Looking for a Change We are steadily making progress running for delegate in Local 690. We have a slate nominated and plans for a mailing and a phone bank. And we are out talking with Teamsters. More members are open to TDU and our message than ever before. Leadership is poor in the local. Times are tough. People are looking for a change. John LattanzioYRC, Local 690Spokane Not His Father’s Teamster Leader I started with...

“…If you stand up straight, people can’t ride your back. And that’s what we did. We stood up straight.” That's how Taylor Rogers explains the success of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. Rogers was a principal organizer of the historic strike. That strike ended in victory, but it was also the setting for the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.   Martin Luther King on Workers' Rights See Martin Luther King's last speech to...

LaborArts.org is online museum that collects and celebrates the lives and struggles of working people in photos, paintings, and music. They feature exhibits on Strikes, paintings from Nina Talbot and Ralph Fasanella, songs from the New York City Labor Chorus, and more. Click here to see and hear their exhibits.

December 28, 2010: Teamster drivers who would like to comment on proposed regs from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can do so with these links. You can comment on the proposed Hours of Service changes here. This chart summarizes those proposed HOS changes. You can comment on the proposed ban on driving while using hand-held cell phones here.

December 28, 2010: Teamsters are uniting to save 1,000 union grocery jobs in New Jersey and defend Teamster warehouse distribution standards across the Northeast. Teamster members are uniting to defend union jobs and stand up to C&S, the biggest nonunion grocery competitor in the Northeast. C&S has issued a WARN Act notice to 1,000 Teamsters in New Jersey. Management’s plan is to outsource Teamster warehouse distribution jobs to nonunion C&S facilities in Pennsylvania and Chester,...

December 27, 2010: Corporate America was on the attack in 2010. But Teamsters were coming together and standing up for our rights. Find out what the made TDU’s best and worst list in 2010.

BLET officials tried to sneak through a proposal to take away members’ right to vote—but it didn’t work. Rail workers got organized, informed other members, and saved the right to vote by a 72% vote. << Previous: Hoffa Administration SplitsNext: Sandy Pope Takes on Hoffa >>

After a decade of givebacks, New York Local 814 commercial movers won a record contract that restores healthcare cuts, saves their pensions, and delivers major wage increases to the lowest-paid members. “We mobilized. We held rallies. We were more united than ever and the bosses knew it,” said Chris Lang, a member of the negotiating committee and a shop steward at Certified Moving and Storage. On the last night of talks, the employers gave the...

Charles Curcio lives in a 6,000 square foot mansion. But the owner of the Brooklyn based bus company Outstanding Transportation is paying some of his employees as little as $3.90 an hour—under a Teamster contract! Under their contract with Teamsters Local 854, bus aides make as little as $175 a week to monitor the safety of the physically and mentally disabled adults they transport every day to programs around the city. The contract defines the...

In the worst economy since the Great Depression, Bill Zollars can’t be blamed for all the problems at YRC. But he sure hasn’t done much to help. Teamster members have paid the price for his epic mis-leadership. Now he’s finally getting the boot. Good riddance, Bill. << Previous: Coke Takes Aim at Teamster JobsNext: This Boss Gets Rich Paying Less than Minimum Wage >>