On a wet and windy morning on Chicago’s South Side, nearly 100 Union Stewards from Teamsters Local 743 met to learn about the organizing side of union business. International Organizer Walt Westfield from the International…

Teamsters Joint Council No. 25 is joining fellow Union Officials from across the country that are mourning the sad loss of a Titan in the Field of Organized Labor, former International Union of Operating Engineers…

Last week, the James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund celebrated twenty years of providing millions of dollars in scholarships to hundreds of Teamster sons and daughters. The Fund has made college dreams possible for so…

There’s a lot of similarities between Santa Claus and Teamsters Local 731 Member Jason Haynes. They’re both big, jolly, bearded men who drive vehicles with a lot of horsepower (or reindeer-power) for a living. And…

The Word On Weed

02 Jan 2020

The new law legalizing recreational marijuana within the State of Illinois went into effect on January 1, 2020. However, marijuana utilization and possession is still illegal in most workplaces. It is still both dangerous and…