Trade Divisions
The Passenger Transportation Division represents Teamsters who move people in all forms, like drivers of these large, yellow vehicles that transport students.
What is a school bus?
Widely considered the strongest union in North America, the IBT stands for this when spelled out.
What is International Brotherhood of Teamsters?
Teamsters at Albertsons and Kroger work in warehouses and as delivery drivers to ensure that food, drinks, produce, and other consumer items gets to these kinds of stores.
What is a grocery store?
Last April, drivers at Aramark Uniform Services joined Local 988 in this largest city in Texas, which is also known as Space City or H-Town.
What is Houston?
By merging different IBT functions, the Data and Contracts Department was established after IBT General President Sean O’Brien and General Secretary Treasurer Zuckerman took office in this year.
What is 2022?
The Freight Division represents truckers across North America, along with members in this job classification for maintaining and repairing vehicles.
What is a mechanic OR technician?
A union contract is also sometimes referred to as a CBA, which stands for this when spelled out.
What is a collective bargaining agreement?
Teamsters in this company’s supply chain work to bottle and deliver its namesake cola—not Coke!—along with Mountain Dew, Gatorade, and Tropicana products.
What is PepsiCo OR Pepsi?
Nearly 200 workers at Republic Services, a waste company, recently joined Teamsters Local 104 in Arizona—the company’s backyard. Republic’s headquarters is in this Arizona capital city.
What is Phoenix?
Can you unmute? The Data and Contracts Department offers accounts and training to Teamster local unions for this video-based web conferencing application (with a fast-sounding name).
What is Zoom?
The Package Division is the largest division in the International Union and covers 340,000 Teamsters, all working for this single large employer.
What is UPS OR the United Parcel Service?
The BA, which stands for this two-word position title, is a common role for staff members at Teamster local unions.
What is a business agent?
Putting the “Z” in “Teamster jobs from A to Z,” Teamster zookeepers help care for animals at the zoo in this Southern California city, with the initials SD.
What is San Diego?
In June, workers at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas secured representation with Teamsters Local 986. The Venetian is (loosely) modeled after Venice, a canal-lined city in this European country.
What is Italy?
The Data and Contracts Department uses the Salesforce application to build these summarized displays of information, which share the same name as the display panel for a car’s speed and fuel level.
What is a dashboard?
This new Teamsters division is dedicated to organizing and representing workers at the largest e-commerce company in the world, which was formerly led by Jeff Bezos.
What is Amazon OR the Amazon Division?
An employer that spies on workers, retaliates against workplace organizing, or avoids bargaining in good faith may be committing a ULP, which stands for this.
What is an unfair labor practice?
Over 3,500 Teamsters keep this “world”-class Orlando theme park running in their roles as bus drivers, parking workers, ranch hands, and movie characters. Who knew Mickey Mouse was a Teamster?
What is Disney World?
More than 1,100 DHL Express workers at CVG airport voted to join Teamsters Local 100 in April. CVG airport serves the Cincinnati region, which sits on this river, named after the Buckeye State.
What is Ohio?
In collecting contracts from local unions, the Data and Contracts Department will track this type of important end date for each contract, similar to a date you may see on carton of milk or eggs.
What is an expiration date?
The Food Processing Division covers candy production workers who make Laffy Taffy, Butterfingers, and Dum Dums—which are this type of candy—with flavors like butterscotch and cherry.
What is a sucker OR lollipop?
The federal agency that administers a wide range of labor law provisions is known as the NLRB, which stands for this.
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
Teamsters on the set of this “modern Western” TV show, which shares the name of a National Park and stars Kevin Costner, work as animal wranglers for the production’s cattle herd.
What is Yellowstone?
In 2021, public sector workers in this East Coast state became eligible to join unions for the first time. School custodians in the state’s capital, Richmond, joined Teamsters Local 322 in 2023.
What is Virginia?
With a library of 350,000 Teamster contracts, the Data and Contracts Department regularly provides scanned contracts in this Adobe file format to local union reps for bargaining or new organizing.
What is PDF?