PulteGroup Resolution

WHEREAS, residential construction workers in Arizona and Nevada, with the help of the Building Justice Campaign (the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 15 and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association), are fighting to improve their pay, benefits and working conditions and to have a voice in the workplace; and [...] Read it all here

Port Driver Organizing Resolution

WHEREAS, the Teamsters Union is leading an innovative campaign to organize 110,000 port drivers nationwide; and [...] Read it all here

Protecting Teamster Participants from Pension-Destroying Investors

WHEREAS, unbridled excess on Wall Street led to the worst financial crisis in the United States since the Great Depression; and

WHEREAS, this Great Recession has temporarily created losses on investments for almost all types of benefit funds; and [...] Read it all here

Immigration Reform

WHEREAS, the United States is a nation of immigrants founded on the shared ideals and rights of democracy, freedom of speech, religious tolerance and equal opportunity; and

WHEREAS, many immigrants come to the U.S. because of a lack of quality jobs in their home country, a situation made worse by America's failed trade policies; and [...] Read it all here

Health Care in America

WHEREAS, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has historically been at the forefront on health issues and continues to be so today; and

WHEREAS, Teamster multiemployer health and welfare funds have provided good health care benefits to Teamster members and their families for over six decades and should be protected, preserved and, if possible enhanced; and [...] Read it all here

Financial Reform

WHEREAS, the nation is struggling to recover from the aftermath of a full-blown global economic crisis and the worst, most prolonged recession in decades; and

WHEREAS, unregulated, risky and speculative actions of financial institutions directly precipitated this recession and the collapse of the financial markets in 2008, led to the foreclosure of millions of homes, caused record investment losses to personal retirement savings accounts and private pension plans, and led to a historically high unemployment rate which still stands at nine percent; and [...] Read it all here

Federal Express

WHEREAS, FedEx continues to hide behind legal loopholes and misclassify employees to keep workers from enjoying the same rights as other similarly situated employees in the industry; and

WHEREAS, FedEx has gone so far as to threaten the United States Congress in order to keep all of its Express division employees under the Railway Labor Act, regardless of whether they ever touch an airplane; and [...] Read it all here

Energy/Green Jobs

WHEREAS, Scientific evidence has confirmed that human use of fossil fuels is undisputedly contributing to global warming, causing rising sea levels, changes in climate patterns and threats to coastal areas; and

WHEREAS, The unemployment rate has hit history-making highs since 2008 and currently stands at nine percent; and [...] Read it all here

International Brotherhood of Teamsters' Commitment to Helping Members and Communities in Need Through the Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund

WHEREAS, the Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund is a charitable 501 (c)(3) fund established in 1991 to assist victims of natural disasters long after the media has forgotten; and the Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund is a charitable 501 (c)(3) fund established in 1991 to assist victims of natural disasters long after the media has forgotten; and

WHEREAS, the fund receives donations from local unions and their affiliates; and

WHEREAS, collections from the fund may not be distributed to specific disaster areas until those areas have been declared disaster zones by the federal government; and [...] Read it all here

Coalition Bargaining Resolution

WHEREAS, the cornerstone for successful collective bargaining has historically been unity in purpose and solidarity in action; and

WHEREAS, as one of the oldest industries in the United States, the railroad industry, was organized along craft lines and continues to have a dozen unions representing railroad workers; and [...] Read it all here

Transportation Safety

WHEREAS, whether by land, sea or air, the Teamsters Union represents hundreds of thousands of transportation workers who move cargo and people throughout the United States, and;

WHEREAS, these workers perform their duties in non-traditional workplaces such as a truck, bus or locomotive cab, an airplane cockpit, a tollbooth, along railroad tracks and highways, at airports and at seaports, and deserve a safe and healthy work environment, and; [...] Read it all here

Truck Size and Weight

WHEREAS, the trucking industry is lobbying Congress to increase truck size and weight, and;

WHEREAS, our highways and bridges are in such disrepair that these increases will only serve to further deteriorate our infrastructure, and;

