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TDU, Teamsters United capitulate to Hoffa’s override of UPS workers’ “no” vote
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<blockquote data-quote="OVERBOARD" data-source="post: 3779713" data-attributes="member: 24473"><p>Read the article before you make stupid comments that you don’t even know what you’re talking. Probably too lazy to do it so I copied and paste the best part for you. </p><p> </p><p>Facing another upheaval of truckers, UPS workers and other Teamster members, the TDU filed a federal lawsuit to remove the hated constitutional clause that required a two-thirds rejection vote no matter how many workers voted. As part of the settlement of the lawsuit, the TDU accepted a modification of the constitution proposed by the General Executive Board whereby the two-thirds requirement would kick in if less than 50 percent of the workers voted. Speaking to the <em>New York Times</em> at the time, TDU head Ken P gushed, “We finally have majority rule in this union.”</p><p></p><p>The TDU-backed president, Ron Carey, maintained the undemocratic constitutional clause, Article XII, Section 2(d)(2), throughout his term in office from 1991 to 1997, when he was expelled over a kickback scheme to finance his reelection campaign. Carey shut down the two-week UPS strike in 1997 after claiming that he had won 10,000 new full-time jobs. The new jobs, however, paid 24 percent less, and the contract he signed was the first to expand the two-tier system to full-time workers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OVERBOARD, post: 3779713, member: 24473"] Read the article before you make stupid comments that you don’t even know what you’re talking. Probably too lazy to do it so I copied and paste the best part for you. Facing another upheaval of truckers, UPS workers and other Teamster members, the TDU filed a federal lawsuit to remove the hated constitutional clause that required a two-thirds rejection vote no matter how many workers voted. As part of the settlement of the lawsuit, the TDU accepted a modification of the constitution proposed by the General Executive Board whereby the two-thirds requirement would kick in if less than 50 percent of the workers voted. Speaking to the [I]New York Times[/I] at the time, TDU head Ken P gushed, “We finally have majority rule in this union.” The TDU-backed president, Ron Carey, maintained the undemocratic constitutional clause, Article XII, Section 2(d)(2), throughout his term in office from 1991 to 1997, when he was expelled over a kickback scheme to finance his reelection campaign. Carey shut down the two-week UPS strike in 1997 after claiming that he had won 10,000 new full-time jobs. The new jobs, however, paid 24 percent less, and the contract he signed was the first to expand the two-tier system to full-time workers. [/QUOTE]
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