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Local and National Union News
Nominations 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 & Notices500 Teamsters at Home of the Seahawks score first contract
Dec. 23, 2025 | More than 500 guest services workers at Lumen Field, represented by Teamsters Local 117, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract. The workers, employed by First & Goal, Inc., staff one of the marquee sporting venues in the country — home to the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Sounders, and Seattle Reign — and a host site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Learn moreTeamsters file nationwide ULP charges against Airgas
Dec. 19, 2025 | Airgas Teamsters have been on strike since June 2 nationwide over unfair labor practices. Pickets were extended to 15 facilities in 11 states. Throughout and after these extensions, Airgas illegally retaliated against workers, unlawfully terminating and suspending members in Pennsylvania and California; locking out members in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, New York, and Michigan; threatening members in Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, Ohio, and New Jersey; and permanently replacing members in Ohio and New Jersey, for exercising their contractually-protected right to honor extended picket lines and to strike. Learn moreOlder posts can be found at 355 News
Elsewhere in the News
Year Ending 12/31/2025
• 50+ New Year’s facts: Traditions, spending & more
• TTD condemns DHS’s illegal termination of the TSA CBA
• Will OSHA cancel protections for ‘inherently risky’ work?
• The Voting Rights Act is under threat. So are workers’ rights.
• Whatever happened to the ‘Golden Age’ for American workers?
• Freight company ordered to pay $23 million to Teamsters Trust Fund
• 68 cities, counties, and states will increase the minimum wage Jan. 1
• Trump is hellbent on crushing federal unions, but they’re still kicking
• The government can’t ban captive audience meetings; it can’t ban pickets, either
• Vocational scholarships from the James R Hoffa Scholarship Fund are available
US Judge Bars Trump from Limiting FMCS’s Reach
Dec. 31, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | A second U.S. judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from effectively shutting down a federal agency that acts as a mediator for workplace strikes and other labor disputes. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan late on Tuesday agreed with 17 labor unions that the administration had failed to explain why it had moved to limit the reach of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and that doing so violated federal law. More than 90% of the agency's employees have been placed on administrative leave, and the agency has closed all of its field offices, leaving a skeleton staff in Washington, according to court filings. Reuters
In 2025, the Biggest Union-Buster in History Dominates Workers’ Struggles
Dec. 29, 2025 | PERSPECTIVE | Workers faced one big, dominating, and dominant enemy in 2025: Donald Trump. Through a series of edicts and with the gleeful aid of a compliant congressional Republican majority and two henchmen—Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and multibillionaire chainsaw-wielder Elon Musk—President Donald Trump became “the biggest union-buster in U.S. history,” according to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. … Labor has fought back through a series of lawsuits and won a majority of the cases it filed in lower courts. Appeals courts have split, however, and the six-justice GOP-named majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, especially Justice Samuel Alito, is hostile to workers. So, workers are taking to the streets, and often to strikes. Peoples’ World
Santa Is A Teamster
Dec. 24, 2025 | DELIVERY INDUSTRY | Every December, we tell the same story: Santa Claus is checking his list. His sleigh is being loaded. The reindeer are lining up. Magic is drifting through the air — the kind that shows up on doorsteps, under trees, and in the wide-eyed excitement of children making wish lists. But even the most powerful magic needs a little help. The truth is, Santa doesn’t just show up one night a year. He shows up every morning in a uniform. He has a route. He shoulders heavy boxes in the cold, in the dark, during the busiest weeks of the year. Santa is a Teamster. While much of the country slows down for the holidays, Teamsters at UPS, DHL, Amazon, and across the delivery industry speed up. Trucks get fuller. Days stretch longer. The pressure rises because holiday magic has a deadline. And it all gets delivered… Just Cause Teamsters
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