Register for the 804 Members United Ed. Conference
Sunday, April 5 in Long Island City
UPS management is violating our contract and our rights.
Now members are getting together to do something about it. Join us for the Local 804 Members United Education Conference on Sunday, April 5 at the VFW Long Island City, 31-35 41st St, between […]
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View Clips & Tributes
Video clips from the Celebration of the Life and Work of Ron Carey are now available online. The speeches have been divided into individual clips to make it easier to view them. A DVD of the full two-hour event is in production.
Copies are available from 804 Members United. A donation of $10 […]
To Tim Sylvester, Jim Reynolds, Ken Paff, David Levin and all the sponsors and volunteers. We would like to thank everyone involved in the memorial; those who made heartfelt speeches bringing joy, laughter and tears to our eyes. To the people that traveled far just for the day and to the outpouring of people who […]
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by Jon Blau, Chronicle Contributor
03/05/2009
Tim Sylvester, a shop steward with the Local 804 union, surveyed the ballroom packed to remember Ron Carey. While he did so, Sylvester focused on one of the few empty chairs among a couple hundred at Saturday’s memorial, a reminder of the late union leader, who died in December.
The first democratically […]
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More than 300 Teamsters and retirees turned out to a packed ballroom to Celebrate the Life and Work of Ron Carey, a Local 804 hero and the first democratically elected General President of the Teamsters Union.
Two hundred Local 804 members and retirees descended on the Sheraton Hotel in Flushing to pay their […]
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Celebrating the Life & Work of Ron Carey
It was a day to remember that touched every emotion.
There was laughter: Ron’s Campaign manager Eddie Burke told the crowd about how when he first shook hands with Ron, he felt for a pinkie ring. “Don’t wear them,” Ron said. “Me, neither,” Burke replied.
There was anger. Ron’s son […]
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At the Celebration of the Life & Work of Ron Carey, Retired Newsday Reporter Ken Crowe praised Carey as a “great labor leader” and shredded the fabrications against him that brought an end to Ron’s career as the most visionary president in the history of our International Union and of Local 804.
A video of Crowe’s […]
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