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Local and National Union News
Teamsters at Detroit refinery win 3-month strike, secure new contract
Dec. 16, 2024 | Members of Teamsters Local 283 at Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit refinery have ratified a new contract, ending a 101-day strike. In September, Marathon Teamsters were forced to the picket line after their employer refused to negotiate in good faith. The new agreement includes a 24.5 percent wage increase over the life of the contract, health care coverage paid for solely by the employer, union security, and access to the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. Learn more here.Amazon Teamsters authorize strike at two NYC warehouses
Dec. 16, 2024 | Update 12/17: Amazon Teamsters authorize strikes at four California warehouses. Amazon Teamsters at two New York City facilities—JFK8 and DBK4—have voted overwhelmingly to authorize strikes following Amazon’s illegal refusal to recognize their union and negotiate a contract addressing the company’s low wages and dangerous working conditions. Amazon workers at 10 facilities around the country have organized with the Teamsters. Amazon has repeatedly failed in its legal obligation to bargain with its unionized workforce. Learn more here. Related: Teamsters at the DIL7 Amazon delivery station in Skokie, Ill., have also voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike… More here.Teamsters to Amazon: ‘We are done asking nicely’
Dec. 9, 2024 | The Teamsters “are done asking nicely for Amazon to stop breaking the law,” said the union’s president, Sean O’Brien, who has given the e-commerce giant a Dec. 15 deadline to agree to collective bargaining dates. “Thousands of Amazon workers around the country have courageously united to take on one of the world’s most abusive employers,” O’Brien said. “Amazon has a legal obligation to recognize the Teamsters and to start negotiating. Time has run out for this trillion-dollar company." Learn more here.Teamsters file charges against Costco
Dec. 4, 2024 | The Teamsters have filed multiple unfair labor practice charges against Costco for blatantly violating federal labor law and the national master agreement in a calculated effort to undermine workers’ rights and disrupt the collective bargaining process. … Once celebrated for its “pro-worker” image, Costco is now prioritizing Wall Street profits over its workforce, betraying both its stated values and the workers who built the company into the world’s third-largest retailer. [Why this matters: Teamsters Local 570 in Baltimore represent more than 900 Costco workers at four Maryland locations.] Read the Teamster press lease here.
Elsewhere in the News
Teamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in American History
Dec. 19, 2024 | STRIKES | The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. Workers will join the picket line from DBK4 in New York City; DGT8 in Atlanta; DFX4, DAX5, and DAX8 in Southern California; DCK6 in San Francisco; and DIL7 in Skokie, Ill. Amazon Teamsters at other facilities are prepared to join them. Teamsters local unions are also putting up primary picket lines at hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers nationwide. Teamsters
The Big Union Fights Coming in 2025
Dec. 17, 2024 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING | In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling. The list includes some big contracts lined up so unions can bargain and possibly strike together. For example, California teachers in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Oakland have contracts that expire in June. Ten thousand Teamster technicians at United are in early bargaining; the airline is demanding concessions. And the contract for 200,000 letter carriers has been expired since 2023. MSN
Amazon Holiday Strikes Are the Latest Example of Workers Wielding Their Collective Power
Dec. 16, 2024 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | In a bold move aimed at hitting the company where it hurts most, Amazon workers are striking just in time for Christmas, its busiest, most profitable time of year. On Friday, thousands of workers at Amazon authorized a strike, saying Amazon refused to recognize their union and negotiate a contract at a New York City facility, per ABC News. Amazon workers in New York gave the tech giant until Sunday, December 15, to begin negotiations for a union contract; otherwise, they said workers at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island along with other Amazon workers around the country would strike … It’s a shining example of how many American workers are not only organizing, but also getting bolder and more assertive in their demands for higher wages and better working conditions in a tight labor market with high inflation. Fast Company
Week Ending 12/14/2024
• Union-made gift guide
• 10 highest-paying blue-collar jobs for 2025
• Atlanta Amazon drivers join the Teamsters
• $24.6B supermarket merger crumbles
• Costco refuses to bargain in good faith with Teamsters
• Ultimatum from Amazon workers: Bargain or we strike
• A robot was found ‘dead’ at work and no one knows why
• Unions brace themselves as Trump prepares to defang labor board
• Allegiant Air Teamster pilots practice picket over wages
• New labor secretary may be hobbled by Trump’s anti-labor agenda
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