UPS and the IBT have reached a negotiated settlement over the company’s Driver Choice Program. Under the agreement, drivers will be offered a $150,000 buyout by seniority order. The agreement also holds UPS to commitments to fill 30,000 new full-time jobs.

Strike benefits paid out to Teamsters are way up according to the 2025 International Union financial report filed with the Department of Labor.

The 2025 financial reports for local unions and other affiliates filed with the U.S. Department of Labor are now available online.

UPS announced it is rescinding its buyout program in all local unions covered by the Central Region Supplement.

Teamster members founded TDU in 1976 to organize for a more democratic and militant union. Over the last 50 years, we have won reforms to the Teamster Constitution that build union power by strengthening members' rights. Here's how.

Delegates from every Teamster local will vote on changes to the IBT Constitution and vote on nominations for all 27 International Union officers at the upcoming Teamster Convention at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, June 15-18. 

First Student Teamsters working under the National Master Agreement have voted by 88% to authorize a strike as the company demands givebacks. The contract expires on March 31st.

It’s tax time and many Teamsters are finding out they are ineligible for the new federal “No Tax on Overtime” deduction, including Teamsters in airline, rail, trucking and at UPS.  

The Sixth District Court of Appeals has refused to enforce a landmark NLRB decision that Teamsters and other unions have used to organize the unorganized and stand up to employers who violate labor law.