Black Teamsters
African American Teamsters Push for Leadership Opportunities
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.
Teamster Takes on Racism at Kraft Foods
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.
Members Petition Kraft to Respect MLK Day
January 10, 2008: Forty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he was organizing support for striking sanitation workers.
TDU’s Black Caucus Launches Webpage
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.
( categories: Black Teamsters | Featured News )
We Need a Union Leadership that Looks Like Our Membership
April 8, 2008: The membership of our union is changing more every year, but the top Teamster leadership has not kept pace.
( categories: Black Teamsters | Hoffa Watch )
Martin Luther King: 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike Was Powered By the Rank and File
“…If you stand up straight, people can’t ride your back. And that’s what we did. We stood up straight.”
( categories: Black Teamsters | Convoy 224 February 2005 )
Labor Notes: Nichele Fulmore—Standing Up for Women Leaders in Our Unions
May 1, 2007: Nichele Fulmore has been a package car driver at UPS in Lumberton, North Carolina for over 12 years.
( categories: Black Teamsters | UPS )
Martin Luther King Holiday: Why Not Now?
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.
( categories: Black Teamsters | UPS )
BLET Fails Trainmen in El Paso
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
( categories: Black Teamsters | Rail )
