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Local and National Union News
DHL Teamsters reach tentative agreement on strong new contract
Mar. 30, 2026 | After weeks of negotiations backed by a looming nationwide strike threat, the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee has reached a strong tentative agreement with DHL. The deal averts a national strike that would have involved thousands of workers across 26 locals across the country. The new four-year agreement includes a 20 percent wage increase, higher health and welfare contributions, and critical job protections. It also establishes robust safeguards against AI-driven routing systems that undermine seniority and explicitly prohibits the use of autonomous vehicles that threaten Teamsters' jobs. Learn moreUPS admits driver buyouts violate Central Region contract
Mar. 24, 2026 | United Parcel Service (UPS) notified the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Tuesday that it was withdrawing its latest driver buyout scheme in Central Region states after nearly 37 local unions filed grievances against the parcel giant for shamelessly violating the UPS Teamsters contract. This action will greatly undermine the company’s illegal pursuit of buyouts in other regions under the National Master Agreement…. “By pulling out of more than a dozen states, UPS has conceded that its buyout programs are illegal. They are scams designed to fuel corporate greed. These programs violate the Teamsters contract, and UPS knows it,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. Learn more 10,000 Teamsters nurses authorize strike in Michigan
Mar. 20, 2026 | Registered nurses at Corewell Health East, represented by Teamsters Local 2024, have voted by nearly 90 percent to authorize a strike. The 10,000 nurses across nine hospitals and campuses throughout southeastern Michigan have been fighting for their first union contract since June 2025. Nurses are demanding safe nurse-to-patient ratios, fair wages, affordable health insurance, and improved workplace safety. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
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What Plato Can Teach Us About AI and the Future of Work
Mar. 30, 2026 | TECHNOLOGY | For working people, AI raises a simple but profound question: Who will technology serve? Will innovation improve jobs, or harm the workers who built entire industries with their skill and experience? The debate may feel new. The warning is ancient. More than 2,000 years ago, Plato told a story that feels strikingly modern. When the god Thoth presented the invention of writing to Thamus, the king of Egypt, he declared that he had invented the drug for wisdom and memory. The rejoinder from Thamus was that Thoth had not invented the drug for wisdom and memory but… Continue reading at Just Cause Teamsters
Week Ending 03/27/2026
• Cesar falls
• First Student Teamsters authorize a strike
• UPS nixes driver buyouts in 13 states
• Minnesota Teamsters win strike at AMPI Dairy
• The Teamsters could be fearless again
• Labor wins when they run union members for office
• Teamsters organize 3rd Ikea location in North America
• Hundreds go on strike at major Navy shipbuilder in Maine
• Building worker power in a precarious federal landscape
Labor Pushing Hard for No Kings Day III on March 28
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Mar. 27, 2026 | COLLECTIVE ACTION | In a mass conference call last week that was part planning and all pep rally, sponsors of No Kings Day III, scheduled for March 28, urged listeners to increase their activism and recruit even more people for what they hope will be the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Their objective with the protest, again, is to show the leader of the corporate-backed ruling class, President Donald Trump, that the U.S. people are unafraid of him and that they mean to take the country back. A major objective this time around, organizers said, is to recruit those who until now have just been standing on the sidelines, uninvolved. They are even getting positive responses from people who say they have voted for Trump as many as three times. Peoples’ World
Big Tech is Cannibalizing the Working Class
Mar. 26, 2026 | ECONOMY | Pundits throw around a lot of statistics to try and make people suspend their disbelief about the economy. Things are better than ever, they say. The stock market is soaring. GDP is growing. Companies are investing. Those things are all true on paper. But American workers don’t experience the economy in black and white. We see it on the road. From the shop floor. In the warehouse. And we are bearing the brunt of a billionaire-driven sea change in the nature of the economy — one that’s funneling more money and power to those at the top and leaving everyone else with less. Just Cause Teamsters
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