About Us - Inside The Bake Teamsters

At over 1.4 million members, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union is the largest labor union in the world, and the
most diverse in the United States.

We are leading the fight for universal health care and a stronger middle class.

The Teamsters Union and organized labor is America’s best anti-poverty program, bringing millions of hardworking men and women into the middle class.

Sadly, politicians on both sides of the aisle continue to ignore our country's working families, and the gap between the rich and poor grows larger with every passing day.

 

For the past 100 years, the Teamsters Union has been the champion of the working class in the United States. With both Democrats and Republicans beholden to corporations, unions are the only force committed to the American Dream.

Wages of union members are, on average, 27 percent higher than those of workers without union representation. 

• Women in unions earn an extra $170 a week – $9,000 more a year.
• African Americans in unions earn an extra $150 a week – $8,000 more a year.
• Latinos in unions earn an extra $225 a week – $11,650 more a year.

88 percent of union workers have job-related health coverage while only 69 percent of non-union workers do. 

More than two out of three union jobs offer a dental plan; only 44 percent of non-union workers receive dental coverage.

More than half all union jobs offer vision coverage; only about one-quarter of non-union jobs provide vision care.

85 percent of union jobs offer prescription drug coverage; only 66 percent of non-union jobs provide prescription drug coverage.

Union workers pay an average of 8 percent of the total monthly premium (employer pays 92 percent) for single coverage; non-union workers pay 20 percent. Union households pay an average of 12 percent of the monthly premium for family coverage while non-union families pay 32 percent.

72 percent of union workers have a guaranteed defined-benefit pension compared to 15 percent of non-union workers.

Today, America’s middle class needs the Teamsters like never before.