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Teamsters picket Amazon facilities on both coasts over illegal firings
Apr. 24, 2026 | Amazon Teamsters at DAX7 in Los Angeles have extended the picket lines from their unfair labor practice (ULP) strike to the company’s DBK4 location in Queens, New York. DAX7 drivers joined Teamsters Local 396 to fight for better pay and safer working conditions last month. This week, Amazon illegally retaliated against them by cancelling the contract with their Delivery Service Partner (DSP), Next Stop. Learn more

Teamsters join legislators to advance Faster Labor Contracts Act
Apr. 20, 2026 | Today, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and rank-and-file Teamsters from Amazon and Corewell Health East joined lawmakers urging U.S. House members to sign onto a discharge petition for the Faster Labor Contracts Act. The legislation would require employers to meet with workers at the bargaining table within 10 days of a successful vote to join a union. Tell your member of Congress to “sign the discharge petition” and bring the Faster Labor Contracts Act up for a vote.

Applications for the 2026 Local 355 Scholarships
Apr. 14, 2026 | Applications are now available for our 52nd Annual Scholarships, to be awarded at the May 2026 regular monthly membership meeting. Eligibility requirements: You must have been in continuous good standing with Local 355 for 12 consecutive months before May 2026, and your student must be a graduating senior this year. There are no tests and no lengthy application process. Download instructions and the application form here.

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Democracy Dies in Darkness, and Even Darker Warehouses

Apr. 27, 2026 | WORKERS’ VOICE | […] sometimes democracy doesn’t just die in darkness. Lately, it looks like it dies in editing. Earlier this month, the Post published an editorial attacking the Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA), a bipartisan bill designed to ensure that when workers vote to form a union, they can actually secure a first contract in a reasonable amount of time. But the paper framed stronger labor standards as a threat to businesses and even to unions themselves. It was a familiar argument, and a wrong one. But what happened next was most revealing. Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien responded with a letter to the editor pushing back on the Post’s claims. It pointed to Amazon… Just Cause Teamsters

Week Ending 04/25/2026

• Jeff Bezos: ‘One greedy, public-be-damned CEO’
• There are still some good things going on for labor
• CEO to workers: Ask AI to write your obituary
• Teamsters statement on reclassification of cannabis
• We are in a ‘fossil-fuel crisis’: Is labor meeting the moment?
• US Labor market stable despite war, inflation pressures building up
• Chicago Teamsters lead USA-wide fight against Nestlé union-busting
• Why truckers should care about DOL’s latest proposals on joint employers

War Isn’t Working for American Workers

Apr. 24, 2026 | JOBS | […] The growing influence of military tech barons in defense procurement reflects a long-standing pattern in which weapons contractors exert outsize political influence to secure sustained military funding, further consolidating corporate power while continuing to erode the unionized jobs that once defined the sector. In other words, the US war industry is a dead end for workers. But the solution isn’t to expand military spending or attempt to reform the war industry; it is to build a new industrial base focused on green manufacturing instead of military production — redirecting skills, infrastructure, and state capacity away from war and toward socially beneficial sectors that actually deliver stable, broadly shared gains for working people… Jacobin

Labor Secretary Steps Down Amid Misconduct Investigation

Apr. 21, 2026 | U.S. DEPT. of LABOR | U.S. Labor Secretary ‌Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned on Monday amid allegations of misconduct at the department, stepping down as the Labor Department’s inspector general neared the end of an investigation into claims involving her and her top aides. Her deputy, Keith Sonderling, will serve as acting secretary, the White House said. "While my time serving in the Administration comes to a conclusion, it doesn’t mean I will stop fighting for American workers. I am looking forward to what the future has â in store as I depart for the private sector," Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement. Reuters