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Local and National Union News
Teamsters release report on Amazon violations of NY WARN Act
Aug. 19, 2026 | On August 18, 2026, Teamsters released a report exposing Amazon as the leading violator of the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (NY WARN) Act. The union simultaneously filed a complaint with the NYC Labor Department over Amazon’s WARN Act violations, requesting the Commissioner of Labor investigate Amazon’s control of its third-party contractors and Delivery Service Partners (DSPs). Amazon uses DSPs as shell corporations to shield itself from the legal responsibility the company owes to its workforce. “This is yet another reason why Amazon is a parasitic white-collar crime syndicate,” Said Randy Kogan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. Learn more.110 casino workers say yes to Teamsters, first to unionize in Colorado
Aug. 13, 2026 | A group of casino workers at Black Hawk Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado, have organized with Teamsters Local 455 through a card-check process. This win marks the first time in Colorado history that casino workers have unionized. The group of cooks, cashiers, bartenders, servers, housekeeping, maintenance technicians, slot attendants, and slot technicians joined the Teamsters for wage increases, improved benefits, and safer working conditions. Learn more. Nationwide, the Teamsters represent nearly 6,000 members at casinos and casino hotels, including Local 355 members at Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore.10,000 Teamsters nurses reach agmt. that could shift bargaining in MI
Aug. 11, 2026 | After a little over a year of bargaining with Corewell Health East, 10,000 registered nurses represented by Teamsters Local 2024 have finally reached a tentative agreement for their first contract. If approved, the tentative agreement could set the tone for the rest of Michigan's healthcare industry. Recently, University of Michigan nurses in Ann Arbor avoided a strike when an agreement was reached and approved by the membership. Now that Corewell is doing the same, it could help end the nearly year-long ULP strike in Grand Blanc against Henry Ford Health. Those nurses are also Teamsters. Learn more.Older posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Paywatch: CEO-Workers Pay Gap Hits Record
Aug. 19, 2026 | WAGES | The gap between median CEO pay and median U.S. worker pay grew to a record 312-1 last year, the AFL-CIO’s annual Paywatch study shows. But add in the $158 billion Tesla paid its CEO, Elon Musk, and that ratio becomes 17-1/4 times as large, at 5,387-1. Think that figure is huge? Paywatch calculates the ratio between Musk’s pay and that of a median Tesla worker is a canyon: 2.522 million-1. And Musk didn’t even work full-time at Tesla, [AFL-CIO’s] Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond said in unveiling the report, based on corporate data sent to U.S. agencies. …The largesse to Musk “boggles the mind,” Redmond said. It also skewed the figures of the Paywatch report. It was so huge, Paywatch had to calculate all its ratios twice: Once with Musk and once without him. The entire report, by company, sector, and state, is available at www.paywatch.org. Full story at People’s World
Why States Are the Key to the Modern Labor Movement
Aug. 18, 2026 | THE FUTURE OF LABOR | Unions have a history of coming together when workers need them most. During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, labor unions sprang up in response to the harsh conditions of the Industrial Revolution. In the 1930s, a massive surge in union organizing helped the country find its way out of the Great Depression. Today, in our Second Gilded Age, gig work is leaving millions of Americans without access to a decent living. The question is: where are the unions now? Look to the states… Continued at Time.com
Teamsters Review WALL-E (Two Decades Later)
Aug. 17, 2026 | ECONOMY | If you’ve seen WALL-E, Pixar’s Oscar-winning film from 2008, you remember the premise: an abandoned Earth buried in trash, a single mega-corporation running life from a spaceship above, and fat/lazy/unemployed humans drifting on autopilot while robots do all the work. It was supposed to be an exaggerated allegory. Nearly 20 years later, it feels like the not-so-distant future. Because if you look beyond the animation and love story, WALL-E isn’t really about a robot. It’s about work — what happens when it disappears, who controls it, and what’s left behind when corporations decide people are no longer necessary. Continued at Just Cause Teamsters
Week Ending 08/15/2026
• Breakthru Beverage Teamsters win their strike
• Largest union of rideshare drivers in the world (1st item)
• Paratransit Teamsters in Nevada launch strike at Transdev
• Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Teamsters win strike in NY
• Amazon Teamsters, allies picket NYC Hall for Delivery Protection Act
• Amazon is spending big against NYC’s Delivery Protection Act
• Foreign oil giant BP locks out workers at its last USA unionized refinery
• ‘Beyond Steel’ raises questions about Pittsburgh’s past and future
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