Local 805 Union Hall Has Moved

New Address and Phone Number:
21-42 44th Drive
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: 718-806-1601

White Rose Workers Win Pay, Benefit Increases

Warehouse workers and drivers ratify 4 year agreement

In a tough economy, many workers are getting pay cuts and pink slips. But not Local 805 Teamsters at White Rose Frozen Foods.

Rest In Peace Sisters Gonazlez and Nuñez

We are sad to announce the tragic passing of Sisters Maria Gonzalez and Maria Nuñez. Both members of Local 805 died in a horrifying accident by the grounds of the Bronx Zoo.

Seven people were killed, including both of Gonazlez's parents and daughter and Nuñez's two daughters.

This strip of the Bronx River Parkway has been site to an unusually high number of deadly crashes, and this is the second in the past year. City officials are investigating safety issues on the highway including guardrail height.

Maria Gonzalez and Maria Nuñez were both good friends and good Teamsters. They will be missed by their co-workers at Fordham University and by all the members in Local 805.

Still Rotten at Fresh Direct

Local 805 teams up with Bronx residents to fight tax giveaway, corporate greed.

IB ImageLocal 805 is keeping up the fight against low wages, benefits and working conditions at nonunion Fresh Direct.

Fresh Direct pays 38 percent of its workers less than $25,000 a year, but the company wants the Bronx to give the company $130 million to move its operations from Queens.

Local 805 President Sandy Pope teamed up with Bronx residents and community activists to denounce a “Rotten Deal” that uses tax dollars from our city’s poorest borough to subsidize corporate greed.

“Wherever Fresh Direct goes, Local 805 will be there until the company pays workers living wages, good benefits and respects workers’ rights to organize without intimidation or harassment.”

Click here to read press coverage.

Avoid Healthcare Hassles

To find doctors, labs, and hospitals that participate in your network, call Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield/Anthem at (800) 810-2583 or go to www.empireblue.com.

For all other healthcare information or questions about your
claims, call the Claims Department at Savasta and Company
at (212) 308-4200.

Local 805 Stands With Locked Out 814 Members

IB ImageLocked-out Local 814 members have held strong against Sotheby’s for more than 5 months. Despite making record profits last year, the auction house is demanding wage and benefit cuts, and the replacement of skilled Teamsters with unskilled, non-union temps.

Local 805 members have joined the Sotheby’s picket lines along with other Teamster locals and other unions in a display of solidarity in the fight against corporate greed. Public supporters including Occupy Wall Street protestors have also joined the picket lines and staged direct actions.

Effective January 1, these locked-out Teamsters' health care expired. After 5 months without a paycheck, these members and their families are also without health care coverage. Local 805 members have “adopted” members and their families to help provide health care funds.

Cablevision Workers Vote Union!

United Workers Can Beat the Union Busters

IB ImageMore than 280 Brooklyn Cablevision technicians and dispatchers in Brooklyn voted to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA), Local 1109.

They are the first Cablevision workers to join a union. Cable TV is an overwhelmingly non-union industry while the traditional telecommunications industry remains highly unionized.

As soon as Cablevision’s management learned of the organizing drive, they began a campaign of harassment and intimidation, including forcing workers to attend high-pressure, anti-union “captive audience” meetings, and pressuring workers to oppose the union in one-on-one meetings with managers.

But workers stuck together and won.

“This is a victory for every worker who wants the right to freely join a union and organize for the wages and benefits our families need,” said Local 805 President Sandy Pope.

Your Right to Family and Medical Leave

IB ImageAre you having a baby or is your spouse?

Do you have a serious medical condition that requires treatment?

Do you have to take care of a family member who has a serious medical condition?

If you answered “yes” to any one of these questions, you may be able to take unpaid leave from your job under a federal law called the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Labor Notes: Brooklyn Cablevision Workers Lead MLK Day March

IB ImageKester Charter has heard the promises before, but this time he isn’t biting.

“Cablevision said they would look into wages at other companies, make ours competitive, upgrade the retirement,” says the 15-year cable technician in his gentle West Indian lilt. “They never did anything.”

Charter and 284 other Brooklyn field service workers at Cablevision are readying for a union vote January 26. It’s the fourth attempt to win a union for the techs in two decades, and the first that has withstood the company’s relentless misinformation campaign long enough to proceed to a vote.

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