Posted on Nov 07, 2024 by Admin
Today, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) launched a new website, TeamstersTruth.com, and digital effort aimed at educating the public and workers about the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its history of bankrupting companies, causing job losses, and pushing harmful strikes on workers. “The Teamsters union has a concerning history of putting its bottom line […]
Posted on Jul 09, 2024 by LaborPains.org Team
Today, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) announced a set of billboards that are posted outside major inroads to the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. The billboards call Teamsters President Sean O’Brien and his union “Two-Faced.” The billboards call out the Teamsters for requesting a speaking slot at the RNC in a […]
Posted on Jun 20, 2024 by Admin
Today, the Center for Union Facts (CUF) released a new report on how the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union used member dues to fund its largely one-sided political agenda. The data comes on the heels of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien requesting speaking slots at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer in an […]
Posted on Feb 25, 2019 by LaborPains.org Team
Mayor Bill de Blasio claims that Amazon’s tragic break up with NYC was simply “scuttled by a few very powerful people sitting in a boardroom in Seattle.” But it takes two to tango and de Blasio would be wise to consider what the city—or more specifically, what the city’s labor unions—did to push Amazon away. […]
Posted on May 30, 2018 by LaborPains.org Team
May has been a month filled with union shenanigans. From embezzlement to wire fraud, the Labor Department continues to have its hands full keeping tabs on union officials: On May 17th, 2018, in the United States District Court, Southern District of Illinois, Scott Alexander, former president for Teamsters Local 50 (located in Belleville, Ill.), pled guilty […]
Posted on Aug 21, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
Today marks the start of National Employee Freedom Week, an annual celebration of employee rights in the workplace and the enduring need to fight for them. Fortunately, many U.S. states have addressed the union stranglehold on the workplace with right-to-work laws, which prohibit mandatory union membership as a condition of employment. A week from now, […]
Posted on Aug 10, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team
Don’t look now, but the Teamsters are (still) taking pages out of Jimmy Hoffa’s playbook. Our story takes us to Boston, where “Top Chef” filmed a segment back in 2014. Earlier this month, “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi told a federal jury investigating a union extortion case that several Teamsters members harassed her on the way to […]
Posted on Feb 02, 2016 by LaborPains.org Team
An interesting item crossed the wires: Politico reports that the Teamsters Union’s court-appointed Independent Review Board (IRB) filed a subpoena for some Uber transportation account records. Court records show that the IRB believes that a Teamsters headquarters employee (who makes six figures in total compensation, according to DOL filings) was using the union’s credit card […]
