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DHL Express Teamsters rally ahead of upcoming national bargaining
Feb. 6, 2025 | The DHL Teamsters National Master Agreement expires on March 31, and the union has made clear there will be no contract extensions. Teamsters are demanding a fair agreement that raises standards, improves working conditions, and protects hard-earned benefits — with zero concessions or givebacks. Learn more

Iowa nurses join Teamsters in hard-fought election win
Feb. 2, 2025 | Hospitals never stop filling beds. At UnityPoint in Des Moines, nurses were expected to keep that machine running no matter the cost to patients, our licenses, or ourselves. By 2024, they were chronically overcapacity, wait times were staggering, and staffing was dangerously thin—while executives continued to reward themselves. After being ignored by traditional nursing unions, UnityPoint nurses took an unprecedented step in Iowa: they organized themselves and became Teamsters. Teamsters Local 90 believed in them when others wouldn’t—and helped more than 900 nurses fight for real change. Full story at Labor Notes. Photo/UNI

UPS spent half-billion to buy Roadie. Do you know why?
Jan. 30, 2025 | In 2021, UPS made a transaction that mostly flew under the radar. The package giant acquired tech company Roadie for more than a half-billion dollars. Roadie is like Uber for parcel delivery. It lets a random person use an app to sort, pick up, drive around, and drop off packages. You know, the traditional, good-paying, career-making, and union-protected work performed every day by hundreds of thousands of UPS Teamsters. Learn more at Just Cause Related: UPS announced this week it is planning to cut 30,000 jobs this year because it expected to deliver fewer packages for Amazon, a large but unprofitable customer.

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Unions Can Win in the Sout

Feb. 9, 2026 | ORGANIZING | Workers in Tennessee have made history. On Thursday, the United Auto Workers announced that it had finally reached a tentative agreement with management at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which unionized in 2024. If the workers approve the deal, it’ll be the first union contract outside the Big Three auto manufacturers in a Southern state. Auto companies, especially foreign manufacturers, have been moving operations to Southern states for decades, far away from union strongholds in the Rust Belt, where wages were higher and labor laws were stronger. The New Republic

Celebrating 100 Years of Black History Month

Feb. 9, 2026 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH | BHM100 is a national initiative marking a century of honoring Black history while imagining the next 100 years. As February 2026 marks 100 years since the first national observance of Black History Month, BHM100 brings together educators, artists, organizers, and communities to honor the past, celebrate Black culture, and carry the legacy forward. Related: Hero, martyr, or rabble-rouser? Who was Crispus Attucks? ILLUSTRATION/ RICK WATKINS for AJC

Six Vital Lessons from Minnesota’s General Strike

Feb. 6, 2026 | PROTESTS | […] On January 23, roughly 75,000 people flooded the streets on a workday, in sub-zero temperatures, demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leave Minnesota. Hundreds of businesses and cultural institutions in the Twin Cities closed their doors; one in four Minnesota voters either participated in the shutdown or knows a loved one who did, according to Blue Rose Research. A motley coalition led the charge: labor unions, racial justice groups, faith-based organizations… The author spoke with five organizers involved. Here are six takeaways from those conversations… Mother Jones

How to Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths at Work

Feb. 6, 2026 | MISINFORMATION | Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, that millions of immigrants came to the U.S. “from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums,” a claim one expert found “too ridiculous to dignify.” The lies spread like wildfire. Corrections, if they’re issued at all, fade into the background. The misinformation is designed to infuriate… Full story at Labor Notes