He had run-ins with the law and had watched friends die, as he tells it, and union life showed him another way, the Teamsters’ horse-and-wheel logo as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The City Council is postponing a vote on a bill to restrict horse-drawn carriages to Central Park after the Teamsters Union withdrew its support, citing concerns about ...

TEAMSTERS or draymen were (often) men who drove wagons or carriages first pulled by oxen, and later by horses, to transport goods and sometimes people along ancient trading routes. They were the ...

In 1904, the teamsters conducted a sympathy strike in support of 18,000 Chicago meat cutters. In 1905, they supported tailors in the well-known Montgomery Ward strike of the same city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to corral the city’s horse-carriages into Central Park is headed to the glue factory, after the union representing the drivers announced today it no longer backed ...

With their industry under siege, horse carriage drivers are not responding enthusiastically to the idea of trading steeds for sedans — and they plan to show it by demonstrating Monday at City… ...

The name dates back to 1903, when most deliveries were made by horse-drawn wagons. The driver was referred to as a "teamster," because he was the one who managed the team that was pulling the ...

Twenty-three men and their horses competed in skills like timber-pulling where, in addition to requiring strength, the competition called for good communication between the horses and their masters.