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9239 Local25 Sum08.qxp7/28/0810:20 AMPage 4Business AgentDedicated to Our Local Union MembersSecretary-TreasurerMark HarringtonI recently completed contract negotiations with Dry Ice Corporation.The contract is for five years andincludes maintenance of benefitsfor health, welfare and pensionbenefits as well as wage and vacation improvements. I would like tothank steward John Maskell for his assistance.I also completed Lafarge Cement negotiations. We wonmaintenance of benefits regarding health, welfare and pensionbenefits as well as solid wage and vacation improvements. Iwould like to thank Steward John Henigan for his help.Negotiations were also completed with the town ofHingham’s Department of Public Works. The DPW members received a wage increase of 3 percent across-the-board aswell as improvements in longevity and clothing allowances.Thanks go out to steward Pat Boyle and member SteveDempsey.A tentative agreement has been reached with Petro Heatand Power, which when ratified will set the pattern for otheroil contracts within the jurisdiction of Local 25.In freight, I settled a subcontracting grievance with NewPenn that will expand our area of service. Hard work was putforth by stewards Tim Halloran and John Moody.In the carhaul division, our members have faced verytough times. The strike against PTS resulted in the company’sclosure. We were really left with no alternative but to strike asPTS pulled out of national negotiations and demanded concessions that were unreasonable. We are working diligently toassist the displaced PTS workers.Also in carhaul, we have also been informed that Allied,the largest carhaul employer nationally, has lost the Fordwork in Framingham that our members have done for several decades. There is no loyalty from the shippers today. Ourmembers jumped through hoops to service that account.A tentative national carhaul agreement has been reachedand is out for a vote. Ballots were sent out in mid-July andthe ballot count is scheduled to take place in early August.The entire carhaul industry is facing terrible economic conditions and this contract addresses our members’ main concerns about job security, wages and benefits.I continue negotiations with a number of companies andwill report on those talks in the fall.2 The SPOKESMAN SUMMER 2008 www.teamsterslocal25.comVice-President andBusiness AgentJohn MurphyI am pleased to tell you thatGeneral President Jim Hoffa hasappointed me as Chairman of theEastern Region of the DHLDivision. I am looking forward toserving in this new position onbehalf of the more than 600 DHL members at Local 25 andothers in the East.Also in freight, the YRC Corporation change of operations was recently approved by the International Union’sFreight Division. This affects our freight members at Yellowand Roadway Express. I think this will have a positive effectfor our members and hopefully will help the companiesimprove service within their service lanes.I’m waiting for the ballots to be sent out to members atAEI/DHL Global Forwarding for the national contract andthe supplement.I’ve been given a couple of new assignments as businessagent representing the members at Boston Sand & Graveland at Safway Scaffolding in Braintree. I’m looking forwardto meeting all the workers at these workplaces and helpingthem with any problems they may face.A grievance case filed on behalf of UPS Cartage Inc.workers involving the 3-percent pay increase deadlocked atthe regional panel and will now be moving to the nationalpanel. I look forward to getting this issue resolved in a positive way.I’m currently in contract negotiations on behalf of theMassport Authority service maintenance employees. Thesetalks affect 400 members, and I will fight to make sure theworkers’ interests are protected.The national DHL Express contract was ratified recentlyand the company has 90 days to post the 90/10 bids and 30days to implement the bids.

