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Local and National Union News
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 moreNominations notice for 2026 IBT Convention delegates, alternates
Dec. 30, 2025 | Local 355 will conduct nominations for six delegates and six alternates to the 2026 IBT Convention at our General Membership Meeting on Sunday, February 1, 2026. All dues-paying members will receive a Nominations Notice from the Local, along with additional instructions for participating in the nomination process. Learn more at 2026 IBT Convention Delegates Election Information & NoticesOlder posts can be found at 355 News
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Amazon Loses Bid to Halt NLRB Proceedings Over Teamsters Dispute
Jan. 12, 2026 | JUSTICE | Federal court blocks Amazon from halting labor board proceedings, closing off a strategy employers hoped would stop union complaints. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed …that companies facing [ULP] charges must work through the National Labor Relations Board's administrative process even when challenging the agency's constitutional authority. The case centers on Amazon's conflict with the Teamsters union over delivery drivers who worked for Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), a contractor Amazon terminated in April 2023. Shortly after Amazon canceled the contract, BTS recognized the Teamsters as the bargaining representative for its drivers and signed a union agreement. …[T]he decision means constitutional challenges cannot serve as an escape hatch from labor board proceedings. Companies facing unfair labor practice charges will need to defend themselves through the NLRB's administrative system. HRD America
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Owners Couldn’t Bust the Union, So They Shut Down the Paper
Jan. 8, 2026 | UNION BUSTERS | After years of wasting millions of dollars losing court battles in attempts to deny their workers’ basic rights, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) announced on Wednesday afternoon that it would be closing on May 3. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the company’s request to stay a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court order requiring the PG to reinstate a contractual health care plan it had previously agreed to prior to illegally tearing it up in 2020. The announcement follows the newspaper publisher losing a nearly decade-long attempt to bust unions at the paper. In July of 2020, the Post-Gazette unilaterally imposed work rules that worsened health care coverage and other benefits. Workers went on strike… The News-Guild
Every Worker Should Know About Washington Aluminum
Jan. 7, 2026 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | […] Working conditions throughout this country would be much better if workers knew their Washington Aluminum rights the same way that people who grew up watching television know their Miranda rights. In brief, the right protected by Washington Aluminum is the right for any group of workers to walk off the job without notice to protest any aspect of their working conditions. The facts of the case were simple and largely uncontested. On a January morning in 1959, when the outside temperature was 15 degrees, eight machinists came to work at a metal fabricating company and found that the furnace was broken… On Labor
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