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Borg Warner Two Week Strike Ends

Seven-Hundred and Seventy-Five Bargaining Unit Teamster Local 317 members went on strike at midnight on September 8th, 2024, after Borg Warner gave a disingenuous Last, Best, and Final Offer. The strike was 98% authorized by the Membership and swift action was taken. In full-force the pavement was hit, picketing the Company, and demanding a fair contract. A Tentative Offer was reached within days. The Offer made progress but did not meet the standards and demands of the Members, who overwhelmingly voted it down. Throughout the strike, Members were flooded with support from rallies, to donations, and being present on the picket line. Support came from the community, local businesses, multiple other Local Unions, and politicians. Teamsters Local 449, Cheektowaga, NY, Teamsters Local 118, Rochester NY, and Teamsters Local 294, Albany, NY all showed out in maximum capacity to support their Brothers and Sisters picketing the Employer. During the second week of the strike, the Committee and the Employer were able to reach another Tentative Offer which included rescinding concessions demanded by the Employer, and complementing them with multiple gains for the workforce. Bargaining Unit Members voted on Saturday, September 21st, and overwhelmingly approved and ratified the new 4-year term offer. This agreement puts the Members back on track after years of working with the Company by giving up and giving back conditions during poorer economic times and through the Pandemic. The Employer has already relocated a large amount of work from the New York facility to Mexico. This contract was a line in the sand that was drawn by the courage and conviction of the workers. Teamsters Local 317 will stop at nothing to uphold the standard of living in our represented districts and our core industries, as well as continue to combat corporate outsourcing and the relocation of good paying Union American jobs. The Membership is the backbone of our Union and our Members are never afraid to fight for the dignity and respect from their Labor and the Contracts that uphold them.

Teamsters International : NO PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT

After reviewing six months of nationwide member polling and wrapping up nearly a year of rank-and-file roundtable interviews with all major candidates for the presidency, the union was left with few commitments on top Teamsters issues from either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris—and found no definitive support among members for either party’s nominee. Click on the picture for full version

LOOMING LABOR DISPUTE WITH BORG WARNER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Borg Warner, an automotive parts company whose annual revenue for 2023 was $14,198B, a 12.37% increase from 2022, has taken the role of backing American workers into a corner. In January 2023, the Company announced that it would be closing part of its manufacturing plants at its Warren Road campus near the Town of Lansing and Ithaca border. The closure affects its valvetrain production, as well as a technical center, while the chain production remains operational. Approximately 300 American workers affected, out of the near 1,500 American workers employed. American workers are being laid-off as work is not disappearing...it is being sent to Mexico. Borg Warner is currently the third-largest employer in Tompkins County, behind Cornell University and Ithaca College. The UAW just came out of a successful labor strike at Cornell University which lasted close to two weeks, covering over a thousand members. Borg Warner, through contentious negotiations, deems that market-driven adjustments in adaptation to its cost structure, which include restructuring, closure, and consolidation, are more important to the bottom of their balance sheet rather than respecting the workforce that helps to create the over 14 billion dollars in revenue. A slap in the face, Last Best and Final Offer was given to Teamster Local 317 members, which includes a vast erosion of standards and current conditions. Bargaining Unit members will be voting on the offer throughout the day on Friday, September 6th 2024. The current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires on Sunday, September 8th, 2024 at midnight. The Bargaining Unit has overwhelmingly authorized a strike-vote. Updates will follow as events unfold.

Sean O'Brien speaks at RNC

"AMERICAN WORKERS OWN THIS COUNTRY "! Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien blasts corporations and puts lobbyists on notice. “I want to be clear at the end of the day: The Teamsters are not interested in whether you have a D, R, or an I next to your name. We want to know one thing: What are you doing to help American workers?” CLICK THE PICTURE FOR THE YOUTUBE LINK WITH FULL SPEECH

ORGANIZING VICTORY

SAPUTO WORKERS JOIN TEAMSTERS LOCAL 317! Big welcome to workers at Saputo Dairy who have voted to join Teamsters Local 317 in Delhi, NY! “Congratulations to these men and women, who stood strong even in the face of adversity,” said Peter Finn, Teamsters Western Region International Vice President and Food Processing Division Director. CLICK PICTURE FOR MORE !

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The Teamster Horsemen Motorcycle Association Inc. is a non-profit organization Incorporated in the State of Illinois, with the principal offices located in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

The National organization shall also be the Main Association for all Affiliates, and shall have jurisdiction over all Chapters affiliated therewith and over matters pertaining to the membership of such Chapters.

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS

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The Teamsters are America’s largest, most diverse union. The Teamsters are known as the champion of freight drivers and warehouse workers, but have organized workers in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector.There are nearly 1,900 Teamster affiliates throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Teamsters stand ready to organize workers who want to bargain collectively. Once a contract is negotiated and signed, the Union works to enforce it—holding management’s feet to the fire and invoking contract grievance procedures if management chooses not to. Wages and benefits under Teamster contracts are markedly better than those of non-union employees in similar jobs. Teamster contracts are the guarantors of decent wages, fair promotion, health coverage, job security, paid time-off and retirement income.

The Teamsters Union also performs vital tasks in such areas as pension management, safety & health, community outreach, governmental affairs and communications. For more than a century, the Teamsters have been a public voice for the rights and aspirations of working men and women and a key player in securing them

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent federal agency created in 1935 and vested with the power to safeguard employees’ rights to organize, engage with one another to seek better working conditions, choose whether or not to have a collective bargaining representative negotiate on their behalf with their employer, or refrain from doing so. The NLRB also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions, as well as conducts secret-ballot elections regarding union representation. The NLRB is a bifurcated agency governed on one side by a five-person Board and on the other side by a General Counsel. Board Members and the General Counsel are appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. The responsibilities and functions of the Agency under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, as amended, are carried out by the National Labor Relations Board and its General Counsel, who, in addition to independent authority under the statute, exercises other authority by delegation from the Board.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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The Department of Labor administers federal labor laws to guarantee workers' rights to fair, safe, and healthy working conditions, including minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, protection against employment discrimination, and unemployment insurance.

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The toolkit has information on workers’ organizing rights and protections against retaliation, which help support the Department of Labor’s mission to protect workers.

For 95 years, Ullico has been a champion for the American worker and as the only labor-owned insurance and investment company, Ullico has gained the trust of union members and employees to protect their families, employees, businesses and investments.

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Most employers with at least 15 employees are covered by EEOC laws (20 employees in age discrimination cases). Most labor unions and employment agencies are also covered.

The laws apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.

Over the past decade, many states have made tremendous strides on moving away from arcane, draconian drug criminalization policies towards legalization for commercial and recreational cannabis. As this shift in policy has come, business empires around cannabis have grown exponentially, reaping billions of dollars in revenue in just a few short years. The Teamsters Union is building a grassroots movement of workers committed to ensuring that the people who make these companies succeed aren’t left out of the prosperity associated with this budding industry.

If you are in the process of obtaining your License and are looking for a Union to sign your required Labor Peace Agreement, or you are a Cannabis Employee and are currently not in a Union- Call Teamsters Local 317 today!