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Local and National Union News
DHL Express Teamsters rally ahead of upcoming national bargaining
Feb. 6, 2025 | The DHL Teamsters National Master Agreement expires on March 31, and the union has made clear there will be no contract extensions. Teamsters are demanding a fair agreement that raises standards, improves working conditions, and protects hard-earned benefits — with zero concessions or givebacks. Learn moreIowa nurses join Teamsters in hard-fought election win
Feb. 2, 2025 | Hospitals never stop filling beds. At UnityPoint in Des Moines, nurses were expected to keep that machine running no matter the cost to patients, our licenses, or ourselves. By 2024, they were chronically overcapacity, wait times were staggering, and staffing was dangerously thin—while executives continued to reward themselves. After being ignored by traditional nursing unions, UnityPoint nurses took an unprecedented step in Iowa: they organized themselves and became Teamsters. Teamsters Local 90 believed in them when others wouldn’t—and helped more than 900 nurses fight for real change. Full story at Labor Notes. Photo/UNIUPS spent half-billion to buy Roadie. Do you know why?
Jan. 30, 2025 | In 2021, UPS made a transaction that mostly flew under the radar. The package giant acquired tech company Roadie for more than a half-billion dollars. Roadie is like Uber for parcel delivery. It lets a random person use an app to sort, pick up, drive around, and drop off packages. You know, the traditional, good-paying, career-making, and union-protected work performed every day by hundreds of thousands of UPS Teamsters. Learn more at Just Cause Related: UPS announced this week it is planning to cut 30,000 jobs this year because it expected to deliver fewer packages for Amazon, a large but unprofitable customer.Older posts can be found at 355 News
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Six Vital Lessons from Minnesota’s General Strike
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Feb. 6, 2026 | PROTESTS | […] On January 23, roughly 75,000 people flooded the streets on a workday, in sub-zero temperatures, demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leave Minnesota. Hundreds of businesses and cultural institutions in the Twin Cities closed their doors; one in four Minnesota voters either participated in the shutdown or knows a loved one who did, according to Blue Rose Research. A motley coalition led the charge: labor unions, racial justice groups, faith-based organizations… The author spoke with five organizers involved. Here are six takeaways from those conversations… Mother Jones
How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work
Feb. 6, 2026 | MISINFORMATION | Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, that millions of immigrants came to the U.S. “from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums,” a claim one expert found “too ridiculous to dignify.” The lies spread like wildfire. Corrections, if they’re issued at all, fade into the background. The misinformation is designed to infuriate… Full story at Labor Notes
On Capitol Hill, Every Day is Groundhog Day
Feb. 3, 2026 | PERSPECTIVES | Every February, America dusts off the same joke. The groundhog pops out, sees his shadow, and we pretend to be surprised by six more weeks of winter. On Capitol Hill, Groundhog Day never ends. Year after year, certain members of Congress roll out many of the same bad ideas, slap new numbers on old bills, and insist this time will be different — especially for trucking. The faces change. The rhetoric gets polished. The agenda stays the same. And working truck drivers pay the price. Just Cause
Week Ending 01/31/2026
• Teamster solidarity in Minnesota
• AFL-CIO: ‘ICE is a danger to working people’
• General strikes have a long history in the U.S.
• UPS to slash workforce by up to 30K jobs in 2026
• 2028 Olympics could bring big wins for LA labor unions
• Teamsters will appeal ruling on ULP claims against Bigfoot Beverages
• Fun fact: What are peanut butter-style raises?
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