March 13, 2012 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Charleston Gazette, March 10, 2012) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Teamsters Union filed a legal reply brief last week in its lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation’s pilot program that is opening the Mexican border to potentially...
March 12, 2012 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, March 9, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa thanked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for moving an art auction scheduled at Sotheby’s Auction House this week to a new venue in support of...
March 8, 2012 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Toronto Star, March 7, 2012) TORONTO — The Toronto Star is reporting that CN, Canada’s biggest railway, supports putting voice recorders in trains. But CN officials want to use the technology to monitor their employees as well as provide information to...
March 8, 2012 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Canadian Labor Reporter, March 7, 2012) TORONTO — On March 5, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) filed a bad-faith bargaining complaint against the Canadian Pacific Railway with the Canada Industrial Relations Board. The bad-faith bargaining...
February 28, 2012 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 27, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Teamsters Union and Britain’s largest union, Unite, have endorsed the findings of a report highlighting serious flaws in National Express Group’s workplace rights...
February 21, 2012 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Message by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa, February 8, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Already this year, state lawmakers have opened brutal new fronts in the war on workers. And America’s workers are fighting back as never before. In Michigan,...
February 14, 2012 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 13, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Each year in February, Teamsters take a moment to reflect upon and remember a leader who changed the course of history for working men and women in America. James R....
February 9, 2012 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Teamster Magazine, February 9, 2012) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conscientious consumers need to be cautious when purchasing greeting cards. Many are not made in America. George Tedeschi, President of the Graphic Communications Conference of the Teamsters, recommends...
February 8, 2012 | Headlines, Organizing, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 3, 2012) TULSA, Okla. — Eighteen workers at RailCrew Xpress represented by Teamsters Local 523 in Tulsa, Okla. unanimously approved their first contract, making strong gains in workplace rules and...
January 30, 2012 | Canada, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, January 27, 2012) OTTAWA — Canadian National’s 1,800 locomotive engineers have ratified a new collective agreement. Ninety-five percent voted in favour of the deal, which will expire in 2014. The Teamsters...
