Teamsters represent workers in jobs from A to Z¬––Airline Pilots to Zookeepers
Los Angeles Rescue helicopter pilots 1959. One of the first airline groups organized
2006 General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamster member working as a Wells Fargo Driver, Los Angeles, 1906
Pony Express on Wheels. Cedar Rapids member Wayne Johnson greets his family after completing a 5-day leg in an auto delivery relay through the Western states. 1954
General-Secretary-Treasurer Tom Hughes provides a shoulder for a sleeping child at an annual outing for orphans sponsored by LU 135 in Indianapolis, Indiana. July 1921. Hughes served as General Secretary-Treasurer from 1905 until his death in 1941.
Convention Attire. Delegates at the 1957 Convention show their support for James R. Hoffa who was elected to his first term as General President that year.
All Teamster Card Check. This was a nation-wide membership survey and organizing drive of over-the-road drivers, warehousemen and delivery drivers of all types. 1950
Teamster Harry Jacobsen checks the connection on his lumber truck before taking off with his load. Jacobsen was a driver for Galbraith and Company in Seattle, Washington in 1954
Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers working on a A.G. Darwin locomotive at the Hinkley Locomotive Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Circa 1930
Western Union Teamsters are still represented by Local 111 in New Jersey. Messengers hold a party in New York City, December 1938.
Leicht’s Transfer and Storage Co. truck “Betsy” in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1920. Drivers were members of Local 75 in Green Bay.
Opal Shaver and Celia Perez, members of Local 274 in Phoenix, Arizona fill two-gallon ice cream containers at an area dairy in 1954. Local 274 merged with Local 104, also of Phoenix, in 1984.
Early Teamsters employed by a moving and storage company face many difficulties at work including poor roads and bad weather. 1908
Local 522 President Stephen Kingston Jr., left and Secretary-Treasurer Alfred S. Reger present a check to Martin Luther King Jr. for the “Poor People’s Campaign.” April 1968. This was one of the last pictures taken of King.
Local 831 members employed as New York City Sanitation workers show support for Local 831 and its overwhelming victory in the first representative election for city employees ever held in New York. January 1956
Members of Local 680 in Newark, New Jersey, draw a pail of milk from a “roto-lactor” at the Walker-Gordon Dairy in November 1954. Local 680 later merged with Local 863 in Mountainside, New Jersey.
Pressmen Oscar Kueny (left) and Jim Thomas repair a torn web as part of a day’s work at The St. Louis Daily Record in June 1965.
Chicago Teamsters unload Stroh’s beer in 1916. Drivers, loaders and stock workers were all Teamsters.
Minnie Stanford, a member of Local 952 in Orange, California, regulates the flow of oranges to grading machines at the California Fruit Growers Exchange. May 1954
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes members repairing a switch with the assistance of a track mechanical crane. Circa 1930
Dan Tobin, Teamsters General President from 1907-1952, leaves the White House after speaking with President Roosevelt. Roosevelt had asked Tobin to serve as an advisor to the Cabinet. July 1940
General Secretary-Treasurer John English leaves the mike after defending the union against detractor at the AFL-CIO Convention in December 1955. English’s speech received overwhelming support from the delegates.
Safety vehicle from Local 162 patrolled highways to help stranded motorists in the 1950s and 1960s.