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Retired truck drivers will have at least a few more months before any pension cut lowers their monthly benefits after administrators of the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund temporarily withdrew their application to the Department of the Treasury.

After 19 months in the limbo of working without a contract, Teamsters union members in the car-haul sector ratified a new labor pact with a resounding 86% yes vote, providing labor stability through May 2021 for unionized motor carriers that move cars and trucks.

Attorneys for the Teamsters asked a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. District Court of Appeals in San Francisco to end the Mexican trucks program because a three-year pilot program did not draw a large enough sample to prove that Mexican carriers can operate safely on U.S. highways.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached a tentative agreement Jan. 24 with the National Automobile Transporters Labor Division on a contract to cover union car haulers.

Fifteen months after narrowly voting to unionize, two dozen truck driver, and warehouse workers at Goodwill Industries of the Columbia, Washington, are about to vote to decertify Teamsters Local 839.

WASHINGTON — The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. could go insolvent within a decade, and the agency’s director doesn’t believe that Congress will fix the problem anytime soon, putting Central States Pension Fund retirees at risk of receiving zero benefits if it went bankrupt, too.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against FedEx Freight in a case involving the National Labor Relations Board and must recognize a drivers-only bargaining unit in Stockton, California.

Workers at two XPO Logistics facilities voted to be represented by the Teamsters as the union’s organizing efforts continue.