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Teamsters nurses refuse to hand over jobs to replacement workers
Mar. 2, 2025 | TIn Michigan, Henry Ford Genesys Hospital management refused to accept Teamsters Local 332’s return-to-work agreement that would protect nurses’ seniority and allow 750 experienced nurses to return to their jobs. Instead of reinstating skilled Teamsters nurses, Henry Ford is prioritizing inexperienced replacement workers, prolonging the monthslong unfair labor practice (ULP) strike, and continuing to violate federal labor law. Learn more

Teamsters honor Women’s History Month
Mar. 2, 2025 | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is proud to celebrate March as Women’s History Month as we honor the sacrifices and achievements of women in our union and our nation. Since our founding in 1903, women have played a crucial role in the Teamsters Union's growth and success, and in the broader labor movement. Women labor leaders participated in the very first Teamsters convention and, since then, have led the Teamsters Union to the forefront of fighting for gender equality in the workplace and society.

Reminder: Deadline for Hoffa Scholarship is March 2
Feb. 24, 2025 | The James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting scholarship applications from high school seniors who are the children of Teamster members for academic awards ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 - and vocational/training program scholarships with awards from $500 to $2,000. Apply here. (Program key is JRHMSF)

Judge gives UPS green light for buyouts to drivers
Feb. 23, 2025 | A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Teamsters request to prohibit United Parcel Service from implementing a $150,000 buyout program for parcel delivery drivers, saying that union claims of harm were unfounded because arbitration can resolve any problems and that workers will be subject to involuntary layoffs if some don’t voluntarily leave the company. Learn more

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A Look in the Rearview Mirror

Mar. 2, 2026 | TRUCKING INDUSTRY | The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 was not a narrow response to specific regulatory failures — it marked a wholesale rejection of regulation itself. The price of that shift is measured in the stability and safety of our supply chain. For nearly five decades, America’s highways have suffered the consequences of that short-sighted decision. President Jimmy Carter was partially right when he promised in 1980 that “labor will benefit [from deregulation] because we’ll have new jobs.” There is no shortage of trucking work today. The real question is not whether a driver can find work, but whether those jobs are good ones. At most nonunion carriers, they are not. Just Cause Teamsters

Week Ending 02/28/2026

• Labor journalist writes ‘Labor Movement, attack!’
• Sysco Teamsters in Montana ratify contract
• 30,000+ Kaiser Permanente nurses return to work
• Workers need more paths to join the labor movement
• Materials drivers first at Home Depot subsidiary to unionize
• SOTU ignored the root cause of affordability problems
• Everything you need to know about ‘no tax on overtime’
• Airline Division Teamsters: RLA collective bargaining training online at this link

How Union Members Pay It Forward

Feb. 27, 2026 | ESSAY | Anna Bueker went to work at the BFGoodrich plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in her early 20s and began building a good life with the wages and benefits provided by her United Steelworkers (USW) contract. But over the next several years, as she navigated divorce and life as a single mom, that contract took on even greater importance. It delivered the resources she needed to feed and care for her child. It enabled her to keep a roof over their heads. And it provided stability during a tumultuous time. Nation of Change

Paved With Good Intientions

Feb. 26, 2026 | TRUCKING INDUSTRY | (Second part of a three-part series.) The political winds that ushered in deregulation grew from widespread frustration. The country was reeling from a seemingly endless stream of political scandals, war, and social unrest. The countercultural movement of the free-wheeling hippies symbolized the times, but the shift was not just cultural. It was economic. Policymakers began abandoning the muscular regulatory approach that had guided the country since the New Deal era in favor of the markets and deregulation. Continues at Just Cause Teamsters on Substack