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With CVS Negotiations Set to Resume July 20, Local 727 Participates in Informational Picket

With CVS Negotiations Set to Resume July 20, Local 727 Participates in Informational Picket

| July 18, 2016

Teamsters Local 727 continued its efforts to inform the public of the safety risks associated with CVS management’s mistreatment of overworked and understaffed pharmacists as union representatives participated in an informational picket outside Chicago-area pharmacies on July 15.

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Teamsters Increase Strike Benefits

Teamsters Increase Strike Benefits

| July 13, 2016

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa and General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall on July 12 announced that strike benefit increases approved by delegates to the 29th International Convention became effective on July 1.

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Pepsi Membership Ratifies New Four-Year Contract

Pepsi Membership Ratifies New Four-Year Contract

| July 6, 2016

Pepsi members voted by a 3-to-2 margin to ratify a new four-year contract, which includes wage increases, merged language, improved health care and more stringent job protections for over 600 workers.

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NLRB Requires Buddy’s Parking to Pay Back Dues

NLRB Requires Buddy’s Parking to Pay Back Dues

| July 6, 2016

Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board is requiring Buddy’s Parking to pay back dues, penalties and late fees after the company attempted to shirk its financial obligations to Teamsters Local 727.

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Brookfield Zoo First in the World to Receive Humane Certification

Brookfield Zoo First in the World to Receive Humane Certification

| June 30, 2016

Brookfield Zoo is the first zoo in the world to receive humane certification from American Humane Association for the treatment of its animals.

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