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Welcome to Teamster Organizing!

The Teamsters Union is internationally recognized as an organizing union—in 2008 we organized over 43,000 workers. Come back here often for the latest information about Teamster  organizing.

  • Bob Kokx works at Coca-Cola as a lab tech in quality assurance. He also lives in a state where unemployment stands at 15.2 percent and workers have faced hard times. Kokx sat down with Teamster Magazine to share why he believes in the value of organizing and what his thoughts are on the future of labor.

  • The first official “boot camp” training took place on Saturday at Local 243/Joint Council 43 in Plymouth Township, Michigan. A joint effort between the International Union, Joint Councils, and local unions, the training taught members how to effectively organize and mobilize workers to action. Trainings are scheduled throughout the fall at Joint Councils around the country, with the goal of recruiting 1,000 Teamster member organizers this year.

  • Recruiting Poster

     As Teamsters, you already know the importance of a union contract, a grievance procedure, seniority and a number of other things that most American workers must do without.

    Now you can help nonunion workers who want Teamster representation by joining the Mighty Army of Teamster member organizers who are fighting to rebuild the middle class and raise standards for working families.

  • April 1 — While the rest of the country is going through a recession, the Inland Empire is in the grips of a depression. Just east of Los Angeles in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, the region led the nation in economic development and population growth as recently as three years ago. Now it leads the nation in unemployment and ranks third in foreclosures.


  • Teamster organizers from throughout North America have descended upon Washington, D.C. for the sixth annual Teamsters Organizers Conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. For organizers who spend most of their year helping workers achieve better working conditions, the conference is aptly themed, “Teamsters: Delivering Hope to America’s Workers.” The three-day conference features a packed schedule of speakers, workshops, lobbying and a demonstration for the more than 350 attendees.

  • Many attending the Teamsters sixth annual Organizers Conference learned about campaign communication strategies—with an emphasis on new technology—that the organizers will be able to take back to their local unions and employ on campaigns back home.

  • March 25 — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said late Wednesday FedEx Corp. intends to “blackmail Congress” by threatening to cancel a multi-billion dollar airplane contract order if its FedEx Express workers are allowed an easier path to unionization.

  • March 10 — Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today praised House and Senate sponsors of the Employee Free Choice Act.
    The bill would give workers the choice of forming a union through majority sign-up or a National Labor Relations Board election.  It would make it easier for workers to form a union.

  • March 10 —Twenty miles south of downtown, the Port of Los Angeles spreads over 7,500 acres of San Pedro Bay and its shoreline. It’s the busiest container port in the United States, and when combined with the neighboring Port of Long Beach is the fifth busiest in the world. Each day more than half a billion dollars in goods - primarily furniture, apparel, and auto parts from Asia - are loaded into hundreds of big-rig trucks. Half set out for destinations east of the Rockies.

  • February 11—Workers, clergy and community leaders in Los Angeles told FedEx CEO Fred Smith that dwindling benefits, higher out-of-pocket medical costs, the loss of pensions and 401(k) compensation has put FedEx workers on the verge of slipping from the middle class.