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Local and National Union News
100+ Chicago Teamsters on strike that extends to LA, Minnesota
June 10, 2025 | More than 100 Teamsters at Mauser Packaging Solutions in Chicago are on strike after the company failed to offer a fair contract. The warehouse workers, represented by Teamsters Local 705, are demanding higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions. “Mauser is striking itself by refusing to put a serious offer on the table,” said Juan Campos, President of Local 705 and Teamsters International Vice President At-Large. “Our members do essential work, and they deserve a contract that reflects their value. They are taking action to hold this greedy company accountable.” Learn more here.Breakthru Beverage Teamsters forced to strike over ULPS
June 4, 2025 | Teamsters at Breakthru Beverages in Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Tampa were forced on strike after the company committed unfair labor practices. Breakthru illegally terminated workers for supporting the union and continues to seek unreasonable concessions. Learn more here.‘Total gut punch’: UPS driver disqualified from US Open
June 4, 2025 | Nick Barrett, a 31-year-old UPS driver from Maryland, shot 68 last month in U.S. Open local qualifying at Northwest Golf Course in Silver Spring to earn a spot in the 36-hole final qualifier Monday at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, Md. Barrett made birdie on his final hole Monday to shoot an opening 73 and, well, then made the silliest of mistakes. Learn more here. Related: “For one glorious morning, Nick Barrett was living the working man’s dream.” Sutphen Teamsters forced to the picket line over ULPs
May 28, 2025 | Teamsters at Sutphen Corporation in Dublin, Ohio, produce and assemble apparatuses that firefighters across the nation use to save lives. Instead of offering the 90 members of Teamsters Local 284 a fair contract, Sutphen is throwing taxpayer money at union-busting. Learn more here.
Elsewhere in the News
Unions, Once Wary of Immigrants, Now March Alongside Them
June 16, 2025 | US LABOR | Labor unions and union members nationwide are playing a significant role in opposing the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown. They’ve protested the federal detention of SEIU official David Huerta in Los Angeles at a rally against workplace deportation sweeps by ICE. Unions protested the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a tradesworker apprentice, to El Salvador. This kind of solidarity would have been less common a generation ago, when some segments of the labor movement saw immigrants as low-cost competitors for their union jobs. But it’s not all smooth sailing. Marketplace
Week Ending 06/14/2025
• Money Talks: 15 most unionized places in Americar
• Jacobin: ‘This fight is ours, but it belongs to everyone’
• Mother Jones: The ICE policy that set off chaos in LA
• NYT: Union leader's arrest highlights link between workers’, immigrants’ rights
• Reuters: BLET Teamsters ratify five-year deal with CSX
• IBT: Rhode Island Teamsters seek passage of Worker Protection Package
• IBT: Albertsons Teamsters ratify strong contract, avert strike
• Better Bad Ideas with former labor secretary, Marty Walsh
How Labor Unions Came to Define LA Immigration Protests
June 12, 2025 | US LABOR | Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one. So it should come as no surprise that federal immigration raids on workplaces around Los Angeles County this week set off the largest protests to date against President Trump’s immigration crackdown. On the first day of the protests, [SEIU leader] David Huerta … was arrested and hospitalized for a head injury after being pushed by a federal agent. “Our country suffers when these military raids tear families apart,” said Liz Shuler, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., standing in a cluster of signs reading, “Free David.” “One thing the administration should know about this community is that we do not leave anybody behind!” It wasn’t always this way in American unions. Historically, they often viewed immigrants with suspicion… New York Times PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES
The State of Labor Laws Halfway Through 2025
June 10, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | Even as federal labor legislation remains stalled, several states have raced to pass their own laws cracking down on child labor and supporting gig workers. As most legislatures wrap up business for the year, here’s what state lawmakers have accomplished. … Maryland Gov. Wes Moore expanded his state’s registered apprenticeship program. The legislation aims to grow the state’s economy as the region struggles with the fallout of the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal workforce. “In partnership with the General Assembly, we are building pathways to work, wages, and wealth — even as the White House seeks to lay off thousands of employees,” Moore said in a statement shortly before signing the Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy Act. Politico
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