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First Transit Agrees to Meet Again After Paratransit Drivers Unanimously Reject Contract Offer

First Transit Agrees to Meet Again After Paratransit Drivers Unanimously Reject Contract Offer

| December 1, 2015

First Transit management has agreed to meet again with the Teamsters Local 727 Bargaining Committee after drivers at the DuPage paratransit facility unanimously rejected the company’s unreasonable last, best and final contract offer on Nov. 24.

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Teamsters at Coca-Cola Refreshments Authorize ULP Strike

Teamsters at Coca-Cola Refreshments Authorize ULP Strike

| November 30, 2015

More than 225 Coca-Cola Refreshments workers represented by Teamsters Local 727 voted Sunday, November 29 to authorize an unfair labor practice strike against the beverage industry behemoth.

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Teamsters Local 727 Files Unfair Labor Practices Against Coca-Cola Refreshments

Teamsters Local 727 Files Unfair Labor Practices Against Coca-Cola Refreshments

| November 24, 2015

Teamsters Local 727 on Tuesday filed numerous unfair labor practice charges against Coca-Cola Refreshments, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), that include bargaining in bad faith, intimidation of workers with baseball bats and unilaterally changing contract terms and working conditions.

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Coca-Cola Offers Insulting Economics Package, Ignores Vast Majority of Union Proposals

| November 23, 2015

With only one more day of contract negotiations on the calendar, management for Coca-Cola returned to the bargaining table with Local 727 on Monday admitting they “didn’t know where to begin.”

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Coca-Cola Dances Around Proposals With Local 727, But Agrees to Bargaining Dates

Coca-Cola Dances Around Proposals With Local 727, But Agrees to Bargaining Dates

| November 20, 2015

Despite agreeing to a 10 a.m. start time on Friday, Nov. 20, Coca-Cola representatives finally sat down at the bargaining table after 2 p.m. for what was originally the final day of new contract negotiations.

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