Its Called a Harmonious relationship

t was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave,
health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama

They are the kind of people we are ...God bless them and their families

get involved the war on workers is not over !

Supervisors are ordered to Cease Performing Bargaining Unit Work.

Supervisor Decision 05-30-13 Klibanow

CONGRATULATIONS! * Be sure to note any instances where supervisors are observed performing our work, name, date, time and type of work being performed. Be sure to do your best, be on time, give 100% because management has a habit of retaliating against the membership after losing an arbitration. In Solidarity, President, Pineda

Boston Local 3 Beats Back Unilaterally Implemented Discipline Policy at Arbitration After Two Year Battle

After a two year battle, Local 3 won a substantial victory at our RockTenn corrugated plant in Wakefield, MA when an arbitrator struck down the company’s another unilateral implementation of a discipline policy without bargaining with the Union.  Unfortunately for the members at RockTenn, which purchased the former Smurfit-Stone plant in 2011, this action continues a pattern of behavior at the facility.  

Boston Herald Photo-Christopher Evans

In 2008, the Union won a similar case when an arbitrator ruled that management did not have just cause to suspend a member for violation of a unilaterally implemented Lock-Out/Tag-Out Policy.  In December of 2010, the Union was able to restore holiday pay for employees who were denied their Christmas and Christmas Eve holiday pay because they were unable to make it to work the following Monday as a result of a severe snow storm. You can read local news coverage of that incident here.

The most recent case began in March of 2011 when management unilaterally implemented changes to their attendance policy to include an employee’s failure to swipe in or out to the disciplinary process of the policy.  Repeated demands from Local 3 to bargain over the implemented policy and to cease its enforcement were ignored by management.  As a result, in April of 2011, Local 3 filed Unfair Labor Practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).  In July of 2011, the NLRB deferred the charge to the grievance and arbitration procedure. Despite management’s tactics to delay and stall, following two grievance meetings and two days of hearing at arbitration, in May of 2013, the arbitrator ruled that RockTenn had, in fact, violated its duty to bargain.  In his award, the arbitrator wrote:

“The decision therefore orders the Employer to strike the unilaterally promulgated rule and to order the Employer to remove all in the employees’ record for the Attendance and Punctuality program and adjust each employees step in the attendance policy progression accordingly.”

The members at RockTenn demonstrated a great deal of patience and showed tremendous support for their Union throughout this lengthy process caused by the incessant delays from management.  It is our hope that these repeated losses will convince management to change the manner in which they treat their employees.

Congratulations Eric!

LOS ANGELES MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI

Our Newly Elected Mayor has the support of the Teamsters and GCC/IBT Local 140-N

Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Congratulations Team Garcetti

Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Congratulations Team Garcetti

Anti-Koch Rally In Downtown L.A. on Tuesday May 14, 2013

Union power

Members ... Don't forget general meeting at the local , Monday, May 6th 200 pm.

please attend ;  Get informed and find out whats going on !

Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those -- regardless of their political party -- who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Operator Seniority Grievance Decision

Arbitrator, John Mclean's Arbitration Decision for the Union. Seniority will prevail once again in our shop, another great job by our Labor Attorney, Adam Stern and our witnesses. Congratulations and get in the fight, we have proven we will not lay down and continue to win our battles!

Mclean Operator Seniority Decision

In Solidarity,
President Pineda

Here is another example of what we can accomplish together.Alone we are just that ,but together we are strong...stay strong!!!! congratulations to the operators