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Shop stewards take a breath and a break
Oct. 18, 2024 | Local 355's shop stewards work hard to ensure contracts are enforced and their members are fully represented when workplace issues arise. Besides doing their own jobs, they're on the look out to make sure the company is held accountable when something goes awry. In recognition of their hard work, every two years the Local Union Executive Board sponsors an evening when stewards and their guests can kick back, relax, mingle, share stories, and enjoy a great meal and good music. Check out the fun pix from last weekend's steward's banquet above, and in the Photo Gallery here..png)
We need UPS drivers to fill out the dog bite survey
Oct. 17, 2024 | The National Teamsters and UPS Dog Bite Committee — in partnership with worker safety experts from the Teamsters Industrial Initiatives Department — want your help understanding how animal attacks affect workers’ lives at UPS. If you’re a driver at UPS, visit the UPS Teamsters app today and complete this important survey. Personal information will only be used to verify your status as a UPS Teamsters driver. All other data will be confidential. Responses will be anonymous.
Support the Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund
Oct. 15, 2024 | The Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund is collecting monetary donations to support those who are suffering because of recent catastrophic climate events.Teamsters Disaster Relief has been on the ground in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee to help our members and their communities who have been impacted by the recent catastrophic hurricanes. Please donate today!US Foods members ratify a new three-year contract
Oct. 9, 2024 | Local 355 drivers at US Foods in Manassas, VA ratified by more than a 2 to 1 margin a new collective bargaining agreement. The contract has a three-year term. The deal includes substantial annual wage increases, maintains Health & Welfare benefits, provides new language on key safety issues, calls for the Union’s participation in safety committees, and adds stronger strike language, drafted and approved by the national Union. Local 355 represents more than 100 US Foods van and CDL drivers.Elsewhere in the News
New Film Documents Struggle, Triumph of Amazon Labor Union
Oct. 25, 2024 | DOCUMENTARY | Stephen Maing and Brett Story’s documentary Union is one of the best American films about the labor movement since 1940’s The Grapes of Wrath. Using cinéma vérité “you-are-there” film techniques, Union chronicles the fight to organize the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. Union, a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award winner, focuses on fired Amazon worker Chris Smalls, who co-led a movement of working-class heroes taking on the trillion-dollar company owned by Jeff Bezos, often called the world’s wealthiest person. Truthout
Week Ending 10/19/2024
• Boeing, union reach a TA to halt strike
• Teamsters DHL-CVG sort workers ratify first contract
• Ram plans to make more pickup trucks in Mexico
• Contract campaigns deliver for grocery Teamsters
• Lilly Ledbetter, equal pay icon, dead at 86
• Key facts about the union membership and the 2024 election
• Amazon Teamsters drivers in Calif. demand union recognition
• Take Me Home, Country Roads: West Virginia and American history
• Exploding physician union membership signals a significant labor market shift
The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe’s Workers Press On
Oct. 18, 2024 | ORGANIZING | […] Like with Starbucks and Amazon, union busting – – or alleged union busting – – has been part of the Trader Joe’s unionizing story from the jump. Rather than be compelled to follow the law and play by the rules, Trader Joe’s is flipping over the table and challenging the NLRB’s very existence, like so many other companies are doing now that the judiciary all the way up to the Supreme Court is stacked with corporate-serving Trump-appointed judges. Let’s not forget that at the center of all this, always, is working people bravely exercising their rights and trying to improve their lives and their jobs for themselves and their coworkers. And not only has Trader Joe’s been fighting that tooth and nail… In These Times
A Faster Path to Collective Bargaining: Majority Sign-Up
Oct. 18, 2024 | LABOR ACTIVISM | […] it’s imperative to win meaningful labor law reform in the next Congress. As labor lawyer Matt Bruenig recently pointed out, “American labor laws, and the bureaucracy they require, make mass unionization impossible unless rules for certifying unions and negotiating contracts are simplified and streamlined.” The evidence is compelling: Think of the union struggles at Starbucks, Amazon, and Mercedes-Benz. Private-sector employers can too easily use the NLRB’s bureaucratic process to frustrate workers’ initiatives. And if that doesn’t work, they get another bite at the apple through the courts. All too often, justice delayed is justice denied. Some organizers have offered a compelling workaround: Strike for recognition. The Nation
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