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Local and National Union News
Teamsters will monitor the proposed Allegiant-Sun Country merger
Jan. 14, 2025 | The Union is closely monitoring a proposed merger announced this week between Allegiant Air and Sun Country Airlines. The Teamsters represent over 3,000 workers across both companies, including pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians and related employees, and dispatchers at Allegiant Air, as well as flight attendants and fleet service workers at Sun Country. “The Teamsters and our local unions look forward to working collaboratively with fellow unions at Allegiant and Sun Country to ensure that employees share in any benefits of a merger,” said Greg Unterseher, Above-the-Wing Director of the Teamsters Airline Division. “At the end of the day, any merger must deliver real gains for workers in the form of improved wages, job security, and working conditions for our members at both carriers.” Learn moreAV companies tell you the driverless future is here. Not so fast…
Jan. 5, 2025 | Big Tech may never succeed in fully automating vehicles. For years, they have repeatedly misled the public into thinking that fully driverless cars and trucks are right around the corner. Yet no matter how many corners we turn, we have yet to see these fleets of AVs take over our roads. The false promise of fully driverless trucks doesn’t mean Teamsters should ignore the threat of AI. Learn moreNominations notice for 2026 IBT Convention delegates, alternates
Dec. 30, 2025 | Local 355 will conduct nominations for six delegates and six alternates to the 2026 IBT Convention at our General Membership Meeting on Sunday, February 1, 2026. All dues-paying members will receive a Nominations Notice from the Local, along with additional instructions for participating in the nomination process. Learn more at 2026 IBT Convention Delegates Election Information & NoticesOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Fifteen Thousand Nurses Strike Three Major Hospitals in NYC
Jan. 14, 2026 | STRIKES | The nurses are striking for better staffing, protections against workplace violence, and guaranteed health care benefits. Fifteen thousand nurses across 10 campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. It’s the city’s largest nurse strike in decades. Picket lines stretched for blocks at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York Presbyterian hospitals on January 12, thronged with nurses plus Teamsters, hotel workers, and university staff showing solidarity. The union’s printed signs read: “If nurses are outside, something is wrong inside!” “It’s a disaster for us,” said Roy Permaul, a surgical and transplant ICU nurse, holding a blowhorn. Labor Notes
Amazon Loses Bid to Halt NLRB Proceedings Over Teamsters Dispute
Jan. 12, 2026 | JUSTICE | Federal court blocks Amazon from halting labor board proceedings, closing off a strategy employers hoped would stop union complaints. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed …that companies facing [ULP] charges must work through the National Labor Relations Board's administrative process even when challenging the agency's constitutional authority. The case centers on Amazon's conflict with the Teamsters union over delivery drivers who worked for Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), a contractor Amazon terminated in April 2023. Shortly after Amazon canceled the contract, BTS recognized the Teamsters as the bargaining representative for its drivers and signed a union agreement. …[T]he decision means constitutional challenges cannot serve as an escape hatch from labor board proceedings. Companies facing unfair labor practice charges will need to defend themselves through the NLRB's administrative system. HRD America
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Owners Couldn’t Bust the Union, So They Shut Down the Paper
Jan. 8, 2026 | UNION BUSTERS | After years of wasting millions of dollars losing court battles in attempts to deny their workers’ basic rights, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) announced on Wednesday afternoon that it would be closing on May 3. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the company’s request to stay a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court order requiring the PG to reinstate a contractual health care plan it had previously agreed to prior to illegally tearing it up in 2020. The announcement follows the newspaper publisher losing a nearly decade-long attempt to bust unions at the paper. In July of 2020, the Post-Gazette unilaterally imposed work rules that worsened health care coverage and other benefits. Workers went on strike… The News-Guild
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