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Local and National Union News
Amazon ordered to bargain with CA Teamsters on eve of Prime Day
June 23, 2026 | Teamsters are lauding a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordering Amazon to bargain with workers at its DCK6 facility in San Francisco. The ruling came only hours before the start of Prime Day, one of the company’s biggest events of the year. It’s the second bargaining order in less than three months that the e-commerce giant has received from the NLRB. The board previously demanded that it comply with federal law and begin bargaining with Amazon Teamsters at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. Learn moreU.S. moves to end Teamsters union oversight
June 18, 2026 | The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Teamsters union on Wednesday jointly moved to end federal oversight of the union. ...“After 37 years, this filing marks an end to the longest monitorship of any union, corporation, nonprofit, or public entity in the history of the United States,” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, who won a reelection bid to lead the union on Tuesday, said in a statement. Learn more Teamsters press release here.IBT Convention: O’Brien and Zuckerman reelected for a second 5-year term
June 16, 2026 | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced today that Sean M. O’Brien and Fred Zuckerman have been reelected to another five-year term as General President and General Secretary-Treasurer, respectively, renewing a mandate for powerful, militant leadership on behalf of 1.3 million rank-and-file Teamsters across North America. The O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United slate was elected by white ballot at the union’s 31st International Convention in Las Vegas following a secret ballot vote of 1,572 delegates. All voting delegates were democratically elected to the convention by rank-and-file members from more than 330 local unions across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Learn more. Photo: Local 355 delegates and alternates at the Teamsters 31st Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Click image to enlarge)
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The New York Times Is At It Again
June 29, 2026 | MEDIA | On Monday, June 15, at its 31st International Convention, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien announced the labor union had organized 100,000 workers in the past four years. …On Wednesday, June 17, O’Brien made an historic announcement that the Teamsters and the Department of Justice had filed a joint motion to end government monitorship of the union. Eventually, nearly a full week following all this news, The New York Times got around to publishing the following headline. “Teamsters Make a Bid to End Federal Oversight, With Trump’s Backing.” It reports the facts, albeit with a political bent. Then the news outlet took it down and replaced it with this: … Full perspective at Just Cause Teamsters
Week Ending 06/27/2026
• The US labor movement as a force for peace
• Starbucks union wins 700th NLRB election
• UK union slams UPS decision to outsource drivers
• Apple closes unionized store, faces lawsuits over layoffs
• Michigan community comes out in support of Teamster nurses
• Report exposes how Trump has turned his back on American workers
• Kansas carhaulers join the Teamsters under the National Agreement
Unions Are Furious after GM Replaces 1,000 Workers with Robots
June 26, 2026 | JOBS | More than 1,000 workers at General Motors’ flagship Detroit assembly plant were idled, many of them indefinitely, as the company installed 50 robots. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is calling the move exactly what it appears to be: automation is displacing people. The robots in question, known as “cobots” (short for collaborative robots), have been installed on the assembly line at Factory Zero, the Detroit-Hamtramck EV plant where GM builds its electric trucks. …The laid-off workers are only temporarily idled, according to the company, but GM has yet to provide a timeline for their return. United Auto Workers Local 22 president James Cotton isn’t buying any of it. To him, the cobots are about one thing: taking away jobs from union members. Full story at Geek Spin
Forget Rockets: Jeff Bezos Can’t Launch Bikes Without Breaking Laws
June 24, 2026 | E-BIKE DELIVERY | If you live in New York City, you may have recently seen a giant blue box on wheels taking up space in the bike lane. ...Amazon, a company that had carbon emission levels comparable to all of Washington State last year, has framed its expansion into NYC e-bike deliveries with a corny PR blitz that emphasizes its commitment to the environment, using made-up buzzwords like “micromobility.” But whether Amazon delivery drivers are operating a bike or a van, don’t be fooled — it’s just another way for the company to exploit workers… Continued at Just Cause Teamsters
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