National News

• Teamsters Weekly Updates, Ending December 7, 2018 December 7, 2018
  Check out the Teamsters Weekly Update for this week: Lawmakers call for House to investigate XPO after workers miscarriages, Bus monitors at First Student ratify contract, BLET members worker Bush funeral train, legislature ditching workers, China needs to make real changes, CDT Paratransit ratify contract, Allied Waste ratifying contract, and more. Headline NewsStop the War […]
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• Look for the GCC-IBT Label on Holiday Cards December 7, 2018
  If your local union or company is planning to send out holiday cards this year, consider using a GCC-IBT union-label printer. Graphics CommunicationsHeadline News
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• BLET Members Proud To Work Bush Funeral Train December 6, 2018
  Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) are proudly working as crew members aboard the special Union Pacific funeral train for President George H.W. Bush today. RailHeadline News
  David White
• Hoffa: Legislature is Ditching Workers December 5, 2018
  By Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa Published in the Detroit News, Dec. 5, 2018 Republicans in Lansing lost their full grip on state government last month. And now hardworking Michiganders are paying the price. Lawmakers, taking advantage of the last days of their stranglehold on the state capital during a lame duck legislative session […]
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• NYT: Lawmakers Call for House to Investigate XPO After Workers’ Miscarriages December 4, 2018
  Ninety-seven members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday called for a congressional investigation into working conditions at XPO Logistics, which operates a Memphis warehouse that several women said was rife with pregnancy discrimination. Headline NewsXPOXPO Worker Abuse https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/business/xpo-logistics-miscarriages.html
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• Allied Waste Daly City Unanimously Ratifies New Contract December 4, 2018
  Teamsters Local 350 representatives began negotiations for a new contract in March of 2018. After months at the table, Local 350 proposed a new and substantially improved 5-year agreement to the members employed at Allied Waste Daly City that was overwhelmingly accepted and approved. The ratified agreement maintains its Teamsters Local 350 members their Maintenance of […]
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