June 20, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 17, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today is National Garbage Collector Day, an annual event to honor the men and women who work to keep our neighborhoods and streets safe and clean on a daily basis. In the...
June 20, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 17, 2016) BENSENVILLE, Ill. — Today, Teamsters that work at the US Foods [NYSE: USFD] distribution facility in Bensenville, Ill. refused to cross the extended picket line of Teamsters from Severn,...
June 17, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 15, 2016) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Following a tentative agreement on May 6, 2016, Teamster flight dispatchers at NetJets have voted unanimously to ratify their first-ever contract. The vote was 38 to 0 in...
June 17, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 15, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — America has been undergoing a period of income redistribution that has resulted in the rich getting richer at the expense of the bottom 90 percent, a new Economic Policy...
June 15, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 14, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch last week, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa urged the Justice Department to reject any remedy to the pending...
June 15, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 14, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some basic U.S. laws – especially the Social Security Act and the 1938 law enacting the minimum wage and the right to overtime pay – must be changed to account for...
June 14, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 13, 2016) WILMINGTON, Ohio — After more than five years of negotiations for a new labor agreement with Kalitta Air, LLC, the cargo airline based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the union representing its...
June 14, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 13, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Employers who engage in unfair labor practices can be forced to pay a union’s bargaining expenses, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, a move that could helped organized...
June 13, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 10, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A $15 minimum wage, once considered a fantasy by many, is now on its way towards being a reality in the nation’s capital. Washington, D.C. added itself to the growing list...
June 10, 2016 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, June 9, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teamsters in Colorado and New Hampshire this week started testing new technology that will help the union ramp up its voter registration efforts in advance of the November...
