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Local and National Union News
Teamsters statement on horrific UPS plane crash in Louisville
Nov. 5, 2025 | Amid breaking news tonight of a UPS plane crash at the Worldport facility in Louisville, the Teamsters Union is monitoring this developing, tragic event on the ground. As this horrific scene is being investigated, prayers on behalf of our entire International Union are with those killed, injured, and affected, including their families, co-workers, and loved ones. The Teamsters will provide additional details as they become available. Breaking from NYT: One of UPS’s jets’ engines detached from the plane in Louisville, an official saysCarhaul Teamsters ratify new national contract
Oct. 27, 2025 | Carhaul Teamsters have overwhelmingly ratified a five-year National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement (NMATA), securing major economic gains, improved working conditions, and strong job protections. The national agreement delivers 16 percent wage increases over the life of the contract, along with other improvements. Learn more. O’Brien, Zuckerman join striking Teamster nurses on picket line
Oct. 23, 2025 | This morning, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman joined striking Henry Ford Genesys Hospital workers on the picket line. The 750 nurses and case workers represented by Teamsters Local 332 were forced to strike in early September. They will remain on the picket line until they are offered a contract with higher wages and safer nurse-to-patient ratios.“Henry Ford Genesys hit a new low by forcing 750 Teamsters out on strike,” O’Brien said. “These nurses and caseworkers are asking for nothing more than respect and safe staffing… Learn more.UPS to expedite A/C vehicles to hottest states
Oct. 20, 2025 | To help expedite delivery of 28,000 air-conditioned vehicles under the current national contract, United Parcel Service (UPS) has signed a new letter of agreement with the UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee to begin retrofitting 5,000 package cars with air conditioning for the hottest delivery zone in the country. The 5,000 package cars will be retrofitted with air conditioning by June 1, 2027, and dispatched to the Teamsters’ hottest delivery areas in mostly Southern and Southwest states. The first 2,000 vehicles readied under the agreement will be retrofitted by June 1, 2026. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers Demand Reopening of Government
Nov. 5, 2025 | US LABOR UNIONS | With the nation’s 14,000 air traffic controllers still on their stressful jobs but missing their first paycheck due to the government shutdown, the controllers and their union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, jumped into the shutdown showdown, big time, demanding lawmakers reopen the government. Their message to President Donald Trump and to the Congress—whose ruling Republicans engineered the shutdown that began Oct. 1—is simple: End it, now. NATCA conveyed that message through a press conference at Washington National Airport, as well as through TV interviews and an op-ed by union President Nick Daniels. Off-duty controllers leafletted passengers at 20 key airports nationwide, including National, Chicago’s O’Hare, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, New York LaGuardia, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Los Angeles. People’s World Related: Trump officials to cut air traffic in 40 major markets if shutdown continues
Top Labor Groups Break With AFGE’s Support of GOP Gov’t Funding Bill
Nov. 4, 2025 | US LABOR UNIONS | The largest federal workers' union this week threw its support behind a Republican government funding bill [that would end the shutdown], ratcheting up pressure on Democrats. But many of the top labor unions told ABC News that they continue to back the strategy taken up by Democrats, breaking with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents hundreds of thousands of federal workers losing out on pay and staring down the threat of layoffs. [A]t least one major union has sided with AFGE. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has urged lawmakers to pass a clean continuing resolution [CR], reiterating his position on Thursday in remarks made alongside top Trump administration officials at the White House. "Do not put working people in the middle of a problem. They should not be in there," said O'Brien. ABC News
Week Ending 10/31/2025
• Labor Notes: Labor signs on to save Medicare
• People's World: POTUS loses to unions in court battles
• Mother Jones: So you don’t understand crypto? Buckle up.
• Jacobin: Volkswagen workers gear up for a potential strike
• People's World: NEA teachers lobby against massive health care hikes
• Truthout: First group of casino Teamsters in Virginia ratifies contract
• NY Times: Coal miners with black lung say they are ‘cast aside to die’
• AP News: Striking Boeing defense workers reject company’s latest offer
• AFL-CIO: 8 principles for fair, safe, responsible, and worker-centered AI
• WYPR: Wes Moore declares state of emergency, sends $10m in assistance for MD food banks
What Critics of the ‘Faster Labor Contracts Act’ Get Wrong
Oct. 29, 2025 | LEGAL OPINION | […] I want to address the most common substantive objection to the FLCA: that we shouldn’t place federal bureaucrats in charge of contract negotiations. Whether that view stems from faith in free contracting, a commitment to industrial democracy, or skepticism about an outside adjudicator’s ability to determine what’s best for a specific workplace, I take it that many across the political spectrum (though not all) are wary of arbitrators deciding labor contracts. But this critique misunderstands how first-contract arbitration works. On Labor
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