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Teamsters Local 710 Letter to Employers Regarding COVID-19 Measures

March 18, 2020

Your Teamsters Local 710 Executive Board and Representatives are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 situation, especially as to how it relates to the measures your employers [...]

Illinois Teamsters: Gov. Pritzker Expands Unemployment Benefits Amid COVID-19 Emergency

March 17, 2020

The recent outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) caused Governor J.B. Pritzker to issue emergency rules expanding unemployment benefits for the State of Illinois. As part of [...]

Message from Secretary-Treasurer Mike Cales on COVID-19

March 15, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Your Teamsters Local 710 Executive Board and Representatives are closely monitoring the constantly changing situation regarding the COVID-19 [...]

Virtual Visits Available for Teamsters Local 710 Health & Welfare Participants through MDLIVE

March 15, 2020

Members who are participants in the Teamsters Local 710 Health & Welfare Fund have access to virtual visits with $0 COPAY through MDLIVE included in your coverage. [...]

COVID-19 Update

March 14, 2020

As you are well aware, the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus) is accelerating in the US and is changing daily, hourly – even by minute. Mass gatherings [...]

Local 710 Remembers Brother Juan Leon Zendejas

March 9, 2020

Our deepest thoughts and prayers are with Brother Jose Leon Zendejas, who passed away on March 5. Jose was a dockworker at YRC in Chicago Heights. Teamsters Local 710 sends [...]

POSTPONED: 2020 Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade

March 3, 2020

UPDATE 03/11/2020 Out of an abundance of caution, the Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been POSTPONED among worries of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The dyeing of the [...]

Local 710 Sysco Drivers Overwhelmingly Ratify New Agreement

March 1, 2020

MOKENA, IL | Teamsters Local 710 Sysco Drivers gathered en masse at the union hall today and ratified their contract by a more than 2:1 margin, locking in wages, no-cost [...]

Local 710 Sysco Secures Unprecedented Tentative Agreement

February 20, 2020

DES PLAINES, IL | In a marathon two days of negotiations, the Teamsters Local 710 Sysco Bargaining Committee secured an unprecedented tentative agreement with their employer [...]

Joint Council 25 Training Facility Offers 5-Week Basic CDL Course