Kansas City Workers at UPS Freight Reject Fraud Union in Overwhelming Vote

Third Attempt to Garner Votes Fails

KANSAS CITY, MO., July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the third time, workers at UPS Freight inKansas City overwhelmingly handed a fly-by-night organization claiming to be a labor union its walking papers in a vote yesterday.

Workers voted 157-58 against the Association of Parcel Workers of America, which according to recent filings with the Labor Department, is now insolvent.

"We are not surprised that this sham labor union was defeated for a third time inKansas City," said Ken Hall, Director of the Teamsters Parcel Division and Teamsters Vice President. "They have been defeated in every terminal they have attempted to represent because UPS Freight workers have seen through their false promises."

The organization is run by two UPS workers who employ a union-busting attorney as their legal counsel. Neither of the two UPS workers have ever negotiated a contract or even represented workers as stewards.

"Once again, the workers at UPS Freight overwhelmingly showed that they can't be led astray by this organization's empty claims," said Ralph Stubbs, President of Teamsters Local 41 inKansas City.

To date, more than 11,000 UPS Freight drivers and dockworkers in 40 states have signed cards to become Teamsters, the largest organizing victory in the freight industry in 25 years. More than 9,900 of these workers have already ratified a new contract which improved wages, benefits and working conditions.

SOURCE Teamsters Local 41,Kansas City

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