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A 32-year UPS Teamster who recently retired, Lewis Smith, a member of Local 164 in Jackson, Mich., has found that there truly is life after retirement. The life that Smith lives, though, is really just a continuation of his former self—a self that finds pleasure in capturing vibrant colors, happy smiles and breathtaking landscapes. At 56, Smith is an artist. His medium: a camera. His canvas: the world.


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Business Insider recently published “22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America.” Some of the figures they put together to prove this claim are staggering and should give pause to every working American.


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Kristina Conder has a tough job, but she wouldn't have it any other way.


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Teamsters renovated, donated and shipped a bus to Honduras for charity.


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Once again this year, Teamsters Local 340 is spearheading a massive food drive to help feed the hungry in Maine. Find out more about their efforts and how you can help out.


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Local 856 in California recently got in touch with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters with a question we’re putting to you, our readers.


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Retired Teamster Phil Trau shares life and labor lessons after his appearance on “America’s Got Talent.”


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It isn’t every day that senior citizens get to share their talents on national television, but Phil Trau isn’t you’re average senior. At 74 years old, this retired Teamster appeared on last night’s “America’s Got Talent.”


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On May 21, 2010, Local 264 President Ron Lucas and Business Agent Richard Lipsitz joined Western New York health care unions, hospital administrators, elected officials and the Dean of Public Health to announce the opening of New York State’s first Safe Patient Handling Lab and Training Center.


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The James Weldon Johnson Library in St. Petersburg, Fla. was really just a large reading room surrounded by rundown shacks and crack houses when UPS Driver Ernie Coney came to its rescue 20 years ago.

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