Trade Divisions
Acronyms
On the Job
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IBT Data and Contracts Department
100

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?

100

Widely considered the strongest union in North America, the IBT stands for this when spelled out.

What is International Brotherhood of Teamsters?

100

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? 

100

More than 200 bus drivers and attendants in this Pennsylvania city—home of the cheesesteak sandwich and the Eagles football team—voted to join Local 623 in March 2024.

What is Philadelphia? 

100

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?

200

The Freight Division represents truckers across North America, along with members in this job type, which maintains and repairs vehicles.

What is a mechanic OR technician?

200

A union contract is also sometimes referred to as a CBA, which stands for this when spelled out.

What is a collective bargaining agreement?

200

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?

200

Workers who call this state home recently gained wall-to-wall coverage at the American Red Cross in their state’s capital, Salt Lake City.

What is Utah? 

200

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?

300

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?

300

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? 

300

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?

300

Tourists in this rainy West Coast city might visit the Space Needle or take a trip to Puget Sound before visiting the Woodley Park Zoo, where admissions department workers unanimously voted to join Local 117 earlier this year.

What is Seattle?

300

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?

400

This 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?

400

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? 

400

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?

400

Ocean Casino Resort valets in this seaside New Jersey resort city—named for the ocean that borders the East Coast—voted to join Local 331 in early 2024.

What is Atlantic City?

400

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? 

500

The Food Processing Division covers candy production workers who make Dum Dums—which are this type of candy—with flavors like butterscotch, cotton candy, and a mystery flavor.

What is a sucker OR lollipop? 

500

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? 

500

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?

500

UPS administrative and specialist workers in Richmond, this East Coast state’s capital, joined Local 322 earlier this year.

What is Virginia?

500

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?