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  • The Teamsters—Will Reality TV Be Stranger than Fiction?

    From "Jersey Shore" to the short-lived "All-American Muslim" to the glitzier "Shahs of Sunset," there seems to be no ethnic community left untouched by the national carny show known as reality TV. Always dissed or ignored by the mass media, the multi-ethnic enclave of organized labor might have been the last holdout against letting it all hang out in this shamelessly exhibitionist genre.

  • After Winning Election, Hoffa Targets Teamsters’ Right to Vote
    Ken Paff
    Dec 28 2011 - 9:56am

    In the wake of the November Teamster election, top officials are calling for stripping members of their right to vote for president and international officers.

  • Occupy Wall Street Regroups, as Union Allies Mobilize
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 15 2011 - 6:32pm

    After an early-morning, military-style police eviction, Occupy Wall Street regrouped Tuesday. Protesters vowed the occupation would continue, as furious union allies said Thursday mobilizations would only grow in response to the raid.

  • Chicago Warehouse Workers Navigate Maze of Contractors to Organize
    Jane Slaughter
    Nov 11 2011 - 11:08am

    The UE launched an organizing committee among the 50,000 warehouse workers southwest of Chicago, who handle a trillion dollars worth of goods every year. The union looks to unite workers from across the dizzying array of contractors that operate in the warehouses.

  • At Sotheby’s and Beyond, ‘Occupy’ Movement Boosts Unions
    Mark Brenner, Jenny Brown
    Nov 10 2011 - 2:03pm

    A visceral example of the disconnect between the 99% and the 1% has been the Sotheby's lock-out in New York, where Teamsters and occupiers are rallying together. It's a powerful one-two punch.

  • 'Occupy Wall Street' Links up with Locked-Out Teamsters

    Expanding their reach beyond the confines of Wall Street, a dozen activists from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street action disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s last week.

  • Sotheby’s Locks Out Union Art Handlers, Again

    Sotheby’s auction house closed its doors Saturday to its 43 unionized art handlers, members of Teamsters Local 814. The lockout is its second in a decade, but this time, the union (now led by a reform slate) is ready.

  • Insurgent Pope Nominated for Teamsters President
    Steve Early
    Jul 1 2011 - 11:22am

    Sandy Pope, a Teamster local leader, won nomination for the Teamsters presidency at the union's Vegas convention. Backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union, she made it into the next stage of a three-way race that culminates this fall.

  • With Election Rule, Labor Board Takes Half Step Forward
    Jenny Brown, Mischa Gaus
    Jun 29 2011 - 10:59am

    The typical union vote in the U.S. subjects workers to two months of interrogation, intimidation, and threats that the shop will close, along with a sprinkling of company smiley-faces. That harrowing period could be shortened this summer.

  • The Real and the Make-Believe Collide at Teamsters Convention in Las Vegas
    Steve Early
    Jun 16 2011 - 4:21pm
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    Most Teamster conventions in the last 25 years have been held in Las Vegas—for good reason.