Following UPS’s rules, instead of cutting corners to boost your numbers, is the best way to protect yourself.
Management spells out how they want the job done in the Package Driver Delivery and Pickup Methods. Click here to download a copy.
This new pension update from 804 Members United explains what the new funding notice reveals about our pension fund—and what members are still NOT being told.
Help build a stronger Local 804 by keeping members informed. Download the Pension Update and pass it out to other 804 Teamsters.
You have a legal right to distribute leaflets from 804 Members United on company property as long as you do it in non-work areas (parking lot, break room etc.) and at non-work times (when you and the person you are giving the leaflet are off the clock).
Click here to download the Pension Update
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Our pension fund has mailed a funding certification notice to members as required by the Pension Protection Act.
The notice is long on legal jargon and short on details. In fact, it provides the minimum information required under the law. In the meantime, the fund continues to stonewall on turning over documents that would allow members to learn more.
Here is what the funding notice does tell us:
“In the last six months, UPS Teamsters in New York have defeated pension cuts, beaten contract givebacks and passed bylaws changes that give members more rights.”
So begins a profile of Local 804 Members United in Convoy Dispatch, a newspaper published by Teamsters for a Democratic Union that is read by 100,000 Teamsters across North America each month.
In a featured story this month, Local 804 members speak out on the challenges we have faced with our contract, benefits and declining union power at UPS—and what members are trying to do about it.
The story is told in members’ own words. The Local 804 Teamsters featured in the story include Mark Cohen, Rob Glovitz, Pete Masrandrea, Bill Reynolds, Jim Reynolds, and Tim Sylvester. Read more…
Local 804 members will soon be mailed an official notice that tells us where our pension fund stands under the Pension Protection Act.
Download a Pension Update from 804 Members United that explains what we’re likely to learn in this notice and what it won’t tell us about the future of our benefits.
Help build a stronger Local 804 by keeping members informed. Download the Pension Update and pass it out to other 804 Teamsters.
You have a legal right to distribute leaflets from 804 Members United on company property as long as you do it in nonwork areas (parking lot, break room etc.) and at non-work times (when you and the person you are giving the leaflet are off the clock).
Click here to download the Pension Update.
Last month, the Local 804 fund was required by law to have an actuary certify the plan’s status to tell the government if our fund is in the Green Zone, the Yellow Zone (Endangered) or the Red Zone (Critical Status).
Local 804 leaders have known what zone our plan is in since at least March 31. But the membership, as usual, is being kept in the Twilight Zone—with no information about our fund’s status and future.
The membership should be getting some news soon. The Pension Protection Act requires that our fund’s trustees send us a notice by April 30. At the last general membership meeting, Howie Redmond said this notice would be on its way. He did not give any more details.
In the Yellow Zone?
Based on the limited financial documents that our fund has made available to us, it is most likely that our fund is in the Yellow Zone—which means that it is less than 80 percent funded.
On behalf of 804 Members United, I want to thank Local 804 members for standing up for positive changes in our bylaws.
Our union is stronger when members are informed and involved. That’s the direction we’re taking with the 804 Members United website: informing and involving members for a strong Local 804.
At the membership meeting, there was some discussion of the disputed published reports on exactly what issue Doc Dougherty died over on that picket line over 30 years ago. I appreciate Howie’s apology for the comments he made at the February union meeting.
Apologizing like he did lets us all focus on what is really important here: Doc Dougherty is a hero who put his life on the line for what we have today. The way to honor his memory is to fight for what he stood for: a strong Local 804.
Local 804 members did that by voting that contract down last year. We did that by standing up to UPS and saving 25 & Out. We did that by turning out to pass bylaws that will put information in the members hands and build a stronger union.
That’s Doc Doherty’s legacy. That’s Ron Carey’s legacy. And we all have a responsibility for carrying that legacy forward and leaving this union stronger than how we found it.
I’m proud to see these changes happening in this local and I applaud our membership.
- Tim Sylvester
Shop Steward, Maspeth
Local 804’s financial report for 2007 can now be downloaded on the 804 Members United website. The LM-2 financial report is filed each year with the Department of Labor, and provides a summary of our local’s income and expenses, including officers’ salaries.
Click here to download the Local 804 financial report for 2007.
Click here to download the financial report for 2006.
UPS said Wednesday its profits rose 7.5 percent in the first quarter, though they were affected by the weakening U.S. economy. The company lowered its earnings guidance for the year.
The results reported for the most recent quarter were in line with Wall Street expectations.
The company said it earned $906 million, or 87 cents a share, in the January-March quarter, compared to a profit of $843 million, or 78 cents a share, in the year-ago period.
Revenue in the quarter rose 6.5 percent to $12.68 billion, compared to $11.91 billion recorded a year earlier.
UPS said it benefited from strong gains in its international operations.
But UPS also said it doesn’t expect the U.S. economy to strengthen in the second quarter. Shares fell $1.20, to $70.70 in premarket trading Wednesday.
Click here to read full coverage from the Associated Press.
[April 20] Members voted by more than 90 percent at today’s general membership meeting to pass two bylaws reforms proposed by 804 Members United.
Members voted by a 208 to 12 margin to require the Executive Board to give a report on our pension and health and welfare funds at every general membership meeting.
Members also voted 207 to 19 to establish a contract committee to keep members informed and united whenever a contract is being negotiated.
Two thousand members signed petitions in support of each of these bylaw changes after we were kept in the dark by our local about proposed pension cuts and contract givebacks in 2006 and 2007.
The changes will put more information in the hands of Local 804 members. It is up to us to use it to defend our contract and benefits.
President Howie Redmond endorsed both proposals from the podium.
Redmond also pledged to help members obtain pension documents that our fund has refused to turn over in violation of the Pension Protection Act.
