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UPS admits driver buyouts violate Central Region contract
Mar. 24, 2025 | 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, 2025 | 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 more

Teamsters call on DOJ to stop Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Mar. 16, 2025 | The leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is calling on the Department of Justice to block the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. merger unless worker protections are put in place. Union leaders announced [last] Thursday that they had filed a report outlining key concerns about the $111 billion mega-transaction with the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and that they are pushing for the transaction to be blocked unless their concerns are addressed. “This merger threatens the livelihoods of the very workers who built these studios into industry giants,” Teamster general president Sean O’Brien said in a statement. “We’ve seen what happens when corporations consolidate power: jobs disappear, production leaves American communities, and workers pay the price.” Learn more

Teamsters honor Women’s History Month
Mar. 2, 2025 | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is proud to celebrate March as Women’s History Month as we honor the sacrifices and achievements of women in our union and our nation. Since our founding in 1903, women have played a crucial role in the Teamsters Union's growth and success, and in the broader labor movement. Women labor leaders participated in the very first Teamsters convention and, since then, have led the Teamsters Union to the forefront of fighting for gender equality in the workplace and society.

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Elsewhere in the News

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

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

VA Flouting Court Ruling That Restored Bargaining Agreement, Union Claims

Mar. 25, 2026 | LEGAL | The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been accused by a union of violating a judge's ruling reviving a collective bargaining agreement, which covers 320,000 employees of the agency that had been canceled to carry out an order from President Donald Trump. The American Federation of Government Employees, in a filing in Rhode Island federal court on Friday, said the VA has ‌not reinstated the benefits guaranteed by the agreement, such as parental leave and the right to union representation in disciplinary proceedings, since the March 13 ruling. Reuters