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UPS Negotiations Update – March 17th
Teamsters Local 853 Sisters and Brothers working for UPS,
The Northern California Teamsters Committee met the week of March 17, 2023, and concluded a weeklong bargaining session with UPS on the Nor Cal Sort and Supplemental Agreements. The Committee continued working on proposals and counterproposals, however, there have not been any new tentative agreements. Many of the problems our members face each day are problems that UPS created, and that UPS has failed thus far to adequately address in these negotiations. The Union Committee had face-to-face across-the-table bargaining each day; actual time has been minimal. Many of the problems UPS has failed to correct include but are not limited to Vacation accrual and selection process, payroll errors, Market Rate Adjustment, and Route Bidding. Grievance Procedure, Seniority Lists, and Approved Leave. While this committee is committed to improving our agreement, holding UPS accountable to resolve problems they’ve created is fundamental. UPS continues to put a monetary cost to all of the Union proposals as UPS continues to propose language that would affect holiday pay, delayed starts, and the work week. Tentative dates have been agreed to for the week of April 10th thru the 14th.
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Teamsters International Vice President Tom Erickson shows support for Workers at PFG Gilroy
Teamsters Internation Vice President Tom Erickson gave a strong shout-out to the Performance Food Groups workers in Gilroy, California, in support of their unionizing vote. Steve Beck, Ray Torres, and the entire staff at Teamsters Local 853 were also commended for the work they are doing.
It takes this kind of support to make sure our newest Sisters and Brothers have the backing to get in there and fight hard for a great contract.
Let’s go PFG workers, fight hard for your future!!!
A Great Victory over Wrongful termination with Full 18 Months Back Pay and benefits
Sisters and Brothers, a great victory to share with you. Patricia and Lucas were both wrongfully terminated at Kelloggs 19 months ago. After a lot of hard work coordinated by Ray Torres and shop steward Eric Calderone, we are happy to report that Patricia and Lucas are both back at work along with their Back Pay, Health Benefits, 401K, and pensions.
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Performance Food Group in Gilroy – Congratulations – Let’s get it done and get to the finish line.
Performance Food Group in Gilroy,
On behalf of Teamsters Local 853, we want to congratulate you on taking the first step to better Wages, Benefits, and Protections at your workplace by voting to unionize.
Our entire local of 13,000 members have your back and will support you in getting to the next step of getting a great contract.
Trust us; we will get this done well for you. But the road is hard, and we must all be strong.
Thank you to our Sister Local members who work for Performance Food Group down in the City of Industry. They have your back too. Here are two messages from Teamsters Local 630 from those members who know.
Let’s get it done!!
Ray Torres, Vice-President, Teamsters Local Union 853
In a heated battle, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien call out senator for being a greedy CEO
Sisters and Brothers, In the battle for labor rights, there are two sides.
On our side, Unions fight to provide workers with good living wages and benefits for the work they do. On the other side are the employers and corporations that tirelessly pursue the exploitation of workers. Reducing wages and benefits so that they can make more profits for their owners.
This week, these two forces went head-to-head at Senator Bernie Sander’s hearing on Union-busting. Millionaire Republican Senator & business owner Markwayne Mullin questions Teamsters President Sean O’Brien. Senator Mullin used his time to air typical union-busting talking points. Implying that Unions are not needed because employers treat their employees so well.
The Players
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, a fourth-generation Teamster, has tirelessly battled for workers and their rights since the age of 18. Sean was present and being questioned by Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, whose reported net worth is between $31.6 million to $75.6 million.
Watch Sean O’Brien call out senator Mullin for being a greedy CEO. Mullin claimed his salary was 50K a year. So how did he become a multi-millionaire?
Senator Mullin refused to engage in any meaningful dialog, instead expressing a laundry list of common Union-busting playbook points. At one point, Sean O’Brien called the Senator on his out-of-line, union-busting rhetoric, and the Senator got so frustrated he told Sean “you need to shut your mouth”. Watch below.
Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, whose reported net worth is between $31.6 million to $75.6 million, claims he only paid himself $50,000 year. Mullin, at the hearing, claimed he started his career with “nothing” or “less than nothing.” His version of “nothing” was to take over his father’s plumbing business which had six employees at the time.
Watch Senator Mullin state that inheriting a six-person company from his dad was starting with “less than nothing.” How many workers would have loved to have senator Mullin’s version of “nothing”? His entitled perspective shows how out of touch he is with the circumstances of everyday workers in America.
Watch Senator Mullin use grossly inaccurate data to justify his anti-Union line of inquiry and watch O’Brien call him on it.
It’s up to all of us to fight back. How? Be an active member & get involved.
