Ken Coleman
Secretary-Treasurer
Teamsters Newsletter
Inside this newsletter
- Views from Ken Coleman
- Alaska Teamsters Become First Observers
- IBT Women's Conference
- 2009 Bakery and Laundry Conference
- Steve Dufford Honored
- Annual Fairbanks Joint Pipeline Training
- Karen Elfering Starts New Adventure
- and more!
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It's Now or Never for Health Care Reform
01/13/10
The House and Senate have passed health care reform measures. But now they have to hammer out a final bill they all can agree on. We have to keep the pressure on to ensure that the final version will help, not hurt, working families.
Call your representative toll-free at
1-877-264-4226Urge him or her to support working families by voting for health care reform that:
- DOES NOT tax our health care benefits.
- Requires employers to pay their fair share.
- Reduces costs—and the best way to do that is with a public health care option.
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BREAKING NEWS - TAKE ACTION NOW !
11/09/09
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Bill (H.R. 915) containing key labor provisions. The Express Carrier Employee Fairness Amendment, Section 806, would reclassify employees, who are involved in the package delivery operation by Federal Express, from the Railway Labor act (RLA) and place them under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The National Labor Relations Act would allow FedEx employees to be unionized at a local level. The reclassification of these employees would level the playing field, meaning UPS and FedEx would be operating under the same labor laws.
Please contact Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski to let them know that UPS and FedEx need to compete under the same labor laws.
Click here to fill in letters addressed to Senators Murkowski and Begich, urging them to support Section 806 of H.R. 915.
Thank you for your support of this very important measure.
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- Alaska Teamsters Pension & Welfare Website Visit the Alaska Teamsters Pension & Welfare Trusts Website at www.959trusts.com
- Apprenticeship Opportunity There are no apprenticeship opportunities available at this time. Please continue to check back.
- Message From Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa America and the Teamsters Union face a jobs crisis. What many people are not aware of is that the jobs crisis is connected to the strains placed on pension funds by the Wall Street financial collapse.
- Crisis in Haiti In the wake of a massive earthquake that struck the island nation of Haiti on January 12, General President Jim Hoffa is urging Teamsters everywhere to donate to the Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund.
- How the Teamsters Beat Goldman Sachs Among the causes of the ongoing financial meltdown, many experts cite the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, smuggled through Congress late on a December evening in 2000.
- Blood Work When Safeyyah Edwards went to work for the American Red Cross eight years ago, she thought she’d be helping people. Never did she imagine that she’d have to call on others to help herself and her coworkers properly perform their jobs.