Source: Teamster.org In a historic first, Amazon drivers and dispatchers in Palmdale, Calif., have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reached a strong tentative agreement containing a multitude of workplace improvements. “Amazon workers are joining the Teamsters to demand more from this company, including good wages, safe working conditions, [...]
Source: Teamsters.org More than 300 warehouse workers at Smart & Final Distribution Center in Commerce, Calif., have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 630 in Los Angeles. It is the second group of California workers to join the Teamsters Warehouse Division this month. “I’m looking forward to working with Local 630 to negotiate a fair contract that’s on [...]
Source: Teamsters New Master Agreement Protects 18,000 Costco Workers Coast-to-Coast The Teamsters made history today, securing a new master agreement protecting more than 18,000 workers at Costco nationwide. Ballots were counted at 5 p.m. ET before an independent observer in Portland, Ore., and the agreement was overwhelmingly ratified by a [...]
By Chris Isidore Source: CNN Business You might not know Sean O’Brien. But he is poised to shake up the US economy in a way no one else has in recent memory. O’Brien was sworn in Tuesday as the new general president of the 1.3-million member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, [...]
By Christopher Bjorke Source: Portland Business Journal The Fred Meyer grocery chain has reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with warehouse workers, avoiding a potential strike. Teamsters Local 117 said in a news release Friday the agreement covers 500 workers. During contract negotiations, the company's Washington-based workers voted unanimously to [...]
Source: NBC Washington Teamsters in the grocery industry in Washington State are gearing up for a possible labor dispute. More than 1,000 grocery warehouse workers and drivers at Fred Meyer and Safeway will be taking strike authorization votes this weekend. Voting by Teamsters at Fred Meyer will occur throughout the [...]
Source: Newslanes America’s largest labour union passed a resolution on Thursday to aid Amazon workers who have aspired to unionise. The Teamsters drafted the resolution in the wake of several years in which Amazon has become a major focus for the union as Amazon’s effect on blue-collar workers has increased. [...]
Teamster drivers and warehouse workers at a critical Albertsons grocery distribution center have voted by 98 percent to authorize a strike to protest the company for what the Union calls a “failure” to address workers’ COVID-19 safety concerns and to demand that the company “stop violating federal labor laws,” it announced in a news release [...]
About 800 Teamsters members held protests this week at Albertsons Cos. distribution centers in Tolleson, Ariz., and Roanoke, Texas, claiming that COVID-19 safety measures at the facilities fall short. The drivers and warehouse workers at the two DCs — which serve more than 250 supermarkets in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, [...]