January 27, 2014: A growing reform group is running for office in New York Local 237, the Teamsters’ largest local union. Local 237 represents more than 24,000 New York City public employees, including school safety officers, public housing workers, city hospital staff, and more. The local was once a powerful political force in New York City and its contracts help set the tone for public sector wages and benefits in the City and beyond. But...

You’re online and so is your boss. What are the Do’s and Don’ts for staying out of trouble? Teamsters are using Facebook to share information, sound off, and get organized. Facebook pages like Vote No on UPS Contract, No More Concessions!, Rebuild the IBT and others have helped Teamsters unite the rank-and-file. Social media can be a good tool for building union solidarity and for having a laugh. But you've got to be smart about...

How to protect members and enforce the contract when management is trying to derail the grievance procedure. The grievance procedure is supposed to protect members from unfair discipline and hold the company accountable to the contract. Management plays a variety of games to derail the grievance procedure and undermine our rights. Teamster Voice interviewed experienced Teamster stewards about common companytactics—and how stewards and members can beat management at the grievance game. The Fishing Expedition Management...

Read about Teamsters who made a difference in 2009—stopping bad mergers, protecting your right to information, and electing new leadership. Let's resolve to work together to make our union stronger in 2010. You can help TDU members keep making a difference in 2010. Click here to join TDU and support our work.- See more at: http://www.tdu.org/news/teamsters-who-made-difference-2009#sthash.YTvBNq... Read about Teamsters who made a difference in 2013. Let's resolve to work together to make our union stronger...

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December 19, 2013: UPS contract ballots will be mailed out in early January in Teamsters Local 710, Western Pennsylvania, and Indiana Local 135. Teamsters Local 710, which represents UPS Teamsters in downstate Illinois, Northern Indiana, and Davenport Iowa, along with feeder drivers in Chicago, has reached a tentative agreement with management. The Local 710 agreement, which covers some 6,000 UPSers, is being kept secret. Local 710 members are not being told how many new full-time...

While other UPS Teamsters were fighting concessions, Local 804 members won a $400 pension increase, 150 new full-time jobs and grievance procedure reform. Local 804 launched a contract campaign a year before contract negotiations began.  They formed a Contract Action Team of stewards and volunteers tasked with keeping members informed and involved—with regular contract bulletins, parking lot meetings, and rallies. Members wore stickers and posted placards in their windshields. The majority of the Local 804...

UPDATED December 19, 2013: Some 26,000 YRCW Teamsters are voting on a five-year contract extension with new concessions, and yet the leadership of their union never negotiated with the corporation. What’s wrong with this picture? At the meeting of local officials held on December 6, IBT Freight Director Tyson Johnson was asked this question directly. His answer was that since he had heard loud and clear that the members didn’t want more concessions, he refused...

251 United Action, a growing rank-and-file reform movement in Rhode Island, took back their 5,500-member local when they won union office this fall. The election posed a contest between the “old guard,” led by incumbent Joe Bairos, and a younger reform team led by UPS driver Matt Taibi and Rhode Island Hospital worker Paul Santos to lead Local 251. But the campaign for change in Local 251 didn’t start at the Nominations Meeting. Members organized...

December 16, 2013: UPS Teamsters who are slated to be moved into TeamCare will keep their current benefits until the UPS contract and all supplements and riders are resolved. An official notice confirms what TDU and Vote No Teamsters have been saying for months.  To scare UPS Teamsters into voting yes on the contract, many Teamster officials threatened members that they would lose their health coverage on January 1 or that they would be moved...