NMDU

NEW YORK The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union (NMDU) -- which represents some 1,500 employees at papers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut -- have voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, according to a union announcement.


The NMDU members, who deliver bulk newspapers to retail outlets, will become part of the new Teamsters Local 1901 in Long Island City, New York, the announcement stated. They also join 14,000 Teamsters as part of the union's Newspaper Division.

Founded in 1901, NMDU members deliver bulk newspapers for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, The Star-Ledger of Newark, New York Post, El Diario, America Oggi, The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, and other papers.

"Our members wanted to affiliate with the strongest union in America, and that's the Teamsters," Doug Panattieri Jr., President of NMDU/Teamsters Local 1901, said in the release. "There has been so much contraction in the newspaper industry in general that the wise choice was to affiliate with a union that is growing -- the Teamsters Union."