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Local and National Union News
In Indiana, US Foods Teamsters give strike authorization
Jan. 26, 2025 | Over 200 drivers and warehouse workers at US Foods in Indiana have voted by a 98 percent margin to authorize a strike if the food service giant fails to offer an acceptable contract. The group of workers, represented by Teamsters Local 135, is demanding higher wages, better benefits, protections against automation, and safer working conditions. The current contract expires on January 30, 2026. There will be no contract extensions. Learn moreFreight Division Teamsters are on the move to enforce TForce contract
Jan. 17, 2025 | Recently, Freight Division representatives met with Freight Teamsters in San Leandro and Sacramento, Calif., and Charlotte, N.C., to strengthen contract enforcement efforts. At Teamsters Locals 70, 71, and 150, John Murphy, Director of the Teamsters Freight Division, and other members of division leadership discussed gains secured in the most recent national agreement as well as ongoing efforts to enforce the contract. Via Teamsters FBTeamsters will monitor the proposed Allegiant-Sun Country merger
Jan. 14, 2025 | The Union is closely monitoring a proposed merger announced this week between Allegiant Air and Sun Country Airlines. The Teamsters represent over 3,000 workers across both companies, including pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians, and related employees, as well as dispatchers at Allegiant Air, and flight attendants and fleet service workers at Sun Country. “At the end of the day, any merger must deliver real gains for workers in the form of improved wages, job security, and working conditions for our members at both carriers.” Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
AI Policy, Implementation Must Be Worker First
Jan. 27, 2026 | PERSPECTIVE | Teamsters aren’t afraid of a fight. With the AI revolution upon us, now is the time for workers to make our voices heard against Big Tech and greedy corporations that want to replace us with robots. In the Teamsters Union, we do not oppose new technology that enhances work, makes work safer, or creates new jobs in the supply chain. But we are prepared to fight with full force against corruptible employers that want to use new technology, like autonomous vehicles, to eliminate labor and increase their profits at the expense of our livelihoods. The fight facing us is a big one. Full story at Just Cause
Why Labor Unions Can’t Ignore ICE
Jan. 26, 2026 | WORKER POWER | […] Rigorous evidence does not show deportations ‘freeing up’ good jobs for US-born workers. Instead, deportations tend to damage local labor markets and worsen outcomes for natives… ICE doesn’t just remove people; it changes behavior among those who remain. When immigration enforcement intensifies, workers become significantly less likely to report safety violations, even as injury rates rise in workplaces with large immigrant workforces. The right to complain — to be visible, to put your name to something — is one of the basic building blocks of worker power. When the cost of visibility rises, organizing erodes. ICE is producing a labor market with a built-in underclass. Full story at Jacobin
‘Day of Truth and Freedom’ in Minneapolis and Across the Nation
Jan. 23, 2026 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | (Click strike tracker map to enlarge.) Updated By noon, tens of thousands of workers are expected to gather in downtown Minneapolis for what labor leaders are carefully calling a “Day of Truth and Freedom”—careful because “general strike” is a phrase that carries legal consequences in a country where such actions are functionally illegal, where union contracts forbid them, where the mere declaration can trigger lawsuits that drain treasuries. But whatever euphemism is deployed, the reality is plain: this could be among the largest coordinated labor stoppages in modern American history, and it is spreading… While federation leadership endorsed the walkout, some union bureaucracies moved to contain it. Teamsters Local 638 circulated warnings that participation would breach collective bargaining agreements. UPS workers, facing their own rank-and-file pressure, have said publicly they will walk anyway. The split between union leadership’s strategic caution and rank-and-file militancy is a familiar story in American labor history… Payday Report
Federal Unions, Employees Urge Senate to Take Up Bill Restoring Collective Bargaining
Jan. 21, 2026 | LEGISLATIVE | Hundreds of federal employees, union members, and other workforce advocates gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol [last week] to urge the passage of legislation that would restore their collective bargaining rights. Since the Protect America’s Workforce Act cleared the House in December, federal unions have been pushing over the last several weeks for the Senate to take up a Senate companion bill. The bill, if enacted, would restore collective bargaining for an estimated two-thirds of the federal workforce. In effect, it would reverse two executive orders President Donald Trump signed last year that called on most executive branch agencies to terminate their federal union contracts on the grounds of “national security.” Maryland Matters
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