We need UPS drivers to fill out the dog bite survey
Oct. 17, 2024|  The National Teamsters and UPS Dog Bite Committee — in partnership with worker safety experts from the Teamsters Industrial Initiatives Department — want your help understanding how animal attacks affect workers’ lives at UPS. If you’re a driver at UPS, visit the UPS Teamsters app today and complete this important survey. Personal information will only be used to verify your status as a UPS Teamsters driver. All other data will be confidential. Responses will be anonymous.

Striking port workers get support from Teamsters, UAW, and other unions
Oct. 1, 2024| The roughly 45,000 longshoremen on strike across more than a dozen major U.S. ports are getting kudos and the rare sympathy strike from fellow labor unions. The ILA, in a statement Tuesday, blasted the “greedy” employers unwilling to meet its demands. “These companies... they don’t give a f—k about us,” ILA President Harold Daggett told members Tuesday in a video published by the union. “Well, we’re gonna show them they’re gonna have to give a f—k about us. Because nothing’s gonna move without us.” “The U.S. government should stay the f—k out of this fight and allow union workers to withhold their labor for the wages and benefits they have earned,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement Monday.

Sale of Yellow Corp.’s remaining properties moving forward
Sept. 30, 2024| The sale of bankrupt Yellow Corp.’s remaining properties is moving forward, a Wednesday filing in a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware showed. The estate will accept nonbinding indications of interest for its remaining 112 terminals beginning Tuesday and running through Oct. 18. Proceeds from the sales will be used to repay Yellow’s unsecured creditors, which have claims totaling in the billions. Yellow faces claims from former employees who say they weren’t given proper notice ahead of mass layoffs last summer as well as an environmental claim from the Department of Justice. FreightWaves

Teamsters Joint Councils 55 and 62 endorse Harris-Walz ticket
Sept. 26, 2024| Teamsters Joint Councils representing more than 22,000 Teamsters in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia and the vicinity join Teamster local unions and joint councils across the country with this week's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as our next President and Vice President of the United States. In a joint statement, JC 55 President Rudolph Gardner and Joint Council 62 Sean Cedenio said in part, “Our members and communities deserve an administration that will prioritize the needs of working people and not put profits over people. ... Your vote will make all the difference in this election cycle, so plan to vote and vote for our collective values this fall.”

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