
Victory is Latest in Card-Check Campaign
December 21, 2007
Drivers and dockworkers at USF Reddaway in Boise, Idaho are
now Teamsters after the company recognized the workers through a card-check
agreement on December 13. This marks the latest victory in the union’s
card-check campaign throughout the West.
The card-check agreement enabling this latest victory was
included in a contract that was ratified in August by workers at Reddaway
terminals in California, Arizona and New Mexico. The contract was ratified
216-13 and covers about 400 workers.
In the latest victory, the 70 drivers and dockworkers in
Boise are now Teamsters and will be covered by the same contract that was
ratified by the larger group of workers. The Boise workers joined Local 483 in
Boise.
“We are very pleased to welcome the 70 drivers and
dockworkers here in Boise,” said Mark Briggs, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 483.
“This campaign continues to have strong momentum, and we will provide excellent
representation to these new members.”
The Boise workers are just the latest Reddaway and former
USF Bestway workers to join the Teamsters. Workers at the terminals in Los
Angeles, Stockton, Sacramento, Benicia, Pomona and San Leandro, all in
California, have joined the Teamsters, as well as workers in Phoenix, Arizona;
Bellingham, Washington; Denver, Colorado; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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