Union Briefs for March 28, 2013: SSDD–Teamsters Strike, UAW Hypocrites & Teachers Union Boss Lies

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 28th at 08:00 PM  | 

UAW United Against Its Workers?

“In an unusual case where the United Auto Workers union is bargaining as an employer, about 74 workers at the UAW-General Motors Center for Human Resources rejected the union’s latest contract proposal….

The employees have been working under the terms of their previous deal, which expired March 31, 2012, after rejecting the latest proposal Tuesday by a vote of 58 to 4.”

It’s Thursday, and these are your Union Briefs…

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Teamsters’ Vegas Convention Calls for CEO Prosecutions & Union Pension Bailout

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 4th at 08:00 PM  | 

Despite the bribery scandals, the dancers, and the jokes about the millions of their members’ dues that Teamster bosses spent in Las Vegas last week at the union’s 28th international convention, delegates did accomplish one thing of note: The delegates passed a resolution that, among other things, calls for a “financial rescue package for struggling union pensions” (also known as the $165 billion union pension bailout). Following last | Read More »