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Hey Amazon! Chicago is a union town!
Sept. 17, 2026 | Yesterday, Amazon Teamsters and their allies rallied outside of Chicago City Hall to demand that the Chicago City Council schedule a vote on the Delivery Protection Act before a Subject Matter Hearing between the License and Consumer Protection & Workforce Development committees. “The momentum to hold Amazon accountable is growing nationwide. Amazon Teamsters in Chicagoland are now taking the baton and showing Amazon that we will not stop,” said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. Learn more here.

O'Brien throws down the gauntlet to UPS: Strike coming in 2028
Sept. 15, 2026 | It’s two years until the contract between United Parcel Service and its 330,000 unionized drivers and package handlers is due for renewal, normally a time when labor-employer relationships are less contentious. The Teamsters union is ready for war. Issues the union is prepared to strike over include expected attempts to roll back health and pension benefits, automation and deployment of autonomous trucks, and alleged outsourcing of last-mile delivery and supply chain functions to non-union subsidiaries. Freightwaves

Honoring Teamster first responders’ courage and patriotism
Sept. 11, 2026 | On September 11, 2001, hundreds of Teamsters in New York City answered our nation's call to service. Our members in the construction trades immediately got to work cleaning up Ground Zero — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 9 months. After the debris was cleared, Teamsters stayed on-site and went to work rebuilding the World Trade Center. Today we honor our Local 282 members who have suffered serious illness linked to their exposure at the site for their courage, patriotism, and lasting contribution they made to rebuild New York City after one of our nation’s darkest hours. Letter of remembrance from the Teamsters Airline Division here. Teamsters video here. PHOTO/iSTOCK IMAGES

Teamsters add new Critical Illness Benefit for members
Sept. 8, 2026 | A new Teamsters member benefit is available today. The Teamsters Union is pleased to announce that through a partnership with Aflac, Group Critical Illness coverage is now available exclusively to Teamsters members and their dependents, ensuring financial protection when a covered critical illness occurs. Get up to $40,000 cash paid directly to you if you or a loved one faces a serious illness. Fast approval and no medical exam required. Enroll today: https://members.optixenroll.com/teamsters

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A Year on the Picket Line: Teamster Nurses Still on Strike

Sept. 18, 2026 | STRIKES | (Click image to view.) Nurses at Henry Ford Health in Michigan—one of the state’s largest health care systems—have been on strike for over a year, but their spirit remains solid both on the picket line and at the bargaining table. Represented by Teamsters Local 332, they met with management for a negotiation session on Sept. 11, 2026, as their unfair labor practice strike passed its first anniversary. They also returned to the picket line after the Labor Day holiday, with the union blaming continued stalling by hospital bosses for the lack of a contract. … Leading up to the first anniversary, Henry Ford filed a restraining order against the local. On Aug. 18—Day 352 of the strike—Local 332 President Dan Glass and about 50 union nurses appeared at the Genesee County Courthouse to testify against the company’s claims. Continued at People’s World .

A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike

Sept. 16, 2026 | PERSPECTIVE | […] Unions bring together an unlikely assortment of people to exercise collective power in the workplace. In the new documentary Who Moves America, filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one of the country’s largest unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at United Parcel Service (UPS) in 2023. In her latest film, she returns to the strike, that most potent of working-class weapons. Read more at Jacobin.

Support for Unions Is Spiking As AI Threatens Jobs

Sept. 15, 2026 | ORGANIZED LABOR | As the triple threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights takes its toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. …[Y]ears of de-industrialization — economic policy now culminating in the rising threat of AI automation — have forced workers onto their heels, as once-ardent labor groups capitulate to pro-business forces. But it doesn’t have to remain this way. If the broad collective of US workers can tap into the long-forgotten legacy of the 20th-century labor movement, it could revive union militancy and, for some, offer one last chance to carve out protections against an automated future through workplace organizing. Full story at Futurism

Big Sky Energy

Sept. 14, 2026 | MONTANA TEAMSTERS | Montana is, for all intents and purposes, a red state in 2026. The Republican Party has the governorship, a supermajority in the Senate, and a majority in the lower chamber. Democrats haven’t won a statewide election since 2018, and the senator who did win that race, John Tester, lost six years later. Yet, Montana hasn’t been taken over by union busters. It’s not a “right to work” state. Public sector workers have collective bargaining rights. Unlike many states with anti-union governors, unions don’t have to go through unnecessary bureaucratic rigmarole for dues deductions or bargaining unit certifications, nor does the state government punish employers who work with unions by revoking tax incentives. The reason? Montana has a labor movement that works closely with both parties, and it’s led by the Teamsters. Continued at Just Cause Teamsters