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Local and National Union News
US added to watchlist as attacks on workers’ freedoms accelerate erosion of democracy
June 3, 2026 | Workers’ rights are deteriorating worldwide, with leading democracies now driving a deepening global crisis, according to the 2026 ITUC Global Rights Index. Once considered stable, countries such as the United States and France are now contributing to a global surge in repression… Key findings include: The United States has been placed on the Watchlist amid mounting concerns over restrictions on collective bargaining and the use of force against workers. Learn more.Teamsters extend picket lines to additional Breakthru Beverage facilities
May 26, 2026 | Teamsters at Breakthru Beverage in Cicero, Ill. and St. Louis extended their unfair labor practice (ULP) strike to company operations in Kansas City, Mo., and Champaign, Ill. Teamsters at the Kansas City and Champaign locations exercised their individual legal and contractual right to refuse to cross the extended line. Teamsters nationwide with similar contractual picket line protections remain on standby. Over 215 drivers and warehouse workers were forced onto the picket line over the company’s numerous ULPs. Learn more1,700+ Teamsters employed at Cargill Meat Solutions demand end to lockout
May 20, 2026 | More than 1,700 Teamsters at Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan, Colorado, were locked out this morning after months of fighting for a new collective bargaining agreement. The meat-processing giant has refused to offer Teamsters Local 455 members the necessary improvements in wages, health care, and safety protections. Workers at the Cargill facility are critical to processing millions of pounds of beef for American families nationwide. In a town as small and tight-knit as Fort Morgan, Cargill Teamsters keep the economy running. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
A Whiff of Rebellion From Trump’s Labor Board
June 11, 2026 | NLRB | It’s very subtle, and it probably won’t last. But it’s another dose of pushback for a president who’s lately been getting a lot of it. Even Crystal S. Carey, Republican general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, the federal agency that adjudicates labor-management disputes, thinks President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are screwing up her agency. Carey, who, before Trump appointed her general counsel, was a partner at the union-busting law firm Morgan Lewis, didn’t put it exactly that way… Continued at The New Republic
US Workers Need Sectoral Bargaining Now More Than Ever
June 9, 2026 | UNION DENSITY | U.S. union membership and coverage rates have declined for decades, fueled in part by legal barriers to new organizing, including the limiting of collective bargaining to specific workplaces or employers and misclassifying certain groups of workers so they legally cannot unionize. Indeed, worksite-level bargaining enshrined in U.S. labor law is important, but it lacks a dedicated mechanism to build solidarity within broad economic industries, siloing organizing campaigns by employers or locations. U.S. labor advocates have suggested policy reforms to stymie this decline in union coverage, including the Protecting the Right to Organize Act… Continued at Equitable Growth
Buried Waste, Buried Truths: Republic Services’ Trail of Harm
June 8, 2026 | HEALTH & SAFETY | Whenever I see a major corporation branding itself as a “sustainability leader,” I tend to raise an eyebrow. That skepticism only grew when I started looking intoâ¯Republic Services, a waste management giant whose website is saturated with promises about protecting the environment and supporting communities. Republic Teamsters have long known how vile, immoral, and dirty the world’s second-largest waste company truly is. For most of the public, though, Republic is just a name on trash cans, dumpsters, and trucks. For others, it’s something else entirely: a polluter that has ruined lives and, in some cases, even killed. Continued at Just Cause Teamsters
Week Ending 06/06/2026
• The wake of labor journalism
• ‘Amazon is the new slavery’
• 221 casino dealers in Virginia join Teamsters
• UAW strike threatens GM truck production
• Unions flex muscle as states weigh data center rules
• Starbucks Workers United celebrates 700th union election win
• The 1985 Hormel strike: An historical lesson in economic and union policies
• Amazon is using AI to disempower workers. The labor movement must fight back.
• Trump signs order making it easier to fire 8,000 highly paid federal workers
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