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Local 727 Fighting Hard for Its Members, Files Numerous Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Employers

Teamsters Local 727 is maintaining an active presence before the National Labor Relations Board in 2017, having filed more than a dozen unfair labor practice charges against various employers in the first half of the year alone. Region 13 of the NLRB found merit with four of the recent charges that have been filed. A […]

Local 727 Benefit Fund Trustees Approve 10% Increase to Pension Accrual

Current members of Teamsters Local 727 whose employers participate and contribute to the Funeral Industry pension plan or the Parking Industry pension plan, thanks to their union contract, will soon be seeing a 10% increase in their pension accrual. Presently, employees who are eligible to receive a Parking Industry pension, once vested, qualify for a […]

President Coli Rallies Public to Can the Tax

Amid chants of “can the tax …can the tax,” Teamsters Local 727 President John Coli, Jr. took to the microphone and kicked off the Can the Tax rally held outside at the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. Coli framed the tax issue as a threat to hundreds if not thousands of decent-paying jobs […]