Thousands of Freight #Teamsters at TForce will be able to begin voting for strike authorization starting this week.
The TForce National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee urges all members at the company to vote YES to authorize a #strike — to only be called in the event TForce does not reach agreement with the Teamsters.
Strike authorization balloting will be done in-person outside of TForce barns or at local union halls. Results will be announced on Friday, June 16.
“Our members’ voices need to be heard at TForce," said John A. Murphy, #Teamsters National Freight Director.
"Management has run this company its own way for too long and it’s time for the #Teamsters to flip the script.
"All TForce members should vote to authorize a strike as soon as they are able."
"We have to fully commit to exerting our power and leverage in this industry," Murphy said.
“The #Teamsters are putting yet another white-collar crime syndicate on notice. Every Teamster at TForce needs to vote YES for strike authorization,” said General Pres. Sean M. O’Brien.
"Stand up to the bully, stand united, vote YES, and let us win this fight together.”
Additional details on the balloting process will be announced by local unions this week.
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AS NATIONAL TALKS RESUME, UPS TEAMSTERS READY FOR STRIKE VOTE
Subcommittees to the @UPS#Teamsters Nat'l Negotiating Committee, including Safety & Health and Premium Services, got back to the table in full force today as national talks with UPS resumed in Alexandria, VA. (1/12)
The teams, working across the table from @UPS negotiators, adjusted and improved contract language to help reach tentative agreement on nearly 10 articles before the end of the day. (2/12)
Simultaneously, the #Teamsters’ national committee announced that #strike authorization votes among UPS members will start being conducted by local unions in-person and nationwide beginning this week. (3/12)
Local unions representing @UPS#Teamsters will begin conducting in-person voting this week for strike authorization. #1u
Voting YES will enable the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee to call a nationwide strike at UPS should the company fail to reach agreement on a strong new contract for more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters.
Strike authorization votes will be recorded in-person at local union halls and at the gates of UPS facilities.
O’BRIEN TO UPS: YOU SUCCEED BECAUSE OF PEOPLE — DON’T FORGET THAT
After a 13-hour day — at the bargaining table & in subcommittee meetings — the @UPS#Teamsters National Negotiating Committee ended Tues. with a sharper focus on forcing UPS to make more progress on key proposals.
#Teamsters spent hours throughout the day pushing back on UPS's attempts to maintain the status quo or weaken worker protections in its Surepost program. Article 26 of the Nat'l Master Agreement outlines UPS’s eligibility to ship smaller packages of specific weight/size via USPS.
Several rounds of #Teamster proposals were exchanged to push UPS to put more boxes back on union package cars and commit to regular testing of the very technology the company uses to redirect volume.
#Teamsters are calling on shareholders of Chipotle $CMG to support Item Six, a proposal that calls for the adoption of a non-interference policy in worker organizing efforts to prevent union busting at the company: teamster.org/2023/05/teamst…#1u
Chipotle staff in Lansing, MI who joined #Teamsters Local 243 became the first workers to form a union at the fast casual chain last year.
"Let me put the record straight: while the company stopped short of breaking the law by firing workers — like an NLRB Administrative Law Judge found in Maine — Chipotle sent in union busters (euphemistically called ‘union avoidance consultants’) and held mandatory meetings..."
SEATTLE UPS TEAMSTERS ARE TRAINED & READY FOR ACTION!
Armed with the knowledge & resources to organize & take action, UPSers came away from this weekend's training at the #Teamsters Local 174 union hall with blueprints for building powerful contract action teams at their barns.
Nearly 300 stewards and other members from across Joint Council 28 gathered for the five-hour training program as experts from the International discussed the bargaining process and how to coordinate member-to-member communication within their shops.
At the conclusion of the training, members were fired up and eager to use what they learned to engage their co-workers.
Rank-and-file @UPS#Teamsters have been participating in Contract Action Team trainings nationwide.