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About the Teamsters

The Teamsters Union is one of America’s largest and most diverse unions.

Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents 1.4 million members in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector, from airline pilots to zookeepers.

Teamsters stand ready to organize workers who want to bargain collectively.

We stand for strong contracts that guarantee decent wages, fair promotion, health insurance, job security, paid time-off and retirement income. Wages and benefits under Teamster contracts are markedly better than those of non-union employees in similar jobs.

We stand together. In our communities and in the halls of government, Teamsters work tirelessly for social justice - from living wages and universal health care to fair trade agreements that protect American jobs and civil rights.


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Teamster members; workers interested in forming a union; those who care about pro-labor politics, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, universal health care, trade policies that protect American jobs, raising the minimum wage and strengthening the American middle class.

My Blog

Teamsters Law Enforcement League

The Teamsters Law Enforcement League today denounced a selfish political ploy by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who has refused more than $700 million in federal aid for education and law enforceme...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:37:00 GMT

Teamster Business Agents to the Rescue

This story originally appeared on the recently launched TeamsterMagazine.com.Kevin Koubeck and Mike Waldern modestly describe what happened astwo guys at the right place at the right time. But for J...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:02:00 GMT

Teamsters Group on Facebook

The Teamsters started an official Facebook Group page, you can check it out here.
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:14:00 GMT

Teamsters President Urges Local TV Stations to Pull Commercials

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today said that anti-union commercials running on local television stations are false and should be taken down. Anti-worker groups funded by big corporations are ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:47:00 GMT

Take Action: Read opposition story, vote on the poll

A blog posted on PowerLine about the Teamsters Union and its endorsement of Barack Obama made it to AOL today. AOL, in turn, set up a poll for people to vote on what they think of ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Local 89 and President Hoffa Save 435 Carhaul Jobs in Kentucky

Leaders from Local 89 in Louisville, Kentucky with help from General President Jim Hoffa have saved 435 Teamster jobs at a carhaul rail-loading and vehicle-handling company in the city. Since 1956, T...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:10:00 GMT

Victory for School Bus and Transit Workers in Cologne, NJ and Omaha, Nebraska

Rich Negri, who also publishes Union Review, posted this blog on the UN-official Teamster blog TeamsterPower.com. Congratulations to all our new Teamster brothers and sisters. School Bus and Transit...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:15:00 GMT

Hoffa Visits NAFTA Victims At Hershey Plant In Pennsylvania

This is cross-posted from the Teamster UNofficial Blog: TeamsterPower About 260 workers will lose their jobs in a city that has already lost one-fourth of its good-paying manufacturing jobs since Janu...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:02:00 GMT

Hoffas Pennsylvania Convoy for Change - Day One

This is cross-posted from the Teamster’s UNofficial Blog site TeamsterPower.The day started early, with the wheels rolling at 6:30 a.m. to Ocean Logistics, a warehouse distribution company that ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:53:00 GMT

Hoffa’s Pennsylvania Convoy for Change

Please feel free to comment on this article either here at MYSPACE or at the UNofficial Teamster Blog TeamsterPower.Attention Pennsylvania Teamsters, General President Jim Hoffa is going to ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:38:00 GMT