Month: April 2019

UIC Graduate Workers Ratify New Contract after a 3+ Week Strike

UIC Graduate Workers Ratify New Contract after a 3+ Week Strike

After 13 months of negotiations and over 3 weeks on the strike line, more than 1,500 graduate and teaching assistants of the University of Illinois Chicago Graduate Employees Organization (UIC-GEO)…

Dr Pepper’s Health Care Sale Makes Us Sick

Dr Pepper’s Health Care Sale Makes Us Sick

Teamsters Local 727 opened this morning’s bargaining session with the American Bottling Company, a subsidiary of Keurig Dr Pepper, by inviting a Local 727 Benefit Funds Representative into the negotiations…

Record-Setting Number of Grievances Filed Against GLCCD Illustrates its Broken Relationship with Employees & Local 727

Record-Setting Number of Grievances Filed Against GLCCD Illustrates its Broken Relationship with Employees & Local 727

Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution, a subsidiary of Reyes Holdings, has claimed repeatedly that it would like to repair and improve its relationship with its employees and with Teamsters Local 727. …

Local 727 Files Charge Against GLCCD General Manager for Threatening Statements

Local 727 Files Charge Against GLCCD General Manager for Threatening Statements

This week, Teamsters Local 727 filed charges against Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution, Inc. after General Manager Steve Zulanas allegedly made threatening statements to Union members. The charges are now pending…

GLCCD Presents and Refuses to Move on Live Loading Proposal, Offers No Movement on Health Care

GLCCD Presents and Refuses to Move on Live Loading Proposal, Offers No Movement on Health Care

On the first day of negotiations with Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution, Inc., a subsidiary of Reyes Holdings, Teamsters Local 727 proposed the elimination of live loading from the new successor…