With new leadership and a new direction, the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers (UAW) are winning for workers with bold contract campaigns and organizing drives. Rank-and-file power and union democracy are key ingredients in labor’s “movement moment.”

When management gets on your truck, their goal is to get information they can use to harass you and push you to work faster. Watch the recording of the webinar here. 

Will a proposed new LTL trucking company, Next Century, be able to acquire some of Yellow’s properties and operate as a union carrier? It may be a long-shot, but Teamster locals have voted in favor of the effort.

Supervisors aren’t helping when they do bargaining unit work–they’re taking money out of your pocket. Whenever supervisors work, a union member loses their chance to get hours. 

There are winning tactics to stop supervisors working and make UPS pay for violations. Registration is closed. A recording will be posted after the webinar.

It’s been widely reported that the IBT settled a lawsuit with 13 African American and Latino organizers for $2.9 million. Settling the case avoids long, expensive litigation. What’s behind the lawsuit and settlement and what does it mean for our union’s future?

UPS executives and Wall Street investors are crying because the company made “only” $9.9 billion in profits last year. The company will lay off 12,000 full and part-time managers as a result. Unlike management, Teamsters can fight layoffs. Here’s how.

During Black History Month, we celebrate the role Black Teamsters have played in building our union, and pledge to continue fighting for racial and economic justice.

When management gets on your truck, their goal is to get information they can use later to harass you and push you to work faster. Protect yourself by preparing for the ride.

This toolkit includes:

— Tips: Protect Yourself on an OJS

— OJS: Shop Stewards Guide

— OJS: Parking Lot Meeting Guide

— Daily Log Book

— Printable OJS Checklist

— Online OJS Checklist

Click here to download the leaflet 

Click here to download the Stewards Guide

Click here to download the Parking Lot Meeting Guide

Click here to order a Daily Log Book

Click here to download the OJS Checklist

or

Click here to access the online OJS Checklist

With peak season over and volume down, it’s “hunting season” at UPS. Management is cracking down and looking for for any reason to put members in the street or start a chain of discipline. Here are resources to fight unfair discipline and inform and unite members.

More than 130 US Foods Teamsters in Chicago’s Local 705 have won a Tentative Agreement on a new contract after three weeks on strike and nationwide picket line extensions.