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How to Use Your Heat Safety Breaks at UPS

Our Teamster contract at UPS protects our right to take a break in a cool area to rest and recover. It’s up to us to enforce it and protect ourselves and our fellow Teamsters.

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XXXI Teamsters Convention Wrap-Up

The XXXI Teamsters Convention is in the books. The Convention focused on militancy, contract campaigns, strikes, organizing, and meeting new challenges from labor law reform to AI to the next UPS contract. 

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TDU at Labor Notes 2026

TDU members joined more than 4,700 activists, organizers, and troublemakers from across the labor movement at this year's Labor Notes Conference in Chicago.

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BMWED Convention to Vote on One Member, One Vote

BMWED members are gearing up for their convention next week where delegates will vote on a bylaw change to give members the right to vote for union officers.

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Supporting Newly Elected Leaders

Under the O’Brien-Zuckerman administration, reformers who win local union office have received training and support to successfully lead their locals. The Teamsters Convention voted to  approve a change to the IBT Constitution to institutionalize this support for newly-elected leaders.

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Bargaining to Organize

DHL Teamster and TDU member Holly Wicker from Louisville Local 89 addressed the Teamsters Convention about bargaining to organize -- a winning strategy the Teamsters are using to fight back and win. 

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Amazon Organizing Campaign Builds Momentum at Teamsters Convention

Amazon Teamsters and organizers from New York, Kentucky, Chicago, and California spoke to the Teamsters Convention about the Amazon threat to the Teamsters Union and the labor movement.

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Teamsters and Justice Department Move to Amend Monitoring of Union

The IBT and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion today to amend the Final Order, an agreement that creates an independent system for investigating corruption in the Teamsters Union. 

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Take Action Now to Move the Faster Labor Contracts Act

A bill championed by the Teamsters, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, has passed a vote in the House of Representatives. If passed in the Senate and signed into law, the law will require employers to bargain with organized workers within ten days of their voting to form their union. Take action now to move the bill to the Senate.

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O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United Elected

The O’Brien Zuckerman Teamsters United slate was elected today as our International Union leadership for the next five years. Congratulations to Sean O’Brien, Fred Zuckerman and the entire OZ Teamsters United team.

Nominated candidates must receive five percent of the vote from Convention Delegates to appear on the ballot in a one-member, one vote election. Only candidates from the OZ Teamsters United Slate met that threshold. 

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