February 8, 2012: Top Teamster officials want to end your Right to Vote for Teamster President and other International officers.

What does that have to do with your job and your benefits? More than you may think.

February 2, 2012: A winning grievance starts with a good investigation. If you don’t have your facts straight, management will shoot down your case.

Most new members join TDU because another Teamster recruits them by urging them to join, answering their questions and mailing in their membership form.

Get the “indispensable guide for labor’s frontline troops.”

Save the date: The TDU Convention will be Friday, Oct. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Chicago Holiday Inn O’Hare.

December 16, 2011: Teamsters for a Democratic Union believes members have a right to know where our dues money goes.

Are you thinking of attending the TDU Convention, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2 in Cleveland? Find out what to expect.

Do you want to get a free TDU Convention registration? You can if you recruit five new TDU members between now and the end of September.

July 15, 2011: In 1976 our Teamsters Union was in big trouble. For years, top leaders allowed organized crime to infiltrate the highest levels of the union. The mob was raiding the Central States Pension Fund to build Las Vegas casinos. The members were shut out.

August 23, 2011: Is management calling you into the office or threatening discipline?

Get tips on how to protect your job.

March 29, 2011: Want to see your local’s financial report for 2010? Most U.S. unions—locals, joint councils, Internationals—must file a 2010 financial report with the U.S. Department of Labor by March 31. They are available on-line.

February 26, 2010: TDU’s International Steering Committee met in February to make TDU’s grassroots organizing plans for 2010.

March 8, 2010: A compilation of Teamster press releases can’t be real labor history. But the IBT’s new book, James R Hoffa: Messages to the Membership is worth reading for what it is: how Hoffa and his union staff wanted him presented to the members, and to the public.

Teamsters are coming from across North America for the 2009 TDU Convention, Nov. 6-8 at the Cleveland Airport Sheraton.

July 21, 2009: The following rights are protected by the National Labor Relations Act:

July 21, 2009: At the height of the Great Depression, Minneapolis Teamsters led a historic strike that laid the foundation for national Teamster Power.

Many members think that union meetings are just a place you go to hear long, drawn out reports or to listen to beefs that you don’t understand by members who work at other companies.

December 16, 2008: Teamster members can win new rights and protections by changing your local’s bylaws.

January 10, 2008: Last year, members in Chicago Local 726 voted two times to reject a proposed tentative agreement that didn’t protect their jobs.

October 18, 2006. “Our last contract was terrible. Can we get the right to elect our bargaining committee?”

The law most often violated by employers, and the cause of the most complaints by workers, is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Everyone agrees that union solidarity means union strength. But what does it actually take to build solidarity with other unions, workers or community organizations?

Members at Sysco Foods in Los Angeles Local 630 are gearing up for contract negotiations in 2004. In the past, the rank-and-file has always been kept in the dark about negotiations.

President Bush is out to privatize Social Security. Is Social Security really about to go bankrupt? Who stands to gain—and who stands to lose—from the proposed reforms?