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‘They’re fired up’: Teamsters president on looming UPS strike | US unions
Sean O’Brien has a long family legacy at the Teamsters: his great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all Teamster union members in Boston. O’Brien joined the union after dropping out of college at age 19 to haul equipment on construction sites in 1991. Thirty-two years later, he is on the verge of leading the union in one of the biggest –…
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Teamsters boss teases UPS strike during Atlanta rally days before negotiations deadline
The head of the Teamsters union is threatening strikes by UPS workers within the next few days if negotiations over pay do not reach an agreement. ‘We’ve organized, strategized, now it’s time to pulverize!’ Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said during a rallying speech in Atlanta on Saturday. O’Brien – who leads one of the world’s largest unions with 1.2 million…
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Teamsters and UPS to resume talks next week ahead of looming strike | US unions
The Teamsters and the delivery giant UPS look set to return to the negotiating table next week as a strike deadline of 1 August approaches for 340,000 workers represented by the union who are seeking a new contract agreement. On 5 July, contract negotiations broke down between the union and UPS as both sides were still apart on issues that…
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WGA, DGA, Teamsters & Other Guilds Weigh In On SAG-AFTRA Strike – Deadline
As SAG-AFTRA prepares to hit the picket lines Friday, other unions, guilds and groups are weighing in with messages of solidarity with the actors in their looming battle with the studios. Read some snippets here, and see their full statements below. The Writers Guild, whose strike is in its 73rd day, said in a statement: “We stand solidly behind our…
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Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 Members Ratify New Commercials Contracts – Deadline
Members of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a pair of contracts with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, thus averting a threatened strike. Earlier this month, Lindsay Dougherty, the local’s principal officer, threatened to take “a commercial break” if the AICP didn’t offer a fair contract. “If we are provoked,” she said, “we will strike.” The…
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Hollywood’s Teamsters Leader Lindsay Dougherty – Deadline
Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast is now in its ninth week, coming at a critical day with the expiration of the SAG-AFTRA contract. Deadline has revealed a high likelihood that the union agrees to kick the can down the road and beyond the holidays, but the tension is growing after more than 1000 major actors signed a solidarity letter that they…
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