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- Founded: 1903
- Membership: 1.4 million
- Retirees: About 500,000 throughout the United States and Canada
- General President: James P. Hoffa, 1999-present
- General Secretary-Treasurer: C. Thomas "Tom" Keegel, 1999-present
- Largest Teamster employer: United Parcel Service, with more than 200,000 Teamster members employed.
- Industries represented: The Teamsters are best known as the union for truckers and warehouse workers. While those are still considered our core industries, today's Teamster works in virtually every occupation throughout the United States and Canada.
Teamsters operate computers; are law enforcement and correctional 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, custodians, bus drivers and mechanics; repair highways and collect tolls on
thruways and turnpikes; process, store and deliver food products; and
transport automobiles, trucks, SUVs and other vehicles.
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.
 Where we are: Teamsters members are also spread out geographically. The
largest concentrations of Teamsters are in the regions in the Central and
Eastern states.
There are nearly 1,900 Teamster affiliates throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, with the following breakdown:
- 440 U.S. Teamsters Locals
- 35 Canadian Teamsters Locals
- 573 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Trainmen (BLET) Locals
- 635 Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) Locals
- 206 Graphics Communications Conference (GCC) Locals
- Better wages: Wages of union members are, on average, 27% higher than those of nonunion workers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Better health care: 81% of union workers have job-related health coverage, while only 50% of non-union workers do. Union families pay 43% less for family coverage than nonunion families – that’s a savings of $1,000 a year.
- Better pensions: 72% of union workers have a guaranteed, defined benefit pension, compared to only 15% of nonunion workers.
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