General Membership Update—August 15, 2019
The Teamsters General Membership Meeting was held on Thursday 8/15 at the Local 542 union hall. There were about 50 members in attendance. The Local is currently in contract negotiations with: US Foods San Diego, San Diego Tradeshow, Reddaway, Iron Mountain, Republic Services (Otay Landfill), First Transit El Centro, and El Centro Regional Medical.
General Membership Update—August 6, 2019
A General Membership meeting was held on Thursday, July 18 at the Local 542 Union Hall at 4666 Mission Gorge Place, San Diego, CA. There were roughly 60 members in attendance. Contract negotiations, local finances and the Strike Fund Resolution were on the agenda.
UPS Update: Understanding the New Wage Increases
Want to know how much you're pay is increasing under the new contract? Here are the wage increases for part-timers and full-timers.
Costco: Enforcing Your Meal & Break Rights
By taking your contractual meal periods and breaks, you are enforcing your rights under the union contract and also getting the chance to step away from your work and have free time to yourself.
Freight Update: Improving Safety
Fleets have a variety of advanced technical equipment available that offer advantages to trucking operations. One very important technology are forward-facing cameras.
General Membership Update—June 28, 2019
Contract negotiations, Local 542 finances, and the Strike Fund Resolution were on the agenda at the June 23rd General Membership Meeting.
Costco: Protect Yourself from Discipline and Harassment
Costco management does use splinter notes to document you received training in the methods that they created. Splinter notes should not be used to document whether or not an employee is working fast enough.
UPS: The New 22.4 Combo Driver Postition
The UPS National Master Agreement establishes a new Full-Time Combination Driver (Article 22 Section 4 (b.)). The new language could and will affect current employees, including par-timers, cover drivers, air drivers, and full-time package drivers. The language has created a new full-time package car driver position. Click here to view and download the entire new contract.
General Membership
UPDATE, May 28, 2019: A General Membership meeting was held on May 16th at the Local 542 Union Hall at 4666 Mission Gorge Drive, San Diego CA. There were about 30 members in attendance out of 7,500 members in the local.
Before the financial report was read, a member made a motion for the long version of the financial report to be read. It was put to vote and voted down by the members in attendance. The short version was read where members only get to hear the total income of $460,680.43 and expenses of $425,755.67 for a net income of $34,924.76.
The local announced that the Business Agents’ reports would not be given and that the Strike Fund Resolution would be read. After the Strike Fund Resolution was read there was discussion about amending the terms as to how long an eligible member has to wait before receiving their first strike fund Benefit. A motion was made to amend the waiting period from 14 days to 7 days before receiving the first strike fund benefit. The members voted in favor of adopting the amendment. The Resolution will be read again at the June General Membership Meeting.
Although there was no Business Agents’ report, it was announced that the Costco employees will be receiving their retro pay checks by the end of the May. There was no mention as to when UPS members would receive their retro pay checks.
The next General Membership meeting will be on Sunday June 23, 2019 at the “Park Terrace Café” at the Gloria McClellan Center, 1400 Vista, CA 92084 in Vista, CA.
UPS Contract Update
UPDATE, May 28, 2019: There have been many changes to the UPS National Master agreement. Under Article 37, the employer shall continue to make a reasonable effort to reduce package car drivers’ workdays below nine and one half (9.5) hours per day for those on the 9.5 list. Article 37 section (1) c has the following new language:
The Union shall circulate and collect the names of package drivers who wish to be covered by the provisions of this Section twice each year. These lists shall be provided to the Company by January 5th and June 5th of each year.
The “opt-in” lists provided by the Union shall become effective on January 15th and June 15th. A driver may add or delete his/ her name from the list at any time, with one week’s notice to the Employer.
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The last UPS regional Supplemental Agreement was ratified by members covered by the Metro Detroit Rider on April 28th.
As a result, the UPS National Master Agreement took effect at 12:01 AM on Monday, April 29th.
UPS Teamsters can look forward to receiving their retro checks—but remember that the UPS Master Agreement was imposed by the Hoffa administration using the two-thirds rule. They also used the same loophole to impose a number of UPS supplements.
This is the second UPS contract in a row that the Hoffa administration has imposed agreements on UPS Teamsters, stripping the members of their democratic right for their vote to be heard.
Is this the type of leadership UPS Teamsters want?
2013-2018 UPS National Contract
2013-2018 UPS Western Region Supplement