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Local and National Union News
Teamsters nurses’ strike hits 3-month mark amid labor complaints
Dec. 3, 2025 | Teamsters Local 332 accuses the hospital of unlawful bargaining practices, and Henry Ford argues the union’s broader agenda drives the dispute. The Teamsters announced it has filed multiple unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging the hospital has refused to meet and bargain, made unlawful threats toward striking nurses, and improperly declared an impasse while more than 750 nurses and case managers remain on the picket line. Learn more.Teamsters at Herbal Wellness Center strike for change
Nov. 25, 2025 | Following historically long cannabis industry labor strikes in Ann Arbor, Mich., and York, Pa., workers at the Columbus dispensary Herbal Wellness Center are setting a new record. Union members at the East Main Street shop are now almost two months into a strike that started on Sept. 26, surpassing the successful 45-day picket staged by workers at Green Thumb Industries in York and making it the new longest cannabis workers' strike in U.S. history. The affected union workers are represented by Teamsters Local 413. Negotiations for a union contract have been ongoing since last year… Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
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Judge: Amazon’s Workplace Gag Order Violates Labor Law
Dec. 3, 2025 | WORK
ERS’ RIGHTS | Amazon.com Inc. must rewrite several workplace policies after a National Labor Relations Board judge held the company forced employees to sign unlawfully restrictive agreements starting in 2020. The handbook provisions, including confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-interference policies, illegally restricted workers’ rights to discuss working conditions and organize, NLRB Administrative Law Judge Kimberly Sorg-Graves said in a decision Tuesday. ... The decision comes in the wake of union organizing at several warehouses operated by the e-commerce giant and amid a renewed effort by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to organize the company’s vast network of delivery drivers. Bloomberg Law
‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’: How Unionization ‘Whirlwind’ Set Stage for Historic Starbucks Strike
Dec. 2, 2025 | STRIKES | (Click image to view.) Thousands of Starbucks baristas are on strike across the US, warning the world’s largest coffee chain to brace for the “longest and biggest” bout of industrial action in its history. Barely a year after Brian Niccol, the Starbucks CEO, tried to draw a line under bitter divisions between its management and unionized workers, pledging to “engage constructively” with them, the American coffee giant is now grappling with an escalating strike during its lucrative holiday trading season. About 2,500 workers are striking across 85 cities and 120 stores… The Guardian PHOTO/BRENDAN McDERMID, REUTERS
Month ending 11/30.2025
• Starbucks strikers say company ‘has made no contact’
• UPS struggling to fulfil holiday deliveries after deadly cargo crash
• Maryland's commute times rise to the second-longest in the US.
• Tyson to close major beef facility, shafting 3,000 workers
• Pittsburgh journalists end 3-yr. strike, return to work
• Labor union leader pleads not guilty in LA immigration protest arrest
• More than 150 Baltimore school bus workers ratify new CBA
• 300 newly-organized Maryland bus workers approve strong contract
Unions Back Amendment to Shield Pentagon Workers
Nov. 24, 2025 | BARGAINING RIGHTS | Federal-sector unions are supporting an effort to secure bargaining rights for Pentagon employees as lawmakers finalize last-minute amendments to the military’s must-pass legislation. Section 1110 in the National Defense Authorization Act would reinstate bargaining rights for the department’s civilian staff, countering President Trump’s March and August executive orders. The measure has drawn enough GOP interest that more than a dozen House Republicans urged Armed Services committee leaders in both chambers to keep the language in the final bill. Unions, including the AFGE, have argued that the Trump administration’s actions leave the largest segment of the federal workforce without the ability to bargain. Politico
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