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A MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT, FRED ZUCKERMAN
Welcome to the Teamsters Local 89 web page. We are excited to utilize this electronic communication to bring you information about our organization. Take some time and click through the pages to see what it means to be part of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
VOTE With the primary elections approaching us we would
like to take this opportunity to remind everyone the importance of
getting out to vote; not only in the General election but in the Primary
elections also. Having friends elected into office that have proven that
they will fight for working families is very important. Please follow
the link below and take some time to look through the Candidates that
have been endorsed by the Teamsters.
CSI: UPS Cartage Service unanimously
ratifies 1st Teamster contract. After several months of negotiations a tentative
agreement was reached for our new members at CSI. On April 12th the agreement, which was
negotiated by Kevin Evans, Chris Carter and CSI driver Shawn Gocke was
voted in unanimously as every worker attended the ratification vote. “The contract provides the wages, benefits, working
conditions, retirement package and protections that my coworkers were
looking for” said Gocke. “We voted for Teamsters representation last
October and we are very glad we did, Kevin and Chris spent many hours
making sure all of our issues and concerns were addressed in
negotiations”. Local 89 Organizer Evans received a great deal of
help from the I.B.T. Package Division. “After winning the election President Zuckerman and
I met with IBT Vice President at Large Ken Hall.” said Evans. “With the
I.B.T.’s assistance through out the negotiations we were able to
negotiate a contract that moves our members forward and gives them many
of the same benefits negotiated in the UPS NMA and other addendums”. The contract will expire in 2013 along with the UPS contract and our first UPS Freight contract.
UPS FREIGHT WORKERS RATIFY
MASTER AGREEMENT The Members of UPS Freight in Louisville & Bowling Green overwhelmingly ratified a Master Agreement on Sunday April 6, 2008. In Louisville the agreement was passed with a vote of 65-11 & in Bowling Green the count was 16-1. UPS Freight Members from different locations all across the country voted over the weekend on this Master Agreement; once ratified this agreement was to take effect at Midnight on Sunday April 7th and UPS Freight Members will finally become Teamsters. This has been a long hard battle for the Members which have worked under many different companies since the fight to organize them began originally with Overnite Freight. Local 89 would like to welcome all of our new Members and thank them for their continued support throughout this battle.
ONE
COMPANY, ONE UNION
UPS Freight Bowling Green On Feb 14th the Bowling Green UPS Freight workers
said yes to Teamsters Local 89 representation by an overwhelming
majority. 80% of the workers signed authorization cards and have joined
over 5700 former Overnite workers who have already signed up for
Teamsters representation. Teamsters Local 89
NATIONAL MASTER FREIGHT NEGOTIATIONS
Local UPS Freight workers vote to join Teamsters
By Bill Wolfe (as seen
in Saturdays Courier Journal)
A majority
of
UPS Freight workers in
Louisville
and Lexington have signed authorization cards to join the Teamsters,
part of a nationwide effort to sign up the former Overnite
Transportation workers.
ONE
COMPANY, ONE UNION
Majority of UPS Freight employees in
Louisville support Teamsters
Local 89 The 2007 negotiations between the Teamsters Union and UPS included a card check neutrality agreement for the drivers, dockworkers, etc. at UPS Freight, formerly Overnite. This agreement should lead to over 12,000 members from coast to coast.
There were guidelines agreed to by both sides that would give all of the employees a fair opportunity to meet with Teamster organizers and, if they choose, sign an authorization card with out retaliation from the employer.
Local 89 Organizers Kevin Evans & Herman Veltman, along with B.A. Rick Curtis held meetings in Hotels and at the Hall from Friday Jan. 18th through Sunday Jan. 20th and with the help of several long time Overnite employees were successful in getting over 73% of the employees to sign cards asking for Teamsters Local 89 representation.
Local 89 looks forward to getting the 107 employees in Louisville a contract they can be proud of and thanks to all of our freight members for their support in our efforts.
I owe a great deal of gratitude to all of those who worked on and supported the Overnite campaign in the past and it was their hard work that allowed Local 89 to be successful in our organizing efforts in a short period of time.
Kevin Evans Organizer Local 89
Teamsters and Yucaipa Announce Proposal for
Democrat Steve Beshear, in a
smashing return to Kentucky politics after more than a decade on the
sidelines, won a landslide victory last night over Gov. Ernie Fletcher.
UPS NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
Louisville Air District News
A new Local Air Rider was tentatively agreed to on Monday October 23, 2007 at about 7:00 p.m. The terms will be sent to each employee’s home along with the Central Region Supplement and National Master Contract. The Louisville Air District Committee as well as the Agents and the Local 89 Executive Board have fully endorsed the new proposed agreement and recommend its passage. This new agreement once ratified by the membership contains positive changes to several sections of the contract. Establishes normal weekday hours 6 hour jobs cannot be hired from the outside Allows for better transfer rights Allows for more overtime opportunities Allows for some opting out of de-ice jobs Restricts company’s ability to alter job bids Allows for better bump rights Allows for better choices in using vacation days Creates more seniority rights for 6 hour employees Lowers discipline time for miss-sorts Guarantees double time pay for work performed on holidays Improves part-time employees both 3 hour and 6 hour health insurance; the best improvement a prescription card Creates at least 175 new Full-Time job opportunities; these and other improvements have all been geared to improve issues for 3 hour employees, 6 hour employees and full-time employees
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1st Teamster contract for the
drivers and yard workers of SDS Logistics, a division of Burco Utility
Railroad Services, ratified unanimously! On 10-18-07 the employees at SDS Logistics voted 14 – 0 in favor of their 1st Teamster Local 89 contract. In March of 2007 the employees voted 11-4 for Teamster representation and after 7 months of negotiations the improvements and protections of this contract convinced all of our new members that they wanted and needed the benefits of a Teamster contract.
Local 89 organizer Kevin Evans was assisted in the negotiations by SDS driver Ron Hall and Local 89’s Rick Curtis. The contract improves wages, working conditions, and seniority will now be recognized. The contract also protects the current benefits our new members previously enjoyed.
The job duties of our new members revolve around the needs of Safetran Systems whose clients include Norfolk Southern and CSX. Our members deliver equipment and accessories to those in the Rail industry all across the United States and Canada.
Local 89 welcomes our new members and we hope this is just the beginning of the unorganized in the rail transport industry.
Organizer Kevin Evans
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March/April 2008 Newsletter
UPS
Freight Workers in Ohio and Kentucky Sign Cards to Become Teamsters
Letter from Eldon Renaud, President of UAW Local
2164 NY Times: Court Voids Higher Limits on Truckers' Hours AP: Senate Republicans Block Labor Bill TomPaine.com: Injury, Death, the American Worker and George Bush
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