TDU Women's Caucus Celebrates Women's History Month
The TDU Women’s Caucus held a panel discussion, “Becoming a Union Activist…and Helping Others Do It Too!” on March 9, 2024 to celebrate strong Teamster Sisters in honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Read our panelists’ stories on how they became active union members.
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Teamster Women's Online Meetup
Meet other TDU women from around the country at our online meetup! Talk with TDU women who are organizing for rank-and-file power in their workplaces. Registration is required to receive the meeting information. Register for the online meetup for Teamster women on Saturday, September 23.
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The TDU Women’s Caucus shares information relevant to the struggles of Teamster women on the job and in our union and offers a network for Teamster women to share strategies on overcoming obstacles.
We bring together Teamster women from across the country and every Teamster industry. We work to empower Teamster women as activists and leaders in our union and in TDU.
Our annual TDU Convention brings activists together to share organizing skills, make plans for promoting women's leadership, and building a labor movement that fights for all workers.
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Diana Kilmury: From First Woman Construction Driver, to First Woman Teamster Vice President
Diana Kilmury went from being the first woman heavy equipment operator in British Columbia to the first woman elected as a Vice President of the Teamsters. To celebrate Women’s History Month, TDU is sharing her story.
Read moreCelebrating Teamster Women's History
Diana Kilmury went from being the first woman heavy equipment operator in British Columbia to the first woman elected as a Vice President of the Teamsters. To celebrate Women’s History Month, TDU is sharing her story.
Read moreStanding Up to Sexual Harassment
Men and women are speaking out against sexual harassment from Hollywood to the shop floor. How to stop sexual harassment in your workplace.
Read moreKim Schultz Speaks Out at Women's Conference
In a speech to the Women’s Conference, IBT Vice President Kim Schultz spoke out on the need for more women’s leadership in the Teamsters. In response, some Hoffa supporters booed and walked out. Most attendees listened, applauded and thanked Kim for speaking out. Read the speech and judge it for yourself.
Read moreA Woman’s Place is In the Teamsters
I’m excited to be at the Teamster Women’s Conference. Let’s take the information and organizing skills we learn here and put them to work building a stronger union—including tearing down the barriers to participation for Teamster women.
Read moreSupreme Court to Take Up UPS Pregnancy Discrimination
October 17, 2014: “I had to take unpaid leave during my pregnancy which caused me to lose my health insurance,” says Nichele Fulmore, a UPS package driver who became pregnant in 2003. “Most companies treat pregnant ladies as an off the job injury. It is because of a lady being pregnant that we all are here in the first place—no company should force a pregnant woman out of work. They should provide light duty for her.”
UPS Teamsters across the country have their eyes on a crucial case that the Supreme Court will take up this December on pregnancy discrimination at UPS.
The case could impact thousands of women who load trucks or deliver packages at UPS, and millions more working women in the U.S.
The case involves Peggy Young, a pregnant UPS Teamster who requested an alternative work assignment so she would not have to burn her vacation and FMLA leave before the birth of her child.
UPS management refused, saying that Young did not qualify for light duty because she had not suffered an on-the-job injury.
Angry Teamster women have fought UPS’s unfair pregnancy policy for years. The Hoffa administration has refused to take up the issue.
Now the Supreme Court is taking up Young’s case, which will swing on the court’s interpretation of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which bars companies from discriminating against pregnant women.
UPS argues that forcing pregnant women to work at their regular positions is not discrimination because UPS also denies alternate work to male employees (who can’t get pregnant).
Peggy Young, thousands of UPS women Teamsters and women’s rights activists say the PDA says the same benefits (“light duty” or alternative work) should be made available to all employees according to their ability or inability to work.
Pregnant women should not be held to a different standard than other employees who are offered light duty because of an injury.