WARRENDALE, Pa. — More than 500 Teamster truck drivers in eight states went on strike against 10 Roads Express Feb. 18 in a fight against boss demands for wage cuts. The freight trucking company, which employs some 2,600 drivers, is the second-largest contractor for the United States Postal Service.
“Our members have had enough. They are on strike because 10 Roads Express refuses to offer a contract that recognizes our hard work and the essential service we provide,” John A. Murphy, director of the Teamsters Freight Division, said in a press release.
Some 25 of these drivers, members of Teamsters Local 249, are on strike here. They told the Militant the company hasn’t been willing to come to the table and negotiate.
Drivers here joined the Teamsters two years ago as part of a wave of successful organizing drives at 10 Roads Express across the country, including in Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, Utah and Kansas.
“We’re done with the unfair treatment from a company that takes millions from USPS while leaving workers behind,” Keith Damguard, a nine-year driver at 10 Roads Express in Omaha and a member of Teamsters Local 554, said in the Teamsters press release. “We will not accept anything less than what we have earned and deserve.”
“It’s kind of a slap in the face. The post office is taking the jobs off us and giving it to brokers for half the cost,” Keith Fisher, a driver on strike, told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. 10 Roads Express is pushing for lower wages to compete with the brokers at workers’ expense.
“All these decisions are being made at the top,” another driver, who asked that his name not be used out of concern of retaliation from the bosses, told the Militant, but the post office and 10 Roads bosses “aren’t seeing how that’s playing out at the bottom for us.”
Fellow Teamsters members and others have brought solidarity to the picket line. Pepsi and UPS drivers, members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Amazon workers and others have turned out. Strikers told the Militant the picket line is up 24/7 and encouraged other workers to visit anytime.
For more information on how to support the strike, visit teamster.org/2025/02/teamsters-strike-10-roads-express.