Imagine standing up for yourself by unionizing at a company where a huge sign on the building you work at reads, "Proud to be Union Free."

At Baldor, a specialty food distributor, more than 180 drivers tried to join Teamsters Local 202 on and off for the last decade. The most recent campaign heated up again in January of this year. A vote is scheduled for May 21. 

Recently management put up a huge sign on the terminal building that reads, "Baldor, Proud to be Union Free." 

On May 1, Teamster Local 237 held a very spirited rally at City Hall Park to raise awareness to the ongoing budget cuts slashing into the New York City Housing Authority, which employs about 8,000 Local 237 members.  Here's the whole story.

In late March of this year we were down in Jacksonville, Florida at First Student yard rallying for respect, a voice at work and better wages. Here is the video to relive it all!

The Teamsters Union was dragged into the growing ugliness of Democratic primary politics on Monday after a Wall Street Journal story and the Clinton campaign inferred that Sen. Barack Obama made a secret quid pro quo promise to lift the federal consent decree on the union in exchange for its endorsement. But the accusations backfired when we released the audio. Listen for yourself.

Barack Obama says that the American people -- despite their racial, geographic or demographic differences -- essentially share common aspirations. They want to be secure in their jobs, they want to be able to put food on the table and send their children to college. They want to be able to get health care without going bankrupt.

That was definitely what I found after crossing two states, as part of Hoffa's Working Class Convoy for Change. I've talked to Teamsters throughout Pennsylvania and Indiana and over and over again they struck the same chords.