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Local and National Union News
Amazon Teamsters rally after attack on workers in NY
Sept. 8, 2025 | Teamsters and supporters rallied today at Amazon’s DBK4 facility in Queens following the company’s sudden and illegal firing of over one hundred of its unionized drivers. “When normal people break the law, they go to jail. When Amazon executives do it, they get rewarded,” said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. “Amazon’s crime spree has gone on long enough. The Teamsters are fully prepared to put these crooks in their place if they don’t reinstate our brothers and sisters at DBK4.” Learn more here.Virginia Teamsters at Genesis Logistics launch strike
Sept. 5, 2025 | More than 200 drivers at Genesis Logistics in Virginia, a subsidiary of DHL Supply Chain, are on strike after the company failed to bargain seriously and committed multiple unfair labor practices. The Teamsters Local 322 members deliver to 7-Eleven convenience stores across the Mid-Atlantic and are demanding a fair first contract that includes real wage increases, affordable healthcare, and safer working conditions. Learn moreMaryland Teamsters rally for strong contract at ZUM
Sept. 2, 2025 | Teamsters Local 570 members at Zum Transportation in Jessup rallied today to show a unified front and their readiness to secure a strong first contract. The group consists of more than 300 bus drivers, van drivers, trainers, and attendants who provide student transportation for Howard County Public Schools. Earlier this year, the group voted by a four-to-one margin to join the Teamsters in order to fight for a contract that reflects the work that they put into their community and gives them the respect they’ve more than earned. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
3 Crises Facing the Labor Movement
Sept. 11, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money and a half-century-long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us… In These Times
Amazon Fires 150 Unionized Third-Party Drivers, Teamsters Say
Sept. 9, 2025 | UNION BUSTING | Amazon has fired more than 150 unionized drivers working for a third-party contractor in Queens, New York, according to the Teamsters union. Workers rallied at the company’s DBK4 facility in Queens on Monday after the company fired the drivers, who worked for Cornucopia, a delivery service provider (DSP) that Amazon contracted with to make deliveries. Amazon works with more than 3,000 DSPs around the world who deliver the company’s packages. The Teamsters said the firings were in retaliation for unionizing. The Guardian
ICE Raid & Detention at Hyundai Plant Raises New Risks for a Shaken Industry
Sept. 8, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | The immigration raid last week on an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia owned by two South Korean manufacturers was yet another setback for what had been a fast-growing industry in the United States. The sector was already beleaguered by lower-than-expected demand for electric vehicles, tariffs on raw materials, and the rapid phaseout of a federal tax credit for purchases of E.V.s, which have led companies to delay or scale back production. But the raid at the plant under construction in Ellabell, Ga., which is owned by the carmaker Hyundai and battery supplier LG Energy Solution, raised more risks for foreign manufacturers in the United States. New York Times
Week Ending 09/06/2025
• Truthdig: The fight to save the NLRB
• USAToday: GE Aerospace workers strike in Ohio, Kentucky
• NYT: Boeing plans to hire scabs for striking workers
• OnLabor: Reviving worker power through sectoral bargaining
• kfor.com: 1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force
• NYT: ICE detains almost 500 workers in raid on Hyundai plant in Georgia
• Maryland Matters: MD joins 21 states, DC in supporting federal labor unions
• tag24.com: Hundreds of thousands take part in ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ rallies across US
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