Local 776 Teamster honored as Juvenile Probation Officer Of The Year.
The 69th annual CSX Santa Train ran safely and on time again this year, thanks in large part to Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) Division 781 in Erwin, Tenn. The BLET is part of the Teamsters Rail Conference.
When Father Bill Leininger of the Archdiocese of San Jose and California State Assemblyman Paul Fong heard concerns expressed by bus drivers in their community, they immediately pledged full support of the workers’ efforts to form a union. The drivers—employees of Student Transportation of America (STA) and Durham School Services—faced harassment, intimidation, wage theft and unsafe working conditions. When they tried to join Local 287 in San Jose, both companies waged aggressive anti-union campaigns.
Teamsters are scheduled to arrive at Vice President Joe Biden’s residence today, Christmas trees in tow.
Local 639 recently teamed up with the D.C. Office of Veterans Affairs (OVA) to aid homeless veterans in Washington, D.C. OVA helped out homeless local veterans by housing them in government homes in D.C. The housing didn’t have any furniture, though, and that’s where Local 639 stepped in.
Teamster Magazine recently got a letter to the editor thanking a local union for going over and beyond the call of duty to help a member. Harry Augustine, a Local 580 member who works for Crandell Brothers Trucking in Michigan, wrote the letter below.
A third-generation Teamster in New Jersey recently answered a few questions about his Teamster tattoo.
How do you top the story of a 17-year-old Teamster’s son who won the United States Boxing Senior Nationals Featherweight Championship in 2010? You turn the calendar to 2011 and see the 18-year-old emerge from the July world championships as the fifth-best 119-pounder in the world with a spot guaranteed in the 2012 London Olympics.
Retirees from Local 507 in Cleveland make it a point to be active, involved and engaged—especially when it comes to issues that affect their union brothers and sisters. When Ohio needed 230,000 signatures to repeal SB5, the anti-worker legislation on the November ballot, Teamster retirees helped collect the 1.3 million signatures that were delivered. And they’re at it again.
On August 10, 2011, longtime Teamster leader John Cleveland and his wife Eula were honored at Howard University in Washington, D.C. for their activism in championing the causes of black workers.