9239 Local25 Sum08.qxp7/28/0810:20 AMPage 5ReportsBusiness AgentBob McAllisterSince my last report, I settled thecontract with Manfi Leasing for theStop & Shop drivers. It is an addendum to the National Master FreightAgreement. We maintained the tophealth and welfare benefits, as wellas the top pension benefits. We alsogot significant wage increases over the five years of the contract. We also strengthened seniority language and added 27more bid starts with weekend days off. The contract was ratified by a vote of 205-6. I want to thank my committee of JayManley, Mark Sullivan and John Curtin for their hard work.I also completed the contract with Stop & Shop for thefleet mechanics. We got top wage increases over five years.Some of the members will receive 3.75 in wage increasesover the life of the agreement as well as the top health andwelfare benefits. Also, the company increased their contribution by 10 percent in order to satisfy the maintenance of benefits for the pension. We increased the new hire wage progression and got sick days for all employees. Thanks to StewardTim Godfrey who did a great job as we went up against thecompany’s committee of seven.I have been in negotiations with Hertz over the pastmonth. Healthcare and wages are the main issues. I will bewrapping up the St. Michael’s Cemetery contract soon. I willbe opening up with National car rental in the coming weeks.I recently negotiated an agreement with GAF Materialsthat will keep the shipping and distribution department openin Millis. We will be able to maintain about six members.With the assistance of Steward Joe Cormican, we unanimously ratified a new five-year contract that called for significantwage increases as well as maintaining Teamsters health andwelfare benefits while reducing the cost to the members.As you know, with the cost of fuel out of control, the airlines have been taking a big hit. This will have a negativeimpact on our members at Continental, Air Canada and ournewest members at United.I am working toe that the rights of these members areprotected should there be any job reductions here in Boston.Business AgentGeorge SlicisLike Local 25’s other businessagents, I have been busy with contracts this year.The priority in all of the contracts is protecting health care, pensions and wages. Each set of negotiations is tough during these difficult economic times. I negotiated a contract with DelaneyLinens in Watertown, which has been ratified. It is a five-yeardeal with full coverage of the Teamsters health and welfarebenefits, a 10-percent increase in pension contributions eachyear and 50 cents per year for wage increases. The guys werehappy and all voted yes.I also negotiated a contract with Crown Linen services inSouth Boston, which has been ratified. They also have a fiveyear deal with full coverage of the Teamsters health and welfare benefits, a 10-percent increase each year in pension contributions as well as increases in the commission schedule.This was also ratified by a 100-percent margin.I negotiated a tentative agreement with Aramark uniformservice in Lawrence, which was recently ratified. They willalso get full coverage of the Teamsters health and welfare benefits, a 10-percent increase per year toward the pension, andwere able to get wage increases for the hourly employeeswhile raising the commission rates with some sales- incentives language. I also got some letters of understanding withsome work-related issues that needed to get resolved.I also negotiated, and the workers ratified, a one-year dealwith Good Humor Breyers ice cream in Framingham. Theworkers got full coverage of the Teamsters health and welfarebenefits as well as 65 cents in wage increases. The companyhad asked for a one-year extension due to new managementchanges and wasn’t sure of the direction the company wasgoing at this time. We also got a severance package that willprotect the employees and we will start negotiations early in2009 for a long-term contract.I recently started negotiations with Angelica Textiles inSomerville. I hope to get them a good long-term contract as well.I am also working on a new contract for the town ofSudbury 9-1-1 operators. It is going slow because of all theboilerplate language that needs to be implemented, but wewill get it done. Public sector bargaining is a whole new animal to me and it has been a learning experience.www.teamsterslocal25.com SUMMER 2008 The SPOKESMAN 3

