Printer-Friendly Page
Support Services Division |
APWU, Salmon & Sons
Reach Tentative Agreement
(11/14/11) Following a series of tense negotiations, the APWU and Pat Salmon & Sons reached a tentative agreement Nov. 1 on 26 contractual issues. The new contract will affect approximately 700 contract drivers whose locals are in Dallas, TX; Little Rock, AR; and Memphis, TN; and drivers and mechanics in Shreveport, LA. [read more]
Springfield Area Local
Reaches MTESC Agreement
(01/29/10) After seven months of negotiations, the Springfield (MA) Area Local reached a tentative agreement with Alan Ritchey, Inc. on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that will cover all 90 members employed at the Mail Transport Equipment Service Center (MTESC). The agreement contains significant improvements in seniority and in the day-to-day operations at the plant. [read more]
APWU, Mail Hauler Agree
To One-Month Contract Extension
(05/15/09) The APWU and the private-sector mail-haul firm Pat
Salmon & Sons have agreed to a one-month extension of a contract
covering more than 500 drivers. The collective bargaining agreement
in effect since Aug. 30, 2006, had been set to expire May 15.
[read
more]
APWU
Members Lead
Washington Protest of DHL
(09/18/08) More than 50 APWU members, community activists, and other representatives of the Ohio-based “Save The Jobs, Save Our Community” coalition staged a protest of DHL business practices Sept. 17 at the German Embassy in Washington. The STJ coalition members were from Wilmington, in southern Ohio, where DHL is threatening to shut down its air delivery hub and eliminate more than 8,000 jobs. The restructuring threatens 9 out of 10 jobs at the site. [read more]
Preserve Private-Sector
Jobs in Southern Ohio
(09/01/08) An APWU drive to organize several hundred workers at DHL’s ABX “hub” in southwestern Ohio has shifted gears: The APWU is now at the forefront of a community-based campaign to try to preserve approximately 7,000 jobs.
Last spring, DHL announced a restructuring that is expected to eliminate nearly 9 out of 10 jobs at its site in Wilmington. Shortly thereafter, UPS announced its plans to take over DHL’s domestic air shipment of express and international packages. That’s when the APWU swung into action and helped create the “Save the Jobs Coalition.” [read more]
Private-Sector Success Story in Cincinnati
(08/21/08) Two of the APWU’s newest activists received a strong ovation from the union convention on Monday and were collectively congratulated for their work in helping to organize and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with the privately operated Cincinnati Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center (MTESC).
“This is a very good agreement for a first contract,” said Mark Dimondstein, the APWU’s lead field organizer. [read more]
Two Wins, One Loss
In Private-Sector Campaigns
(07/01/08) APWU members ratified a “first contract” in late May for approximately 120 workers at the Cincinnati Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center. The workers at the private-sector MTESC operation are getting their first raise in six years. [read more]
Contract in Cincinnati; Pro-Union Vote in
Des Moines
APWU
Wins in Private-Sector Campaigns
(05/16/08) The APWU reached a tentative agreement May 15 on a “first contract” for approximately 120 workers at the Cincinnati Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center (MTESC). If they ratify the contract in a vote on May 28, workers at the private-sector operation will receive a 10 percent wage increase in July — their first raise in six years. In another private-sector success story, the APWU has won the right to continue representing 90 mail-haul drivers in Des Moines, despite a relentless anti-union campaign by Mail Contractors of America (MCA). [read more]
NLRB Issues Complaint Against DHL in PA
(01/18/08) The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint on Jan. 10 against DHL Express in Allentown, PA, charging the company with committing unfair labor practices during an APWU organizing campaign last year. The APWU has been engaged in a campaign to organize nearly 400 workers at the DHL package-distribution center. [read more]
Union Vows to Fight On At DHL in Eastern PA
(09/19/07) Despite losing a union-representation election, an APWU-led organizing committee will press on in its campaign for workers’ rights at a sorting facility just outside of Allentown, PA. [read more]
DHL Ordered to Stop Interfering in Ohio
(09/01/07) An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled that DHL Express of Wilmington, OH, is guilty of the unfair labor practice charges lodged against the global-delivery company by the APWU late last year. [read more]
DHL Subsidiary Ordered to Stop Interfering
With Workers’ Rights at Ohio Sorting Hub
(07/02/07) An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled that DHL Express of Wilmington, OH, is guilty of the unfair labor practice charges lodged against the global-delivery company by the APWU late last year. [read more]
