Nearly 1,200 Teamsters came out in 2009 to take part in member organizer boot camps, where they learned the skills to strengthen their union and grow the Teamster ranks.
Of the many accolades awarded to the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery over the last several years, few wine aficionados are aware of a key ingredient to the vintner’s success: the Teamsters.
Shooting a major motion picture in New York City is hard. Shooting a movie in New York City gets even harder when the city itself plays almost as large a role in the film as its cast of Hollywood stars. This was the case when members from Local 817 started shooting the highly anticipated film “Sex in the City 2” in the streets of New York City last year.
International Vice President Fred Gegare would get pretty angry when he would speak to college kids and they would ask him what the Teamsters are.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was part of the announcement on January 28 that the state would receive about $400 million in Recovery Act funds as part of the high-speed rail initiatives. Also attending the event were state representative and member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), Robert Hagan (D-OH), and Tim Hanely, the BLET’s state legislative board chairman for Ohio.
Yesterday’s Post Tribune of Northwest Indiana ran a highly entertaining story on a Waste Management Teamster.
Chances are, the next time you see a firefighter, police officer, postal worker or someone in the military, their uniform was made at the Nationwide Uniform Corp. by very skilled sewers and pressers represented by Local 783.
On Teamster.org, some extraordinary stories of Teamsters helping victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti are being told.
On July 4, 1997, Mike Fromm’s sister disappeared and has never been seen again. For 13 years, Fromm, a 30-year member of Local 662 in Green Bay, Wis., and his three sisters have searched to no avail for Bonnie Schultz, last seen leaving an Indianapolis bar.
Members of Local 1901 attended a seminar last week in Manhattan conducted by instructors from the Teamsters Organizers Bootcamp. Representatives from the Organizing, Strategic Research and Campaigns, Training and Development and Communications departments led the program.
