Teamsters Local 399 Ratifies New 3-Year Contract With Producers
Teamsters Local 399 this morning ratified the new 3-year contract with the Association of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The vote was the latest in a series of ratifications by various unions covered under the new contract with producers. In addition to the Teamsters, the other Basic Crafts Union that has ratified the contract is the Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 755. The Studio Utility Employees Local No. 724 is scheduled to vote Thursday. IATSE’s 14 locals announced their ratification July 3. Status of ratification of other Basic Crafts locals — Electrical Workers No. 40 and Plumbers No. 78 — could not be confirmed this afternoon.
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AMPTP, Basic Crafts Unions Announce Tentative Three-Year Contract
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Im a union member boilermaker local 112 great job men we need more union members
This is a good thing that has been done here. Please pass the cannoli’s…
Failed leadership at Teamsters Local 399 and a disenfranchised membership voted in favor of a 3 year deal.
The Vote:
201 In favor
29 Opposed
The is no doubt that the membership (almost 5000 members) of local 399 are disenfranchised judging by the turnout, this has to be embarrassing to Leo Reed secretary of local 399 at the “International Brotherhood of Teamsters” level and only confirms that it is time for Leo Reed to Retire.
The leadership of the local, Leo T. Reed and Tony Cousimano lost control and started yelling at one of the member who spoke on the issue, other members were very disappointed in the leadership attacking one of its Rank and File members.
Action such as this only serves to confirm the “Thug” like mentality of the union leadership and total arrogance toward the membership whom pays their salaries including the son of the secretary of treasurer was recently hired.
There were no drafts or outline on the contract handed out to the membership, once again.
The membership is still trying to figure out what Leo Reed negotiated since it was a carbon copy of the I.A.T.S.E. contract, which concluded several weeks earlier.
Vote for Gary Watts 2013
~ Gary Watts ~
you’re certainly one of a kind Gary…
reading this surprised me and then I lol’d when I saw your name at the bottom of it.
Another Giveaway Contract ‘negotiated” by Leo Reed and “overwhelmingly approved” by 201 members of a 3500 member union, none of whom even got to see a summary of the new contract. This vote was held on a weekday evening, when most of the rank and file membership, who traditionally work the Industry’s longest workday, was still at work. Democracy in Action?? 14 years after Hoffa’s promise of “better times” for Teamsters, what do we see? The same old collusion with management, and the same disenfranchisement of the membership.