Food Processing Division

About The Food Processing Division

The Teamsters represent more than 60,000 workers in the food processing industry, including mechanics, forklift drivers, machine operators and production line workers. They help to make and move just about every kind of food you will find at the grocery store. We hope this site will serve as a source of information on the latest developments in the division.

Director: Rome Aloise

Contact Food Processing Division

The Teamsters Food Processing Division can be contacted by calling (202) 624-6822 or by e-mail at [email protected]

Show Your Teamster Pride On The 4th!

Teamster brothers and sisters across the U.S. make, package, warehouse and deliver a whole variety of barbecue items.
June 29, 2017
- Headline News
iPods For Wounded Veterans

Wounded military veterans across the country are being helped by the work that iPods for Wounded Veterans provides.
May 26, 2017
- Headline News
Workers at Meat Company Vote to Join Teamsters Local 523 in Oklahoma

On April 21, 2017, workers at Armour-Eckrich Meats in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, voted to join Teamsters Local 523 in Tulsa. There are 13 drivers and loaders in the bargaining unit.
May 1, 2017
- Food Processing
- Headline News
Nestlé Teamsters Ratify New Contract

(MILWAUKEE) – Confectionary workers at the Burlington, Wisc. Nestlé plant ratified a new five-year agreement this weekend, securing a strong contact that included wage gains and maintenance of health care and retirement benefits.
February 22, 2017
- Food Processing
- Press Releases
Scholarship Applications Now Available

Scholarship applications for the sons and daughters of Teamster members are now available.
December 1, 2016
- Headline News
Teamster-Inspired Recipes For Thanksgiving

Many ingredients for traditional Thanksgiving recipes are Teamster-made or delivered.
November 18, 2016
- Headline News
Local 653 Organizes Mini-Bus Workers, Achieves First Contract for Food Processing Employees

(SOUTH EASTON, Mass.) – Drivers and monitors for Middleborough School District have organized with the Teamsters while workers at Uno’s frozen pizza production facility in Brockton ratified their first contract with the assistance of Local 653.
October 11, 2016
- Press Releases
Food Processing Division News, September 2016

The September issue of the Food Processing newsletter contains articles about the Taylor Farms presentation at the International Convention and the new contract for Con Agra members in Russellville, Ark.
October 6, 2016
- Food Processing

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Food Processing Division

About The Food Processing Division

Contact Food Processing Division

Show Your Teamster Pride On The 4th!

iPods For Wounded Veterans

Workers at Meat Company Vote to Join Teamsters Local 523 in Oklahoma

Nestlé Teamsters Ratify New Contract

Scholarship Applications Now Available

Teamster-Inspired Recipes For Thanksgiving

Local 653 Organizes Mini-Bus Workers, Achieves First Contract for Food Processing Employees