UPS Teamsters and others are showing solidarity with our fallen brothers, victims of a workplace shooting on June 14 at the San Francisco UPS hub. If you would like to make a donation to the families of the deceased, and wear a solidarity wristband, you can make a donation to: [email protected] via PayPal. All funds, minus the costs of the wristbands, will go to the families. The wristbands are 10/$30 ($3 each - minimum donation $30). Thanks to sister Merrilee Zerrougui of San Jose Local 287 for handling this national effort.  

Retired Teamsters from the Midwest and the Northeast met with representatives of Senator Bernie Sanders’ staff as well as other Congressional Reps recently to review efforts in support of the Keep Our Pension Promises Act (KOPPA). In this video, some of these grassroots fighters, representative of our pension protection movement, offer their insight and inspiration. Watch it and join the movement to protect pensions for all American workers. 

Fred Zuckerman and UPS Teamsters talked contract issues and made organizing plans to win a strong contract on a national conference call on June 10.  

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[Reposted from Teamsters United]

On Saturday, June 10, join Fred Zuckerman and Teamsters United supporters from across the country on a conference call to make plans for a campaign to win a good contract at UPS.

Truck drivers and gas cylinder fillers are shutting down Airgas facilities across New England as workers honor the picket lines of Teamster Local 251 strikers from Rhode Island. 

Teamsters Local 89 and the Kentucky State AFL-CIO have filed a lawsuit against the Governor of Kentucky Matt Bevin, claiming Kentucky's right to work law is unconstitutional. 

The Hoffa administration has pulled the plug on Teamster organizing among thousands of Florida public sector corrections officers by revoking the charter of Teamster Local 2011.  

A Hoffa-appointed panel has found Hoffa’s Executive Assistant Willie Smith not guilty after Smith was caught taking Playboy Super Bowl Party tickets from Teamster employer Southern Wine & Spirits. Their miscarriage of justice will now go before Judge Barbara Jones for review. (Reprinted from Teamsters United)

“We are out here today because everybody knows that our democracy has been stolen,” said Jed Dodd, Chairman of the BMWED [Penn Federation], before being arrested on Monday. “A democracy with endless gifts for legislators and severely gerrymandered districts, where the people’s voice isn’t heard, is not a democracy. We are tired of this. We are prepared to take our country back.”

One hundred Teamsters gathered in Queens, NY this last Sunday for a day-long Teamster Education Conference.