The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced last week that it approved a payment of $1.29 billion to the Graphic Communications Conference of the IBT Pension Plan, to prevent drastic pension cuts in the plan, which has 31,715 retirees and working Teamsters.

Hoffa-era contract givebacks continue to pay off for UPS. The company made $3.662 billion in operating profit in the first quarter, a $300 million increase over the same period last year. The money is there and we’re going to come for it in the 2023 contract.

General President Sean O’Brien announced changes to the Package Division on a national report to UPS members over Zoom.

Watch the video of our Zoom event on organizing at Amazon, featuring Angelica Maldonado, an Amazon worker and organizer from the winning organizing drive at Amazon in Staten Island. 

Learn from experienced union reps and shop stewards how to intervene in shop floor conflict between members and management. Registration is now closed. This free workshop will be held on Zoom on Sunday, April 24 at 12pm ET, 11am CT, 10am MT, 9am PT. Pre-registration is required. 

There is new progress in the hard-fought battle to protect pensions for millions of retirees. On April 1, 2022 the Central States Pension Fund got the green light to apply for funds under the Butch Lewis Act.

Against nearly impossible odds, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), an independent union, is on the verge of winning the first NLRB union election at an Amazon warehouse in the US.

Watch the video of Robert Schwartz's presentation from the online TDU workshop on Weingarten Rights and learn how to respond to management tactics when a member is called into the office.

The OZ-Teamsters United leadership has taken office. Show our new leadership we’re united and ready to get involved to build union power. Wear your union pride with new t-shirts and lapel pins from TDU and UPS Teamsters United. Order while supplies last from the online store.

Teamster activists and TDU members in the Chicago area will hold a Teamster Education Conference on Sunday, March 27.  Be there if you’re a Teamster who wants to build union power from the bottom up.