For several days, Teamsters Local 727 has been picketing Prime Parking, located at 2 E. Oak St. in Chicago. The company, which recently acquired the contract to manage the parking garage, has unlawfully terminated and unlawfully refused to hire eight long-time attendants. “We will not stand idle when hardworking, loyal members lose their jobs due […]
Last minute failures to provide information or a blown commitment now and then due to unforeseen circumstances are annoying to be sure. When it happens on a regular basis, however, and particularly by one party, then annoyance turns to antipathy and makes the offending party look ridiculous. A pattern of broken commitments and delay tactics […]
In January, Local 727 filed unfair labor practice charges against Cook-DuPage Transportation (CDT) for, among other things, the company’s violation of the settlement agreement which mandated that drivers were to be paid the van wage rate instead of the car rate. Yet CDT unlawfully continued to pay drivers the car rate after the agreement was […]
Teamsters Local 727 has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against parking company ABS LLC stemming from several violations of the collective bargaining agreement, and federal labor law. Region 13 of the NLRB is investigating ABS’s unilateral changes to the collective bargaining agreement, its refusal to process grievances, its refusal […]
Illinois drivers can purchase Teamster specialty license plates for registered vehicles. Plates can be purchased for all passenger vehicles, B-trucks and vans weighing 8,000 pounds or less. Teamster license plates can be purchased or renewed through the Secretary of State’s website, by mail, by phone at (800) 252-8980 or by visiting a driver services facility.
LAZ Parking Inexplicably Spreads Lies as Fallout from COVID-19 Pandemic Continues
Nearly a year after LAZ Parking unceremoniously and illegally furloughed hundreds of parking employees with barely a day’s notice and without giving prior notice to, or bargaining with, the Union, the Company continues to add insult to injury by spreading an outrageous lie to both Union membership and its parking clients. According to LAZ representatives, LAZ […]
KDP Expected to Fail Again in Challenge to Teamsters Local 727 Victory
Over a year after the area sales managers and sales services representatives voted overwhelming in favor of Union representation by Teamsters Local 727, Keurig Dr Pepper continued its fruitless attempts to overturn Region 13 of the National Labor Board’s certification by appearing in front of a panel of federal judges for the DC Circuit. On […]
Yesterday, Teamsters Local 727 Secretary-Treasurer John Coli, Jr. joined Congress-woman elect Marie Newman and other labor leaders from across the city for a press conference at McCormick Place to demand economic relief for workers, especially those in the trade show industry. While it was (and remains) necessary to cancel trade shows to slow the spread […]
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