Building a Union That Fights for All Teamsters
“TDU members are working to build a union that fights for all our members. It’s time for a union leadership that looks like our union’s membership. TDU’s Black Caucus is a place for African American Teamsters to talk about how we can get that done.”
Willie Hardy, TDU Trustee, Local 667, Memphis, Tenn.
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News from the TDU Black Caucus
June 30, 2008: Hundreds of thousands of Teamsters are African American, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the Teamsters General Executive Board.
May 1, 2008: When an employee at Kraft Foods repeatedly directed the epithet “coon” at Willie Knox, the Local 445 Teamster knew he had to stand up for his rights.
April 8, 2008: The Black Caucus of Teamsters for a Democratic Union has launched a webpage to share and highlight the work of African American Teamsters to build a strong union.
April 8, 2008: The membership of our union is changing more every year, but the top Teamster leadership has not kept pace.
“…If you stand up straight, people can’t ride your back. And that’s what we did. We stood up straight.”
January 10, 2008: Forty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he was organizing support for striking sanitation workers.
May 1, 2007: Nichele Fulmore has been a package car driver at UPS in Lumberton, North Carolina for over 12 years.
March 5, 2007: On Jan. 15, Local 728 proudly joined in the Martin Luther King Day march here in Atlanta, Dr. King’s home and also the headquarters of UPS.
October 18, 2006. When the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers merged into the Teamsters two-and-a-half years ago, they added the words “and Trainmen” to the end