Change Conway To Win

This is a notice that the company had to post at it's terminal. Apologizing to their employee's. And telling them "WHAT" the company cannot do during a organizing campaign! This is a good example how we are protected by the "LAW". Change Conway To Win

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Case Number: 13-CA-140427 Location: Aurora, IL Posted: 26 Feb 2015 10:22 AM PST http://www.nlrb.gov/case/13-CA-140427

Stockton, "Don't Pay Attention to the Union Buster Behind The Red Shirts!"

Default EPH TM is part of the fedex anti union tour

This is a very good thread on how things are going on at our EPH terminal. Who are now Teamsters!!!

EPH TM is part of the fedex anti union tour

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Rob leach is the biggest phony!


I remember him giving a presentation of an anti Union meeting, then he did his academy award acting in the break room, started to sob about his family being tormented by the Teamsters.


He said some unfitted stories about the union, how he was on both side of the fence, that he was paying $300 on union dues! This was three and half years ago.


Someone in the break room started to rebuttal Rob about how much he was making an hour, Rob said he was making $15 hr, that person started to laugh at Rob...Rob said why do you laugh?


And the employee told Rob, if you were paying $300 a month for Union dues then you would be making $120 an hour not $15 hr !
Rob went from a sobbing mode to an agitated person, pure phony H R Union busting

Call HBO

The latest anti-union propaganda FedEx is forcing its employees to watch may have some serious legal implications. There is a 95 minute documentary named 'American Standoff ' . The film details the events that happened during the Overnite/Teamster strike that began on October 24th 1999. It is an honest and fair account of what happened during that strike. Now however FedEx has decided to use just a 9 minute segment of that documentary in their anti union campaign. Nine minutes that clearly favor the company's stand against the union. The legal problem here is that it looks as though FedEx may not have obtained legal rights to play the video clip. Several calls have been made to HBO (the legal owner of the film) and their response indicates that there may be a cease and desist order coming soon. It is indicated that most of HBO's films are for private and in home viewing only.

If you have been forced by FedEx management to watch this film clip you may want to call HBO Consumer Relations at (212) 512-1208.
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Ride alongs continue...

well today we had Rob Leach the Human Resources Manager out of the Texas area to give us the Overnite fear presentation. Yes that is the one that uses clips from the HBO documentary American Standoff.

Of course he only showed the bad but failed to tell us why Overnite did not do anything to stop it. He only wanted to talk about how the teamsters didn't do nothing to stop the violence. He also was not forth coming with the fact that today those men that lived through all that still voted in the teamsters and are now known as Ups Freight. Never mentioned anything about how management was convicted of falsifying police reports, setting fires and other lawful acts in attempts to blame them on the teamsters. We know the truth though

Everyone got word by the 2nd meeting and when he asked if anyone had any questions all he got was a room full of stares. He anticipated we would act like a bunch of stupid monkeys and fling poo but we decided to just gesture our displeasure with disgruntled looks and deafening silence. 

He is after all just some Human Resources guy and engaging him in a heated debate about overnite and the facts is not prudent to the issues we all signed cards for.

Just another Fedex distraction.

Stockton

We would like to hear from you on how FedEx is operating their anti union campaign at your terminal. We know that managers from around California have been up in your area. Let us know of ride a longs, meetings and one on ones. A lot of these tactics are against the law.  

Bring the Teamsters to Fed Ex Freight

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On February 12 at 12:32pm, we posted the article “The real reason the Safety Scorecard and Safety Infraction policies were implemented and why we must have a union.” This article explains how FedEx was going to push the older drivers out. Read the article below, this proves us older drivers were going to lose our jobs!! Bill Logue was pushing us out, while Michael Ducker was doing the same to the Express drivers. Do not trust FedEx and do not trust Ducker.http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/…/fed_ex_discriminatio…-

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Favoritism; A Huge Problem that affects us all

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Favoritism; A Huge Problem that affects us all

Almost every customer center has one or two, “The Managers Pet”. Some co-workers shrug a shoulder and pay the pet no mind, for others they are terribly annoying, but most co-workers know the pet as threatening. Favoritism in the workplace runs the risk of pitting co-workers against one another and creating a potentially unstable situation, especially if the perceived favoritism has to do with a specific P & D area of choice tha...

