President Brian Clardy and Secretary/Treasurer Mike Powers spent some time with our Charleston Movie Industry members on the set of the Netflix show, "Outer Banks." They are currently working hard on episodes for Season 4! Local 509 members are also hard at work for the 4th Season of the HBO show, "Righteous Gemstones.
YRC NEGOTIATIONS RESUME,
CONTINUED PROGRESS REPORTED
The Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee (TNFINC) met this week tocontinue negotiations for a new National Master Freight Agreement covering YRC Freight, Holland and New Penn.
The parties met for full days over the course of the week and discussed a wide variety of issues.TNFINC secured a tentative agreement with improvements on a number of items such asequipment, safety, stewards and work opportunities.TNFINC Co-Chair Ernie Soehl stated: “We continued making progress for the members andresolved a number of national non-economic items. Obviously we will still need to tackle the
difficult economic issues, but at least so far I am encouraged by the progress.”
Negotiations are scheduled to resume later in the month.