Teamsters in Transportation l Teamster Careers in Other Industries l Teamster Occupations
Where We Work l Teamster Trade Divisions and Trade Conferences

FACTS ABOUT THE TEAMSTERS TODAY

TEAMSTERS IN TRANSPORTATION

The largest single employer of Teamster members is United Parcel Service, which employs about 200,000 of our Teamster members. The best-known Teamsters work in the freight industry. About 160,000 Teamsters are covered under the National Master Freight Agreement. Thousands more work in the airline, airfreight, carhaul, and tankhaul industries, among others.

TEAMSTER CAREERS IN OTHER INDUSTRIES

The Teamsters Union represents 1.4 million men and women who work in virtually every occupation throughout the United States and Canada. Did you know...

Teamsters work for North America's largest companies, including United Parcel Service, Anheuser Busch, Northwest Airlines, Roadway Express, Airborne Express, Safeway, Disney, Allied, United Technologies, Sears and General Electric?

Teamsters work as flight attendants, pilots and mechanics for leading airlines and air freight companies?

Teamsters operate computers, surf the Net and work in white collar or technical fields?

Teamsters care for patients in hospitals and nursing homes?

Teamsters assist customers at car rental agencies like Hertz and Avis?

Teamsters work at leading hotels everywhere?

Teamsters work in schools throughout the United States and Canada?

Teamsters work as technical employees in both the public and private sectors?

Teamsters protect families as law enforcement officers and correctional officers?

Teamsters repair highway bridges and collect tolls throughout the New York State Thruway and Pennsylvania Turnpike?

Teamsters mine salt under Lake Erie and work as public defenders in the State of Minnesota?

Teamsters process, store and deliver food products?

Teamsters transport automobiles, trucks, SUV's and other vehicles? 

Teamsters Union Began: 1903

Total Number of Teamsters: Approximately 1.4 million (3/00)

Total Number of Local Unions: 568

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• Accountants
• Airline Pilots
• Airline Customer Service Agents
• Airport Operations Coordinators
• Animal Control Officers
• Assistant District Attorneys
• Assistant Publications Editors
• Attendant Office Managers
• Bailiffs
• Bookkeepers
• Bookmobile Drivers
• Brewery Workers
• Bus Drivers
• Carpenters
• Cashiers
• Chemists
• Clerks
• Computer Operators
• Cooks
• Correctional Officers
• Court Reporters
• Crew Schedulers
• Custodians
• Dental Technicians

• Detectives

  Dietary Aides

  Disney World Characters

  Dispatchers

  Dock Workers

  Doctors

• Electricians
• Electronic Technicians
• Embroiderers 
• Engineering Technicians
• File Clerks
• Firefighters
• Flight Attendants
• Flight Engineers
• Food Processors
• Forestry Employees
• Forklift Operators
• Gardeners
• Group Leaders
• Health Inspectors
• High Pressure Engineers
• Hotel Employees
• Housing Improvement Investigators
• Housekeepers
• Inspectors
• Insurance Claims Adjusters
• Lab Technicians
• Lead Revenue Auditors
• Library Assistants
• Licensed Practical Nurses
• Lithographers
• Maintenance Employees
• Marine Safety Officers
• Material Analysts
• Mechanics
• Medical Technologists
• Microfilm Specialists
• Nurses
• Operating Engineers

• Painters
• Parking Attendants
• PBX Operators
• Pharmacists
• Platemakers
• Plumbers
• Police Officers
• Pressmen
• Printers
• Programmers
• Production Employees
• Public Works Maintenance Employees
• Radio Operators
• Railroad Mechanics
• Recycling Employees
• Refrigeration Engineers
• Refuse Drivers
• Registered Nurses
• Reservationists
• Residents
• Salespersons
• Sanitation Workers
• School Crossing Guards
• School Principals
• Secretaries
• Shipping & Receiving Clerks
• Social Workers
• Statisticians/Teletype Operators
• Toll Collectors
• Tool & Die Makers
• Tugboat Captains, Pilots, Mates, Deckhands and Engineers
• Traffic Investigators
• Truck Drivers

United Parcel Service

National Master Freight Agreement

Automobile Transport

Anheuser Busch

Northwest Airlines

Kroger

Entemann's

Airborne Express Pilots

Warehousing

Industrial & Manufacturing

Public Employment

Pipeline

Iowa Beef Products

Newspaper Industry

Parking/Industrial Trades

General Electric

& Many More! 

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