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Local and National Union News
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.Striking port workers get support from Teamsters, UAW, and other unions
Oct. 1, 2024 | The roughly 45,000 longshoremen on strike across more than a dozen major U.S. ports are getting kudos and the rare sympathy strike from fellow labor unions. The ILA, in a statement Tuesday, blasted the “greedy” employers unwilling to meet its demands. “These companies... they don’t give a f—k about us,” ILA President Harold Daggett told members Tuesday in a video published by the union. “Well, we’re gonna show them they’re gonna have to give a f—k about us. Because nothing’s gonna move without us.” “The U.S. government should stay the f—k out of this fight and allow union workers to withhold their labor for the wages and benefits they have earned,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement Monday. Sale of Yellow Corp.’s remaining properties moving forward
Sept. 30, 2024 | The sale of bankrupt Yellow Corp.’s remaining properties is moving forward, a Wednesday filing in a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware showed. The estate will accept nonbinding indications of interest for its remaining 112 terminals beginning Tuesday and running through Oct. 18. Proceeds from the sales will be used to repay Yellow’s unsecured creditors, which have claims totaling in the billions. Yellow faces claims from former employees who say they weren’t given proper notice ahead of mass layoffs last summer as well as an environmental claim from the Department of Justice. FreightWavesTeamsters Joint Councils 55 and 62 endorse Harris-Walz ticket
Sept. 26, 2024 | Teamsters Joint Councils representing more than 22,000 Teamsters in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia and the vicinity join Teamster local unions and joint councils across the country with this week's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as our next President and Vice President of the United States. In a joint statement, JC 55 President Rudolph Gardner and Joint Council 62 Sean Cedenio said in part, “Our members and communities deserve an administration that will prioritize the needs of working people and not put profits over people. ... Your vote will make all the difference in this election cycle, so plan to vote and vote for our collective values this fall.”
Elsewhere in the News
A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off
Oct. 7, 2024 | ORGANIZING | The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain. A group of 100 warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San Francisco, marched on company managers October 2 demanding voluntary recognition rather than filing for a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election. In the Teamsters’ strategy to organize the logistics behemoth by a thousand cuts, this is the first time that warehouse workers—rather than delivery drivers nominally employed by a subcontractor—have demanded recognition. …Amazon worker committees, Teamster-affiliated and independent, in St. Louis, the Inland Empire of Southern California, the Chicagoland area, Minneapolis, Garner in North Carolina, and Atlanta have been organizing for better pay, heat protections, safety on the job, and disability accommodations. Labor Notes
Week Ending 10/04/2024
• At Bigfoot, Teamsters strike to save their pension
• 5,200 GE Appliance workers gear up for a fight
• Flight attendants stand with Boeing workers
• Federal Trade commission employees vote to unionize
• Amazon Union effort in NC latest attempt to organize the South
• Federal agencies urge railroads to provide paid sick leave
• Striking Boeing machinists lose company-paid health care coverage
• Dockworkers’ union scores big victory after 3-day strike
• 10,000 United Airlines Teamsters unite to win historic contract
• Tell Marathon Petroleum’s CEO: Give a fair deal to striking Teamsters!
Firefighters Union Declines to Issue Presidential Endorsement
Oct. 4, 2024 | VOTE 2024 | […] Leaders of the International Association of Fire Fighters gathered this week and determined “by a margin of 1.2%” against picking a candidate, according to General President Edward Kelly. “The IAFF Executive Board determined that we are better able to advocate for our members and make progress on the issues that matter to them if we, as a union, are standing shoulder-to-shoulder,” Kelly said in a statement. “This decision, which we took very seriously, is the best way to preserve and strengthen our unity.” As with the Teamsters, IAFF said that its decision was partly a result of increased input from its membership, as opposed to the more top-down process that has historically been in place. Politico
Port Union Agrees to Suspend Strike
Oct. 3, 2024 | STRIKES | The International Longshoremen’s Association agreed on Thursday to suspend a strike that closed down major ports on the East and Gulf Coasts. The move followed an improved wage offer from port employers. Employers, represented by the United States Maritime Alliance, have offered to increase wages by 62 percent over the course of a new six-year contract, according to a person familiar with negotiations who did not want to be identified because the talks were continuing. That increase is lower than what the union had initially asked for, but much higher than the alliance’s earlier offer. In a statement, the union said that it had reached “a tentative agreement on wages” and that its 45,000 members would go back to work, with the current contract extended until Jan. 15. The New York Times
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