UPS Freight Workers in North Carolina Sign Cards to Become Teamsters

In Latest Victory, About 235 Drivers, Dockworkers Will Join Local 391


(Greensboro, NC) – An overwhelming majority of about 235 workers at the UPS Freight terminals in Greensboro, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Kinston and Wilmington, in North Carolina, have signed authorization cards to become Teamsters, bringing the total number of drivers and dockworkers seeking to join the union to nearly 6,100 since January 16, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced.

The workers are seeking to join Local 391 in Greensboro.

“Our Organizing Coordinator, Randy Conrad, worked closely with our freight and UPS stewards to collect cards in just a week and a half,” said Jack Cipriani, and International Union Vice President and President of Local 391. “I want to thank our current members who helped give the UPS Freight workers the opportunity for a brighter future as Teamsters. We look forward to helping the UPS Freight workers win the strong contract they deserve.”

“North Carolina has put us over the 6,000-worker plateau,” said Ken Hall, Director of the Teamsters Package Division. “We are closing in on the halfway-point in our goal of collecting cards from a majority of 12,600 UPS Freight workers. The excitement continues to build.”

In addition to the North Carolina workers, a majority of UPS Freight workers in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, California, Florida, Arizona, New York, Kentucky and New England, including the large cities of Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Houston, San Diego, St. Louis, Orlando, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oakland, Seattle, Memphis and Detroit, have submitted cards to become Teamsters.