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Local and National Union News
Teamsters ratify first cannabis contract in Maryland
Mar. 19, 2025 | Budtenders and shift leaders at Ascend in Aberdeen, Md., have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, making them the first cannabis workers in the state to be covered by a Teamsters contract. The new Local 570 collective bargaining agreement guarantees the workers increases in wages, job security, paid time off, and safety improvements. Teamsters already have a strong track record of securing strong contracts for Ascend workers in Illinois and Michigan. The workers organized with Teamsters Local 570 in Baltimore last year. Learn more here.US Foods Teamsters in California ratify their first contract
Mar. 17, 2025 | Nearly 200 Teamsters drivers at US Foods in Livermore, Calif., represented by Local 853, ratified a first contract that will strengthen pay and benefits. The three-year agreement comes after members successfully organized a week-long strike. Local 853 members secured a 13 percent wage increase, improved safety, paid administrative leave, and substantial savings in health care. More at Teamsters on Facebook.United Airline Teamsters rally while voting on UA’s ‘insulting’ proposal
Mar. 13, 2025 | As 10,000 United Airline Teamsters nationwide vote on the company’s latest insulting proposal, Teamsters Local 856 held a rally outside United’s San Francisco Maintenance Base on Thursday. United Airlines Teamsters are united in their fight from coast to coast for a transformative contract at the carrier that includes the highest wages in the industry, a faster wage progression for newer technicians, and the return of maintenance work from foreign repair stations. Learn more here.Teamsters’ WARN claims against Yellow fall short
Mar. 5, 2025 | Read this important update from the union.] A federal bankruptcy court in Delaware found that Yellow Corp. is not liable for a failure to provide 60 days’ notice to roughly 22,000 union employees ahead of mass layoffs in the summer of 2023. It ruled the company was a “liquidating fiduciary” winding down affairs and not an employer at the time the layoffs were ordered, releasing it from liability. Learn more here.
Elsewhere in the News
Week Ending 03/21/2025
• The tough fight to organize Amazon
• Nearly 9,000 Teamster rail workers ratify contract
• Was the Teamsters’ Amazon strike a success?
• Maryland signs labor deal with firefighters, police unions
• 10 indicators explain what’s going on with America’s economy
• Teamsters President, Labor Secretary discuss issues important to members
• US labor market holding steady, but job opportunities are dwindling
• Baltimore City sanitation workers to Baltimore City Council: ‘Please help us’
• Trump orders layoffs at 7 agencies as unions secure jobs for probationary workers
• A brief history of America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net
• Teamsters endorses bill that would ban autonomous vehicles from making deliveries
Auto Dealers, UAW Local Leaders Brace for Layoffs Amid Tariff War
Mar. 20, 2025 | TARIFF WARS | […] Many UAW local leaders at Ford Motor Co. and General Motors plants around the U.S. told the Free Press they are concerned that the tariff war will disrupt production. That, combined with volatile auto sales due to consumer uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s policies and their potential effects on the broad economy, including a plummeting stock market, will all inevitably lead to layoffs. Some local union leaders are even advising members to start saving their money. Detroit Free Press
ATA Economist: US Port Fees on Chinese Ships Will Hurt Freight Markets
Mar. 19, 2025 | FREIGHT INDUSTRY | In a broad presentation on the freight market outlook, the chief economist at the American Trucking Associations expressed general concern about the impact of tariffs on freight markets but reserved some of his strongest remarks for upcoming fees on Chinese ships calling at U.S. ports. Bob Costello, speaking to the annual conference of the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA), said the proposals revealed last month by the U.S. trade representative, if implemented, “absolutely could change freight patterns in the U.S.” FreightWaves
Report: Unions Surge as Administration Takes Aim at Labor Watchdog
Mar. 17, 2025 | LABOR UNIONS | Since 2021, union elections in Maryland and across the country have more than doubled - and union election wins are at a 15-year high. Just days into his term, President Trump fired [NLRB] head, Gwynne Wilcox, a Biden appointee. Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst with the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, said this doesn't bode well for organized labor. A federal judge ruled earlier this month that Wilcox must be reinstated at the NLRB, but Trump administration attorneys appealed the decision. "Public solidarity helps support unions, when they're trying to win a union contract or when their employer violates labor law," said Poydock. "So public support is key in the mix of union organizing right now." Public News Service
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