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Damon C. Williams is a Philadelphia-based journalist reporting on trending topics across the Mid-Atlantic Region. This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Who are the Teamsters, and ...
Following a disastrous strike in July 1864 by employees of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, in which half of the strikers lost their jobs, the Brotherhood of the Footboard held a convention in Indianapolis on 17 August 1864 in which they changed their name to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and replaced Grand Chief Engineer Robinson with Charles Wilson.
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]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Teamsters executive board is meeting on Wednesday in Washington as the 1.3 million-member union decides whom to endorse in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The ...
O'Brien was the youngest person elected as President of Teamsters Local Union 25 and was the Secretary-Treasurer of New England Joint Council 10. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] O'Brien resigned from Local 25 and Joint Council 10 on March 1, 2022, in order to serve full-time as General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [ 4 ]
The main national body of the Teamsters union may have declined to endorse a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, but that hasn't stopped local units from doing so.
The labor federation expelled the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on corruption charges on December 6, 1957. [18] Membership changes continued, albeit at a markedly lower level, throughout the last four decades of the 20th century. On a few occasions, unions in the construction industry disaffiliated and reaffiliated. [9]
William J. McCarthy (July 2, 1919 – November 19, 1998) was an American labor leader and official in the Teamsters.He was appointed president of the Teamsters on July 18, 1988, defeating interim president Weldon Mathis.