American Union of Pizza Delivery Drivers

    We are a National Labor Union representing the growing needs of the workers engaged in the pizza, restaurant and prepared food industry. The objects of the Union are to organize under one banner all workers engaged in the pizza, restaurant and food industries;

    To educate them to cooperate in every movement which tends to benefit the organization; and to impress upon our membership, employers, and the public that it is to the advantage of all concerned that workers be organized.

     The organization of our industry requires honest and intelligent membership, adapted to the business. We teach our members the advantages, benefits, and importance of their industrial position, and we endeavor to build and perfect a labor organization in conformity with the highest standards of our citizenship. We seek to ensure that the contributions made by our members to improve their industry are recognized and that workers receive the benefits derived from their labors in the form of reasonable hours, fair compensation, improved working conditions, and respectful treatment by their employers.

    The objects of the Union are also to secure improved wages, hours, working conditions, and other economic advantages through organization, negotiations and collective bargaining, through advancement of our standing in the community and in the labor movement through legal and economic means, and all other lawful methods; to provide educational advancement and training for employees, members, and officers; to safeguard, advance, and promote the principle of free collective bargaining throughout the world; to advance the rights of workers and consumers, and the security and welfare of all the people.

    The achievement of these objectives within national economies that are dominated by national and multinational corporations and conglomerates will require coordination of our activities to maximize our members economic strength through national and international bargaining, the establishment of master industry-wide agreements, and the implementation of strategic organizing campaigns. It will require establishment of alliances with community groups that share our objectives, and whose goals we can also support.

    It is recognized that the problems with which the Union and its members are accustomed to deal with are not limited to unionism or to organization and collective bargaining alone, but encompass a broad spectrum of economic and social objectives as set forth above. We therefore determine and assert that the participation of this labor organization, individually and with other organizations, in the pursuit and attainment of the objectives set forth here. It is for the sole benefit of the organization and its members.