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July 15, 2025

Today in 1959

 Half-million steelworkers began what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. The strike occurred over management's demand that the union give up a contract clause which limited management's ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery which would result in reduced hours or numbers of employees. The strike's affects persuaded President Eisenhower to invoke the back-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act. The union sued to have the Act declared unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court upheld the law. The union eventually retained the contract clause and won minimal wage increases. The strike led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in U.S. history, which replaced the domestic steel industry in the long run. 
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Local 557
Updated On: Apr 15, 2025
 

The following benefit information is for those who were members of Local 557 before the 2005 merger with Local 355, including members from ABF and Cassens.


Health & Welfare Fund:

New York State Teamsters Council Health and Hospital Fund
P.O. Box 4928
Syracuse, NY 13221-4928

Phone: 315-455-9790
Toll free: 1-877-698-3863
Fax: 315-455-1237

Email: benefits@nytfund.org

Dental: 1-800-803-5773
Prescription Drug Card (METCO): 1-800-939-2108
Short-Term Disability: The Union Labor Life Insurance Co. 1-888-855-4261
Vision: 1-800-999-5431


Pension:

BeneSys, Inc.
7130 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite A
Columbia, MD 21046

Phone: 410-872-9546
Toll free: 866-548-3214
Fax: 443-986-9149

Teamster's 401(k): 1-877-778-2100 (Option 3)

Legal Fund: 1-888-697-8527 x310
 
 
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