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From the Desk of President Tom Quackenbush
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Local 90 and four other locals file unfair labor practice charges against Pepsi
04/19/24 - Teamsters Local 90 |
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Week Ending 04/19/2024
04/19/24 - Teamsters Local 355 • No justice, no jeans • A new remedy for bad-faith bargaining?s • The paradox of the American Labor Movement • FBI opens criminal probe into Key Bridge collapse • AFGE ranks 1st as fastest growing large union in U.S. |
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Week Ending 04/19/2024
04/19/24 - Teamsters Local 992 • No justice, no jeans • A new remedy for bad-faith bargaining?s • The paradox of the American Labor Movement • FBI opens criminal probe into Key Bridge collapse • AFGE ranks 1st as fastest growing large union in U.S. |
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Yellow Corp: Bankruptcy Update
04/18/24 - Teamsters Local 776 Yellow Corp. Teamster Members: Please see below for important news from the IBT concerning the Yellow Corp. |
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Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Teamsters Win $53,000 Grievance Arbitration
04/18/24 - Teamsters Local Union No. 142 Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Teamsters Win $53,000 Grievance Arbitration April 18, 2024 Teamsters Locals 135 & 142 members recently achieved a huge arbitration victory against Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits of Indiana. In 2022, the company agreed during contract negotiations that drivers would receive overtime pay when they work on Mondays, which is normally one of their weekend days off. At the time, drivers were the only workers who did not receive overtime pay when forced to work on one of their regular days off, so Monday overtime was an important proposal for the drivers during negotiations. |
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Yellow Corporation Bankruptcy Update Regarding Member WARN Act Claims
04/18/24 - Teamsters Local 492 4/18/2024 - The following is a message from John A. Murphy, IBT National Freight Director and Co-Chair, TNFINC: Re: Yellow Corporation Bankruptcy Update Regarding Member WARN Act Claims TO ALL LOCAL UNIONS HAVING MEMBERS EMPLOYED OR FORMERLY EMPLOYED BY YELLOW CORPORATION AFFILIATES I. |
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2024 - Theme Park Tickets Available
04/18/24 - Teamsters Local Union No. 436 @media only screen and (max-width: 730px){ .pdfview{height:500px . |
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VW Workers in Tennessee Vote; Test Union Ambitions
04/17/24 - Teamsters Local 355 Apr. 17, 2024 | ORGANIZING | Last fall the United Automobile Workers union won big pay increases from the Detroit automakers, and the impact rippled quickly through the nonunion auto plants scattered across the South. Afterward, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai and Tesla raised wages for their own hourly workers in the U.S., none of whom are unionized. |
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Teamsters #264 Scholarship
04/17/24 - Teamsters Local 264 We are now accepting applications for our 2024 scholarship. Please contact us at (716) 668-8007 x 110 or by email at scholarships@teamsters264.org for an application. |
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Teamsters Local 492 Wins Historic Grievance Against Sysco for Members
04/16/24 - Teamsters Local 492 4/16/2024- It is with great pleasure that I can report to all our members, that Teamsters Local 492 has won a hard-fought grievance for our Sysco brothers and sisters! On April 03, 2020, a grievance was filed to enforce the forty-hour language in our contract. This grievance was filed during the Walter Maestas administration, in the early stages of Covid-19. |
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Union Labor Would Bring Strongest Workforce to Rebuild Key Bridge
04/16/24 - Teamsters Local 355 Apr. 16, 2024 | COMMENTARY | When President Joe Biden came to Baltimore to survey the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, he made a promise all of Baltimore and the region desperately needed to hear. “We’re going to move heaven and earth to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible. |
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Union Labor Would Bring Strongest Workforce to Rebuild Key Bridge
04/16/24 - Teamsters Local 992 Apr. 16, 2024 | COMMENTARY | When President Joe Biden came to Baltimore to survey the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, he made a promise all of Baltimore and the region desperately needed to hear. “We’re going to move heaven and earth to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible. |
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May General Membership Meeting
04/15/24 - Teamsters Local 90 . |
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TODAY'S ARTICLE THAT TEAMSTERS LOCAL 786 HOSTED A PRO-IRANIAN ACTIVIST RALLY IS FALSE AND DEFAMATORY
