Teamsters Union

El Departamento de Transporte de Buttigieg rechaza las alegaciones de impugnación de las horas de servicio ante los tribunales

La Administración Federal de Seguridad de Autotransportes (FMCSA) ha rechazado las afirmaciones de que las revisiones de las horas de servicio realizadas en septiembre de 2020 provocarán más accidentes, a pesar de las reclamaciones realizadas por los defensores de la seguridad y los trabajadores.

En respuesta a una petición presentada por los grupos en diciembre ante el Tribunal de Apelaciones de EE.UU. para el Circuito del Distrito de Columbia, la FMCSA y el Departamento de Transporte de EE.UU....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/el-departamento-de-transporte-de-buttigieg-rechaza-las-alegaciones-de-impugnacion-de-las-horas-de-servicio-ante-los-tribunales

Buttigieg’s DOT rejects hours-of-service court challenge claims

The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration has rejected assertions that hours-of-service revisions made in September 2020 will lead to more crashes despite claims made by safety advocates and labor.

Responding to a petition filed by the groups in December with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, FMCSA and the U.S. Department of Transportation argued that the petitioners’ anti-safety claims lack standing and should be rejected.

“Even if petitioners had established...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/buttigiegs-dot-rejects-hours-of-service-challenge

Hours-of-service challenge laid out in DC appeals court

Three safety groups and the Teamsters union have filed their initial petition in federal appeals court challenging the federal truck driver hours-of-service (HOS) final rule that went into effect last year. The groups zeroed in on the new short-haul and 30-minute rest-break provisions.

In a filing late Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Parents Against Tired Truckers, Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, and the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hours-of-service-challenge-laid-out-in-dc-appeals-court

Low Teamsters election turnout may not be what it seems

In the wake of Sean M. O’Brien’s landslide victory in the Teamsters general election, one takeaway is not what O’Brien does during the next five years as the union’s general president but if many of the rank-and-file members will care. The second is whether those who care will carry the water for those who don’t.

Less than 200,000 out of approximately 1.4 million eligible voters cast ballots, according to the Teamsters Office of Election Supervisor, the official vote counter, and the Teamsters...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/low-teamsters-election-turnout-may-not-be-what-it-seems

O’Brien holds commanding lead in race for Teamsters president

Sean M. O’Brien is moving inexorably closer to being elected the next general president of the Teamsters union.

In the second day of vote tallying, O’Brien held a commanding lead over his opponent, Steve Vairma, according to results posted Tuesday afternoon by the Teamsters’ Office of the Election Supervisor. With the union’s central and southern regions partially reporting, O’Brien had received more than 34,798 votes, compared to Vairma’s 11,103 votes. Ballots were currently being counted in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/obrien-holds-commanding-lead-in-race-for-teamsters-president

Teamster presidential debate makes whipping boy out of autonomous trucks

If reality matches the rhetoric from the two candidates vying to lead the Teamsters union for the next five years, autonomous trucks will operate only over the union’s collective dead body.

In the first presidential debate since the Teamsters began holding full elections in 1991, Steve Vairma and Sean O’Brien voiced opposition to autonomous trucks, calling them dangerous, reckless and a threat to union jobs. O’Brien, president of Local 25 in Boston, said he feared the scenario of a four-deep...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/teamster-presidential-debate-makes-whipping-boy-out-of-autonomous-trucks

Teamsters election may hold cards for upcoming UPS contract talks

The five-year contract between the Teamsters and UPS Inc., the Teamsters’ largest employer with 268,000 members, doesn’t expire until July 31, 2023. Talks aren’t likely to start until late 2022. In reality, however, the contract cycle starts around Thanksgiving 2021.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Teamsters will by then have elected a new slate of officers, including a general president and general secretary-treasurer, to run the 1.4 million- member union for the next five years. At stake...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/teamsters-election-may-hold-cards-for-upcoming-ups-contract-talks

Teamsters committee frees delegates to vote on key constitutional amendments

A committee of the Teamsters union agreed Tuesday to allow delegates to vote on eliminating language that requires a contract to be ratified even if the majority of rank-and-file have voted against it.

The Teamsters Constitution Committee also voted to recommend that delegates convening online at the two-day Teamsters national convention, which begins Wednesday, vote on whether bargaining committees at the local and national levels should be required to have rank-and-file members. 

In addition,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/teamsters-committee-frees-delegates-to-vote-on-key-constitutional-amendments

Yellow defends transparency of CARES Act loan

Yellow Corp. [NASDAQ: YELL] CEO Darren Hawkins is confident he can show lawmakers that his company’s $700 million CARES Act loan being scrutinized in a new congressional probe is in full compliance with the loan terms.

“Please be assured with respect to your question regarding our ‘eligibility for and use of the funds’ that the Subcommittee’s inquiry and Yellow Corporation’s documents will conclusively confirm that the information the Company provided in applying for the loan was completely...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/yellow-defends-transparency-of-cares-act-loan

Trucking, labor haggle over driver work rules

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Teamsters union agree that truck driver fatigue is an issue, but the two organizations disagree on how to solve the problem.

Testifying on Tuesday at a Senate Commerce committee hearing on freight transportation issues, Lamont Byrd, director of the union’s safety and health department, told lawmakers that a big part of the problem are the changes made to the hours-of-service (HOS) regulations last year, which he says is resulting in drivers...

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