Three weeks after employees at the Lordstown General Motors Co. compact car plant assembled their last Chevrolet Cruze, employees are filing into the United Auto Workers Local 1112 hall to sign up for unemployment benefits and try to figure out if they should take a transfer to another GM plant or wait it out.
March 29, 2019union
Government, Business, Logistics
Shuttered General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. (Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg News)
UAW Says GM Dismissed Concessions Before Idling Cruze Plant in Ohio
Shuttered General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. (Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg News)
Business, Logistics, TCA
Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
Union Dispute Leaves Some Freighters Stuck at Port of Toledo
Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
A long-simmering labor dispute between a local longshoremen’s union and a Port of Toledo stevedore has led to three ocean freighters being waylaid at the Port of Toledo docks and a fourth boat being turned away — potentially costing the terminal tens of thousands of dollars a day in lost work.
May 15, 2018
Government, Business
UPS planes at the company's Worldport hub in Louisville, Ky. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics)
UPS Flight Dispatchers Vote to Authorize Strike as Contract Talks Continue
UPS planes at the company's Worldport hub in Louisville, Ky. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics)
Eighty-one unionized UPS Inc. flight dispatchers based at the company’s Louisville, Ky., Worldport hub voted unanimously to authorize their leadership to call a strike as contract talks continue, according to the union and a statement released from UPS on April 9.
April 12, 2018
Business
XPO Logistics-Teamsters Battleground Shifts to New Haven
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is duking it out with XPO Logistics on a new front recently after 73 employees petitioned to remove Local 443 as their representative.
October 26, 2017
Business, Logistics, TCA
Chuck Kennedy/KRT
UPS Starting Negotiations on Massive Teamsters Contracts
Chuck Kennedy/KRT
UPS says it has started contract talks with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on new collective bargaining agreements covering 250,000 workers.
October 10, 2017
Business, Equipment, Logistics
Doug Benz/Bloomberg News
GE to Cut 575 Jobs at Century-Old Locomotive Plant
Doug Benz/Bloomberg News
General Electric Co. plans to end most locomotive manufacturing at a century-old Pennsylvania factory as the company looks to cut costs amid a sharp downturn in the domestic rail market.
July 31, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous
Daimler
Unions Urge Slowdown as Self-Driving Car Laws Pick Up Speed
Daimler
Labor unions are urging a slowdown as lawmakers fast-track legislation to allow self-driving vehicles on the road, a potential boon to some union jobs and an existential threat to others.
July 28, 2017
Business
Teamsters Local 445
Truck Drivers in New York Ratify Contract With United Natural Foods
Teamsters Local 445
Truck drivers in Montgomery, N.Y., voted to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with private carrier United Natural Foods Inc., the first contract since they joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 2016.
July 20, 2017
Business
Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News
Teamsters Union Scores Victory With Intermodal Workers
Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News
A battle to unionize is ongoing at Parsec Inc., a company that provides equipment and other services to those in the intermodal section, as the Teamsters won a second victory.
July 17, 2017
Business, Logistics
Ken James/Bloomberg News
Union Pacific Profits Up 9.5%, Easily Beat Forecasts
Ken James/Bloomberg News
Union Pacific’s profits increased 9.5% to $1.07 billion dollars, or $1.32 per share, after strong results on a year-over-year basis in the coal, agricultural and intermodal transportation.
April 27, 2017Pages
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