Teamsters to vote on master freight pact

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3427

1 January 2008

WASHINGTON - Approximately 75,000 Teamsters nationwide will vote, starting in mid-January, on the National Master Freight Agreement the union reached with a group of trucking companies in mid-December.

The vote will follow a Jan. 8 meeting at Teamsters headquarters in Washington, D.C., for local leaders to go over details of the 5-year pact, the union added. Negotiators are recommending its ratification.

The new contract "provides good wage increases and protects members' jobs and their health, welfare and pension benefits. It also allows the unionized freight companies to better compete with the non-union companies and gives the unionized companies opportunities to grow business in new areas," lead union bargainer Tyson Johnson, director of the union's National Freight Division, said in a statement.

He added the pact improves the grievance procedure for workers and addresses the issue of excessive overtime, though he was not specific.

The contract is with TMI, Trucking Management, Inc., the primary multi-employer bargaining arm of the unionized freight trucking industry. Unionized TMI member firms include Yellow Transportation, Roadway Express, USF Holland and New Penn.

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So it's really only one company.