By TDU Co-Chair Frank Halstead

TDU members have participated in every single Teamster International Officer election. We know what it takes to run a serious opposition campaign. The Fearless Slate has failed every test. They don’t deserve our support.

Six hundred Teamsters Local 96 members at Washington Gas have won a new contract with record wage increases of 18 percent after mobilizing a contract campaign. The victory came after members voted by 98.2 percent to authorize a strike at the natural gas utility that serves Washington D.C. and surrounding areas.

TDU members are proud to support the reelection of Sean O’Brien and the O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United Slate. Here are 10 reasons why.

Teamsters California and a coalition of unions have submitted more than 1.5 million signatures to get a bill on the ballot that would require billionaires in California to pay a one-time 5% emergency billionaire tax to protect union jobs and healthcare for state residents.

After three days on strike, 3,500 commuter rail workers from the Teamsters and four other unions have won a new contract with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in New York. Workers won all the wage increases they demanded.

After working without raises for more than four years amid an affordability crisis, 500 Rail Teamsters in New York are striking with a coalition of four other unions for a fair contract.

Ignored and disrespected by management, two thousand nurses at UnityPoint Health celebrated Nurses Week in union style.

Batesville Products workers in Lawrenceburg, Indiana are done waiting on union-busting stall tactics. Now they've gone on strike to demand that their company recognizes their union.

UPS Teamsters are already reeling from layoffs and building closures under Carol Tomé and “Better, Not Bigger.” Now, Amazon is escalating its attack on union package delivery jobs. On May 4, Amazon announced it is launching Amazon Supply Chain Services to compete directly with UPS for business-to-business deliveries.

May 1st is International Workers' Day. TDU members and Teamsters across the country are taking action to demand an economy that puts workers first, not billionaires.