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PHOTOS: Local 727 Joins the Fight Against Breast Cancer

PHOTOS: Local 727 Joins the Fight Against Breast Cancer

| October 19, 2018

  Teamsters Local 727 members, families, and friends came out to Park Ridge earlier this month for the American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.  Dressed in […]

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CVS Claim that Negotiations are not “Personal” Spurs Outrage from Teamster Local 727 Bargaining Committee

CVS Claim that Negotiations are not “Personal” Spurs Outrage from Teamster Local 727 Bargaining Committee

| October 11, 2018

CHICAGO, October 11, 2018 – CVS (NYSE: CVS) sparked outrage during negotiations with Teamsters Local 727 on Wednesday, October 3rd when the Company’s lead negotiator claimed that CVS’s tactics and […]

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Union Ratifies New Contract with MV Chicago, Members to Receive Largest Wage Raise in Bargaining Unit History

Union Ratifies New Contract with MV Chicago, Members to Receive Largest Wage Raise in Bargaining Unit History

| October 11, 2018

Just two weeks after voting to authorize a strike, Teamsters Local 727 members employed by MV Transportation Chicago Division 135 overwhelmingly ratified the richest contract in bargaining unit history this […]

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Sour Over the Union’s Massive Arbitration Win, Chicago Tribune Attempts to Overturn Arbitration Award

Sour Over the Union’s Massive Arbitration Win, Chicago Tribune Attempts to Overturn Arbitration Award

| October 5, 2018

The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit last month against Teamsters Local 727 in an attempt to avoid paying nearly 120 Teamster newspaper truck drivers backpay awarded to them by a […]

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With Strike Looming, Union and MV Transportation Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract

With Strike Looming, Union and MV Transportation Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract

| September 28, 2018

The Teamsters Local 727 bargaining committee and MV Transportation, Inc. have reached a tentative agreement for a new three-year collective bargaining agreement covering paratransit drivers, dispatchers, schedulers, and reservationists based […]

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