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Teamsters Union
Monday, August 4, 1997
MEDIA ALERT
"NEUTRAL" EMORY UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC RECEIVES UPS MONEY
Emory University management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld who has portrayed
himself to the media as an objective commentator on the Teamster strike at
UPS is director of an organization that receives UPS Foundation money.
Since 1992 the Center for Leadership and Career Studies at Emory University
has received $1.125 million in grants from the UPS Foundation.
The ties between the Center and UPS are strong. UPS Chairman and CEO Kent
Nelson was a founding sponsor of the Center and its CEO college. In 1996,
the Center gave Nelson its Legend in Leadership award.
Teamsters News Release
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997, 2 p.m.
CAREY CALLS ON UPS TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS
TEAMSTERS PRESIDENT ASKS LABOR SECRETARY
ALEXIS HERMAN TO CONTACT COMPANY
NOW THAT UPS IS SHUT DOWN,
"THERE'S NOTHING MORE FOR THEM TO WAIT FOR"
Teamsters President Ron Carey today called on UPS to come back to the
bargaining table to negotiate a contract that provides good jobs for
American workers.
Carey said that in a scheduled telephone call with Labor Secretary Alexis
Herman this afternoon, he will ask Herman to see if the company is prepared
to resume negotiations.
"There is nothing more for them to wait for," Carey said. "The strike has
shut them down. Now it's time for them to get serious about a settlement.
"We are prepared to meet -- anytime, anywhere, with a mediator or without
one -- to negotiate a contract that provides good jobs for working families."
Carey made the announcement during a picket line news conference with Jesse
Jackson in Burtonsville, Maryland. Jackson said UPS's lower-wage, part-time
job strategy amounts to "work to welfare." He led union members in chanting,
"Full-Time Jobs! Full-Time Jobs!"
More than 185,000 Teamsters struck UPS at midnight Sunday night after the
company refused for five months to negotiate a contract that makes major
progress on several priority issues.
UPS made more than a billion dollars in profits last year. Yet more than
half the jobs at UPS are now lower-wage, part-time jobs. Management's last
proposal demands the right to increase that percentage, while creating only
200 new full-time jobs per year. Teamster members are seeking to create
thousands of new full-time job opportunities by combining existing part-time
positions.
The union is seeking subcontracting language that would ensure that UPS jobs
grow as the company grows. But management continues to demand the right to
subcontract Teamster work.
Teamsters want pension improvements, while management is demanding control
over union members' retirement money. Under the company's proposal, UPS --
instead of Teamster members -- could get the benefit of the income from
pension fund investments.
