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The 2021 Teamsters election was the first in 25 years in which Hoffa did not run. The internal rank-and-file organization Teamsters for a Democratic Union campaigned in favor of Teamsters United, on the basis of dissatisfaction around issues including contract negotiations and pension arrangements.
A Teamsters spokesperson said the DNC never responded to O'Brien's request for a speaker slot at the Democratic convention. [17] Despite historical affiliations with the Democratic Party, the Teamsters decided not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election after an internal poll revealed that 60% of their members supported Trump. [18]
In November 2021, the O'Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United Slate beat the Hoffa-backed slate by a more than two-to-one margin. [3] O'Brien and his slate were sworn into office on March 22, 2022, at Teamsters headquarters in Washington, D.C. [ 4 ] On the day his administration was installed, O'Brien fired more than 80 employees at the headquarters.
The five-year contract between the Teamsters and UPS Inc., the Teamsters' largest employer with 268,000 members, doesn't expire until July 31, 2023. Talks aren't likely to start until late 2022.
The Teamsters union, which also has affiliates in Canada and Puerto Rico, was created in 1903 by the merger of driver associations and now have more than a million members.
As he looks past the GOP primary and toward a likely general election rematch against President Joe Biden, Donald Trump is meeting with members of the Teamsters Union in Washington on Wednesday as ...
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]
The Teamsters union endorsed Biden during the 2020 election, before O’Brien was elected president in 2021, and has historically endorsed Democratic presidential candidates.