UPS Freight Workers In Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois Sign Cards to Become Teamsters

In Latest Victories, About 100 Workers Will Join Locals 236, 325 And 364

WASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An overwhelming majority of about 100 workers at UPS Freight (formerly Overnite Transportation) terminals in South Bend, Indiana; Rockford, Illinois; and Paducah, Kentucky have signed authorization cards to become Teamsters, bringing the total number of drivers and dockworkers seeking to join the union to more than 7,100 since January 16, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced.

The workers are seeking to join Local 364 in South Bend, Local 325 in Rockford and Local 236 in Paducah.

"Our freight stewards and members on the organizing committee did a great job getting the literature out to the UPS Freight workers -- they played an instrumental role," said Bob Warnock III, Local 364 President. "We wouldn't have been successful without the help of our stewards and members."

"The UPS Freight workers have remained committed and confident in their quest to become Teamsters," said Jeff Porter, Local 325 Secretary-Treasurer. "I'm very excited to be welcoming the workers to Local 325."

"I want to thank Leah Ford of the International Union's Legal Department and Package Division Director Ken Hall for their help and support with the campaign," said Harold "Bud" Dillow, Jr., Local 236 President. "Local 89 President Fred Zuckerman and his organizer, Kevin Evans, were also a big help. The UPS Freight workers stood together in their effort to join the union."

"These latest victories show once again how local unions are helping each other, and how Teamsters are helping to reach out to the UPS Freight workers," Hall said. "This campaign is all about unity and cooperation."

In addition to the South Bend, Rockford and Paducah workers, a majority of UPS Freight workers in West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, California, Florida, Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, New York, Kentucky and New England, including the large cities of Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, San Antonio, Cleveland, Atlanta, Houston, San Diego, St. Louis, Orlando, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oakland, Seattle, Memphis and Detroit, have submitted cards to become Teamsters.

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.