teamsters
Union cargo drivers
Teamsters are drivers of trucks or other commercial vehicles, especially members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the large American labor union.
The word originally referred to drivers of teams of draft animals—horses or oxen pulling wagons.
The teamsters threatened to strike if wages weren't raised.
The union expanded beyond trucking to represent workers in warehouses, airlines, and other industries.
Road-based freight shipping
- haulageCommercial goods transport
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- semiLarge freight truck
- freightGoods being transported
hauler · CDL · long-haul · over-the-road · cab · sleeper · big rig · eighteen-wheeler
Vanished trucking union chief
- localOf this area
- duesRegular membership payments
- stewardManager for another
- organizerArrangement tool or person
collective bargaining · contract · grievance · arbitration · picket · strike · walkout · negotiation
Kinship among men
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- seniorityRank from length of service
- job securityProtected employment status
- labor rightsEmployees' legal workplace entitlements
fair wages · working conditions · collective action · mutual aid · union hall · rally · organizing · shop floor
Bulk goods storage building
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- freightGoods being transported
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
- cargoTransported goods
delivery · fulfillment · pallets · supply chain · UPS · parcel · package handler · dock worker
trucking
Road-based freight shipping
freight · hauler · CDL · long-haul · over-the-road · cab · sleeper · big rig · eighteen-wheeler · tractor-trailer
Hoffa
Vanished trucking union chief
organizer · collective bargaining · contract · grievance · arbitration · picket · strike · walkout · negotiation · ratification
brotherhood
Kinship among men
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- seniorityRank from length of service
- job securityProtected employment status
labor rights · fair wages · working conditions · collective action · mutual aid · union hall · rally · organizing · shop floor · labor movement
warehouse
Bulk goods storage building
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- freightGoods being transported
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
cargo · delivery · fulfillment · pallets · supply chain · UPS · parcel · package handler · dock worker · forklift
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, trucks, truckers, big rig
- labor fictionfactory workers, labor strikes, labor movement, working class, labor
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, labor union, union shops
- worker groupsunion, labor union, trade union, guild, professional association
- canal workerslock keeper, bargeman, dredger, navvy, navvies
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
teamstersscabs
Dried wound coverings
independent contractors · owner-operators · gig workers · freelancers
teamsterspassengers
Transported travelers
riders · commuters · cargo · freight · dispatchers