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Local 727 Benefit Funds Relocating to Park Ridge This Month

Local 727 Benefit Funds Relocating to Park Ridge This Month

| June 3, 2016

The Teamsters Local 727 Benefit Funds will be relocating to 1300 W. Higgins Road in Park Ridge and is scheduled to be up and running in the new space starting June 20.

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Order Your Illinois Teamster License Plates!

Order Your Illinois Teamster License Plates!

| May 31, 2016

For the first time, Illinois drivers can purchase Teamster specialty license plates for registered vehicles. Plates can be purchased for all passenger vehicles, B-trucks and vans weighing 8,000 pounds or less.

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Pharmacists: Jewel-Osco’s Business Decisions Put Public at Risk

Pharmacists: Jewel-Osco’s Business Decisions Put Public at Risk

| May 27, 2016

Local 727 began informing the public of the safety risks associated with Jewel-Osco’s chronic understaffing amid ever-increasing pharmacist workloads by informational picketing outside Chicago-area stores.

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Teamsters Stand Up for Funeral Workers at SCI Shareholders Meeting

Teamsters Stand Up for Funeral Workers at SCI Shareholders Meeting

| May 26, 2016

Teamster representatives on May 11 called out funeral industry giant Service Corporation International’s poor business practices and called on its Board to take action during SCI’s shareholders meeting in Houston.

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Local 727 Holds Meetings to Discuss Pepsi’s Contract Offer

Local 727 Holds Meetings to Discuss Pepsi’s Contract Offer

| May 18, 2016

About 200 Pepsi workers joined members of the Teamsters Local 727 Bargaining Committee on Tuesday in the 35th Street break room to discuss the company’s last, best and final contract offer.

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