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Local and National Union News
Carhaul Teamsters overwhelmingly vote to strike
Aug. 27, 2025 | Update 8/31: Carhaul Teamsters have reached a tentative agreement. Full details will be shared soon, and the agreement will be presented for a ratification vote in the near future. Carhaul Teamsters have voted by 95 percent to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached in the coming days. With the current Teamsters National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement (NMATA) set to expire at midnight on September 1, time is running out. Members have made it clear — they expect a contract that delivers top-tier wages, strong benefits, and real improvements on the job. If the carriers refuse to deliver, workers are ready to defend their livelihoods and preserve the standards that the Teamsters have built in the carhaul industry over decades. Via Teamsters on Facebook (Local 355 represents nearly 100 carhaul drivers working in the Baltimore region.)How one Teamsters local is striking to protect immigrant workers
Aug. 25, 2025 | [...] The strike at the factory in Little Village, a predominantly Latino area, began on June 9 over what [Teamsters Local 750] workers say were unfair labor practices when the company allegedly spied on workers while they talked with representatives of the union, and allegedly refused to bargain in good faith. Workers are in a contract battle… By going on strike, in part, for protections for immigrants, workers are showcasing a strategy to use workers’ most powerful weapon to protect union members. And if they win, they’ll be the first Teamsters local in the country to adopt such protective language. Details at The American ProspectCarhaul Teamsters launch pickets ahead of negotiations
Aug. 19, 2025 | Carhaul Teamsters from Locals 89, 332, and 604 have launched area standards pickets outside General Motors Plants in Michigan, Kentucky, and Missouri. The actions targeted nonunion carriers operating out of GM’s Flint, Bowling Green, and Wentzville Assembly plants. The pickets come as the Teamsters begin national negotiations for a new NMATA, which expires August 31. Carhaul Teamsters are demanding a contract that raises industry standards and guarantees higher pay, stronger benefits, and job protections for every member covered under the agreement. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
How Labor Day Emerged From The Movement for a Shorter Workday
Sept. 1, 2025 | LABOR HISTORY | Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day as a national holiday on the first Monday in September since 1894, 12 years after the first observance of Labor Day in New York City. The celebrations aren’t the same. Learn more at Talking Points Memo
Week Ending 08/31/2025
• AFGE: Five stories that matter
• Seattle Medium: If not for the union, there go I
• NY Labor Today: ‘Corporate greed at its ugliest’
• Workers: War against workers in U.S. intensifies
• Business Journal: Unions are ‘strong, but under attack’
• Teamsters: Carhaul Teamsters reach tentative agreement
• CBS News: These United States - the rise of union power
• In These Times: Immigrant subway cleaners in NY win millions
• WPXI: 5 unsung films that dramatize American workers’ history
• Fleet Owner: Major groups like the Teamsters still influence trucking
• Labor Notes: Defying back-to-work order, Air Canada flight attendants secure TA
• Common Dreams: Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ protests planned across U.S. on Labor Day
Trump’s War on Workers
Aug. 29, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | [...] Buried beneath the daily barrage of bluster is a systematic, multifront war on workers and their unions. Trump brandished his true colors when he paraded billionaires around him for his inauguration. Both Trump and the Republican party remain wedded to the trickle-down shibboleths of the executive suite: tax breaks for the rich and corporations, deregulation, and rigging the system against working people. Ahead of Labor Day weekend, as Trump once more masquerades as a champion of workers, it is worth summarizing how extensive this assault has been in his first months in office... The Nation
Why Not a Real Labor Court?
Aug. 27, 2025 | U.S. LABOR LAW | [In a recent article about the precarious future of the National Labor Relations Board, labor lawyers offered a proposal suggesting that,] instead of unfair labor practice cases being heard by [administrative law judges], they would be heard by the judges at the new federal labor court. And appeals from those decisions would go directly to the new Labor Circuit. Congress might also consider creating a private right of action to allow workers to file suits for violation of the NLRA directly with the labor court, but this proposal works whether or not Congress creates a private right of action. On Labor
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