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week 4 day 1-2

day 1 was presidents day so not much activity as most of the big shots got the day off... imagine that

day 2 

we had another anti union meeting this one again covered embezzlement, fraud and the killing of baby kittens.

Various co-workers spoke up and rebuttals were heard in every meeting as well as questions and concerns as to why we are not talking about the issues and calling the continuing ride alongs and meetings a distraction.

Also a driver with a ride along was injured today unloading a pcs of freight at a customer. I do not know the specific but it sounds like the ride along offered to assist the driver and he didn't do a good job of helping.

Nothing major from what i seen just his shin was scrapped off from below the knew all the way down to his shoes tongue. he did bleed out some purple promise colored stuff but he will live.

Filled out ULP forms are piling up as a lot of co-workers are doing their part to keep tabs of things the ride alongs and managers are saying and doing. Its quite obvious they just do not realize who they can and can not trust or fool.

Judge approves end to U.S. decree overseeing Teamsters

A federal judge late Tuesday approved a landmark settlement that will phase out and end the government’s oversight and 25-year consent decree to keep mob influence out of the 1.4 million-member union.

Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said in a four-page ruling that a “thorough review of the final agreement and order reveals that the settlement must be approved.” She added that “there is no doubt that the decree is procedurally proper, that its terms are clear, that it reflects a resolution of the claims at issue, and that it is untainted by collusion or corruption.”

In January, the U.S. attorney in New York asked Preska to end the consent order that’s been in place since March 1989. The consent decree is replaced by a final order, in which the government’s continued role in the internal affairs of the Teamsters Union will be phased out over a five-year period that will end in February 2020.

The approval is a big win for Teamsters President Jim Hoffa, who has spent years working to end the government’s oversight.

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Conway Mechanics Set to Vote

NRLB Ruling on Stockton Petition

FedEx's attempt to stall Stockton's Petition   

fails.

32-RC-144041

02/12/2015 10:39 AM EST

FedEx Freight

Mr.smith vs Mr Hoffa

Mr.smith vs Mr Hoffa

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$375 a hour or $3000 a day. That's what FedEx's Union busters are getting. When you have your meetings in the future or already have had them visit your center know that all of the wasted money given to them could have went to compensating us better. Rebecca Smith and Joe Brock: Who Are These People?http://www.iww.org/node/5220

Rebecca Smith and Joe Brock: Who Are These People? | Industrial Workers of the World

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A Union Buster Strikes Out

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Teamster president James Hoffa (in the center) with Toll drivers in March. (Change to Win)

On April 11, port truck drivers working for Australian transportation conglomerate Toll voted by a 3-1 margin to join the Teamsters. They were the first port truck drivers in a generation to vote to unionize, giving hope to the 11,000 other drivers in the region trying to improve their generally miserable working conditions. (See video below.)

The victory came despite the efforts of Joseph Brock, a former Teamster turned anti-union consultant parachuted in by Toll to discourage workers from organizing. Union busters have become a standard feature of contemporary union organizing, trading on intimidation, false promises and even illegal firings.

Brock’s message was a well-worn one – unions are like businesses, they are only looking for dues, they ignore or misrepresent their members and so on. But he wasn’t a slick attorney in a suit or a browbeating manager. The fact that he’d been a union official for over a decade and came from a die-hard union family was supposed to carry weight with Toll drivers.

It didn’t. Maybe some of the drivers were turned off by the fact that Brock was using his past to help employers break organizing campaigns and bust unions. Or perhaps he lost credibility when the drivers found out that his work as an anti-union crusader was not stopping him from receiving a pension from his time as a union member and another from his tenure as a union official. During one captive-audience meeting in which Toll  employees learned of Brock’s multiple union pensions, a driver told Brock that Toll drivers would rather have the chance to be anti-union with a pension than anti-union without one.

In the end, Toll employees saw through Brock’s pitch because they understood that the decision they made to form a union and join a powerful organization of millions of other workers like them was a democratic one. They ultimately had more faith in themselves and the potential that union membership has to change their lives than they did in the warnings of a high-priced consultant.

Brock, meanwhile, has probably moved on, not thinking a second more about Toll drivers and looking for suckers willing to pay big money for stock stump speeches and corny videos.

