What's new

TForce | Kickoff For Negotiations for UPS, UPS Freight Contracts Set For Sept. 27

R

R-14Driver

TB Legend
Credits
0
Teamster leaders have voted unanimously to kick off negotiations Sept. 27 for the national UPS and UPS Freight contracts covering about 250,000 union members nationwide, announced Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer and Package Division Ken Hall.

The UPS contract is the largest collective bargaining agreement in the country. Negotiations will open Sept. 27 in Washington following yesterday’s unanimous vote by the national negotiating committee and local leaders gathered for the UPS and UPS Freight national grievance panels this week in Providence, R.I.

The current five-year agreements expire July 31, 2013. The UPS contract covers package delivery drivers, loaders, unloaders and sorters at UPS, as well as employees at Cartage Services Inc. The agreement with UPS Freight covers drivers, dockworkers and clerks......................

Teamster Leaders Vote Unanimously To Open Negotiations With UPS | International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
 
You can write a contract all you want, until we can actually get the contract HONORED, it is just words on a piece of paper. Worthless.
 
BubbaSkinner said:
You can write a contract all you want, until we can actually get the contract HONORED, it is just words on a piece of paper. Worthless.
Click to expand...

You have to force the company to honor it, Bubba, Sysco bucks the contract all the time, we grieve it and stuff gets straight, if you have a contract, the company has to honor it, to many men and women let stuff go, your union should assist in enforcing the contract language should a subject be grieved, if they refuse, it may go to arbitration and from what I'm told no company wants arbitration, it cost them money and if your right, they will lose.

Food for thought.

GT
 
grocerythrower said:
You have to force the company to honor it, Bubba, Sysco bucks the contract all the time, we grieve it and stuff gets straight, if you have a contract, the company has to honor it, to many men and women let stuff go, your union should assist in enforcing the contract language should a subject be grieved, if they refuse, it may go to arbitration and from what I'm told no company wants arbitration, it cost them money and if your right, they will lose.

Food for thought.

GT
Click to expand...

I wish you could see how it was over here. The contract is blatantly violated every day and you are lucky if 2 out of every 10 grievances ever get heard. The union does not force the company to honor the contract, period.
 
The question is "Do you grieve it?" Too many people at my place ***** and don't do anything about it. If your grievance is valid push the issue! Write one every time it happens. Every day if you have to. Make sure it's valid though. UPS labor man likes to see a stack of grievances at a hearing and the problem will be addressed. I have one every one I filed. It's not the money I care about, it's the principle!
 
Just remember what I posted a while back.
You hand over your grocery list of new demands,I mean proposals.
then expect a tug of war to give back.
Or trade off the items you already have written in your current contract.

Oh my let the games begin.

As far as contract violations your dues are paying for your rep.'s starting the process with your stewards.
If nothing can be resolved,next go to your local business agent.

And in some cases violations can go all the way to D.C.
Every rep.,is getting their pay on your dime,that is what dues is all about.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top