Union News

Pepsi Membership Ratifies New Four-Year Contract

Pepsi members voted by a 3-to-2 margin to ratify the company’s revised four-year contract offer, which includes retroactive wage increases, merged language, improved health care and more stringent job protections…

Steward Spotlight: CDT Customer Service Rep Janice Roberts

When Teamsters Local 727 steward Janice Roberts began working at Cook DuPage Transportation in 2006, she thought it would be a short stop on her post-retirement road. “I planned to…

Brookfield Zoo Members Ratify New Five-Year Contract

Teamsters Local 727-represented Brookfield Zoo workers on June 1 overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new five-year contract that preserves union health care benefits for nearly 300 members. The ratification vote…

Local 727 Bargaining Committee, Pepsi Reach Tentative Agreement on Four-Year Contract

The Teamsters Local 727 Bargaining Committee and Pepsi management returned to the bargaining table on June 10, and after another 10-hour negotiating session, reached a tentative agreement on a new…

Funeral Member’s Son Earns Chicago Federation of Labor Scholarship

Michael Tiernan, son of Teamsters Local 727 funeral member Brian Tiernan, has earned a Chicago Federation of Labor William A. Lee Memorial Scholarship. Tiernan and nine other recipients — all…