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Parcel Workers Union files for vote at UPS
Parcel workers group wants to represent UPS workers at KCK terminal.
By RANDOLPH HEASTER
The Kansas City Star
A labor group trying to replace the Teamsters at UPS has filed to hold a union election at the UPS Freight Inc. terminal in Kansas City, Kan.

The Association of Parcel Workers of America made its request with the Overland Park office of the National Labor Relations Board this week. The office will determine whether the cards signed by UPS Freight workers requesting a vote are valid before setting an election date.

The Kansas City, Kan., terminal has about 360 hourly workers.........

A Teamsters International spokeswoman declined to comment on the parcel workers association’s organizing campaign at UPS Freight.

The Teamsters were decertified from the Kansas City, Kan., terminal when the company was still Overnite Transportation in 2002. Through much of the 1990s, the Teamsters tried to organize Overnite nationwide and ultimately failed.

To reach Randolph Heaster, call 816-234-4746 or send e-mail to rheaster@kcstar.com.
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[kmann]

What the hell are those guys thinking? We musta really pissed them off back in '99. Although it doesn't appewar that we hurt them:

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Overnite said only 296 workers out of its national work force of 13,000 remained on strike, though the union claimed 500 workers were honoring the picket line.

The strike did not hurt Overnite financially. Yesterday, it reported a 19% increase in third-quarter operating income of $25.6 million, compared to $21.5 million last year on a pro forma basis that included $3.2 million of operating income from Motor Cargo, which was acquired last November 30.

"Overnite made an impressive contribution to the quarter with its best overall quarterly performance since 1994," said Dick Davidson, chairman & CEO of Union Pacific.

[krash]

Wait till they find out that APWA will not negotiate till "everybody" sings up with these Union busters.

[RealTeam]

krash, on Jun 30 2007, 12:21 PM, said:

Wait till they find out that APWA will not negotiate till "everybody" sings up with these Union busters.

From another thread, but relevant to this topic too:

Barking Dog, on Jul 8 2007, 09:19 PM, said:

While the international is giving up on Central States Pension and secretly negotiating with UPS to let them out of it and then while they sit back and let this APWA gain momentum on them and file for freight representation what else could go wrong? The leadership that Hoffa has put in place is sorely losing not only the battle but the war too. How could the international put UPS Freight organizing on hold while APWA is barking at their heals? How about that convention PR fluff piece where UPS gave Hoffa the one terminal card check so he could wave it in the air from the podium just prior to him accepting his noimination to run for another term? Talk about back door deals. Now the true picture is coming out. Let's not forget the consultant that has ties with the UPS pension trustee from the central states too.

Trying to misrepresent the TRUTH again? Get your story straight. Here's some FACTS. The APWA came in to KC and signed up several PART TIME people, many are said to have left. They said by their own admission that they only had 130 cards, or barely 30 percent. Many were quoted as saying that they just want the IBT to move a little faster on the UPS FREIGHT Contract and they figured signing these cards will move things along. Indeed their is a strong group of about 50 or less according to those that work there, that for a variety of reasons, support the two clowns from APWA, Van Skillman and Eason.

While they are holding meetings to try to represent the KC UPS FREIGHT GROUP, they have all but acknowledged their abandonment of UPS BROWN. Additionally, one generally telling point about APWA is that EVERY HOTEL ROOM THEY RENT is in the name of UPS, even the one they are using tomorrow in KC for their UPS FREIGHT MEETING.

Even as they hold this meeting, they are sending out letters to those that have signed on to their web page, begging for money to run the organizing campaign. If they are THAT broke, they better HOPE they do not win because they will not be able to afford the process if they did win. They are too broke to run the campaign but they have told the UPS FREIGHT PEOPLE that they will hire attorneys to negotiate their contract. They also are telling UPSers that they are getting help from the National Right To Work Committee. These guys are phonies from the bottom of the barrel.

Makes me wonder if Barking Dog is TDU?, COMPANY? APWA? The way they say nothing good about anyone in the Teamsters...

And there you go again! That phony "consultant" RUMOR that you are trying to start has now become FACT? Reminds me of what a friend told me many years ago about Ken Paff and the Socialists. "They subscribe to Hitler's 'Big Lie' theory on propoganda. Tell the same lie over and over enough and people will start to believe it." Well, you keep trying to tell your LIES, and I'll keep coming back with THE TRUTH!!!