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Local and National Union News
Freight Division Teamsters are on the move to enforce TForce contract
Jan. 17, 2025 | Recently, Freight Division representatives met with Freight Teamsters in San Leandro and Sacramento, Calif., and Charlotte, N.C., to strengthen contract enforcement efforts. At Teamsters Locals 70, 71, and 150, John Murphy, Director of the Teamsters Freight Division, and other members of division leadership discussed gains secured in the most recent national agreement as well as ongoing efforts to enforce the contract. Via Teamsters FBTeamsters will monitor the proposed Allegiant-Sun Country merger
Jan. 14, 2025 | The Union is closely monitoring a proposed merger announced this week between Allegiant Air and Sun Country Airlines. The Teamsters represent over 3,000 workers across both companies, including pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians, and related employees, as well as dispatchers at Allegiant Air, and flight attendants and fleet service workers at Sun Country. “At the end of the day, any merger must deliver real gains for workers in the form of improved wages, job security, and working conditions for our members at both carriers.” Learn more AV companies tell you the driverless future is here. Not so fast…
Jan. 5, 2025 | Big Tech may never succeed in fully automating vehicles. For years, they have repeatedly misled the public into thinking that fully driverless cars and trucks are right around the corner. Yet no matter how many corners we turn, we have yet to see these fleets of AVs take over our roads. The false promise of fully driverless trucks doesn’t mean Teamsters should ignore the threat of AI. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
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‘Day of Truth and Freedom’ in Minneapolis and Across the Nation
Jan. 23, 2026 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | (Click strike tracker map to enlarge.) Updated By noon, tens of thousands of workers are expected to gather in downtown Minneapolis for what labor leaders are carefully calling a “Day of Truth and Freedom”—careful because “general strike” is a phrase that carries legal consequences in a country where such actions are functionally illegal, where union contracts forbid them, where the mere declaration can trigger lawsuits that drain treasuries. But whatever euphemism is deployed, the reality is plain: this could be among the largest coordinated labor stoppages in modern American history, and it is spreading… While federation leadership endorsed the walkout, some union bureaucracies moved to contain it. Teamsters Local 638 circulated warnings that participation would breach collective bargaining agreements. UPS workers, facing their own rank-and-file pressure, have said publicly they will walk anyway. The split between union leadership’s strategic caution and rank-and-file militancy is a familiar story in American labor history… Payday Report
Federal Unions, Employees Urge Senate to Take Up Bill Restoring Collective Bargaining
Jan. 21, 2026 | LEGISLATIVE | Hundreds of federal employees, union members, and other workforce advocates gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol [last week] to urge the passage of legislation that would restore their collective bargaining rights. Since the Protect America’s Workforce Act cleared the House in December, federal unions have been pushing over the last several weeks for the Senate to take up a Senate companion bill. The bill, if enacted, would restore collective bargaining for an estimated two-thirds of the federal workforce. In effect, it would reverse two executive orders President Donald Trump signed last year that called on most executive branch agencies to terminate their federal union contracts on the grounds of “national security.” Maryland Matters
MN Labor Unions Endorse Friday as 'Day of Truth and Freedom'
Jan. 20, 2026 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | Multiple labor unions are endorsing a “Day of Truth and Freedom” on Friday in Minnesota. They are calling for Minnesotans not to work, go to school, or shop to protest the ICE presence in the state. The labor unions and other groups sponsoring the day of protest say they want ICE out of Minnesota. Organizers say they are calling for a “unified, statewide pause in daily economic activity. Instead, Minnesotans will spend time with family, neighbors, and their community to show Minnesota’s moral heart and collective economic power.” A march and rally in downtown Minneapolis is planned for Friday afternoon. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, union leaders said recent immigration enforcement actions have amounted to worker harassment. MPR News
Honoring MLK with Action for Sanitation Workers
Jan. 19, 2026 | COMMENTARY | Hundreds of Teamsters are gathered in Atlanta today to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy. Not just with words but by directly continuing the movement he was leading to improve working conditions in the sanitation industry — the same crusade during which he was assassinated in Memphis. The Teamsters Union represents thousands of solid waste workers across the country. Together, we have made a lot of progress improving the lives of these hardworking men and women over the last several years. 2026 is shaping up to be the most consequential year yet... Just Cause Related: 12 historic facts about Martin Luther King, Jr.
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