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Local and National Union News
Teamsters document the disaster of deregulation
July 8, 2026 | Deregulation of the trucking industry almost 50 years ago produced a Wild West of fly-by-night operators, declining wages, and abominable working conditions—such as workers driving too many hours on too little sleep—and scattershot service to shippers, the Teamsters say in a long analysis of the history of the industry. It’s printed in the latest issue of the union’s magazine. And the deregulatory saga is relevant today, and not just in trucking, though the union doesn’t say so. Read more here.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 moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
The Supreme Court Freed College Athletes to Earn. Collective Bargaining is the Next Step
July 10, 2026 | OPINION | It is past time for Division I colleges and universities to recognize that their student-athletes deserve both the right to bargain collectively and recognition that they are employees because of the compensation their institutions provide to them and the control those institutions have over them. A deluge of media coverage has been aimed at other issues in big-time college sports, particularly football and basketball, but too little attention has been given to what should be center-stage — how student-athletes should be fairly treated by the institutions that benefit from their athletic prowess. Continued at The Philadelphia Inquirer UMD’s Oluchi Okananwa is one of the player leaders of the United College Athletes Association (UCAA) advocating for collective bargaining. PHOTO: JAYNE KAMIN-ONCEA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Faster Labor Contracts Act Should Be the Starting Point for Labor Reform
July 8, 2026 | U.S. LABOR | Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA), which would require contract negotiations with new unions to go to arbitration if an agreement cannot be reached within 90 days. The bill’s bipartisan passage demonstrates real interest from policymakers in improving labor law, and evidence from a study of Canadian provinces that implemented similar laws suggests those changes increased unionization rates by 2 percentage points. In the United States, a 2 percentage point increase would boost private sector union density from nearly 6 percent to 8 percent, bringing the benefits of union membership to millions of workers. However, to achieve these results... Continued at the Center for American Progress
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
• Union busters coming after me
• Teamsters beat Amazon on Prime Day
• The US labor movement as a force for peace
• Hundreds of Md. bills became law on July 1
• 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
• How much do you know about the American Revolution? Take this quiz
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