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Teamsters add new Critical Illness Benefit for members
Sept. 8, 2026 | A new Teamsters member benefit is available today. The Teamsters Union is pleased to announce that through a partnership with Aflac, Group Critical Illness coverage is now available exclusively to Teamsters members and their dependents, ensuring financial protection when a covered critical illness occurs. Get up to $40,000 cash paid directly to you if you or a loved one face a serious illness. Fast approval and no medical exam required. Enroll today: https://members.optixenroll.com/teamsters

Teamsters launch one-day UPS strike at Amazon's largest warehouse
Sept. 2, 2026 | Today, Amazon Teamsters at the DJT6 facility in Riverside, California — Amazon’s largest warehouse facility in the nation — launched a one-day unfair labor practice (ULP) strike. “Amazon thinks it can trample workers’ rights with no consequences, but Amazon Teamsters at DJT6 are proving them wrong,” said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division and Secretary-Treasurer of Local 1932. “Amazon has ignored the law for long enough. If this multitrillion-dollar company won’t listen to workers on the job, then we will make it listen to us on the streets.” Learn more.

Helpful information for Local 355 members and shop stewards
Sept. 1, 2026 | Do you know what a contract campaign is? Do you know why it's important to file a grievance promptly? Are you aware that besides what is in your contract, your workplace may have its own unwritten rules? We provide answers to those and other questions, plus quick tips to help you learn more about the Local Union and your role in it. Available under Members Resources, Weekly Tips for Members. And for our shop stewards, the Weekly Tip for Stewards will help make your role as a steward easier. Forgot your password? Email us here for assistance.

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Unions Seek a Voice As AI Reshapes the Workplace

Sept. 9, 2026 | JOBS | Labor unions understand artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. The battle for them thus becomes ensuring their members have a seat at the table to shape how that technology is implemented in their workplace and perhaps even find a way to benefit from it …With some sectors more disrupted than others, talent pipelines could shift toward skilled trades and other blue-collar positions as students and workers seek job security. Union membership is increasing, but anecdotally, there also are examples of this career shift. “They have the right to bargaining, maybe not if (employers) use it or don’t, but how it’s implemented,” [Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University] said. “Unions will, by and large, work with an employer to make their jobs better and improve productivity so long as it doesn’t eliminate people. There’s not as much resistance to AI as you might expect, so long as they’re willing to work with people instead of replacing people.” Continued at Finance & Commerce

The $1.7 Billion Industry to Stop Your Union

Sept. 8, 2026 | WORKERS' RIGHTS | If there’s a signature American business, it might just be union busting. Bosses in this country have long stood out for their violent hatred of labor organizing. Other nations have had strikes, but few others have had labor conflicts escalate to an outright shooting war, or company thugs burning and machine-gunning a union tent encampment filled with women and children. As the robber baron Jay Gould once boasted, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Today, labor-management relations thankfully do not typically involve exchanges of gunfire. ... [Instead, a] $1.7 billion industry of attorneys and consultants exists to stamp out workers' attempts to secure their legally protected bargaining rights. Learn more at LaborLab, a workers’ rights watchdog that just released new tools to help union organizers and workers understand these union-busting firms: who they are, what they do, and, above all, how much they cost. VIA THE AMERICAN PROSPECT. PHOTO/AP IMAGES

Week Ending 09/05/2026

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• Skip Target for back-to-school shopping, teachers tell parents
• UPS reorganization prioritizes global logistics over parcel delivery
• House Republicans ramp up labor union investigations before midterms
• The remarkable Starbucks uprising: Has the Labor Movement learned anything?
• Teamsters union leaders support Republicans despite members endorsing Democrats

It’s Official: U.S. Government Ends Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union

Sept. 4, 2026 | JUSTICE | After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, following the approval by the Honorable Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York (Southern District) of a joint motion filed this summer by the union and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The filing, issued on June 17, sought to amend the Final Order established in 2015 and the original Consent Decree policing the union. In 1989, the Southern District and the Teamsters entered into an agreement to eliminate organized crime influence within the union and ensure fair, democratic, member-driven elections. Over the past 37 years, the Teamsters have conducted nine elections and successfully eliminated corrupt elements from the union. Continued at Teamsters