Pension cuts got a hearing outside yesterday's Republican presidential debate thanks to Bob Amsden and other Teamster activists from the Wisconsin Committee to Protect Pensions. 

TDU members marched with fellow UPS workers and Local 804 members—along with thousands of workers and other union members—all day in New York City to demand a $15-an-hour minimum wage for all workers.

Smashed windshields. Threats of broken bones. Blood smeared in the home of a union reformer. Is this what should happen when good Teamsters run for office in New York?

The Central States Pension second quarter Financial Report and Independent Special Counsel Report show very little new information. 

The IBT Carhaul Division has instructed all carhaul locals to hold meetings to ask members why they rejected the concessionary first offer.

UPS pilots voted by more than 99 percent to authorize their union to call a strike against the company. The vote results were announced on Friday, Oct. 23 as contract talks with UPS and the Independent Pilots Association drag on.

UPS has made $3.5 billion in profits after taxes already this year and it’s not even peak yet. Corporate brass predicted yesterday that profits for the year could top $5 billion. Volume is down, but profits are up. How? Speed-up and subcontracting. 

Hundreds of Teamsters came together in Cleveland for three days of strategy sessions, labor education, and building solidarity.

Just as the Central States Fund has proposed drastic cuts for retirees and active Teamsters, the fund execs gave themselves raises. The contrast is sickening.

Southern California grocery warehouse Teamsters fought valiantly against a concessionary contract this past week, but officials were able to get the deal passed by a 51% vote.