Local 340 Activities

President James Carson wants to say congratulations to the 60+ new Teamster members at Laidlaw Bus in Orland and Calais. We are very proud of tireless hard work and dedication by everyone involved making this a successful organizing campaign. Laidlaw International employees in Orland and Calais http://www.laidlaw.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=145371&p=irol-home exercised their democratic right voting to choose Teamsters Local 340 to represent them. First Student is making a $2.8 Billion dollar acquisition of Laidlaw, on the following website you can read about the merger http://www.cnbc.com/id/20993300/for/cnbc.

There was a tremendous amount of work that went into this by many people. President James Carson also wants to thank Joint Council 10 Organizer Roger Travers and Darlene Page who is a new member from the recent successful First Student organizing campaign in Hampden and Deere Isle for all of the hard work they did to bring this to a successful conclusion, we also want to thank the organizers from the IBT.

UPS/CSI
Menlo Worldwide was acquired by UPS in October of 2004. The Union and UPS
are in the process of negotiating a CBA which will become a supplemental
agreement to the UPS National Agreement.

Below is a Picture of the Union and they are as follows: Front Row: Aaron
Court, Shop Steward Darrell Lilley, Leslie MacDonald, Aaron Chandler, Allen
Thomas, Dave Bishop and back row are Shop Steward Lorne Smith, Robert
Doucette, William McIntyre, Scott Wilkes, Chris Pappi and Bill Bushey.