July 3, 1835 Children, employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., go on strike for an 11-hour day and six-day week. A compromise settlement resulted in a 69-hour work week. ~Labor Tribune
• Podcast: Educating Teamster kids • 2019 was the year tech workers organized • MLK’s thoughts on the labor movement, unions • Why do so many US workers fall to their deaths? • The sitcom that gets America’s working class • Rising temperatures put more US workers at risk • Teamsters applaud passage of NJ legislation combatting worker misclassification • Don’t let the government sell off the postal service
General Membership Meetings
are suspended for the summer months
of June, July and August, per the
unanimous vote of members
at the May 18, 2025 meeting.
Dates for the September meetings
will be posted in August.