9239 Local25 Sum08.qxp7/28/0810:20 AMPage 6Business Agent ReportsBusiness AgentTom MariI have been in negotiations withmany of the employers of my bargaining units over the past threemonths.I have finished up negotiationswith Brookline 9-1-1, in which wecompleted a four-year contract thatwe secured a “four and two” work schedule, which was ournumber-one priority during these sessions. The “four andtwo” work schedule means that each member will receive 17more paid days each year.Negotiations with the Boston Globe are also completed,and we secured the maintenance of benefits for the health andwelfare, and a 10-percent increase in pension contributions.I have finished negotiations with the town of Melrose forthe school administrators. We secured many gains in thisdeal, such as yearly wage increases, increases in longevity andincreases in education incentives. Also, we brought five of the13 members’ wages up by more than 10,000 annually to givethem parity with the rest of the department heads.I am proud to report that I have finished negotiationswith the newly organized Kraft Power group. These membersproved that when you vote to become Teamsters Local 25members by a 17-2 vote, you send a clear message to thecompany that when negotiations start, we are unified. Wesecured a first contract that has many protections of a muchmore mature contract, such as overtime after eight hours,plus double time after 12 hours, four-hour minimum emergency calls, guaranteed start times, and most importantly, wesecured Teamsters Local 25 Health and Welfare, which is a farsuperior benefit than what these members were receiving.These new members will receive a 3.5-percent raise in thefirst year, 3 percent in year two, and 3 percent in year three.We secured set rates for each classification. Before we had acontract, the company had techs that were equally qualifiedand in some cases were being paid more than a dollar anhour different. Now all things are equal.I want to thank all my negotiating committees for theirsupport and resolve during these hard-fought contractnegotiations.4 The SPOKESMAN SUMMER 2008 www.teamsterslocal25.comBusiness AgentRobert FabrizioI am happy to report that this pastMarch, I came to a tentative agreement with Kiessling Transit, a newlyorganized company in Braintree,Massachusetts. Kiessling Transit provides door-to-door service to passengers with disabilities. They areone of four privately owned companies that have contractswith the M.B.T.A.The program is called The Ride. The drivers either drivesedans or vans to transport disabled passengers. There areapproximately 125 drivers currently and the company is growing. The drivers ratified their first contract on March 16 by a25-1 vote.The next day, our Organizing Department got a call sayingthe dispatchers and schedulers wanted to join the union.Within two weeks, they were accreted into the driver’s contractalong with the call takers, which brings up the total of newmembers to 152.Kiessling was the last company to be organized that fallsunder The Ride program. Veterans Taxi out of Waltham wasone of the first. They have close to 200 drivers. Joint Venture,based out of Jamaica Plain, where we represent approximately111 members, includes drivers along with the dispatchers,schedulers and reservationists. Teamsters Local 42 representsG.L.S.S, (Greater Lynn Senior Services) which is up in theNorth Shore.I am pleased to announce that the members of RomanowContainer, a corrugated cardboard company in Westwood,Massachusetts, overwhelmingly ratified their new five-yearcontract on May 31, which included increases in wages alongwith increases in pension contributions and a three-year freezeon the employee health-care premiums.Congratulations to the members of the town of Cohasset9-1-1 safety dispatchers, They recently ratified a new three-yearcontract, which includes yearly wage increases, a new shift differential, along with trainers’ pay.The contract for Stop & Shop distribution in Freetown,Massachusetts expires next April, and as we all know, April willbe here before you know it. The surveys were already sent outmonths ago. I am in the process of putting together the committee as of this writing, and the next step is to have our proposal meeting around the end of August or early September. Iwould like to encourage each and every one of you who workat Stop & Shop distribution to participate in preparing forthese important upcoming negotiations.

9239 Local25 Sum08.qxp7/28/0810:20 AMPage 7Business AgentDave PietroforteIt’s been a busy late spring andearly summer for me when itcomes to negotiating contracts, butthe effort has paid off for ourmembers.At MS Walker in Norwood, Inegotiated a three-year contractthat protected workers’ health, welfare and pension benefitsand contained solid wage gains. The members later ratifiedthe deal. Similarly successful contracts were negotiated andratified at U.S. Foods in Everett; City of Everett’s CityServices Department; Arrow Paper in Wilmington; MysticIsland Trans (five-year contract) in Woburn; MinutemanTrans (five-year contract) in Andover; Gilman Brothers inNorwood; Millbrook Cold Storage in Somerville; and RISPaper in Woburn. I want to thank all the members who tookpart in the process and also for standing with me every stepof the way. The hard work these past months have resultedin more security for you and your families during this verydifficult economic period.At Costa Fruit in Charlestown, negotiations are goingslower and we’re still fighting to resolve the key issues, buthopefully