Parking employees join union

[Omaha Steve]

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Issue date: 10/4/07 Section: News

Syracuse University Parking and Transit Services employees joined the Teamsters Union after a 24-20 vote last Friday at Hendricks Chapel. The decision makes the Teamsters the fourth union to which campus employees belong.

Data coordinators, office coordinators, parking control officers and parking lot attendants - both full time and part time - make up the 45 parking services employees who were eligible to vote. The employees have tried to join the Teamsters since 2002, but their progress stalled because of issues with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), said Jack Matson, SU director of staff relations and recruitment.

"The Teamsters represent 1.4 million working men and women in virtually every occupation throughout the United States and Canada," according to the union's Web site. The Teamsters was founded in 1903 and is now the largest trade union in North America. Local unions join the Teamsters to receive protection from the global organization, which they could not achieve on their own.

Matson said he was not aware of any specific motives to join the union.

"We really think SU's a great place to work," Matson said. "We've got really a good place to work, good pay, good benefits. We've got a safe working environment, we're one of the larger employers in the community and we're certainly pretty stable."

The presence of a new labor union on campus will have a minimal effect on the university community, Matson said.


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