquidate operations YONKERS - A sour economy, the state's simmering budget crisis and the loss of market share have combined to force one of the local [...]

BYLINE: John Gallagher Teamsters at Oak Harbor Freight Lines called a strike on Sept. 22 in the midst of tense labor negotiations as the Auburn, Wash.-based carrier prepares for a [...]

New York - The battle between FreshDirect and a local Teamsters office is heating up. Late last month Teamsters Local 805 here filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Teamsters Local 747 has said that pilots for Kalitta Air, represented by the union, are to vote on a tentative contract agreement by mail [...]

5-minute news watch CVRD sells $23m of assets to equity fund Brazil mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has sold its calcium silicon chemical and cored wire assets [...]

RAIL UNION victory The Teamsters Union, which represents 3,200 maintenance workers at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), reached a tentative three-year contract settlement with CP, Canada's second largest railway last week. [...]

CANADIAN PACIFIC Railway (CP) maintenance workers began a country-wide strike last week. The 3,200 CP workers are seeking wage increases of 13% over three years. CP is Canada's second-largest railway [...]

SN, WHOLE HEALTH TO EXHIBIT AT FMI SHOW IN CHICAGO SN and its sister publication, Whole Health, invite readers to visit their booth in the exhibit hall of the FMI [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Two and a half weeks after talks ended without an agreement, Canadian Pacific and maintenance workers represented by the Teamsters can't find a reason to resume [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings Inc (NYSE: AAI), and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 528, have announced the successful ratification of [...]

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS Corp. have secured a 'card check' agreement that would allow UPS Freight-formerly Overnite Transportation- employees to vote for union representation. UPS would recognize [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Teamsters Local 747 has said that representatives for the pilots of Gulfstream International met with company negotiators on 21 April to close out the [...]