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Local and National Union News
Nominations notice for 2026 IBT Convention delegates, alternates
Dec. 30, 2025 | Local 355 will conduct nominations for six delegates and six alternates to the 2026 IBT Convention at our General Membership Meeting on Sunday, February 1, 2026. All dues-paying members will receive a Nominations Notice from the Local, along with additional instructions for participating in the nomination process. Learn more at 2026 IBT Convention Delegates Election Information & Notices500 Teamsters at Home of the Seahawks score first contract
Dec. 23, 2025 | More than 500 guest services workers at Lumen Field, represented by Teamsters Local 117, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract. The workers, employed by First & Goal, Inc., staff one of the marquee sporting venues in the country — home to the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders, and Seattle Reign — and a host site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Learn moreTeamsters file nationwide ULP charges against Airgas
Dec. 19, 2025 | Airgas Teamsters have been on strike since June 2 nationwide over unfair labor practices. Pickets were extended to 15 facilities in 11 states. Throughout and after these extensions, Airgas illegally retaliated against workers, unlawfully terminating and suspending members in Pennsylvania and California; locking out members in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, New York, and Michigan; threatening members in Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Ohio, and New Jersey; and permanently replacing members in Ohio and New Jersey, for exercising their contractually-protected right to honor extended picket lines and to strike. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
In 2025, the Biggest Union-Buster in History Dominates Workers’ Struggles
Dec. 29, 2025 | PERSPECTIVE | Workers faced one big, dominating, and dominant enemy in 2025: Donald Trump. Through a series of edicts and with the gleeful aid of a compliant congressional Republican majority and two henchmen—Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and multibillionaire chainsaw-wielder Elon Musk—President Donald Trump became “the biggest union-buster in U.S. history,” according to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. … Labor has fought back through a series of lawsuits and won a majority of the cases it filed in lower courts. Appeals courts have split, however, and the six-justice GOP-named majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, especially Justice Samuel Alito, is hostile to workers. So, workers are taking to the streets, and often to strikes. Peoples’ World
Santa Is A Teamster
Dec. 24, 2025 | DELIVERY INDUSTRY | Every December, we tell the same story: Santa Claus is checking his list. His sleigh is being loaded. The reindeer are lining up. Magic is drifting through the air — the kind that shows up on doorsteps, under trees, and in the wide-eyed excitement of children making wish lists. But even the most powerful magic needs a little help. The truth is, Santa doesn’t just show up one night a year. He shows up every morning in a uniform. He has a route. He shoulders heavy boxes in the cold, in the dark, during the busiest weeks of the year. Santa is a Teamster. While much of the country slows down for the holidays, Teamsters at UPS, DHL, Amazon, and across the delivery industry speed up. Trucks get fuller. Days stretch longer. The pressure rises because holiday magic has a deadline. And it all gets delivered… Just Cause Teamsters
‘This is A Union Town’: SF Teamsters Up the Pressure on Amazon to Bargain With Workers
Dec. 23, 2025 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | A coalition made up of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and supporters rallied outside of San Francisco City Hall this week in favor of a resolution pushing for Amazon Web Services, the billion-dollar multinational company, to bargain with the union at a warehouse in the city. Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors stood shoulder to shoulder with leaders of Teamsters Local 665 and Amazon warehouse workers from DCK6 in the city’s Bayview District [last week] to loudly express their intent to pressure the company to enter into good-faith conversations with their workers and draw attention to what they say are ongoing violations of labor conditions. Local News Matters
National Labor Relations Board Has Regained Its Quorum
Dec. 19, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | The good news: Last night, the Senate confirmed a new General Counsel and two new members of the National Labor Relations Board. …The primary practical outcome of this is that the Board will be able to resume issuing decisions on requests for review of Regional Director decisions and exceptions to Administrative Law Judge decisions. NLRB Edge The bad news: Crystal Carey will be the new NLRB General Counsel, making the top union-buster for Amazon, Apple, Tesla, and SpaceX, the NLRB's chief enforcement officer and de facto chief of staff. Carey’s law firm represents Amazon and SpaceX in pending federal lawsuits arguing that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional.
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