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Local and National Union News
US Foods Teamsters in California ratify their first contract
Mar. 17, 2025 | Nearly 200 Teamsters drivers at US Foods in Livermore, Calif., represented by Local 853, ratified a first contract that will strengthen pay and benefits. The three-year agreement comes after members successfully organized a week-long strike. Local 853 members secured a 13 percent wage increase, improved safety, paid administrative leave, and substantial savings in health care. More at Teamsters on Facebook.United Airline Teamsters rally while voting on UA’s ‘insulting’ proposal
Mar. 13, 2025 | As 10,000 United Airline Teamsters nationwide vote on the company’s latest insulting proposal, Teamsters Local 856 held a rally outside United’s San Francisco Maintenance Base on Thursday. United Airlines Teamsters are united in their fight from coast to coast for a transformative contract at the carrier that includes the highest wages in the industry, a faster wage progression for newer technicians, and the return of maintenance work from foreign repair stations. Learn more here.Teamsters’ WARN claims against Yellow fall short
Mar. 5, 2025 | Read this important update from the union.] A federal bankruptcy court in Delaware found that Yellow Corp. is not liable for a failure to provide 60 days’ notice to roughly 22,000 union employees ahead of mass layoffs in the summer of 2023. It ruled the company was a “liquidating fiduciary” winding down affairs and not an employer at the time the layoffs were ordered, releasing it from liability. Learn more here.
Elsewhere in the News
Report: Unions Surge as Administration Takes Aim at Labor Watchdog
Mar. 17, 2025 | LABOR UNIONS | Since 2021, union elections in Maryland and across the country have more than doubled - and union election wins are at a 15-year high. Just days into his term, President Trump fired [NLRB] head, Gwynne Wilcox, a Biden appointee. Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst with the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, said this doesn't bode well for organized labor. A federal judge ruled earlier this month that Wilcox must be reinstated at the NLRB, but Trump administration attorneys appealed the decision. "Public solidarity helps support unions, when they're trying to win a union contract or when their employer violates labor law," said Poydock. "So public support is key in the mix of union organizing right now." Public News Service
Week Ending 03/14/2025
• Unionizing UnitedHealthcare
• Senate bill seeks to ban all federal labor unions
• VW cuts production in Tennessee, UAW files ULPs
• Steelworkers react to 25% tariff on steel and aluminum
• Teamsters drivers in CA ratify first contract with US Foods
• O’Brien on Trump’s economic agenda: ‘They made a lot of promises’
• Teamsters-supported Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed as labor secretary
• Teamsters HRDC memorialize events of “Bloody Sunday”:
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
Mar. 13, 2025 | COMMENTARY | […] Amazon weaponized workplace devices in use at warehouses that algorithmically direct and discipline workers. It exploited these machines to send anti-union messages, ask questions that workers say were designed to gauge union sympathies, and make “captive audience” meetings even more intimidating. During management-led meetings where workers were fed anti-union talking points, employees at the Bessemer plant would scan workers to monitor their efficiency and disciplinary record, reminding them about the digital eye surveilling them throughout the workday. The American Prospect
Federal Workers Push Back as DHS Ends Collective Bargaining for TSA Security Officers
Mar. 13, 2025 | UNION-BUSTING | A cohort of federal workers convened Monday morning in Orlando for a roundtable hosted by U.S. Congressman Darren Soto. That included the American Federation of Government Employees federal union representative and TSA security officer John Hubert, who works out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. He spoke out about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision Friday to end collective bargaining for TSA’s transportation security officers. “For somebody to come and unilaterally remove something that has been negotiated, a signed contract, is a slap in the face to all 47,000 TSA officers in this country,” said Hubert. Local10.com
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