Message from Tim Sylvester

804 Members Stand Strong & Deliver

IB ImageDespite a deep recession, UPS profits are growing by double digits every quarter.

With business down, the company is keeping profits up by squeezing Teamster members harder than ever.

The company is boosting productivity by eliminating jobs, using supervisors to do union work, cutting and combining loads, abusing new technology and increasing production harassment.

This isn’t a Local 804 problem. Teamster officers and UPS Teamsters across the country report a steep rise in the same violations.

In Local 804, we’re drawing a line in the sand.

Contract Enforcement Pays

Local 804 members are showing that when we stick together, we can make UPS pay for violating our contract.

Local 804 members won more than $50,000 in grievance wins before the last national grievance panel meeting in September.

Click here to learn more about these victories and how you can put proven contract enforcement strategies to work for you.

Defending our Benefits

Members won another critical victory last fall—stopping a new wave of cuts the company's trustees tried to impose on our health benefits.

In 2010, we stopped the company's trustees from eliminating retiree healthcare at 25 & Out at any age. We negotiated other tough benefit changes that saved our fund from going broke.

Last fall, our arbitration victory defeated new cuts demanded by company trustees. Instead, we negotiated benefit improvements, restoring out-of-network emergency room coverage.

Under the previous administration, our Fund lost $25 million and was going to be millions of dollars in the red unless we took action.

Today, the Health Fund’s reserves are $14.8 million and growing and your benefits are protected. Click here to read the Health Fund Special Report.

Staying Strong in Tough Times

Contract violations and unfair discipline are up across the country at UPS. It’s part of a nationally coordinated effort to make employees deliver high profits in a bad economy.

Local 804 members are proving we can fight back when we stick together and stick with it.

Tim Sylvester
Local 804 President