Labor Board Files Complaint Against DHL
(02/12/07) The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against DHL on Jan. 30, accusing the company of “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of their rights” to a union-representation election at DHL Express in Wilmington, OH. The charges are based on allegations made by the APWU in an Unfair Labor Practice filing in November. APWU representatives and activist workers have been trying to organize approximately 3,000 ground workers at the global delivery company’s plant for two years. [read more]
Half-Mile Move
Prompts DHL Demand:
‘Re-Apply for Your Job’
(09/01/06) Shipping giant DHL is closing down a processing center near Allentown, PA, and opening a new facility, also near Allentown, PA. In fact, the two workplaces are a half-mile apart, which has not prevented the company from asking approximately 400 employees to fill out new job applications.
“Why must I reapply for a job I’m already doing — just because they’re changing the name?” Jasen Muth, a 48- year-old forklift driver asked a reporter for the Allentown Morning Call. [read more]
APWU Wins 5-Year Contracts at Two MTESCs
(03/03/06) Members of APWU bargaining units at the privately-operated Mail Transportation Equipment Service Centers in Detroit and Pittsburgh have overwhelmingly ratified five-year contracts. In Detroit, the agreement that covers 125 workers is a successor to a three-year contract. About 110 Pittsburgh union members will be under a collective bargaining agreement for the first time. [read more]
APWU Members Win 5-Year
Contract at Detroit MTESC
Employees at Pittsburgh Facility
To Vote Feb. 28 on Similar Agreement
(Feb. 27, 2006) Members of the APWU bargaining unit at the privately-operated Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center in suburban Detroit overwhelmingly ratified a five-year contract Feb. 24. The APWU membership at the Pittsburgh MTESC will vote on a separate and similar agreement on Feb. 28. Both MTESC facilities are operated by Serco, which purchased Resource Consultants Inc. in March 2005. Two years earlier, RCI and APWU had negotiated the first Detroit MTESC contract, a three-year pact expiring Feb. 28 that covers 125 workers. [read more]
Union Wins Important Ruling
For Private-Sector Truck Drivers
(Feb. 8, 2006) A National Labor Relations Board ruling last month concluded that Mail Contractors of America (MCA), a private-sector mail hauler, committed an unfair labor practice when it changed a driver relay point in April 2005 without bargaining with the union. The APWU represents the drivers at five MCA terminals. [read more]
APWU, Serco Open Talks in
Detroit Over New MTESC Agreement
(Jan. 20, 2006) The APWU’s Detroit District Area Local and the privately-owned Serco Corporation have begun negotiations over a successor contract at its MTESC site in suburban Detroit. [read more]
Private Sector Organizing Victory
Florida Mail-Haul Workers Join APWU
(Dec. 19, 2005) Workers at Finkle Transportation’s Florida outlets voted 32-1 to join the APWU in a vote that was tallied Dec. 16 by the National Labor Relations Board. The private mail-hauling firm, which is based in New Jersey, employs 51 drivers and mechanics at four Florida locations — Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando. [read more]
Private-Sector Workers
Turn Back Decertification Effort
(Sept. 2, 2005) By a vote of 60-25, APWU-represented motor vehicle operators at a private-sector mail-haul operation in Kansas City have rejected a union decertification effort. "Management tried to split and divide us," said Tony Olson, an APWU steward and driver for Mail Contractors of America, the employer. "They even resorted to personal attacks on union activists." [read more]
Organizing at DHL Subsidiary:
Activists In It for the Long Haul
(Sept. 1, 2005) APWU representatives and activist workers at ABX Air, a subsidiary of DHL, are settling in for a long campaign to organize approximately 3,000 ground workers at the global delivery company’s Wilmington, OH, plant. [read more]
Union, Workers File Suit
Against DHL Subsidiary
(July 13, 2005) The APWU and five employees of ABX Air filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati June 30, alleging the company has engaged in intimidation, coercion, and discrimination against workers who are attempting to unionize the ABX plant in Wilmington, OH. The workers are asking the court to declare that the company’s actions violate the Railway Labor Act, and to issue an injunction prohibiting the firm from such actions in the future. [read more]
APWU Drivers Will Continue
To
Press for Private-Sector Contracts
(April 18, 2005) Approximately 170 APWU truck drivers who work for Mail Contractors of America have concluded their nearly three-week strike, going back to work for MCA in Des Moines, Kansas City, KS, and Jacksonville, FL, but vowing to press on for fair contracts.
