The devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and the ongoing recovery efforts stand as a stark reminder that America’s critical infrastructure – our electric grid, transportation systems, nuclear power plants, water infrastructure and treatment plants, and petroleum pipelines – as well as key population centers, remain...
Sanitation Workers In 19 Cities Hold “Just Practicing” Picketing Actions (WASHINGTON) – Today, more than 1,000 sanitation workers in 19 cities who work for Republic Services/Allied Waste protested the company with “Just Practicing” picketing actions. The workers protested Republic’s attempts to strip workers of their pensions...
Every day President Obama reads and responds to letters from citizens. This illustrates his basic philosophy: people first. By contrast, for Mitt Romney, profit is the priority. He hasn't responded to any of the letters sent to him by workers at Sensata Technologies, a car sensor manufacturer...
Veterans and Active-Duty Service Men and Women to Benefit (WASHINGTON) – Teamsters across the country are applauding President Barack Obama’s signing into law today of the Military Commercial Driver’s License Act of 2012. The demand for qualified, safe truck drivers has risen over the past few...
Billy Koehler died on March 7, 2009, for lack of health insurance. Mitt Romney said on October 10, 2012, that's impossible. The Republican nominee for president told the Columbus Dispatch last week: We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance. Technically, that's true...
The latest monthly U.S. trade figures were released this morning by the Department of Commerce: In August 2012, the U.S. racked up an international goods and services trade deficit of $44.2 billion. The monthly goods deficit with China fell slightly to $28.7 billion in August, down from $29.4...
Teamsters General President Calls on Members to Protect Their Voice in Politics (WASHINGTON) –Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa traveled across California to attend union rallies in Los Angeles and San Jose and get out the vote to defeat Proposition 32, a measure that seeks to prohibit...
(LOS ANGELES) – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa will sweep across California visiting members at worksites and at rallies to help get out the vote to defeat Prop. 32. Hoffa will hit the ground running, meeting with members beginning in Los Angeles, Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6. Prop. 32...
Republicans' reaction to last week's Monday Night Football debacle was record-breaking given their decades of hating on union workers. After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a game clearly won by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and even...
Workers Unite for Respect, Safety and Better Working Conditions (Crestwood, Ill.) – The men and women who transport schoolchildren for Alpha School Bus in Crestwood, Ill., have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 777 in Lyons, Ill., after a hard-fought campaign to win respect, better school...