NLRB Withdraws Deal With New Mexico Teamsters

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A union representing most United Parcel Service drivers in New Mexico failed to comply with a settlement of a case in which eight workers tried to leave the union.

So, the National Labor Relations Board said it withdrew the settlement with the Teamsters Local 492.

A complaint was filed on behalf of the eight workers who tried to resign from the union during a UPS strike in the summer of 1997 so they could continue working.

The union did not recognize their resignations and tried to collect union dues and other fees from them. The union never had an agreement with the board, said Bob Younger, secretary-treasure of Local 492.

Under the settlement last July, the union was supposed to drop charges against the members who resigned. The union also was supposed to offer current members a chance to resign from the union retroactively to July 22, 1997. Workers had 60 days to decide.

The settlement did not assess a monetary award against the union, but the union was supposed to refund various dues and fees to workers who opted out. Workers who withdrew still were to pay minimal dues because the union represents all workers in collective bargaining. But those employees would not have to pay membership dues.

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