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<blockquote data-quote="wide load" data-source="post: 3785347" data-attributes="member: 57235"><p>“Sean O’Brien, who is president of Teamsters Local 25 in Boston, heads the IBT’s governing council in New England and is vice president of the union’s international body, told Truthout that he and others who sit on the executive board have written similar letters to President Hoffa. They have demanded the immediate convening of a board meeting to determine next steps, including the potential use of Article 12, Section 6 powers to amend the constitution.</p><p></p><p>O’Brien was let go as package director and lead contract negotiator last year, he says, after attempting to “unify the package division and the UPS locals so that we could secure a strong contract.” He called the idea that the union’s hands were tied by its own rules “outrageous.”</p><p></p><p>In 2013, he said, members <a href="http://labornotes.org/blogs/2013/05/ups-largest-private-sector-contract-profitable-employer-flat-beer" target="_blank">voted down several regional supplements</a> to a previous UPS national agreement, but the two-thirds rule wasn’t immediately imposed. “They did what they should be doing right now, … going back to the table and telling UPS the contract is not ratified and that our members have spoken, and we demand that you fix what’s broken,” he said.</p><p></p><p>The former agreement barely passed a member vote in 2013, and disputes over its regional supplements delayed progress on the proposal for nearly a year. Ultimately, though, President Hoffa <a href="https://labornotes.org/2014/04/despite-local-no-votes-teamsters-international-declares-ups-contract-ratified" target="_blank">imposed the supplements unilaterally</a>. Last week, 10 of 28 local and regional supplements were <a href="http://www.labornotes.org/2018/10/updated-ups-workers-reject-contract-teamsters-brass-declare-it-ratified-anyway" target="_blank">likewise rejected</a>, but the union still considers five of them ratified.</p><p></p><p>Union organizers’ opposition to Hoffa has been shaped in part by his abandoning of what they viewed as an effective model of membership mobilization and outreach that produced a successful strike against UPS in 1997 under former president Ron Carey’s leadership. “There hasn’t been a national strike in any industry [the IBT] represents since Jim Hoffa has taken over,” O’Brien said.”</p><p>October 11th 2018</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wide load, post: 3785347, member: 57235"] “Sean O’Brien, who is president of Teamsters Local 25 in Boston, heads the IBT’s governing council in New England and is vice president of the union’s international body, told Truthout that he and others who sit on the executive board have written similar letters to President Hoffa. They have demanded the immediate convening of a board meeting to determine next steps, including the potential use of Article 12, Section 6 powers to amend the constitution. O’Brien was let go as package director and lead contract negotiator last year, he says, after attempting to “unify the package division and the UPS locals so that we could secure a strong contract.” He called the idea that the union’s hands were tied by its own rules “outrageous.” In 2013, he said, members [URL='http://labornotes.org/blogs/2013/05/ups-largest-private-sector-contract-profitable-employer-flat-beer']voted down several regional supplements[/URL] to a previous UPS national agreement, but the two-thirds rule wasn’t immediately imposed. “They did what they should be doing right now, … going back to the table and telling UPS the contract is not ratified and that our members have spoken, and we demand that you fix what’s broken,” he said. The former agreement barely passed a member vote in 2013, and disputes over its regional supplements delayed progress on the proposal for nearly a year. Ultimately, though, President Hoffa [URL='https://labornotes.org/2014/04/despite-local-no-votes-teamsters-international-declares-ups-contract-ratified']imposed the supplements unilaterally[/URL]. Last week, 10 of 28 local and regional supplements were [URL='http://www.labornotes.org/2018/10/updated-ups-workers-reject-contract-teamsters-brass-declare-it-ratified-anyway']likewise rejected[/URL], but the union still considers five of them ratified. Union organizers’ opposition to Hoffa has been shaped in part by his abandoning of what they viewed as an effective model of membership mobilization and outreach that produced a successful strike against UPS in 1997 under former president Ron Carey’s leadership. “There hasn’t been a national strike in any industry [the IBT] represents since Jim Hoffa has taken over,” O’Brien said.” October 11th 2018 [/QUOTE]
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