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Local and National Union News
‘Teamsters Warehouse Division is setting the standard’ for workers in the industry
Nov. 7, 2025 | On Wednesday, Teamsters from across North America kicked off the 2025 Teamsters Warehouse Division Conference in Los Angeles. Attendees heard from Lindsay Dougherty, Teamsters International Vice President At-Large, on the rise of AI and how it’s reshaping our lives, our workplaces, and the future of our union. Learn more.Teamsters statement on horrific UPS plane crash in Louisville
Nov. 5, 2025 | Amid breaking news tonight of a UPS plane crash at the Worldport facility in Louisville, the Teamsters Union is monitoring this developing, tragic event on the ground. As this horrific scene is being investigated, prayers on behalf of our entire International Union are with those killed, injured, and affected, including their families, co-workers, and loved ones. The Teamsters will provide additional details as they become available. Breaking from NYT: One of UPS’s jets’ engines detached from the plane in Louisville, an official saysCarhaul Teamsters ratify new national contract
Oct. 27, 2025 | Carhaul Teamsters have overwhelmingly ratified a five-year National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement (NMATA), securing major economic gains, improved working conditions, and strong job protections. The national agreement delivers 16 percent wage increases over the life of the contract, along with other improvements. Learn more.Older posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Week Ending 11/07/2025
• Detroit News: Trump owes US labor an apology
• WNY Labor: How can the labor movement escalate?
• The Guardian: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers'
• WNY Labor: Federal judge halts Trump’s firings, can’t mandate back pay
• WNY Labor: Union contracts protect those who speak truth to power
• People’s World: First Black woman elected Steelworkers president
• The Guardian: US Starbucks workers prepare to strike if contract isn’t finalized by next week
Federal Unions Sue Over Trump Loyalty In Hiring
Nov. 7, 2025 | LEGAL | Federal employee unions are suing the Trump administration over a hiring question they say is designed to test applicants’ loyalty to the president. In a complaint filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the unions argue that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s question violates the First Amendment by imposing an unconstitutional condition of employment. At issue is a portion of the application that asks prospective workers how they would “help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role.” Bloomberg Law
Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers Demand Reopening of Government
Nov. 5, 2025 | US LABOR UNIONS | With the nation’s 14,000 air traffic controllers still on their stressful jobs but missing their first paycheck due to the government shutdown, the controllers and their union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, jumped into the shutdown showdown, big time, demanding lawmakers reopen the government. Their message to President Donald Trump and to the Congress—whose ruling Republicans engineered the shutdown that began Oct. 1—is simple: End it, now. NATCA conveyed that message through a press conference at Washington National Airport, as well as through TV interviews and an op-ed by union President Nick Daniels. Off-duty controllers leafletted passengers at 20 key airports nationwide, including National, Chicago’s O’Hare, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, New York LaGuardia, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Los Angeles. People’s World Related: Trump officials to cut air traffic in 40 major markets if shutdown continues
Top Labor Groups Break With AFGE’s Support of GOP Gov’t Funding Bill
Nov. 4, 2025 | US LABOR UNIONS | The largest federal workers' union this week threw its support behind a Republican government funding bill [that would end the shutdown], ratcheting up pressure on Democrats. But many of the top labor unions told ABC News that they continue to back the strategy taken up by Democrats, breaking with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents hundreds of thousands of federal workers losing out on pay and staring down the threat of layoffs. [A]t least one major union has sided with AFGE. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has urged lawmakers to pass a clean continuing resolution [CR], reiterating his position on Thursday in remarks made alongside top Trump administration officials at the White House. "Do not put working people in the middle of a problem. They should not be in there," said O'Brien. ABC News
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