Teamsters Local 848

By Jim Santangelo

Secretary-Treasurer

 

 

Our next general membership meeting will be Sunday, October 26 at 9 am and our shop steward meeting will be at 8 am at our Long Beach office.  Remember. if you move to be sure to keep the Local informed of your current address.

 

Emilio Arias: Organizing does not only appertain to non-union workers.  Organizing starts with us educating our current members.  Union representatives and shop stewards, along with our member activists, must dedicate themselves to changing the mentality of our members from that of a consumer to that of an industrial trade unionist.  When our members are properly informed, they will understand that solidarity will bring them to social and economic justice.  The Industrial Trade Union movement does not only fight for union members, it fights for all of America's working class.  Attend your monthly steward & labor activist meetings and the monthly general membership meetings.  For information about becoming a member organizer with Local 848's Organizing Task Force, please contact me at (626) 732-4700, ext. 322.  Get involved.  Stay involved.

 

Louie Diaz - Boeing Transportation - congratulations to newly-elected stewards:

Chief Steward - John Cox, 1st Shift Steward - Dan Delgado, 1st Shift Alternate Steward - John Oakley, 2nd Shift Steward - Bob Gould and

2nd Shift Alternate Steward - Jerry Merino.  Contract negotiations are scheduled for the month of November with the stewards serving on the negotiating committee.  TABC - good luck to all members who took the buy-out package on October 3.  Local 848 is currently pursuing many grievances to arbitration due to TABC's unwillingness to try and resolve the issues amicably.

 

Dan Encinas: 7-Up facilities of San Fernando and Vernon – if you are suspended or terminated please immediately contact your steward or me as we need to start the process going to grieve your suspension or termination. You can reach me at (626) 732-4700, ext. 305.

 

Erik Lagafuaina: negotiations with Mission Stucco will begin next month. We will have another meeting with the members of Praxair here at the hall in the middle of November.

 

Mike Mansfield: DPI – by now you will have received a bulletin about your upcoming proposal meeting. This is to remind you that it is very important that you attend this meeting on Sunday, November 2 at 9 am at the offices of Teamsters Local 63 located at 379 Valley Blvd., Rialto.  I look forward to seeing all of you there.

 

Kevin McKenzie: Horizon Lines – you’re doing a great job adjusting to your new work location!  We have a couple of unsettled grievances over the move to your new location, but we will resolve those shortly.  Best wishes to Robin for a speedy recovery.  We are still in negotiations with the company on getting into international work.  Yellow/Roadway – YRC is negotiating with the IBT Freight Office in an attempt to speed up the merger of Yellow and Roadway into one company.  YRC would like the merger to be complete within the next six months.  Rest assured that this Local Union and the IBT will protect our members’ rights and make sure that any agreement reached is fair to our members.  ABF – not much to mention for your yard this month.  Mas is home and recovering well.  We are fighting to make sure the company honors our contract and returns work to the clerical members.  We recently settled the payroll grievance and had that worked returned to the payroll clerk.  Catalina Freight – we are aware of the work problems on the Island side.  I will be travelling over to the Island by the end of the month to further investigate this.

 

Richard Munoz : Toyota P.D.C.: the weekend O.T. posting grievance has been resolved after your union filed to go forward with arbitration and also filed charges with N.R.L.B. The aggrieved member accepted the remedy that the new national manager offered to him; thanks to 2nd shift stewards Bernie and Nikko for all their support in this case.  BakeMark: two pending grievances are pushed up to arbitration; both cases deal with wages, also, two other grievances are pending further review with this union office--attendance and Family Medical Leave Act. This union office thanks stewards Joe and Rudy for all the hard work that they put into these grievances. Young’s Mkt. drivers: all the legals and your stewards Sam and Louie have proofread your contract, very soon this office will be sending it to the printing department. After that your stewards and I will be passing them out to you. Gallo Wine: negotiations had been set for September 29 and 30, but due to illness on management side, new dates are set for October. Your stewards Donnie and Roger will be attending these meetings.

 

Arlene Praw: Southern Wine salespersons and drivers and Young’s Market salespersons – be sure to take either your shop steward, another union member or myself into the office when you are being called in to be questioned on invoices, shortages, etc. Your Human Resources departments are not your friends; when they question you even when an investigation is going on they can, and will, use whatever you tell them against you. Please, if you have a problem with a fellow salesperson doing things you feel are not right, do not go to the company, call me and let me try and investigate the problem.