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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 1130310" data-attributes="member: 29553">  Local 804 Reaches Tentative  Agreement  Biggest Pension Increase In Local  804 History    We have reached a tentative agreement on a new Local 804  contract that includes record pension increases, more full-time jobs and a  better grievance procedure among other improvements.    I want to personally thank Local 804 members, stewards and  the Contract Action Team. Your unity and support gave us the leverage we  needed to make UPS increase its offer and put a contract on the table that we  can recommend to the membership.     Under the contract, the pension will increase to  $3,900/month on January 1 and reach $4,000/month in 2017. This is the biggest  pension increase of any contract in Local 804 history.    The contract also provides for the largest number of  full-time 22.3 jobs in Local 804 history and will create a minimum of 100 new  full-time jobs in our local.        We have also won a better grievance procedure that will  give members' swifter justice. Management will no longer be able to abuse the  system and leave members with a termination hanging over their heads for a  year or more while they wait for arbitration. Suspension and discharge cases  will be decided in a month or two.    Disciplinary cases will be heard before a panel of  representatives from Local 804 and representatives from the company. If the  union and company deadlock on a case, an arbitrator will issue a decision  right then and there.      The tentative agreement also includes more vacation  scheduling, especially in the summer months, stronger rights for feeder  drivers to overtime and extra work during peak, increased guaranteed hours  for laid off and displaced members, and other improvements.    Every agreement includes give and take. Members will be  able to review all changes to the contract before the ratification vote. A  special General Membership Meeting to review the contract will be held on  Sunday, May 19.      We have a lot to celebrate. With a $4,000/month pension  and a record pension increase, we have come a long way since the pension cuts  and attacks on 25 & Out in our last contract.    On behalf of the entire Bargaining Committee, I want to  Local 804 members for your support from the contract survey through the  contract actions this week and everything in between.    United we win! And together we have won contract  improvements that are the envy of UPS Teamsters across the country. </blockquote>

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