WHEREAS, adding a sixth axle to a 97,000-pound single trailer truck may mitigate highway pavement damage, it will not help to reduce the actual weight of that vehicle on a bridge and will increase bridge damage, and; [...] Read it all here

Union Label Printing

WHEREAS, the printing trades have evolved from the slow, labor-intensive hand press of Guttenberg to the fast-paced digital printing that is available today, and

WHEREAS, printing trade unions and their members have fostered and embraced those evolutions, while assuring that the people who are producing the printed products are well trained, capable and skilled craft workers who are compensated with reasonable benefits and paid a fair wage, and [...] Read it all here

National Days of Action: A Campaign to Defend and Expand Labor Rights & Power

WHEREAS, the attacks on the trade unions as the main defenders and promoters of worker rights has intensified, allowing the corporations to restructure the economy in ways that have that forced down wages, the standard of living of workers, and decimated the base of organized labor in the private sector;

WHEREAS, since 1984, the overall decline in the number of private sector union members has been at 1.7% annually, declining from 11.6 million in 1984 to slightly over 7 million in 2004; [...] Read it all here

National Sanitation Organizing

WHEREAS, the power of the Teamsters Union depends on the strength of our members; and

WHEREAS, Teamsters are able to bargain for the strongest contracts in those industries where the union represents the highest percentage of workers in that industry; and

WHEREAS, strong density in any given industry raises the standards for all workers, even those not represented by a union contract; and [...] Read it all here

Teamsters Local 2010 Contract Struggle

WHEREAS, the University of California is one of the nation's largest university systems, with 10 campuses, five medical centers and three national laboratories;

WHEREAS, the University of California negotiates with eight different unions about the employment terms of more than 60,000 of its employees statewide; [...] Read it all here ENT

Worker Misclassification

WHEREAS, statistical evidence has proven that the practice of worker misclassification has skyrocketed over the last twenty-five years at a rate of 7% increase annually, negatively impacting workers and businesses which play by the rules, and both state and federal governments in that a handful of bad-acting employers receive an unfair advantage over competitors. In fact, studies indicate up to 48% of all independent contractors nationwide may be misclassified employees; and

WHEREAS, workers who are misclassified as independent contactors are stripped of the basic human right to associate with unions and basic workplace protections, including but not limited to the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, OSHA, and even the Americans with Disabilities Act. Additionally, misclassified workers are not protected under state workers' compensation systems, unemployment insurance, and disability benefits. Most egregiously, these workers are highly unlikely to have any healthcare or retirement benefits due to misclassification; and [...] Read it all here

Strategic Campaign and Teamster Organizing Models

WHEREAS, the Strategic Campaign and Teamster Organizing Models are key to both building Teamster power and maintaining strong contracts and job stability for our members;

WHEREAS, employers routinely exploit weak labor laws to resist worker organizing;

WHEREAS, employers are taking advantage of the current economic crisis to demand concessions at the bargaining table, especially on issues of pension, benefits, and wages; [...] Read it all here

Supporting the NLRB

WHEREAS, Congress created the National Labor Relations Board more than 75 years ago by passing the National Labor Relations Act;

WHEREAS, the National Labor Relations Act sought to remedy unfair labor practices used by employers to prevent unionization and cripple workers' economic strength;

WHEREAS, President Franklin Roosevelt said the purpose of the NLRA is to prevent practices that tend to destroy the independence of labor and seek freedom of choice and action to which workers are justly entitled; [...] Read it all here

Social Security/Medicare

WHEREAS, Social Security has operated as a retirement security program for more than 75 years and provides a substantial safety net for more than 53 million Americans, including retirees, the disabled, children and families; and Medicare has provided quality affordable health care for nearly 45 million Americans annually since 1965; and

WHEREAS, the 2008 financial collapse demonstrated the instability of our financial markets and devastated Americans' private pensions and 401k plans, causing record single-year investment losses of 37%; and [...] Read it all here

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