Sisters and Brothers, it is important to take the lessons from this incident and always understand that if we don’t remain active and vigilant against employers, they will always have politicians like Senator Mullin and Lobbyists working endlessly to strip you of the good paying jobs and benefits we have fought so hard for.
Self-righteous businessmen like Senator Mullin and other millionaire businessmen will always feel entitled to take what they want from their employees. They don’t want you to unionize because it gives workers the power to fight on equal footing with employers who would otherwise hold all the power.
Be as active as possible in our Union; we need your participation to strengthen us as we continue the fight for Union members everywhere.
Please help our fight and share this post with any Union sisters and brothers or Union-friendly people.
Teamsters 853 Sisters and Brothers – 300 Companies – 13,000 Members Strong
Teamsters Local 853 represents more than 13,000 members at more than 300 companies—from the Greater Bay Area out to Sacramento, and down to the Central Coast. If you meet a brother or sister from one of these companies, say hello!
Bakery • Beverage & Liquor • Passenger Transportation • Cannabis • Car Rental/Dealerships • Construction • Dairy • Food Processing • Laundry • Non-Profit • Package Delivery • Paratransit • Parking • Printing • Public Sector • Ready Mix • Retail • Trucking • Warehousing
18 Trucking, Inc. Accurate Printing Adprint AEG Ticket Sellers & Takers Affiliated Const. Owner Operators Affiliated Concession Vendors Aguilar Trucking Albany Subaru Alliance Graphics Alpha Press, Inc. Alsco American Linen Supply Americold Logistics Ameripride Uniform Services Amports Andreini Brothers Anixter Inc. Apache Partners Aramark Arb Inc. (Pipeline) Argent Materials, Inc Arkansas Best Freight Athens Baking Co Auto West Honda Autonation Honda Avis Car Rental B. K. Mill & Fixture Bakemark, Inc Bauman Landscape and Construction Bay Area Paving Co Bill Jacobson Bimbo Bakeries USA Bogetti Water Trucks Bottomley Distributing Co Brannon Equipment Sales & Leasing, LLC Budget Rent A Car (Truck Rental) Building & Construction Trades of Alameda County C F Archibald C.A. Cold Storage Co., Inc. California Trade Bindery Canteen Cargill Salt Co-Refinery Loc. 1 Cemex USA Central Concrete Supply Certainteed Corporation Challenge Dairy Products Charles F Gagliasso Trucking, Inc Cherin Furniture Co Christy Vault Company City & County of San Francisco Classic Glass Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. County Fair-Alameda Coast Counties Truck & Equipment Coast Litho Compass Transportation Consolidated Printers, Inc. Core-Mark Cost Plus Stores Costco Wholesale Cosumnes Community Services County Fair-Monterey County Crothall Laundry Services CTWI D & B Trenching, Inc Davis Instruments Corp Day-Lee Foods, Inc. Del Mar Foods/Cold Storage DFS-J.V. DHL Double D Transportation Douglas Parking Driscoll Strawberries, Inc. DS Waters Durham School Bus Services East Bay Restaurant Supply Co Economy Lumber Co Economy Trucking Services, Inc. EMJ Company Farmers Bros Coffee Co Farmers Produce Fast Track Airport Parking Ferguson Enterprises-Air Cold Ferma Corp/Green Box Firestar Productions First Student - San Jose First Transit Fong & Associates Foothill-DeAnza District-Payroll Foster Farms Dairy Fremont Universal Transportation Inc G. Bortolotto & McPhail GCR Tires & Services Gatorade Genesis Logistics Gillig Corporation Globe Forklift Co. Gloria Washington Trucking , Inc Glosage Engineering Inc. Golden Brands-Sacramento Golden Gate Fields Golden Gate Freightliner Goodland Landscape GR4 Trucking Service Graffik Dezine Grafix Granite Construction Granite Rock Company Construction Division Graniterock Greif Brothers Corporation Guerra Construction Group H W McKevitt Co H.A. Rider & Sons Hallcon Transportation Half Moon Bay Sealing & Paving Harbor Distributing Dba Golden Brands Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Healthcare Services Group Henkel Corporation Hertz Corp Hill Brothers Chemical Co.
