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Teamsters Union Founded: 1903 The largest single employer of Teamsters members is United Parcel Service, which employs more than 200,000 Teamsters members. The best-known Teamsters work in the freight industry. More than 120,000 Teamsters are covered by multiple employers under the National Master Freight Agreement. The Teamsters represent 1.4 million working men and women
in virtually every occupation throughout the United States and Canada.
Teamsters operate computers; protect families as law enforcement officers;
work as technical employees in both the public and private sectors; care for
patients in hospitals and nursing homes, work as public defenders; assist
customers at car rental agencies; work at leading hotels; work in schools as
both principals and custodians; repair highway bridges and collect tolls on
thruways and turnpikes; process, store
Two-thirds of Teamsters members work in one of five divisions: Warehouse, Parcel, Freight, Public Employees and Industrial Trades. The Public Employees sector is the union's fastest-growing division. Teamsters members are also spread out geographically. The largest concentrations of Teamsters are in the regions in the Central and Eastern states.
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and deliver food products; and
transport automobiles, trucks, SUVs and other vehicles.
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