The O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United slate was re-elected on June 16th during the Union’s 31st International Convention in Las Vegas. The re-election followed a secret ballot of the 1,572 delegates sent there to represent the 1.3 million rank-and-file Teamsters from more than 330 locals across North America. No opposition candidates received enough votes to meet the threshold required to challenge the O’Brien-Zuckerman team.
“This victory belongs to rank-and-file Teamsters,” said O’Brien from the convention stage. “When we were sworn into office four years ago, our leadership team committed to building a bigger, faster, stronger union, and that’s exactly what we’ve done. We’ve organized more than 100,000 new members, won historic agreements including a record contract for 340,000 members at UPS, and put rank-and-file members back in the driver’s seat. The Teamsters is now the most aggressive, effective, and respected labor union on Earth. Over the next five years, we have a lot of work ahead of us. The Teamsters face big fights at UPS and Amazon, and we are prepared to tackle those head on with the militancy and organization that has defined our administration. We will keep growing and never stop working for the members.”
Over the next five years, O’Brien and Zuckerman have pledged to strengthen Teamsters density in core industries, defend and improve contracts across every division of the Union, and work towards passing legislation that benefits working people.
“On behalf of all of us at Local 727, I’d like to congratulate General President O’Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Zuckerman on their re-election,” said Local 727 Secretary-Treasurer John Coli, Jr. “We are grateful for their leadership and for the support the entire O’Brien-Zuckerman slate has given our Local throughout the past five years. Their generosity has not gone unnoticed by our grateful rank-and-file membership. We look forward to the next five years of working together in brotherhood and solidarity.”
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