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Brookfield Zoo Members Ratify New Five-Year Contract

Brookfield Zoo Members Ratify New Five-Year Contract

| June 13, 2016

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.

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Funeral Member’s Son Earns Chicago Federation of Labor Scholarship

Funeral Member’s Son Earns Chicago Federation of Labor Scholarship

| June 10, 2016

Michael Tiernan, son of Teamsters Local 727 funeral member Brian Tiernan, has earned a $2,000 Chicago Federation of Labor William A. Lee Memorial Scholarship.

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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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