With the August 15 deadline closing in, Teamster volunteers are picking up the pace in the drive to collect 50,000 signatures to accredit Tim Sylvester and the Teamsters United Slate.

The 2015 Convention opens at 1 pm on Friday, October 23 with educational programs, followed by an evening banquet and program. Saturday and Sunday feature some 15 workshops, as well as: craft meetings, programs on the fight for pensions, the 2016 IBT election, and lots more. The convention ends at 3 p.m. Sunday. It all takes place at the Cleveland Airport Sheraton Hotel. Plan to be there.

The UPS Package Division has launched a public campaign to call on UPS to drop its support for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), because of ALEC’s extreme anti-union and anti-worker lobbying.

Some 150 retired and active Teamsters stood proud at the Capitol as the Keep our Pension Promises Act was introduced in the US House and Senate. Frank Bryant, a UPS retiree from North Carolina, addressed the crowd, following remarks by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).

Teamsters and retirees across the union are battling to save our earned pension credits. If Hoffa's on our side, here's how he can show it.

TDU members are joining the petition drive to give Teamsters a choice in the 2016 International Union election. Find out more and how you can help.

Teamster retirees from across the Midwest and South at the US Senate this morning to support the Keep Our Pension Promises Act. By cars, vans, and busses retirees and active Teamsters form North Carolina, Ohio, New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and other states will stand with Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Senator Bernie Sanders, who are the initial sponsors of the act. If you want to be present this Thursday morning, you can RSVP to the Pension...

Teamster retirees from across the Midwest and South at the US Senate this morning to support the Keep Our Pension Promises Act.

The movement to stop the pension cuts in the Central States Plan – and for positive alternatives – is growing and spreading out. Last weekend, hundreds of Teamsters turned out for meetings in Charlotte and Greensboro, North Carolina. Watch the news report from the NBC affiliate. The interviewee is Karen Friedman, Policy Director of the Pension Rights Center.

Teamster and employer negotiators met today to exchange initial proposals, with bargaining set to begin on June 10. The union’s proposals are available here. The contract expires on August 31. The union’s initial proposals cover a number of important working conditions and competitive rates issues (Article 22), but not proposals on wages, pension, health benefits and other monetary issues. Those will be addressed later in bargaining. Bargaining has barely started but Hoffa is already putting politics...