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Local and National Union News
Teamsters join lawmakers to introduce Faster Labor Contracts Act
Sept. 17, 2025 | Yesterday, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and Teamsters members went to Capitol Hill for the introduction of legislation that would require employers to collectively bargain with newly organized workers within 10 days of voting to form their union. “When passed, the Faster Labor Contracts Act will put working families in this country back at the center of the American economy, and it has the potential to transform entire industries for the better,” O’Brien said. “This legislation is one of the most consequential bills for organized labor in generations. The Teamsters Union is calling on Congress to take this bipartisan bill seriously and pass it.” Learn moreTeamsters celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Sept. 15, 2025 | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, observed September 15 through October 15. During this time, we honor the contributions of Hispanic Teamsters and pay tribute to the workers and labor leaders whose sacrifices have expanded rights and dignity on the job. Learn more Amazon Teamsters rally after attack on workers in NY
Sept. 8, 2025 | Teamsters and supporters rallied today at Amazon’s DBK4 facility in Queens following the company’s sudden and illegal firing of over one hundred of its unionized drivers. “When normal people break the law, they go to jail. When Amazon executives do it, they get rewarded,” said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. “Amazon’s crime spree has gone on long enough. The Teamsters are fully prepared to put these crooks in their place if they don’t reinstate our brothers and sisters at DBK4.” Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
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Cuts, Fear and Understaffing at the Labor Dept.
Sept. 17, 2025 | US GOVERNMENT | […] Employees at the department and labor advocates say the Trump administration is undermining the agency’s mission to foster and promote the welfare of job seekers, wage earners, and retirees through drastic cuts, deregulations that include pay cuts for workers, and mistreatment of those employed at the agency. About 20% of staff at the US Department of Labor have resigned or retired ahead of threatened cuts at the agency. Morale has plummeted at the national office amid all the cuts at the agency, threats, harassment and intimidation from the administration, and new policies, such as security bag screenings to get into the building every day, said workers. The Guardian
Mass Firing of Probationary Employees Was Illegal, Judge Rules
Sept. 16, 2025 | FEDERAL WORKERS | A federal judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary employees earlier this year was illegal, a victory for the labor unions and nonprofit groups that had sued the government over the terminations. “Judge Alsup’s decision makes clear that thousands of probationary workers were wrongfully fired, exposes the sham record the government relied upon, and requires the government to tell the wrongly terminated employees that O.P.M.’s reasoning for firing them was false,” Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees [AFGE], said in a statement on Saturday, using an acronym for the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources arm. The New York Times
Hyundai’s US Auto Plants Are Rife With Labor Abuses
Sept. 15, 2025 | MIGRANT WORKERS | The raids at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia earlier this month shone a spotlight on Hyundai’s labor practices, including exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers. …An autoworker at Hyundai’s Montgomery assembly plant, who asked to be anonymous, commented, “I know that Hyundai Montgomery uses only Korean contractors, and that’s for a reason. Why can’t the company hire local union workers to build the plant and keep workers safe?” Hyundai already has a terrible safety record and a history of evading unions, racial discrimination, and employing children at its factories and suppliers. “In South Korea, labor strife in auto plants, often violent, is as routine as the daily lunch break,” quipped one reporter. Jacobin
3 Crises Facing the Labor Movement
Sept. 11, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money and a half-century-long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us… In These Times
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