Teamsters local 570

What We Do
Local 570 has been fighting for working men and women for 80 years. By joining together, members have strength in numbers so that they have a voice at work about the issues they care about. We support them in the workplace and on the legislative and political fronts to ensure their best interests are represented.

Who We Are
Local 570 is staffed by hard-working men and women experienced in labor relations and workers’ rights. Our Executive Board members come from the shops we represent, with the experience and knowledge needed to be strong, firm voices on behalf of union members.

Who We Represent
Local 570 represents workers employed in a variety of industries, including Warehouse, Dairy, Bakery, Laundry & Linen, Brewery & Soft Drink, Solid Waste & Recycling, Professional & Technical, Passenger Transportation, and General Sales.

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Week Ending 12/8/2023

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Direct Elections for Labor Leaders Make for More Militant Unions

Dec. 8, 2023 | U.S. UNIONS | The labor movement is rightfully celebrating recent contract victories by the United Auto Workers, Teamsters, SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America, which together cover nearly 650,000 workers. An essential thread uniting the campaigns is that the top union officers were all directly elected by the members, a basic democratic right denied to many union members in the United States. As other unions seek to learn lessons from these historic contract fights, a key takeaway is that a vibrant democratic process — “one member, one vote” — is crucial to a revitalized labor movement. … But a review of the constitutions of the twenty largest unions in the United States shows that “one member, one vote” is a right denied to most union members. Of the top twenty unions — representing approximately 13.3 million members and 83 percent of all US union workers — only six have direct elections. Jacobin

Unions Are Coming, Not Just for the Few, But for Everyone

Dec. 6, 2023 | OPINION | […] Unions can be the hammer that smashes economic inequality. They can be the magic ingredient that pulls together working people of all races and political persuasions and unites them in common cause. They can be every bit as powerful as rich corporations, acting in service of humanity rather than profits. They can be the beating heart at the center of American politics. But they will not be any of those things as long as only one in 10 workers (and falling) are union members. If unions want to get bigger, they need to think bigger. The Guardian

Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt

Dec. 5, 2023 | ORGANIZING | Long after he took a position at Allina Health, a large nonprofit healthcare system based in Minnesota, in 2009, Dr. John Wust, a longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana, did not see himself as the kind of employee who might benefit from collective bargaining. But that changed in the months leading up to March when his group of more than 100 doctors at an Allina hospital near Minneapolis voted to unionize. Dr. Wust, who has spoken with colleagues about the potential benefits of a union, said doctors were at a loss on how to ease their unsustainable workload because they had less input at the hospital than ever before. And doctors are not the only health professionals who are unionizing or protesting in greater numbers. The New York Times

Expanding Our View of Bargaining for the Common Good

Dec. 1, 2023 | LABOR UNION HISTORY | Bargaining for the common good sprang up in the vernacular of labor organizing in the wake of the Great Recession. Common good bargaining is a practice by which a bargaining unit uses its negotiating power to make demands that benefit parties not formally at the negotiating table, often the community that the bargaining unit serves. … For an example of how the efforts of organized workers to improve their own working conditions can produce widespread benefit, one need look no further than the history of the eight-hour workday in America. In the wake of the American revolution and again in 1835, Philadelphia carpenters went on strike for a shorter, ten hour work day. Unions began demanding an eight-hour workday… On Labor

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Did You Know?

Since 1910, the well-known Teamster logo
   has consisted of two horses' heads,
   representing the complementary forces of
   strength inherent in the Teamster organization.
   The horses' names are Thunder and Lightning;
   Thunder is male and Lightning is female.

Members = Power

Local 570 members and their representatives
   negotiate wages, benefits, and job security,
   resolve grievances and secure health and
   safety protections during a pandemic
   because, as a union, they have a seat at the
   table with their employers.

Our next General Membership Meeting will be held Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, at 10 am at the Union Hall. Please be present and on time. Bring a coworker!