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April 27, 2024

Today in 1944
On the orders of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Army seized the Chicago headquarters of the unionized Montgomery Ward & Co. after management defies the National Labor Relations Board. ~ Labor Tribune

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    Reminder: Contract enforcement training webinar
    Apr. 26, 2023 | Remember to register for this Sunday's UPS Teamsters national contract enforcement training webinar. Join the Teamsters Package Division and the Teamsters Training and Grants Department on Sunday, April 28, to learn about new restrictions on SurePost and combat feeder subcontracting. All UPS locals, business agents, and rank-and-file UPS Teamsters are encouraged to participate in this virtual training. Let’s protect Teamsters jobs. Register now here.

    Chicago Teamsters win racial discrimination suit against DHL Express
    Apr. 24, 2023 | Members of Teamsters Local 705 have won a $8.7 million racial discrimination lawsuit against DHL Express. The suit, filed in 2010 by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), revealed DHL subjected Black Teamsters in Chicago “to different terms and conditions” and to “less desirable, more difficult and/or more dangerous dock and route assignments than white employees.” Nationwide, the Teamsters represent more than 6,000 workers at DHL, including more than 60 Local 355 Teamsters. Learn more here.

    Drivers at Rider Logistics ratify first Teamster 355 contract
    Apr. 24, 2023 | Organized with Local 355 last August, sixteen drivers at Rider Logistics (formerly Hills Pet Nutrition) unanimously approved their first Teamster contract on April 12. The new three-year agreement provides substantial wage increases annually, protects existing healthcare coverage benefits, and gives the workers a grievance procedure and job security, among other benefits of a strong Teamster contract. “We didn’t have a voice on the job, which is why we started the ball rolling to get organized,” said Tony Lewis, a veteran Rider driver and new Teamster shop steward. “Management wouldn’t listen to us. We got tired of all the disruptive unilateral changes.” Lewis said he feels a lot better having gone through the [unionizing] process from start to finish. “We are grateful to be under the protection of a Teamster contract.”

    Important change to administration of Local 355’s Health and Welfare Plan
    Apr. 22, 2023 | Effective April 1, 2024, we changed plan administration from Zenith American Solutions to BeneSys, Inc. The change will enhance the efficiency and quality of services provided to you and provide positive improvements to the administration of your health benefits. Please click here to learn more about what has changed and what has not changed.

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    Elsewhere in the News

    Week Ending 04/26/2024

      • Iowa Teamsters defeat union-busting bill
      • Teamsters mourn death of UPS driver killed in crash
      • 7 in 10 workers worldwide exposed to extreme heat risks
      • Federal regulators just passed 2 worker-friendly rules
      • 7 in 10 workers worldwide exposed to extreme heat risks
      • Boston Teamsters jump into rideshare drivers’ rights fight
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    On Workers’ Memorial Day, AFL-CIO’s Schuler says workers pay the ‘ultimate price’


    The Stunning Rebirth of the American Labor Movement

    Apr. 24, 2024 | OPINION | Note: The author, Robert Reich, is a former U.S. Secretary of Labor. [Last] Friday, Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union. This is a truly big deal. The mainstream media — most of whom no longer have labor reporters — have barely mentioned it, but I believe it marks a major turning point for organized labor. The victory in Chattanooga is the first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit’s Big Three and the first major union victory in the South… We are witnessing a historic rebirth of the labor union movement in America. Labor unions are not just an interest group. They are gaining the heft, solidarity, and passion to become what they once were — a movement. And it’s about time. The Lima News

    Starbucks Appears Likely to Win Supreme Court Dispute With NLRB

    Apr. 23, 2024 | LABOR LAW | The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to side with Starbucks Tuesday in a case that could make it harder for the federal government to seek injunctions when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns. Justices noted during oral arguments that Congress requires the National Labor Relations Board to seek such injunctions in federal court and said that gives the courts the duty to consider several factors, including whether the board would ultimately be successful in its administrative case against a company. But the NLRB says that since 1947, the National Labor Relations Act — the law that governs the agency — has allowed courts to grant temporary injunctions… Associated Press (AP) Related: How the Starbucks case at the Supreme Court could affect unions everywhere

    Tennessee VW Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Join UAW

    Apr. 22, 2024 | ORGANIZING | Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 2,628 votes, or 73% of the ballots cast, compared with only 985 who voted no in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board. Both sides have five business days to file objections to the election, the NLRB said. If there are none, the election will be certified and VW and the union must “begin bargaining in good faith.” Twice in recent years, workers at the Chattanooga plant have rejected union membership in plantwide votes. Next up for a union vote are workers at Mercedes factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who will vote on UAW representation in May. Associated Press  AP PHOTO/GEORGE WALKER IV
 
 
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