Rome Aloise, International Vice President and the most powerful Hoffa-Slate official in the West, has been slapped with charges for massive corruption violations. His career as a Teamster official and Hoffa Slate power broker is likely over.

The huge economic impact that the proposed cuts by the Central States would have on American communities is now detailed for all 435 Congressional Districts.

The February Teamster Magazine featuring campaign material from Teamsters United and the Hoffa Campaign is hitting the streets. Get a sneak preview of the Teamsters United campaign pages here.

Teamster mechanics picketed United Airlines at the San Francisco, Houston and Orlando airports on Friday in an escalation of their fight for an industry-leading contract. 

There was not an empty seat in the house as over one thousand Teamsters packed the Kansas City Convention Center to participate in the last public hearing scheduled by the US Department of Treasury, and hosted by Special Master Kenneth Feinberg.  

Join Teamster leaders and TDU activists—and thousands of other union and worker troublemakers—at the Labor Notes Conference, April 1-3, in Chicago. 

The TDU-sponsored Rank & File Convention will be held the weekend of Sept 30 – October 2 in Chicago.  This timely event will be held two weeks prior to the mailing of all ballots in the International union election. 

As part of a court settlement, the Teamster anti-corruption panel known as the Independent Review Board (IRB) will begin a transition period on February 17. But, in reality, very little will change from how the IRB functions.

The US Treasury Department has published a proposed rule which rejects UPS’s claim that Central States pensions should be cut even more to save the giant corporation from living up to its contract clause to “make whole” UPS Teamsters who retired in 2008 and after. 

The third quarter financial report of the Central States Pension Fund shows assets dropped to $15.9 billion, due in large part to the stock market decline last August.