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Examples of Employer Conduct Which Violate the NLRA Are:

• Threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union or engage in protected concerted activity.
• Threatening to close the plant if employees select a union to represent them.
• Questioning employees about their union sympathies or activities in circumstances that tend to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights under the Act.
• Promising benefits to employees to discourage their union support.
• Transferring, laying off, terminating, assigning employees more difficult work tasks, or otherwise punishing employees because they engaged in union or protected concerted activity.
• Transferring, laying off, terminating, assigning employees more difficult work tasks, or otherwise punishing employees because they filed unfair labor practice charges or participated in an investigation conducted by NLRB.

Examples of Your Rights As An Employee Under the NLRA Are:

• Forming, or attempting to form, a union among the employees of your employer.
• Joining a union whether the union is recognized by your employer or not.
• Assisting a union in organizing your fellow employees.
• Engaging in protected concerted activities. Generally, "protected concerted activity" is group activity which seeks to modify wages or working conditions.
• Refusing to do any or all of these things. However, the union and employer, in a State where such agreements are permitted, may enter into a lawful union-security clause requiring employees to pay union dues and fees.

The NLRA forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or engaging in protected concerted activities, or refraining from any such activity.

Whittier Service Center Managers Are At It Again !

Well my fellow employees, seems that the managers at the Whittier service center are at it again. Through good sources, Andy and his fellow managers are talking to employees and asking what their opinions are about the Union. Commenting that they are “your friends and want to sort out who is for the Union and who are against the Union”, so that management can weed out the pro-union employees to try to firer these individuals.

Under the National Relation Labor Board, Sec 8(a) (1):

*Questioning employees about their union activities or membership in such circumstances as will tend to restrain or coerce employees

*Threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they should join a union or vote for a union

* Spying on Union gatherings, or pretending on spy

Also section 7.

These managers are not above the law. There are charges filed against many divisions of the FedEx Company right now! Just read the Post just below this one.

If you want to file a claim contact the National Relations Labor Board, or call:

The Law Offices

Levy, Stern and Ford

(213) 380-3140

Or contact us at the email address at the bottom of this blog.

THE TIME TO ORGANIZE IS NOW!

FedEx drivers who want full-time status file federal lawsuit

By Laurence Davidson
and David Mildenberg
Bloomberg News

Article Last Updated: 08/11/2007 01:54:01 PM MDT

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FedEx Corp. is speeding toward a collision inside an Indiana federal courthouse where drivers at the company's ground-delivery unit are demanding full-time status.
The court is weighing suits filed by 150 independent contract drivers who say they are treated as full-time employees and should be paid as such. Limiting the FedEx ground-delivery unit's use of contractors may wreck its chances of gaining on larger rival UPS. The unit helped FedEx take as much as 19 percent of the ground-delivery market, while UPS has fallen from 82 percent to 70 percent in the past decade.

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Summary of Reddaway Contract

§ Guaranteed annual raises for life of contract (5 years)

§ Participation under Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund: Immediate vesting, and you are entitled to two years of credit for every year of employment, up to a limit of 10 years. After working 5 years, your pension benefits would add up as if you had been in the plan for 15 years.

§ Representation and grievance process; you are no longer an “at-will” employee. USF Reddaway management can make no unilateral changes to your working conditions. Work rules are subject to negotiation. Protection against loss of bargaining unit work through sub-contracting.

§ Vacation paid at 1/52

§ Improved health insurance benefits

§ Paid jury duty (5 days)

§ Senioriy prevails for bids, vacation, etc. No more favoritism.

§ Orderly and fair process for workers to become full-time employees

§ Workers at non-union terminals will not receive superior wages or benefits.

§ Initiation fee is waived for those employed prior to execution of contract. No dues paid until contract executed

§ Workers in approximately 50 other terminals in western U.S. are eligible for representation under contract as soon as it is ratified at recognized terminals. Card check recognition for new terminals.

* This is a sample of what a contract can get us if we all unite together.

Reddaway Blogsite

NOT ONLY OAKLAND CALIORNIA SAYS YES !

Reddaway's Oakland,Ca. terminal was not the only one to ratify the new contract this weekend,but also:

Pomona and Compton 86 Yes - 4 No ( combined) , Local 63
New Mexico 17 Yes - 0 No , Local 492
Phoenix 64 Yes - 1 No , Local 104
Total 213 Yes - 13 No.

** When details have been released on this contract look to this blogsite.

NOT LARRY THE HOSTLER, BUT A PART-TIME WORKER ...

Get your facts straight! 25 dollars an hour was several years ago and Aug.1 you'll need to add another dollar to the figure. Yes another annual raise as provided by our contract negotiated by the Teamsters union. We receive a negotiated raise each year. Oh by the way how much do you pay for your health care insurance? Is that just for you? Hmmm what does it cost you a month for your entire family? Wow....I've never paid a penny for mine or my family's health insurance. Even as a part-timer I have enjoyed the same great health care insurance as well as vision and dental coverage at no cost as negotiated by our union my family enjoys the same coverage as I at no cost to me. After speaking with a FedEx Express employee I was led to believe by him my insurance was also much more comprehensive as well as better with similar co-pays. Do you have pension fund? Oh you have to be full-time to receive that. I'm glad the time I spent part-time included 2 for 1 pension credits in fact it also provided paid holidays and vacations. With my total company time now at 16 years do you think 5 weeks and 3 days paid vacation time is good? It will be nice when I pick another week at 20 years and again at 25. Oh yea the 8 paid holidays are nice too.

*MORE ON COMMENTS:

Teamsters and MEM Mechanics Announce Meeting

United We Bargain, Divided We Beg - We, as FedEx Express employees, have lived and enjoyed working for a company that has historically utilized a People Service Profit philosophy. Take care of your people and your people will take care of you. This worked well for FedEx as the company established itself and developed a new industry. Today, we live and work in an environment that dictates that the company no longer wishes to do business as a company and must evolve into a corporation. This transition signaled an end to the PSP philosophy for us. The Corporation has shown us what we need to do in order to secure our future and livelihood here at FedEx. We need a union now! We need the Teamsters now! Signed, FedxMX Organizing Committee

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Original Post On www.fedexwatch.com

DISAPPOINTED DOCKWORKER IN FONTANA ...

After todays p.m dock meeting, with frank discussing about the pension and 401 k, I have no hope in Fedex future, I can't afford to contribute in the 401 k, especially being a part time dock worker ,can't afford it ,and for another reason Fedex does not allow dockworkers to become full time workers, this policy of Fedex sucks.
My uncle at usf reddaway said the new teamsters contract will allow part time workers to become full time workers, with a top pay of $ 22.18 an hour, one other thing at Fedex looking at the old time dock workers they have fringe benefits, and especially Fedex wanna be supervisor also have fringe benefits, who could care less about part time workers, also I am considering in joining those workers at FedEx who display the "union yes" sign on their car out side the parking lot, hopefully I will meet one of you guys and obtain a sign for my car.