September 6, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 5, 2013) FAIRFIELD, N.J. — The following is an official statement from Steve Grant, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 1100 in Fairfield, N.J. which represents 195 mailer employees at the...
August 22, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Teamster Nation, August 21, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — About 200 Teamsters and other union members marched against the corporate-dominated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during a protest in downtown Minneapolis yesterday afternoon. They targeted companies...
August 22, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, August 21, 2013) TAMPA, Fla. — Teamsters Local 2011, the bargaining agent for 19,000 officers employed by the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC), has filed a law suit in Leon County Circuit Court...
August 20, 2013 | BNSF, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, August 19, 2013) LINCOLN, Neb. — The union that represents track maintenance labor on the BNSF Railway is suing the railroad for unilaterally exempting a former short-line railroad from the union’s contract. The lawsuit says the...
August 19, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, August 18, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The annual TNBC Conference has become a great meeting place for the leaders and members of the Teamsters Union. Caucuses were designed to gather members together to...
August 16, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, August 15, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the beginning of the TNBC’s fifth annual Women’s Day, a special tribute to the late Coretta Scott King, a Freedom Fighter and wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was...
August 16, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, August 15, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Teamsters Union extends its deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the pilots lost in the crash of UPS Flight 1354 on August 14 near Birmingham, Ala....
August 15, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, August 14, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of African-American Teamster leaders and members have gathered together in the heart of downtown Atlanta on Peachtree Street at the 38th Annual Educational...
August 15, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Column by Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa, Detroit News, August 14, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Corporations are squeezing workers across the globe to maximize profits and minimize wages. But workers are standing up and fighting back. Whether it’s...
August 14, 2013 | Headlines, Teamsters, War on Workers
(Source: Scripps Howard News Service, August 13, 2013) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years ago this month, an up-and-coming labor leader in Southern California received a call instructing him to come to Washington, D.C. Something big was in the works. Full story: The...
