UPS Freight Workers in Nevada, Arkansas and Pennsylvania Seek Teamster Membership

In Latest Victories, About 170 Workers Will Join Locals 631, 773 and 878

An overwhelming majority of about 170 workers at the UPS Freight terminals in Las Vegas, Nevada; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and Little Rock, Arkansas have signed authorization cards to become Teamsters, bringing the total number of drivers and dockworkers seeking to join the union to nearly 6,300 since January 16, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa announced today.

The workers are seeking to join Local 631 in Las Vegas, Local 773 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Local 878 in Little Rock.

“We’re excited to be welcoming the UPS Freight workers to Local 631,” said Tommy Blitsch, President of Local 631. “Our organizer, Tom Corey, worked diligently on this campaign. We would like to thank our UPS and freight members who talked to the UPS Freight workers about the benefits of being Teamsters.”

“We have been meeting with the workers since June of last year and they have been chomping at the bit to become Teamsters,” said Dennis Hower, Vice President and business agent for Local 773. “It’s fantastic that they now have the chance to join the union. We want to thank Ken Hall (Director of the Teamsters Package Division) for his hard work putting the program together.”

“With this latest set of victories, we have reached the pivotal half-way point in our goal to collect cards from the majority of 12,600 UPS Freight workers,” Hall said. “I appreciate all the local union leaders and UPS Freight workers who have been instrumental in our success so far.”

A majority of UPS Freight workers in West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, California, Florida, Arizona, New York, Kentucky and New England, including workers in the 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.