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A labor organizer and former president of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa had various connections to organized crime throughout his career and faced multiple prosecutions for fraud, jury tampering, and conspiracy.
Also overhanging the stock are concerns that UPS could face a strike later this year by the Teamsters union, which represents more than 325,000 UPS employees, making it the nation's largest unionized workforce of any business.
“Amazon doesn’t care about our safety, so we organized a union to keep ourselves safe,” Jarrid Long, an Amazon driver said in a Teamsters late last month.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-workers-prepare-four-day-strike-black-friday-1850915069
Hawaii Gas has 217 union employees with Hawaii Teamsters.
Source: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/06/03/hawaii-news/gas-service-not-yet-disrupted-by-strike/
In contrast, when UPS was faced with a possible August 1 strike, the company and the Teamsters union both repeatedly said they were close to a deal.
In one of the few cases where the Teamsters JC 25 is supporting a rival to an incumbent, it reveals what their priorities are.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/16/building-teamster-power/
It was the biggest production in Alberta’s history, and more than 900 IATSE 212 crew members worked on the enormous production over 17 months — not including crew from the Teamsters, the Directors Guild of Canada, or the performers.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9415064/young-alberta-twins-the-last-of-us-hbo-series/
Letters respond to Alexis Okeowo’s article about missing migrants and Jennifer Gonnerman’s piece about the Teamsters and UPS.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/06/letters-from-the-february-6-2023-issue
New Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has promised the union will be ready for the first strike against the parcel giant since 1997.
Source: https://truthout.org/articles/some-of-the-biggest-labor-contracts-are-expiring-in-2023/
Richmond’s slogan is ‘one city, our city,’ but now, we are a Teamsters city.”
Some 340,000 UPS workers had stood poised for a stoppage as Teamsters leaders pressed for increased wages, including for part-time workers.
Source: https://www.rawstory.com/ups-teamsters-announce-labor-agreement-averting-us-strike/
So they began organizing themselves — taking all the help they could get from family members and community groups, including Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights (CCWR), and Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
Still, the new poll adds to evidence of U.S. support for labor unions during a year marked by strikes in Hollywood, a walkout that was narrowly averted by Teamsters at United Parcel Service, and now the picket lines outside auto plants.
Teamsters meeting with UPS is going well.
That two-week strike ended with one of the best contracts the Teamsters ever achieved with UPS.
The case is Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, 21-1449.
The matter follows the feuding of O’Brien and Mullin in recent months, including a heated viral exchange at a U.S. Senate hearing in March, where the Teamsters president called Mullin a “greedy CEO” amid the discussion.
The Teamsters called the tentative agreement "historic" and "overwhelmingly lucrative" in a prepared statement.
Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/ups-averts-strike-in-deal-with-unionised-workers-c-11387387
The Teamsters say that profit growth is largely due to the hard work of UPS drivers and warehouse workers who carry everything from 50-pound bags of dog food and cases of wine to prescriptions.
Source: https://abc11.com/ups-strike-teamsters-update-vote/13390791/
Today, UPS workers make up almost thirty per cent of the Teamsters.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life