The Teamsters are America's largest, most diverse union. In 1903, the Teamsters started as a merger of the two leading team driver associations. These drivers were the backbone of America's robust economic growth, but they needed to organize in order to wrest their fair share from greedy corporations. Today the Union's task is exactly the same.

The Teamsters are known as the champion of freight drivers and warehouse workers, but have organized workers in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector.

Our 1.4 million members are public defenders in Minnesota; vegetable workers in California; sanitation workers in New York; brewers in St. Louis; newspaper workers in Seattle; construction workers in Las Vegas; zoo keepers in Pennsylvania; healthcare in Rhode Island; bakery workers in Maine; airline pilots, secretaries and police officers. Name the occupation and chances are we represent those workers somewhere.

And you, too, could become a part of Local 638 and the International Brotherhood Teamsters.

There are 568 Teamster locals throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Teamsters stand ready to organize workers who want to bargain collectively. Once a contract is negotiated and signed, the Union works to enforce it - holding management's feet to the fire and invoking contract grievance procedures if management chooses not to.

Wages and benefits under Teamster contracts are markedly better than those of non-union employees in similar jobs. Teamster contracts are the guarantors of decent wages, fair promotion, health coverage, job security, paid time-off and retirement income.

These resources can be a part of YOUR life on the job. The IBT also performs vital tasks in such areas as pension management, safety & health, community outreach, governmental affairs and communications. For a century the Teamsters have been a public voice for the rights and aspirations of working men and women and a key player in securing them.