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Local and National Union News
Penske Teamsters in Florida and Missouri authorize a strike
June 29, 2026 | Ahead of a June 30 contract expiration, Penske workers represented by Teamsters Locals 79, 512, 541, 618, and 769 have taken an overwhelming strike authorization. The Southcentral and Southeastern Regional Master Agreements cover the nearly 250 Penske Teamsters. In addition to making insulting proposals, Penske has engaged in illegal, regressive bargaining, with the most recent example happening today when they significantly changed the health care proposal that both parties had already tentatively agreed to. Learn more. Note: Local 355 represents Penske workers in Maryland. Amazon ordered to bargain with CA Teamsters on eve of Prime Day
June 23, 2026 | Teamsters are lauding a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordering Amazon to bargain with workers at its DCK6 facility in San Francisco. The ruling came only hours before the start of Prime Day, one of the company’s biggest events of the year. It’s the second bargaining order in less than three months that the e-commerce giant has received from the NLRB. The board previously demanded that it comply with federal law and begin bargaining with Amazon Teamsters at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. Learn moreU.S. moves to end Teamsters union oversight
June 18, 2026 | The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Teamsters union on Wednesday jointly moved to end federal oversight of the union. ...“After 37 years, this filing marks an end to the longest monitorship of any union, corporation, nonprofit, or public entity in the history of the United States,” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, who won a reelection bid to lead the union on Tuesday, said in a statement. Learn more Teamsters press release here.Older posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Teamsters Induct Worst of the Worst Into CEO Hall of Shame
July 6, 2026 | CEO HALL OF SHAME | Greed in America has been turbocharged by a cabal of CEOs and corporate executives completely disconnected from the lives of everyday people. These out-of-touch elites use the wealth they extract off the backs of American workers to pay for a level of extravagance that’s hard to fathom. Despite their enormous wealth, these corporate stooges can’t stop demanding more. … They are assaulting collective bargaining rights, trying to replace good careers with nonunion gig work, and widening the divide between the people who do the work and the executives who profit from it. Here are the worst of the worst. Continued at Just Cause Teamsters
Week Ending 07/04/2026
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• Teamsters beat Amazon on Prime Day
• The US labor movement as a force for peace
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• Listen: The strike that reshaped the labor movement
• Teamsters at Bimbo Bakeries ratify strong new contract
• In June, the Teamsters had organizing wins in 15 state
• For the union makes us strong – with (badass) Sara Nelson
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Nurses Are at the Heart of the US Labor Movement
July 2, 2026 | HEALTH & SAFETY | […] Health care unions are an important outlier in this national story of union retreat, however. Public and private sector health care unions drove 29.4 percent of all strikes and twelve out of the thirty-one major strikes (those involving more than one thousand workers) in 2025. Much of this activity was led by nurses. Thanks to their leverage in a growing health care industry in need of their skilled labor — and their willingness to take collective action — many nurses won impressive improvements to patient care through safe staffing as well as workplace safety measures, income increases, and other gains. Full story at Jacobin PHOTO: Jim West / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Gov. Moore Declares State of Preparedness Ahead of Holiday Weekend Heat Wa
July 1, 2026 | HEALTH & SAFETY | Gov. Wes Moore declared a State of Preparedness on Tuesday ahead of extreme heat expected to hit the state and persist through the holiday weekend. Marylanders can expect “very hot and humid conditions” that will spark “extreme heat risk,” especially to vulnerable people, including children and older adults, the governor’s office said in a press release. The State of Preparedness is expected to last from July 1-5. “The health and safety of Marylanders, and those visiting our state for this holiday week, is our top priority,” Moore said. “This State of Preparedness will ensure that Maryland is ready to protect our people ahead of this extreme heat. More info at The Baltimore Banner
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