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Walmart agrees to pay a record $11 million to settle a civil immigration case for using undocumented immigrants to do overnight cleaning at stores in 21 states. ~ Labor Tribune

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  • Local and National Union News

    Teamsters in no rush to endorse following Biden, Trump meetings
    Mar. 12, 2023 | The head of the Teamsters union emerged from a meeting with President Joe Biden on Tuesday with warm words for his labor record but said any potential endorsement would be a ways down the road. “Historically the Teamsters union do not make an endorsement until after the respective conventions,” General President Sean O’Brien told reporters at the union’s D.C. headquarters shortly after the roundtable event. “However, this has been a different process. We’ve never had candidates into the building, never had rank-and-file participation.” The union intends to survey rank-and-file members before convening its leadership later this year to issue its endorsement, “most likely after the conventions.” Read more at Politico

    Maryland Teamsters call for passage of House Bill 1447
    Mar. 10, 2023 | Members of Teamsters Locals 570, 639, and 922 testified before the Maryland House of Delegates to call for the passage of House Bill 1447 (HB 1447), legislation that would require a human operator in large commercial vehicles. Similar legislation has been introduced in California, Iowa, Indiana, and New York this year. “Autonomous vehicles pose a grave threat to hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs in Maryland,” said Sean Cedenio, President of Teamsters Joint Council 62. “One in 14 jobs statewide are in trucking, with countless more in the postal service, transit, and other sectors. Workers are the backbone of our supply chain. They pay taxes, patronize small businesses, and support local charities and civic organizations across the state. By passing HB 1447, we can protect Maryland’s families, communities, and economy.” Learn more here.

    Maryland Teamsters call on lawmakers to end captive audience meetings
    Mar. 4, 2023 | Teamsters gathered in Annapolis earlier this week to testify in favor of HB 802, a bill in the Maryland Legislature that would ban forced attendance at captive audience meetings. The purpose of a captive audience meeting is for an employer to convince workers not to join a union, usually through intimidation, false promises and outright lies. “This legislation is critical to enforcing the principles of economic democracy and free speech on the job,” said Sean Cedenio, President of Teamsters Joint Council 62. “This bill is a significant step towards creating a fairer process for those seeking union representation.” Learn more here. Pictured: (L-R) Joe Fowler, Local 570 recording secretary; Larry Wolfe, Local 570 business agent; Moses Jackson, Local 570 organizer; Brandon King, Local 570; and Bill Davis, Local 639 president. 

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    Elsewhere in the News

    ‘Working-Class People Aren’t Lazy, They’re Fed Up,’ UAW Leader Tells Senate

    Mar. 18, 2024 | THE WORKING CLASS | [UAW president] Shawn Fain slammed “the Wall Street freeloaders, the masters of passive income, for “ how little they contribute to humanity.” “Are the employers gonna act? Will Congress act? How can working-class people take back their lives, and take back their time?" Fain asked during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on a 32-hour workweek. "And I know what people and many in this room will say. They'll say, 'People just don't want to work,' or, 'Working-class people are lazy.’ But the truth is, working-class people aren't lazy, they're fed up. They're fed up with being left behind and stripped of dignity as wealth inequality in this nation, this world, spirals out of control. They're fed up that in America... three families have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of citizens in this nation. That is criminal. America is better than this." Common Dreams  Related: Video of Fain's comments. What to know about Senator Sanders' bill to adopt a 32-hour work week.

    Week Ending 03/15/2024

      • Can American Labor seize the moment?
      • Unions can’t be rebuilt piecemeal
      • Most unionized state in America: 50 states ranked
      • What’s behind corporate efforts to break the NLRB?
      • Wage-theft investigation costs Md. another $9.5 million
      • What to know about the DOL’s independent contractor rule
      • Teamsters president accuses DHL of running anti-union campaign
      • Biden fends off Trump’s union charm offensive with Teamsters meeting
      • At Oscars, host Jimmy Kimmel salutes “the crew” (around the 10:30 mark)
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    O’Brien to CNN: Teamsters endorsement is crucial


    'Union' Gives a Close Look at Historic Amazon Labor Union Win

    Mar. 15, 2024 | REVIEW | In 2022, a group of Amazon workers stunned the world by winning a union election at the huge JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Many had wondered if Amazon workers in the United States could ever win a union election at the corporate giant, which transformed from a small online bookseller in the 1990s to a behemoth with 1.5 million employees. These Staten Island workers showed that it could be done. But how did they do it? A new documentary, Union, offers a close look at what happened, following the organizing campaign for over a year. The film focuses a lot, necessarily, on Christian Smalls, the founder and leader of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). Jacobin  In related news, Smalls will not run for reelection.

    Reforming Labor Law to Protect U.S. Workers

    Mar. 14, 2024 | UNION ELECTION REFORM | In an article for the Missouri Law Review, law professors Leonard Bierman, Rafael Gely, and William B. Gould IV argue that statutory labor reform may be a pipe dream in the current legislative and judicial climates. Instead, Bierman and his coauthors contend that a more realistic avenue for reform is through changes to union election rules…. Bierman and his coauthors recommend that labor advocates shift their focus away from Congress and toward the power of the National Labor Relations Board, the agency that enforces the National Labor Relations Act, to enact union election reform. The Bierman team contends that Board-initiated changes could boost union activity while at the same time bypassing the need for unlikely legislative action. Such smaller-scale reforms would also be more likely to survive challenges in court. The Regulatory Review
 
 
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