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The events leading up to the strike began after contract negotiations between the market and Teamsters Local 202 (the local union representing about 1,400 workers at the market) broke down. The union was demanding a $1 hourly wage increase plus an additional $0.60 increase in health care benefits.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union, [2] the union now represents a diverse membership of blue- and white-collar workers in both the public and private sectors, totalling about 1.3 million members in 2015. [1]
In theory, the international union existed to balance strong and weak local unions: Per capita taxes would defray organizing costs, general assessments would finance strike benefit payments, and urban and rural "brothers" would share the wealth. Yet reality proved quite different.
Texas’ largest Teamsters union, Local 988, endorsed Vice President Harris before her rally in Houston on Friday. In a letter first obtained by The Hill, the union, which is based in Houston ...
Teamsters union members furious with a decision by union leaders to ratify a five-year contract covering United Parcel Service Inc.'s (NYSE: UPS) small-package workers, despite the contract ...
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the X post with a Thursday press release from her district’s local Teamsters union showing that it endorsed the ... Teamsters Local 202 are all in for Harris,” she ...
Lewis was an Ohio native and Vietnam War veteran, who was the former president of the Teamsters Local 100 union in Cincinnati. [8] Lewis became an activist after the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 threatened massive cuts to pensions plans. [8]
WASHINGTON — The Teamsters’ political action committee broke decades of precedent last month when the union leadership voted to approve a $45,000 donation to the Republican National Committee ...