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INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006 United For A Secure Future UPS TEAMSTERS BEGIN NATIONAL CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS www.teamster.org ININ THISTHIS ISSUEISSUE 2 TEAMSTER NEWS 8 United For l Teamsters Mourn Flight Attendant A Secure Future l Charity Event Teamsters Kick Off Contract Raises $1 Million Negotiations At UPS l Teamster Wins $675,000 On 14 Teamster Time Game Show At Miller l Local 200 Members Workers, Conference Secure Solid Make Snap-on Tools Wages And Benefits l TV Show Honors Teamsters 16 Making A Difference 8 750 Teamster Women Gather For ORGANIZING Women’s Conference 20 l Concrete Workers 22 Taking The Chill Join Local 745 Out Of AmeriCold l Local 747 Welcomes 100 Pilots 495 Warehouse Workers Now Represented By Local 528 l Deputy Sheriffs Join Local 633 24 Striking Oil l Local 439 Wins Local 120 Members Return Dual Campaigns To Work At Marathon Oil l 111 Nurses 26 Justice Delivered Join Local 690 After Long Delay, Supreme Court Sides 3030 COURT MATERIAL With Detroit Newspaper Workers 32 Breaking Away Motion Picture Industry Is 16 On The Upswing In Texas 28 Rail Maintenance Appalachian And Ohio Workers Vote “Yes” For BMWED www.teamster.org International Brotherhood of Teamsters 25 Louisiana Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001-2198 202-624-6800 The Teamster (ISSN 1083-2394) is the official pub- lication of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 25 Louisiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001-2198. It is published eight times a year in February, March/April, May, June/July, August, September, October, and November/ December. Periodical postage paid at Washington, D.C. and at additional mailing offices. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006 / VOLUME 103, NO. 8 © 2006 International Brotherhood of Teamsters. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without writ- ten permission is prohibited. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Teamster, Affiliates Records Department, 25 Louisiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001- 2198. Subscription rates: $12 per year. Single copies, $2. (All orders payable in advance.) Members should send address changes to their local union. A MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL PRESIDENT Putting Workers First n August, the U.S. trade gap widened Bad Solutions to a staggering $69.9 billion, a 2.7 per- Our elected officials continue to support cent increase over July’s record-setting trade policies that have displaced more than a $68 billion deficit. Our trade deficit million Mexican farmers and have impover- with China alone shot up by 12.2 ished millions more Latin Americans, forcing percent to a record of $22 billion. At these desperate workers to risk their lives to this rate, the U.S.-China trade deficit illegally migrate north and take menial jobs will blow away last year’s $202 bil- to support their families back home. Our lion, the highest deficit ever recorded government’s solution to illegal immigration between two countries. is not a re-examination of destructive trade IBut this is nothing new. Our government’s policies, but rather a 700-mile fence along the economic policies have led to record-setting Mexican border. trade deficits for five consecutive years. These Instead of passing more trade agreements policies have also cost the United States mil- modeled after NAFTA and CAFTA, Ameri- lions of jobs. Since 2001, 2.7 million U.S. jobs cans should demand real action that will have been outsourced to other countries and benefit workers both here and abroad. 3 million manufacturing jobs have been lost. The Teamsters have a strong, proud his- tory of opposing trade deals that are unfair to 10 Years Gone American workers. Let your elected officials Ten years of NAFTA have shown us that the know that you do not support padding Cor- only winners are multinational corporations porate America’s profits at the expense of our that move plants out of the United States to nation’s working men and women. We must pay a nonliving wage and re-import finished fight these unfair trade agreements. Our goods into this country. In other words, U.S. future depends on it. workers lose and foreign workers lose, but the CEOs and large shareholders of multina- tional conglomerates win. Our government promotes America as champions of liberty in one breath while promoting trade agreements that fail to safe- guard basic human rights, wage standards and environmental protections in another. TEAMSTER NEWS In Memoriam: Kelly Heyer Teamsters Mourn Loss of Comair Flight Attendant n August 27, flight atten- Heyer, 27, had been a mem- Slayback said that dant Kelly Heyer was ber of Local 513 in Florence, she had called Heyer Oamong 49 people killed Kentucky since beginning work last week, reporting in the crash of Comair Flight at the airline in July 2004. A that he had won his 5191 in Lexington, Kentucky. Florence resident, Heyer was first grievance, con- “On behalf of the Teamsters stationed at JFK Airport in New cerning a flight crew’s Union, our deepest sympathies York City and was selected as the rest time and report go out to the families, friends flight attendants’ New York rep- time. and coworkers of Kelly Heyer resentative earlier this summer. “Any time he and everyone who was on had a question or Flight 5191,” said Jim Hoffa, Devastating News thought the com- Teamsters General President. “We were devastated when we pany wasn’t inter- “This accident was a true trag- heard the news,” said Connie preting the contract edy. We mourn and honor the Slayback, Local 513 President correctly, he’d be on the once again to say one final lives lost.” and Comair flight attendant. phone, almost right after he goodbye,” an unidentified The aircraft was assigned the “Kelly always had the cour- was hired,” Slayback said. “He friend wrote on an Internet airport’s Runway 22 for the take- age to stand up and represent wasn’t argumentative, so much bulletin board. “My wife was off, but used Runway 26 instead. himself and our fellow flight as someone who wanted things so right when she said, ‘My life Runway 26 was too short for a attendants. He was popular at done right.” was just better because Kelly safe takeoff, causing the aircraft JFK and his coworkers always was a part of it.’” to depart the end of the runway had nice things to say about Remembering Heyer “His truly is a heartbreaking before it could become airborne. working with him.” “He was a dynamic person,” loss,” said Don Treichler, Air- It crashed just past the end of the “He was a stand-up individ- said Jim Hoeh, a friend of line Division Director. “Kelly runway, killing all 47 passengers ual,” said Tracey Riley, Comair Heyer’s. “He treated everyone was an upstanding profes- and two of the three crew. The flight attendant and Local 513 with the respect he believes sional. We extend our heartfelt flight’s first officer was the only business agent. “He was very they should be treated with.” condolences to Kelly’s family, survivor. professional, loved his job.” “I just wish I could see you friends and coworkers.” GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD James P. 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Taurone 1668 N.W. 1000 Road 47 West 200 South Creighton, MO 64739 Suite 300 Salt Lake City, UT 2 TEAMSTER | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER84101 2006 | www.teamster.org “In Search Of A Cure” Local 731’s Hancock, Charity Event Raises Over $1 Million s President of Local 731 in the first few golf outings, but Chicago, Terry Hancock now he controls the micro- Ahas the leadership skills to phone and runs the raffle,” achieve victories for workers Hancock said. and their families. The same The money that Local 731 leadership qualities cross over raises goes to support a condi- into his personal life, allowing tion that is the nation’s fastest him to make a difference in the growing developmental disor- lives of thousands of people. der. An estimated one in 166 sibly within his lifetime. treat it, and hopefully one day, Hancock holds an admira- children are currently affected “There was a time when find a cure.