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Local and National Union News
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 IMAGESTankhaul Teamsters are in the news nationwide
Sept. 10, 2026 | Tankhaulers are standing together and striking to win the fair wages, strong benefits, and respect they deserve at Superior Plus Propane in Oakland, Calif., and Nippon Gas in Greensburg, Pa. And tankhaulers in Virginia know life’s better with North America’s strongest union, and are willing to fight for it. Finally, more than 250 tankhaulers have ratified strong Teamsters collective bargaining agreements in Hawaii, California, Oregon, Montana, Indiana, and Rhode Island. When we fight, we win!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/teamstersOlder posts can be found at 355 News
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Labor’s 9/11 Legacy: Preserving the Union Story of Rescue, Recovery and Rebuilding
Sept. 9, 2026 | UNION LABOR UNIONS | (Click image to view.) Twenty-five years after September 11, LaborForce Media is launching Labor’s 9/11 Legacy, a new podcast series dedicated to preserving an essential part of the 9/11 story: the role of union members, first responders, workers, and leaders who helped New York respond, recover, and rebuild. Hosted by New York attorney and broadcaster Arthur Aidala, the series brings listeners directly into firsthand conversations with people who lived through September 11 and the extraordinary months and years that followed. The podcast is free to listen to and available wherever you get your podcasts, as well as through LaborForceMedia.com. PHOTO: 911 Memorial and Museum, via CONDE NAST TRAVELLER
Unions Seek a Voice As AI Reshapes the Workplace
Sept. 9, 2026 | JOBS | Labor unions understand artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. The battle for them thus becomes ensuring their members have a seat at the table to shape how that technology is implemented in their workplace and perhaps even find a way to benefit from it …With some sectors more disrupted than others, talent pipelines could shift toward skilled trades and other blue-collar positions as students and workers seek job security. Union membership is increasing, but anecdotally, there also are examples of this career shift. “They have the right to bargaining, maybe not if (employers) use it or don’t, but how it’s implemented,” [Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University] said. “Unions will, by and large, work with an employer to make their jobs better and improve productivity so long as it doesn’t eliminate people. There’s not as much resistance to AI as you might expect, so long as they’re willing to work with people instead of replacing people.” Continued at Finance & Commerce
The $1.7 Billion Industry to Stop Your Union
Sept. 8, 2026 | WORKERS' RIGHTS | If there’s a signature American business, it might just be union busting. Bosses in this country have long stood out for their violent hatred of labor organizing. Other nations have had strikes, but few others have had labor conflicts escalate to an outright shooting war, or company thugs burning and machine-gunning a union tent encampment filled with women and children. As the robber baron Jay Gould once boasted, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” Today, labor-management relations thankfully do not typically involve exchanges of gunfire. ... [Instead, a] $1.7 billion industry of attorneys and consultants exists to stamp out workers' attempts to secure their legally protected bargaining rights. Learn more at LaborLab, a workers’ rights watchdog that just released new tools to help union organizers and workers understand these union-busting firms: who they are, what they do, and, above all, how much they cost. VIA THE AMERICAN PROSPECT. PHOTO/AP IMAGES
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