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Throughout the month of February, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters honors and celebrates Black History Month and the invaluable contributions African Americans have made to the American labor movement, our history as a union, and our society as a whole. Ever since our founding, the Teamsters have fought against “color lines” within the labor movement […]
Workers Unite for Fair Wages and Working Conditions at Waste Giant Press Contact: Daniel Moskowitz Phone: (770) 262-4971 Email: dmoskowitz@teamster.org (COVINA, Calif.) – Workers at a US Ecology/Republic Services facility in Hesperia, Calif., have voted to unionize with Teamsters Local 396. “We wanted to join the Teamsters because management has neglected us for too long,” said Eric Ortega, a four-year worker and one of 15 new Local 396 members at the facility. “They refuse to raise our wages to keep […]
Thirteen former Black and Hispanic employees for the Teamsters International Union filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the union and its president, Sean O’Brien, alleging racial discrimination over their firings after O’Brien assumed the helm in March 2022. The lawsuit was filed in Washington DC last February, alleging violation of the DC Human Rights Act. […]
CNN — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a presidential candidate on Wednesday after releasing internal polling that showed a majority of its members supported former President Donald Trump over Vice President
The Teamsters International, which represents over 1.3 million workers, declined to endorse a candidate ahead of November’s presidential election – but released data suggesting most of its members backed Donald Trump over Kamala Harris. The union’s decision to not make an election endorsement, for the first time in almost three decades, comes in the wake […]
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Headline News 2023.02.02 Black history is woven into the history of the American labor movement and the history of our union. Throughout much of our nation’s existence, Black history has been long ignored or outright suppressed. That is why, during Black History Month, we honor the contributions Black Americans have made to this country and […]
Members Take Action Nationwide On July 20, the Teamsters joined other national labor organizations and racial and social justice groups in a national “Strike for Black Lives.” Hundreds of Teamsters in various industries held protests in 15 cities across the U.S., joined by thousands more who walked off of their jobs for eight minutes and […]
News 2024.02.01 Today and throughout the month of February, the Teamsters Union celebrates Black history, a history that is deeply bound together with the history of the American labor movement and the history of our union. While Black history has been long ignored or outright suppressed throughout much of our nation’s existence, during Black History […]
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