Francisco Cendejas
The Frying Pan 

Health Care @ FedEx By Scott Lister, Concerned Driver

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Health Care @ FedEx
By Scott Lister, Concerned Driver

As we all know FedEx is self insured as far as our health care is concerned. That has always been pushed as a positive benefit of working here. So let's look at some of the benefits for FedEx being self insured as opposed to being Fully Insured. If we were Fully Insured our premiums would be much higher then they are now. Insurance companies in that situation also must devote 80% of premiums to the cost of claims while k...

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What a very nice list of bulleted mentionables. Rather you would like to admit it or not thank the Teamsters for these presumed upcoming changes. We have brought all of these safety issues and concerns to their attention for quite a few years and have been stone walled until this union campaign was brought on. If you get the chance vote Yes because without any of this in a contract they can change it at any spur of the moment.

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NLRB Chairman Pearce Responds to Introduction of Congressional Review Act Resolution Defends Representation-Case Procedure Rule

February 9, 2015

Washington, DC- National Labor Relations Board Chairman Mark G. Pearce defended the Agency’s rule that would modernize representation-case procedures in response to Senate introduction of a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval.
“The Board remains committed to the critical work of this agency and fully carrying out the law,” said Chairman Pearce. “As Congress considers this resolution, this Agency will continue productive conversations about the rule ensuring that our processes help fulfill the promise of the National Labor Relations Act.
“However, it is undeniable that modernizing and streamlining the representation-case process is far overdue. Both businesses and workers deserve a process that is effective, fair, and free of unnecessary delays, which is exactly what this rule strives to accomplish.”
On December 15^th, the representation-case procedures rule was published in the Federal Register. The rule would modernize the administration of the National Labor Relations Act by making its procedures more transparent and uniform across regions and eliminating unnecessary litigation and delay. The rule will take effect on April 14, 2015.

ConWay Organizing Update

The Latest On ULA and ULX

Posted: 08 Feb 2015 05:39 PM PST

ULA has a NLRB hearing scheduled for Feb 17th at the NLRB offices in downtown LA. The union has multiple charges against the Conway and are looking to get the election over turned and possibly have another election. Or who knows we might take the high road and walk out for a few days to show Conway who really runs this company.

As for ULX, the company is holding back the certification of our election. Once the NLRB forces Conway to certify us then we could move forward and start talking about negotiating our contract.
We have to make something clear, CONWAY IS HOLDING US BACK FROM NEGOTIATING A CONTRACT! We need to stand as the UNION at our yard so that management stops playing games with our future. We voted yes and we should start acting like a UNION!!!  

Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act of 2014 (AB 1522)

An employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for 30 or more days within a year from the beginning of employment, is entitled to paid sick leave. Employees, including part-time and temporary employees, will earn at least one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked. Accrual begins on the first day of employment or July 1, 2015, whichever is later.

Exceptions: Employees covered by qualifying collective bargaining agreements, In-Home Supportive Services providers, and certain employees of air carriers are not covered by this law.

An employer may limit the amount of paid sick leave an employee can use in one year to 24 hours or three days. Accrued paid sick leave may be carried over to the next year, but it may be capped at 48 hours or six days.

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• An employee may use accrued paid sick days beginning on the 90th day of employment.
• An employee may request paid sick days in writing or verbally. An employee cannot be required to find a replacement as a condition for using paid sick days.
• An employee can take paid leave for employee’s own or a family member for the diagnosis, care or treatment of an existing health condition or preventive care or for specified purposes for an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

Employers

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There are several things employers must do to comply with the Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act of 2014 (AB 1522).

• Display poster on paid sick leave (Spanish) (Vietnamese) where employees can read it easily.
• Provide written notice to employees with sick leave rights (Spanish) (Vietnamese) at the time of hire.
• Provide at least 24 hours or three days of paid sick leave for each eligible employee to use per year.
• Allow eligible employees to use accrued paid sick leave upon reasonable request.
• Show how many days of sick leave an employee has available. This must be on a pay stub or a document issued the same day as a paycheck.
• Keep records showing how many hours have been earned and used for three years.

Retaliation or discrimination against an employee who requests or uses paid sick days is prohibited. An employee may file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner against an employer who retaliates or discriminates against the employee for exercising these rights or other rights protected under the Labor Code. Local offices are listed on our website at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DistrictOffices.htm.

Driver Interrogations at FedEx Freight Southern California

It has come to our attention that Southern California managers have been riding along with drivers on their routes lately. Which is not really a big deal except for a couple of things they have been asking the drivers.

