By Timothy Inklebarger Source: Supermarket News Some 90 Albertsons truck drivers represented by Dallas-based Teamsters Local 745 have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike over contract negotiations that union members say would pave the way for self-driving trucks. The union announced Monday that 97% of its members voted in favor [...]
By Michael Sainato Source: The Guardian A strike that would have seen some 18,000 workers at Costco around the US walk off the job at midnight was averted on Saturday, with the Teamsters union reaching a tentative agreement just before the deadline. Full terms of the deal have not yet [...]
Source: OC Register Thousands of Costco workers are preparing to strike with a midnight deadline drawing closer Friday while the workers’ union and the company continued to negotiate. The Teamsters union represents 18,000 Costco workers in six states: California, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York. It’s unclear if [...]
By Ashley Capoot Source: CNBC Amazon workers across seven facilities in New York, Georgia, California and Illinois went on strike Thursday to lobby for better benefits, higher wages and safer working conditions. The strike, organized by members of the Teamsters union, is intended to pressure Amazon to come to the [...]
By Alina Selyukh Source: NPR It's a new chapter in an effort to push Amazon to recognize its unionized U.S. workers. The independent Amazon Labor Union, which made history organizing the first and only unionized Amazon warehouse, has voted to affiliate with the hefty Teamsters. For two years now, Amazon [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times After years of organizing Amazon workers and pressuring the company to bargain over wages and working conditions, two prominent unions are teaming up to challenge the online retailer. The partnership was made final after members of the Amazon Labor Union, the only [...]
By Lauren Sforza, Tobias Burns, The Hill Source: WIVB.com The Teamsters working for shipping giant UPS said a strike is “imminent” after walking away from the bargaining table. The UPS Teamsters said in a statement late Wednesday it gave UPS a one-week notice Tuesday to “act responsibly and exchange a [...]
By Jane McAlevey Source: The Nation When Brandon Johnson, a union organizer, joined Karen Bass, a community organizer, as the second progressive elected as mayor of a big city in the past two years, it signaled that the Fox News fixation on crime and disorder in urban America didn’t translate [...]
By Carlo Versano Source: The Messenger The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents more than 300,000 UPS employees, voted on Friday to authorize a strike if the union and management cannot come to a new labor agreement by July 31, when the current contract expires. The authorization vote, [...]
By Bill Wilson Source: Supermarket News Opposition to the $24.6 billion Kroger, Albertsons merger does not appear to be dying down as the Teamsters union announced they oppose the deal. The Teamsters, a labor union representing members in the U.S. and Canada, said that some 22,000 of their members work [...]