04/15/24 - Teamsters Local 786 Be advised that I am an attorney representing Teamsters Local 786. The above referenced story that was published today is false and I demand that you take it down and print a retraction of it immediately. The facts are simple, Teamsters Local 786 is only a tenant in that building which is owned by a different Teamsters Local. Local 786 did not have anything to do with this event. |
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Week Ending 04/12/2024
04/12/24 - Teamsters Local 355 • Key Bridge collapse is a story about deregulation • ‘We are the workforce that this country needs’ • The 32-hour workweek is ours for the taking • NLRB refuses to bow to Space X, Amazon pressure • Divided Amazon union lurches toward leadership election • Steelworkers push back against $14B deal for U.S. |
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The Charleston Cigar Factory Strike
04/12/24 - Teamsters Local 355 Apr. 12, 2024 | LABOR HISTORY | The Charleston Cigar Factory Strike was a labor strike that involved workers at the Charleston Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, from October 22, 1945, to April 1, 1946. The strike resulted from the company refusing to institute raises and racial discrimination. |
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2024 Teamster Local 445 Scholarship
04/12/24 - Teamsters Local 445 ATTENTION MEMBERS WITH GRADUATING SENIORS! Applications for the Teamsters Local 445 Scholarship, in memory of Douglas L. McCauley are available. Deadline to apply: June 28, 2024 |
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Week Ending 04/12/2024
04/12/24 - Teamsters Local 992 • Key Bridge collapse is a story about deregulation • ‘We are the workforce that this country needs’ • The 32-hour workweek is ours for the taking • NLRB refuses to bow to Space X, Amazon pressure • Divided Amazon union lurches toward leadership election • Steelworkers push back against $14B deal for U.S. |
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The Charleston Cigar Factory Strike
04/12/24 - Teamsters Local 992 Apr. 12, 2024 | LABOR HISTORY | The Charleston Cigar Factory Strike was a labor strike that involved workers at the Charleston Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, from October 22, 1945, to April 1, 1946. The strike resulted from the company refusing to institute raises and racial discrimination. |
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SWIRE MEMBERS- CONTRACT VOTE
04/12/24 - Teamsters Local 162 Who: Local 162 members at Swire Coca-Cola What: Contract Offer Explanation and Vote When: Sunday, April 21, 2024, @ 9:00 AM Where: Teamsters Union Hall 1850 NE 162nd Ave. Portland, OR 97230 Please make every effort to attend this very important meeting! @media only screen and (max-width: 730px){ .pdfview{height:500px . |
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Unemployment for Strikers Would Balance the Scales
04/10/24 - Teamsters Local 355 Apr. 10, 2024 | COMMENTARY | A bill that would allow workers on strike to access unemployment insurance is currently under consideration in the Minnesota Legislature. Working people make our biggest gains on the job when we take collective action. |
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Unemployment for Strikers Would Balance the Scales
04/10/24 - Teamsters Local 992 Apr. 10, 2024 | COMMENTARY | A bill that would allow workers on strike to access unemployment insurance is currently under consideration in the Minnesota Legislature. Working people make our biggest gains on the job when we take collective action. |
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Elon Musk Wants to Gut the National Labor Relations Act
04/09/24 - Teamsters Local 355 Apr. 9, 2024 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | Elon Musk is challenging the New Deal legislation that established the National Labor Relations Board. Experts warn that this is “a serious threat.” [Musk] hates unions, with a white-hot passion that has rendered him delusional. [T]he Tesla CEO explained that “I disagree with the idea of unions…. |
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Elon Musk Wants to Gut the National Labor Relations Act
04/09/24 - Teamsters Local 992 Apr. 9, 2024 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | Elon Musk is challenging the New Deal legislation that established the National Labor Relations Board. Experts warn that this is “a serious threat.” [Musk] hates unions, with a white-hot passion that has rendered him delusional. [T]he Tesla CEO explained that “I disagree with the idea of unions…. |
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Unions’ Picket Power Now Extends to U.S. Boardrooms
04/08/24 - Teamsters Local 355 Apr. 8, 2024 | UNION POWER | U.S. Steelworkers are fighting a takeover by Japan’s Nippon. Railroad unions have rallied around Norfolk Southern’s CEO in opposing a hedge fund trying to take over its board of directors. Regulators are trying to block the biggest grocery-store merger in U.S. history because it would undercut unionized workers’ ability to successfully strike. |
