250 UPS drivers, members of Local 804, have been terminated for walking off the job in protest of another unjust and improper termination of a Teamster member. UPS expects the contract to be followed when it benefits them. Teamsters demand contract enforcement as well.
Click here to sign the online petition to support our brothers and sisters in Local 804 NYC.
Thanks to all the Local 251 members who came out to the rally to support hotel workers who are organizing for justice.
Local 251 stands behind workers at the Hilton Providence as they organize for better working conditions, higher pay and respect.
Thanks to all the shop stewards who attended the training on Investigating Disciplinary Grievances on February 22.
Our next shop steward seminar will be held after the General Membership Meeting on Sunday, March 30. The topic will be Dealing with Supervisors in the Office.
With peak over, our 9.5 rights are back in effect. Now’s the time to get on the 9.5 list.
Local 251 has issued a 9.5 Rights Enforcement Packet to make it easier to enforce your protections against excessive overtime.
Click here to download a copy of the new 9.5 Rights Enforcement Packet.
Rhode Island Hospital shop steward elections will be held at the union hall Saturday, March 8.
Click here to download the notice for the Rhode Island Hospital steward election.
Former Local 251 officers signed illegal side agreements with R.I. Hospital that gutted members’ rights. They kept these deals secret from the members. But the days of secrecy are over in Local 251.
President and Business Agent Paul Santos negotiated a mid-contract agreement that protects members’ seniority and bumping rights if management changes their status as a part-time, full-time or temporary employee.
But before the change went into effect, Santos insisted the agreement had to be voted on by the members. More than 500 Hospital Teamsters attended a union meeting to discuss the change. Members voted 501 to 12 to back the new agreement.
“Members sent a message to the hospital that it’s a new day in this union,” said President Paul Santos. “Teamsters at the Hospital are going to be informed and we’re going to be united and prepared for contract negotiations,” Santos said.
Local 251 members rallied in solidarity with workers at the Renaissance Hotel and their union, UNITE HERE. Reinaissance Hotel workers are calling for a boycott of the hotel until managements respects the right of workers there to form a union and organize for better working conditions, higher pay and respect. We stand behind Renaissance Hotel workers in their struggle for justice.
Click here to watch a video to learn more about the UNITE HERE struggle at the Renaissance Hotel.
More than four hundred Local 251 members packed the union hall on Jan. 26 for our first General Membership Meeting of the year.
The new Executive Board took the oath of office and reported on their action agenda to put members first, including, shop steward elections, a new shop steward education program, contract negotiations and the launching of a Local 251 Women’s Committee.
Thanks to Local 251 members for your participation. This is your union. All members who want to positively move our Local forward are encouraged to get involved.
UPSers on the Twilight and Midnight shifts got a taste of union democracy when they cast their ballots in the first shop steward elections held on those shifts in decades.
Congratulations to Keith Sobolewski who was elected shop steward on the Twilight shift and to Brian Roberts who was elected shop steward on the Midnight shift.
Shop steward elections were held in Package and on the Preload shift as well. Congratulations to Tom Salvatore (Metro Center) and Bill Gyra (South Center) and Andy Brady who was elected shop steward on the Preload. The UPS West center (package) elected Mike Primrose to steward.
Thanks to all members who voted. Let’s work together to enforce the contract.
Message from Matt TaibiWelcome to the new Local 251 website. Members voted for new leadership and a new direction in our union last fall. Your new leadership team took office on January 1. Local 251 members are stepping up and together we are getting our union back on track.
As promised, your leadership team has cut the salaries of Local 251 officers and business agents by more than $300,000 a year. These funds will be put to work for you, organizing to win good contracts, representing members, and enforcing your rights.
Local 251 is your union. Members are choosing their Contract Negotiating Committees and shop steward elections are being held and scheduled.
More than 110 stewards filled our Union Hall for a Shop Steward seminar. I felt proud to see shop stewards—new and old—coming together to make plans to enforce members’ rights.
Local 251 Power won’t be rebuilt overnight. But we’re moving in the right direction thanks to stewards and members who are stepping up, getting involved and making a difference.
Come out to union meetings. File a grievance. Get involved. It’s time to come together and move ahead.
