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Local and National Union News
Workers at SRISAI Biopharmaceutical Solutions join Local 355
Apr. 9, 2026 | Local 355 welcomes 35 new Teamsters who provide clinical and non-clinical supply management services to various U.S. government agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “My co-workers and I knew we deserved better and began looking into what union would fit us best,” said Addysin Gross, a senior warehouse operations associate at the Frederick, Md., facility. “We are looking forward to working under a Teamsters contract that will provide us with dignity, justice, and respect in the workplace.” And we are looking forward to welcoming you into our union family! Learn moreTeamsters reach strong contract with UPS on driver severance packages
Apr. 6, 2026 | After months of urging United Parcel Service (UPS) to honor its Teamsters contract and return to the bargaining table over unilateral driver buyouts, UPS on Sunday agreed to terms on a new settlement with the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee. The settlement between the Teamsters and UPS caps the total number of severance payments to 7,500 drivers across all job classifications nationwide. Learn more Local 355 delegate vote tallies for IBT convention are in
Mar. 30, 2026 | Votes have been tallied in a contested 2026 convention delegate election. Delegates are Mark Garey, Mike Petro, Eric Wood, John Moylan, Chris Greene, and Dale Pink. Alternate delegates were elected without contest earlier. They are Crystal Winterling, Berson Tyner, Sade Boyd, Eric Langley, Brian Watson, and Tim Seto. Official results here.Older posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Meat Plant Workers Plan to Halt Strike, Resume Negotiations
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Apr. 8, 2026 | STRIKES | Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants have agreed to return to work and halt a three-week strike after plant owner JBS USA agreed to resume negotiations, labor union representatives announced Saturday. The union said in a statement that workers will return to work on Tuesday morning after the plant owner, JBS USA, agreed to reopen talks [this] week. The strike at Greeley is the first strike at a U.S. slaughterhouse since workers walked out at a Hormel plant in Minnesota in 1985. That strike lasted more than a year and included violent confrontations between police and protesters. The Washington Post
Leo’s Legacy
Apr. 6, 2026 | ORGANIZED LABOR | More than a century before the rise of AI and Big Tech, the Catholic Church confronted a similar question to today: what happens when technological change threatens to leave workers behind? Not that long ago, it was the robber barons of the so-called “Gilded Age” who capitalized on working-class labor. …In 1891, Pope Leo XIII penned Rerum Novarum, his second encyclical, a letter of teaching akin to a sermon, which was sent to all bishops of the Catholic Church. In it, Leo XIII articulated the central moral issue of the industrial age: the insistence that the human is not a beast of burden. Teamsters Just Cause
Week Ending 04/04/2026
• Starbucks to resume bargaining with SBWU
• What caused the Haymarket Affair?
• General strike movement for May Day is growing
• A better world: Interview with Chris Smalls
• Amazon faces union pressure after labor ruling
• Amazon spent $26m+ on anti-union consultants in 2025
• Maryland lawmakers aim to boost worker protections
• VA reverses course, restores union contracts following judge’s rebuke
• Musicians’ unions condemn POTUS’ attack against union member, Bruce Springsteen
• Settled: Teamsters case against Amazon alleging retaliation against striking workers
NLRB Ruling Orders Amazon to Recognize Teamsters
Apr. 2, 2026 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | In a historic decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that Amazon illegally refused to recognize the Staten Island-based Amazon Labor Union-International Brotherhood of Teamsters (ALU-IBT) Local 1 and ordered it to begin negotiations with the Teamsters. "Four years ago, Amazon workers at JFK8 won an NLRB election. Now, on this monumental anniversary, they have become the first group ever to force the company to recognize their union, and they did so as Teamsters,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “This fight is far from over, but this ruling from the NLRB is an historic victory for Amazon Teamsters nationwide and a testament to worker power.” Roughly 5,500 warehouse workers at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island formed their union on April 1, 2022. In June 2024, they affiliated with the Teamsters Union, which officially chartered ALU-IBT Local 1… Teamsters
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