You are not safe. Not at work. Not at home in your bed. The biggest threat is not terrorism. It's corporate negligence leading to a blast or collapse or release of toxic chemicals. Terrorism killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11. But in the dozen years since then,...
Proposed Five-Year Contracts Protect Strong Health Care Benefits While Significantly Increasing Funding For Pensions, Health And Welfare Funds (WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters Union announced today that it has reached tentative agreements with UPS [NYSE: UPS] on new five-year national contracts for package and freight workers that...
Strong Pro-Worker Record Earns State Senator Joint Council 83 Backing (RICHMOND, VA) – Today, Teamsters Joint Council 83 in Richmond, Va. announced its support for State Senator Mark Herring in his campaign for state attorney general. Herring has worked tirelessly for Virginia working families during his two...
Union Members will Serve as Human Shields for Officer Collier Service Tomorrow (BOSTON, MA) - More than 1,000 Boston Teamsters, union members and concerned citizens lined the streets of Medford, Mass. on Monday, April 22, 2013 to serve as human shields blocking the Westboro hate group...
Tells Republic to Start Respecting Workers and Communities (WASHINGTON D.C.) – Today, 23 workers at Republic Services’ landfill in Youngstown, Ohio returned to work after an unfair labor practice strike that began on March 27, 2013. “We never wanted to go on strike, but Republic’s behavior has...
Reaction to U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on Pilot Program (WASHINGTON, D.C.) –The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is disappointed in the court’s decision upholding the legality of the pilot program to open our borders to unsafe Mexican trucks. The union is reviewing its options with...
Federal Lawsuit Underscores Alienation of Labor Stakeholders (Washington, D.C.) – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents approximately 340 pilots and flight attendants for Global Aviation’s two airlines World Airways and North American Airlines, are calling on the company’s board of directors to take swift and...
Memphis Workers On Unfair Labor Practice Strike Extend Picket Lines For First Time (San Jose, CA) – Striking sanitation workers from Republic Service’s [NYSE: RSG] hauling yards in Memphis and Millington, Tennessee extended picket lines to California early this morning. The striking workers, members of Teamsters...
(Bagdad, Fla.) – On Thursday, Apr. 18, at 5:45 p.m., school bus drivers from Milton, Pace and Navarre will hold a press conference to speak out about serious concerns over school bus safety, service and working conditions at Durham School Services. Immediately following the press conference,...
Memphis-Area Hauling Yard Workers Go On Unfair Labor Practice Strike; Trash Disruptions Expected in Germantown, Rossville, Cordova and Greater Memphis Area (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) – Sanitation workers employed by Republic Services/Allied Waste [NYSE: RSG] began an unfair labor practice strike at midnight in the greater Memphis area...