[read more]
APWU Wins Private-Sector Organizing Drive
(April 7, 2005) The APWU won a union representation election at a privately-run MTESC (Mail Transportation Equipment Service Center) in Cincinnati, Local President Tim Breen has announced. The vote, held April 6, was 65-54; 127 workers were eligible to vote. [read more]
John Edwards Walks APWU Picket Line
(April 1, 2005) John Edwards, the Democrat's vice presidential candidate last year, gave a boost to striking APWU truck drivers in Des Moines when he walked the picket line with them April 1. The union drivers work for Mail Contractors of America (MCA), one of the nation's largest private mail haulers. [read more]
Mail Contractor Tries to Intimidate
Striking Truck Drivers, APWU Charges
(March 28, 2005) Mail Contractors of America, a private mail hauler, began a campaign of intimidation against striking APWU members in Jacksonville, FL, March 26, according the local president representing the truck drivers.
Russ Gallion, president of APWU’s First Coast Local, which represents MCA truck drivers in Jacksonville, said the company telephoned striking workers at home Saturday and told them if they didn’t report to work on Monday, March 28, they would be terminated. None of the striking workers returned to work, Gallion said. [read more]
Jacksonville Truck Drivers
Join Strike Against Private Mail Haulers
(March 24, 2005) APWU truck drivers who work for a private mail hauler in Jacksonville, FL, have joined a strike that began Tuesday in Des Moines and Kansas City, KS. Seventy-nine members of the union’s First Coast Local began striking at 7 a.m., March 24, with a picket line in front of the Mail Contractors of America (MCA) terminal. [read more]
APWU Private Mail Haulers Strike
In Des Moines and Kansas City
(March 23, 2005) More than 100 APWU members in Des Moines, IA, and Kansas City, KS, who are truck drivers for the private-mail hauler Mail Contractors of America (MCA), went on strike March 22, demanding the company negotiate a fair contract. Union members are picketing MCA truck terminals in both cities, demanding an end to policies the companies imposed in September 2004 that reduced their pay by close to $10,000 per year. [read more]
Pat Salmon & Sons Cuts Off
APWU Members' Healthcare Benefits
(March 4, 2005) Hundreds of private-sector mail-haul drivers and their families had their eligibility for health insurance cut off earlier this week by Pat Salmon & Sons as a collective bargaining agreement lapsed. [read more]
APWU-Salmon & Sons Contract
Expires End of February
(Feb. 28, 2005) The collective bargaining agreement between the American Postal Workers Union and Pat Salmon & Sons is due to expire Feb. 28. The agreement affects more than 500 private-sector mail-haul drivers represented by the APWU. [read more]
Private-Sector Workers
Prepare for Job Action
(Feb. 15, 2005) With their initial contract due to expire at the end of the month, more than 500 private sector mail-haul drivers represented by the APWU are preparing a possible strike against Pat Salmon & Sons in the wake of the company's pronouncement that it will cut off health insurance benefits on Feb. 28. [read more]
