February 23, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 20, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 6,000 UPS workers represented by Teamsters Local 710 voted to accept a new five-year contract on Thursday. The agreement is retroactive to 2013 and was...
February 19, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 17, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chief Judge Loretta Preska of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York approved an agreement that ends more than 25 years of...
February 18, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 17, 2015) SAN FRANCISCO — In a letter to the CEOs of six East Bay-area companies, Rome Aloise, International Vice President and President of Teamsters Local 853 in San Leandro, Calif., called on...
February 13, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 12, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teamsters at MillerCoors breweries in Eden, N.C., and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year contracts. The agreements cover more than 900 employees at the...
February 12, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 11, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — History Professor Eric Arnesen officially became the first James R. Hoffa Teamsters Professor in Modern American Labor History at George Washington University during a...
February 5, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Reuters, January 30, 2015) LOS ANGELES — Seven Los Angeles-area truckers have won a $2 million claim against an international shipping company accused of stealing their wages by improperly classifying them as independent contractors and charging them to lease...
February 5, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: San Jose Mercury News, February 5, 2015) CUPERTINO, Calif. — As organized labor steps up its efforts in Silicon Valley, shuttle bus drivers who transport the employees of Apple, Yahoo and other tech giants will vote on whether to unionize later this month....
February 3, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 2, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are quick to hammer home to anyone who will listen that the deal is a job-winner for the U.S., with Secretary of State...
February 3, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, February 2, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Teamsters General President James R. Hoffa sat in a Detroit church to pay his respects to the wife of a Teamster business agent, the nation was a tinderbox of...
January 27, 2015 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Huffington Post column by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa, January 26, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — For years, big business has pushed for fast-track trade promotion authority so it can get secret trade deals it helps craft like the Trans-Pacific...
