Teamsters Local 814 joined nearly 30,000 workers and supporters to celebrate International Worker Day (May Day) by marching from Union Square downtown.
Below, Local 814 members say what May Day means to them.
On March 30, 2012, Curtis Williams passed away. A longtime member of Teamsters Local 814, Curtis served as both an Executive Board member and shop steward.
Known for his sincerity and gift for public speaking, he will be remembered as a good union man and principaled person.
As per Curtis' wish, there was no wake and no funeral. Any members who wish to share their condolesences with Curtis' family can email jasoni@ibt814.com and we will pass along your sentimens.
The nearest subway stops are the Court Square station on the G Line and Court Square - 23rd Street station on the E and M Lines. The 7 Line is currently not stopping at its Court Square station because of renovations.
Check out today's article in Crain's about Teamsters Local 814 and Moving and Storage Companies:
Turf war shakes up moving industry
The area's largest unionized commercial movers joined Friday with labor organizations to beat back competitors affiliated with less traditional unions.
by Daniel Massey, February 3, 2012
"Escalating a turf war in the city's commercial moving industry, a collection of the area's largest unionized commercial movers joined Friday with labor organizations to form the trade group Moving Forward.
The group launched a website, movingforwardny.org, and promised an aggressive outreach campaign to educate building managers and owners about a cadre of moving companies tied to unions not affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the state Building and Construction Trades Council. Those movers have begun to make inroads in the industry, cutting into work for companies whose employees belong to more traditional unions.
“Everyone's tired of unions posing as an AFL-CIO or building trades union when they are not,” said Jason Ide, president of Teamsters Local 814. “Everybody's tired of contracts that look nothing like building trades contracts. The pay and benefit is nothing like those under our contracts.”
