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.

The Teamsters’ leader is making quite the gamble. John Palmer, vice president at large of the 1.3-million-member Teamsters union, slammed O’Brien’s decision to speak at the convention.

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.

Teamsters Joint Councils 7 and 42 — which are made up of 39 local unions representing 300,000 members in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam — wrote in a statement that Harris and her running ...

Among the occupations of Windsor residents listed in the federal Census for 1910 is that of “Teamster.” Today, truck driving more aptly describes the occupation title. However, in 1910 it likely ...