Who could have predicted a year ago, as Congress-sanctioned pension cuts gathered momentum, that thousands of retired truckers self-organizing in diners and union halls across Middle America would manage to apply the brakes?

Nearly 40,000 strikers have defeated Verizon’s concessionary demands and won a huge victory against corporate greed. TDU members are proud to have honored the picket lines and stood with our brothers and sisters in the CWA and IBEW.

The FDOC Teamsters United slate swept the Local 2011 Convention Delegate race by a nearly three to one margin today, winning five delegate positions in the Southern Region. (Reprinted from www.TeamstersUnited.org)

"This is a fight for Central States. But make no mistake, this is a fight for America,' Senator Elizabeth Warren declared to rallying Teamster pension activists.  Share the new pension video that tells our story.

Thomas Nyhan, the Director of the Central States Pension Plan, says the fund will not resubmit a revised proposal to the Treasury Department, because the cuts would have to be too deep.

Another top Teamster has endorsed the Central States pension cuts. Bill Lichtenwald, a personal friend of James Hoffa and the head of the Ohio Conference of Teamsters until the Independent Review Board’s corruption report last October, has issued a letter backing the cuts. After the IRB corruption report, Lichtenwald resigned as a trustee of the Central States Fund. 

UPDATED: Revised dockets for the May 2016 hearings of the UPS National Grievance Committee and the UPS Joint National Air Committee are available.

Tyson Johnson, Hoffa’s Freight Director, directed every local to support the Central States pension cut plan. Now he’s taking credit for defeating the cuts that he supported. That’s one Texas-sized flip-flop. 

US Foods Teamsters continue to spread picket lines and shut down food distribution in a showdown with the second-largest institutional food provider in the U.S.

Kenneth Feinberg has recommended that the Treasury Department deny the application of the Central States Pension Fund to implement its planned pension cuts.