Teamsters' UPS Freight Campaign Reaches 4,000-Worker Milestone

In Latest Victories, Workers Seek To Join Locals 107, 676 and 326

An overwhelming majority of about 175 workers at the UPS Freight (formerly Overnite Transportation) terminals in Bensalem, Pennsylvania; Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Elkton, Maryland have signed authorization cards to become Teamsters, bringing the total number of drivers and dockworkers seeking to join the union to more than 4,000 since January 16, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced.

The workers are seeking to join Local Unions 107, 676 and 326.

“This is a testament to the great job Package Division Director Ken Hall and General President Jim Hoffa are doing on this campaign,” said Bill Hamilton, President of Teamsters Local 107 and Joint Council 53 in Philadelphia. “We collected a majority of cards from workers within a week.”

“This is a great day for Local 676,” said Howard Wells, President of Local 676 in Collingswood, New Jersey. “The workers are very eager and very excited to become Teamsters.”

“We look forward to welcoming the workers to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,” said John Ryan, President of Local 326 in New Castle, Delaware.

“With these latest victories in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, we have reached the 4,000-worker plateau. We are almost a third of the way toward our goal of collecting cards from a majority of 12,600 UPS Freight workers,” said Ken Hall, Director of the Teamsters Package Division.

In addition to the Bensalem, Pennsauken and Elkton workers, a majority of UPS Freight workers in Houston and in Beaumont, Texas; Indiana, California, Florida, Arizona, New York state, Kentucky and New England, and the large cities of Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oakland, Seattle, Memphis and Detroit have submitted cards to become Teamsters.