HVYW8 Inc. Interstate Paving J S Guerin Co. J’s Quality Printing JFC International Inc Kellogg’s U.S.A. Inc. Larsen Brothers Lumber Inc Las Animas Concrete Inc LAZ Parking Le Boulanger the Baker LLC Lehigh Southwest Cement Company Lithotype Company, Inc. LS Trucking, Inc MacMurray Pacific Macy’s Logistics Macy’s Master Builders Matagranos Inc McGuire & Hester Mercado Trucking LLC Mercurio Brothers Printing Mission Linen Mondelez Global LLC Monterey Mechanical Co Mosaic Global Transportation Mountain Cascade, Inc. MV Transportation National Car Rental Naturipe Berry Growers Cold Storage Northrop Grumman Marine Systems O C Jones & Sons O’Grady Paving Company Operating Engineers Print Shop Osborne Lumber Co Outfront Media Pacific Racing Association Pajaro Dunes South Association Pajaro Valley Cold Storage Co. Pak N’ Save Park N Fly, Inc. Peerless Coffee Company Peninsula Crane and Rigging Inc Penske Truck Leasing Inc. Pepsi Cola West Perfect Image Printing Pine Cone Lumber Pipeline Project Pleasanton Ready Mix Concrete PPG Industries Precision Sweeping Premier Parking Primesource Building Products, Inc. Pro Forma Resources Prudential Overalls/Clean Room Services Pyramid Painting Inc. QLM Inc. Ransome Company Redgwick Construction Co. Reed And Graham Inc Reef Parking Reliance Metals Reyes Coca ColaRight Away Redy Mix River Distributing Co., LLC RNDC Ryde Transit Ryder Truck Rental S Martinelli & Company S.S.A.Terminals, LLC Safeway Bakery/Milk Plant San Francisco Unified School District San Jose Convention Center San Jose Transport San Pablo Automotive Supply Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce Scan Art/Pacific Resources Schawk, Inc. Second Harvest Food Bank SFO RAC Sierra Pacific Sims Metal Snelson Companies Sonoco SP+ Transportation Spicer’s Spot Light Printing Company STA - San Jose Statewide Construction Sweeping Statewide Owner Operators Steeler, Inc Storer Transit Systems Superior Modular Transport Inc SWGS Sysco Food Service of San Francisco, Inc. T. Marzetti Company Teamsters Local 517 Teichert Construction The Ford Store Time Printing Times Printing Company Top Grade Construction Top Shelf Packaging Township Retail Services, Inc Transdev Tri Valley Water Trucks, Inc Truitt & White Lumber Co United Natural Foods (UNFI) United Parcel Service Urban Art Lithography, Inc. USF Reddaway Vanguard Construction Vulcan Materials Company Watsonville Community Hospital We Drive U West Coast Vending West Valley Construction Co., Inc Westrock Westside Building Materials White Brothers Wingfoot Com. Tire Zenith American Solutions
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Teamster Privileges
Teamster Privilege Everyday Savings offers members-only savings on everything from renting a car to sending a bouquet of flowers. Teamster members can save money by taking advantage of all of the Everyday Savings benefits!
CAR & TRUCK RENTAL DISCOUNTS
Rates and discounts are available at participating locations in US and Canada. For reservations, call the numbers listed below and have your ID number ready. To check car rental pricing and reserve online, click here.
COMPUTER DISCOUNTS
Save 10% to 30% on selected products purchased through Dell and HP. Free technical support included on select systems.
Call 1-877-882-3355 (ID# PS16626766). For HP call 1-866-433-2018 (ID# EP144472).
UNION-MADE CHECKS
To order call 1-888-864-6625 or visit www.UnionPlus.org/Checks.
INTERSTATE MOVING DISCOUNTS
Call North American Van Lines at 1-888-813-9595 or Allied Van Lines at 1-888-642-6814 or go to www.unionplus.org/moving..
FLOWER DISCOUNTS
To order call 1-888-667-7779.
LEGAL SERVICES
A nationwide network of attorneys at more than 2,000 law offices offers free and discounted services to members; For further details visit Union Plus Legal Aid Services. To search participating lawyers visit Union Plus Legal Service – Find a Lawyer.
ENTERTAINMENT DISCOUNTS
Teamster members and their families can save on a wide range of entertainment with Teamster Privilege Entertainment discounts.
To order tickets or learn more call 1-800-565-3712 or visit www.UnionPlus.org/Entertainment (ID#744387769).
CREDIT COUNSELING
Teamster members and their families can turn to Teamster Privilege Credit Counseling through Money Management International (MMI) to speak to a certified counselor, visit www.UnionPlus.org/CreditCounseling or call 1-877-833-1745.
Who’s eligible?
U.S. Teamster members and their families. Please see program details for availability in Canada.
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Join union workers for a fun day at the ballpark
Join your brothers and sisters in the labor movement for a great game in Oakland – A’s vs. Yankees on April 15. Contact the Alameda Building Trades Council (btca@btcalameda.org) or the Labor Council (xsanchez@alamedalabor.org) for details on how you can get tickets to this event.
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