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The decision not to endorse has put headquarters at odds with its many local bodies that are supporting the Democratic nominee.
The below-the-line guilds all participate in the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans, which provides coverage to 75,000 active members and retirees. The plans are funded through ...
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin's second ad of her reelection bid highlights her efforts to ward off significant cuts to the pensions of more than 22,000 Wisconsin workers and retirees.
Lewis became an activist after the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 threatened massive cuts to pensions plans. [8] He volunteered to organize and advocate on behalf of his fellow union workers and retirees, working with public officials and the Pension Rights Center to enact counter-legislation to the 2014 benefit cuts. [ 8 ]
The United Parcel Service strike of 1997, led by International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) President Ron Carey, started on August 4, 1997, and involved over 185,000 Teamsters (IBT members). [1] The strike effectively shut down United Parcel Service (UPS) operations for 15 days [ 2 ] and costs UPS hundreds of millions of dollars. [ 3 ]
TDU was started in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s, as an alliance of socialists who had taken Teamster jobs and a layer of militant truck drivers who had been organizing against contract concessions, [1] after the federal government exposed extensive corruption in the union, which included leadership raiding union-held pension funds, collusion with organized crime, and collusive collective ...
IATSE and the Hollywood Basic Crafts unions opened bargaining on Monday by making their proposals on pension and health items. The first day of bargaining followed a massive rally on Sunday, at ...
Allen Dorfman rose to prominence following World War II and by the late 1950s was a close cohort of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa.Dorfman's rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters' ranks, along with spectacular growth in the union's pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfman's administration.