They are interrogating these drivers with questions like, "are there any cards being signed",  "how many drivers are involved in organizing here"? " How is the attitude of the drivers at your location.

The interrogation of these drivers is a violation under the NRLB laws, that protects employee's from these kind of company tactics.

If you are a driver who has been through one of these "ride a longs", you have every right to file "unfair labor charges" against these managers. This will send a message to FedEx that they have broken a Federal law. And that we, as informed employee's, will not put up with this kind of interrogations!

Triumph Aerostructures, LLC Agrees to Reinstate 5 Employees and Pay $204,665 in Back Pay and Lost Benefits

Triumph Aerostructures, LLC Agrees to Reinstate 5 Employees and Pay $204,665 in Back Pay and Lost Benefits

Triumph Aerostructures, LLC will reinstate five discharged employees to their previous positions at their Grand Prairie, TX facility. In addition, Triumph will pay seven employees $204,665 as compensation for back pay and losses in retirement contributions and other pay and benefits pursuant to charges before the National Labor Relations Board.
The Employer manufactures parts for commercial, military, and business aircraft. The NLRB’s Region 16 Office in Fort Worth issued a complaint on September 29, 2014, alleging that the Employer violated the National Labor Relations Act by failing to bargain in good faith with its employees’ bargaining representative, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW and its Local Union 848, when it unilaterally implemented changes to its SPA 1700 training program, resulting in the discharge of seven employees.
On January 30, 2015, the parties entered into an informal Board settlement agreement resolving the dispute. As part of the settlement agreement, the Employer will pay $204,665 to seven employees. Nine employees will also have a total of 480 hours of paid leave restored. The Employer will also post a notice in its workplace that addresses the alleged violations and advises employees of their rights under the Act.

Bring the Teamsters to Fed Ex Freight

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It is no secret FedEx has hired LRI (Labor Relations Institute) a union busting company that is built on deceit and populated by high-priced low life lawyers too lazy to practice law the hard way. These lawyers are nothing but ambulance chasers that look to destroy union campaigns and will use any means necessary to defeat the employees and manipulate the laws that were passed to protect us. The lawyers of LRI are specialists in one thing and one thing only, devising and using dirty tricks to intimidate employees who want to have an honest and fair vote on unionizing their terminal. LRI’s campaign against our honest and fair vote to unionize is an assault on the truth and an assault on the good hard working employees who want to improve their lives. These lawyers are paid high fees, often thousands a day to trick you into voting no. But are they as smart as they think they are? Not really, because they use the same old dirty tricks over and over. SBR, CLT and EPH are proof that these lawyers can be beaten. You must know what is coming and make sure all your co-workers know what to expect. The key to winning your election is to stay one-step ahead of them and be prepared letting every worker know what is going on behind the scenes and who is directing the anti-union campaign. Get your co-workers to attend a Teamsters Union meeting or call your Local and ask questions. The Teamsters are there to help you. The anti-union campaign will pressure supervisors to pressure you and your co-workers and this includes manager’s pets. You know who the manager’s pets are at your terminal. They are not on your side. They will only hurt you. Do not fall for their lies and deception, they are back stabbers and not to be trusted. They are told by management what to say and how to say it and what to do and how to do it, to get you on the anti-union side. Their motive is fueled by only one thing, favoritism, and favoritism has no boundary. Do your homework and read the Union Busters Playbook (http://unionbustingplaybook.com). We have proven to you on this page many times that FedEx is full of lies and worthless empty promises. FedEx will do and say anything to get you to vote no, and when you vote no and your election is all over, you will soon realize you made a mistake. Once you vote no, you may never get another chance to vote YES. If you don’t stand up and fight for your rights, you will never have any. This is a golden opportunity handed to you on a silver platter; don’t let it pass you by. You have a voice; use it to fight back against this unfair corporation. Many of us have witnessed the unreasonable termination of good co-workers. Remember, the only way to a secure future at FedEx, is with “Job Protection” and you can only get “Job Protection” by voting YES and joining the Teamsters Union. Anyone that has worked for FedEx Freight for an extended period of time will agree- “You never know what you’re going to get and when you get it, it is taken away”. FedEx will try to divide us, but our Union will bring us together. Remember, FedEx is more scared of you than you are of them. Vote “YES”