there will be a breakthrough soon. I’m also stillnegotiating a new contract at Paul Revere Trans in Chelsea.I’m sorry to report that a 94-year-old Massachusettsinstitution, Brigham’s Ice Cream, closed down. Brigham’ssold its brand name to H.P. Hood and its stores to aMaryland company. The company gave workers vacationpay, sick days and personal time that was owed to them thisyear and next, but 30 of our members were left without jobs.We’re trying to get the company to abide by language in thecontract related to the severance packages and successor language. That fight continues. Brigham’s closure is a major lossto our members, their families and the community in general. We’ve also helped the displaced members with training,including help getting them their CDLs through the Local25 driver training school.In the public sector, I negotiated a contract for the townof Acton 9-1-1 operators, which workers ratified 7-0. Thethree-year deal provides the workers with retroactive payand step-pay increases and an overall 12-percent wageincrease over three years.I also settled two more arbitration cases involving city ofEverett employees. The first resulted in a 2-percent stepincrease affecting eight City Services Department workers.The second helped eight workers get paid for back holidaysat time-and-a-half.At U.S. Foods, I have filed three arbitration cases. Twoinvolve unjust suspensions, the third a bid infraction.Business RepresentativeGerry GodinI have been busy recently negotiating contracts at several companies.The successful negotiationsinclude Bradco Supply in Woburnand in Chelmsford; WalthamLime & Cement; Arlington Coaland Lumber; Brockway-Smith inAndover; North American Industries in Woburn; O.B. Hillin Allston; and the newly organized Admiral Roofing inWoburn.We made significant gains in every one of the contractsand we didn’t give anything back to the employers. Forexample, at Admiral Roofing, we won raises between 1 and 9 an hour that took effect immediately. We also got theworkers into the Teamster pension plan. At Arlington Coaland Lumber, we got the workers into the Teamsters Healthand Welfare plan. Thank you to all the workers for yoursupport over these past several months.I recently settled three arbitration cases at solid wastegiant Waste Management. We settled two cases favorablyearly on in the process and we won the third case, so allthree ended well for our members. Two cases involved terminations while the third had to do with discipline connected to an alleged failure to complete a work shift. We willcontinue fighting to protect our members’ rights throughthe arbitration process when necessary.I’m happy to report that under the guidance of Local 25President Sean O’Brien, we’re getting more constructionrelated work for Local 25 Teamsters. At Logan Airport inBoston, where crews are building more runways, we havefour members who are driving at the site. We also took over acommercial job in Dedham, creating six Teamster drivingjobs. At the train station in Westwood, we got six driving jobsfor our members. We will continue to fight for moreTeamster jobs in the construction industry—this is our work.We helped Capital Waste in Revere, a solid waste company, win the garbage-collection contracts in Weymouth,Quincy and Braintree. This has resulted in 30 moreTeamster jobs.www.teamsterslocal25.com SUMMER 2008 The SPOKESMAN 5

9239 Local25 Sum08.qxp7/28/0810:20 AMPage 8DHL MembersRatify National ContractHoffa Appoints Local 25 Vice President John Murphy to Key PositionMore than 7,000 Teamsters working at DHLExpress, including about 600 DHL workerswho belong to Local 25, ratified their firstnational agreement in May.The national contract was ratified by a solid 82percent margin.“The vote from DHLExpress members is a strongsignal of support,” said JimHoffa, Teamsters GeneralPresident. “We were determinedto obtain the best contract thatwe could for members, and Ibelieve we have achieved that. Ithank our national negotiatingcommittee and our memberson a job well done.”“This contract is good newsfor our 600-plus DHL workershere at Local 25,” said JohnMurphy, Local 25 VicePresident and business agent.“Our hardworking members atDHL will benefit from theimproved wages and benefits, and the improvedworking conditions.”The contract also strengthens job security fordrivers, freight handlers, warehouse workers, clericalworkers and call center representatives at dozens ofDHL Express locations across the U.S.Murphy Selected ChairmanMeanwhile, Hoffa appointed Local 25 VicePresident John Murphy to serve as the Chairman ofthe Eastern Region for the DHL Express Division.“I’m very proud to be appointed to this newposition and I look forward to serving the DHLTeamsters in the East,” Murphy said.The five-year contract expires on March 31,2013. Among the national contract’s highlights:annual wage and benefit increases, including 8.356 The SPOKESMAN SUMMER 2008 www.teamstersloc

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