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Local and National Union News
Reminder: Deadline to apply for Local 355 scholarships is Friday, May 1st
Zoo workers reject insulting offer from employer, prepare to strike
Apr. 29, 2026 | More than 200 members of Teamsters Local 727 at the Chicago Zoological Society (CZS), doing business as the Brookfield Zoo Chicago, have rejected their employer’s last, best, and final offer and voted to authorize a strike. The hundreds of animal care specialists, groundskeepers, patrol officers, seasonals, aides, and custodians are demanding a contract that includes wage increases and staffing guarantees. Learn moreTeamsters 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 moreTeamsters 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.Older posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
‘It Feels Like a Betrayal’: Anger as Apple Closes 1st Unionized Store in US
Apr. 29, 2026 | UNION BUSTING | Workers at the first Apple store to unionize in the US are pushing back against the company’s decision to shut it down by June, alleging that Apple’s decision is rooted in “a cynical attempt to bust the union”. On Monday, the union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Apple, alleging that unionized employees at the store in Towson, Maryland, are being denied transfer rights and other rights compared with workers at non-unionized stores. The union is also alleging retaliation for being unionized. The Guardian
Every 104 Minutes Corporate Neglect Kills Another Worker
Apr. 28, 2026 | WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY | A worker dies from corporate negligence every 104 minutes. The suppliers of auto parts for Hyundai and Kia cars. The Subway restaurant chain. The nation’s biggest homebuilder, which let Donald Trump’s vicious and violent ICE agents raid its job sites. A snack food company that puts migrants’ children into hazardous factory jobs… [Amazon], the monster retailer and warehouse firm, which employs one-third of all U.S. warehouse workers but accounts for almost half of the workplace injuries in that industry, had such a bad job safety record for so long that NACOSH put it last year into a special category of permanent violators. Amazon and its multibillionaire majority owner, Jeff Bezos, a Trump pal, is also virulently anti-union. Peoples' World
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
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