This spring, 2,000 workers at the San Diego Zoo tamed management with a rank-and-file campaign that won a better contract. Now, members have elected the activists who organized the San Diego Zoo contract campaign to lead the 4,000-member Local 481.
Some 2,000 nurses at Unity Point Health are on the verge of winning their union election to join Teamsters Local 90. Nurses voted 57% to 43% in favor of the union at Wednesday’s vote count. Some challenged ballots need to be resolved before the final results are official. But they will not be enough to reverse the outcome. Nurses are confident and ready to head to negotiate their first Teamster contract.
A rank-and-file reform slate, United for Change Local 431, has defeated the incumbent Local 431 Fresno officers by a 60-40 margin. The results mark a clear mandate from members for a militant and active union.
Casino workers at Horseshoe Indianapolis just won union recognition after striking for fifty days and voting to join the Teamsters.
On December 5, dealers at Horseshoe Casino in Shelbyville, Indiana will vote to join Teamsters Local 135, after 50 days on strike for recognition.
Five hundred fifty Teamsters came together at TDU’s 50th TDU Convention to share strategies for building union power from the bottom up and to set our course for the coming year, including endorsing and helping to re-elect the O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United Slate.
Members elected the 92 Teamsters United Slate to lead Teamsters Local 92 in Canton, Ohio. The election capped off a grassroots campaign that united members from UPS, Republic Services, Pepsi and other employers.
by Christy O'Connor, Minnesota Local 320 Shop Steward
We defeated a bad contract that was pushed by our local president. Now we’re running for office in our local.
Under new leadership our International Union is more militant. TDU is helping members build union power from below.