News by subject: LBR

Thousands of hospital staff including nurses, personal workers and lab technologists at St. Joseph's Healthcare Centre Hamilton are taking action in an outraged response to the Ford government's plan to contract out hospital surgeries to private,...

Around 5,000 members of the Fédération des syndicats de l'enseignement and Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (APEQ-QPAT) took the streets to demand that the Quebec government lighten the burden before they burn out. Gathering in front of...

The Teamsters have filed a lawsuit against Republic Airways and Cape Air for unlawfully requiring pilots to sign employment contracts with non-compete clauses that impose penalties ranging from $100,000 to $250,000....

Allegiant and The Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO Local 577 announced they have reached a tentative agreement on all remaining open issues for the successor to the parties' first collective bargaining agreement....

Thousands of hospital staff including nurses, personal workers and lab technologists at St. Joseph's Healthcare Centre Hamilton are taking action in an outraged response to the Ford government's plan to contract out hospital surgeries to private,...

The Southwest Mountain States Regional Council of Carpenters (SWMSRCC) has added Western Washington, Oregon, and Alaska to the Council. This brings the SWMSRCC to twelve states total spanning from Alaska to the Mexican border. The Council's...

Yesterday, dozens of registered nurses (RNs) from the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute hand-delivered a petition to University Health Network's CEO, calling for an immediate stop to RN layoffs at the Toronto Rehab-Lyndhurst Centre and the recruitment...

Teamsters Local 777 has filed additional Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against Green Thumb Industries, the parent company of RISE dispensaries. The charges come after the workers embarked upon the longest ULP strike at a cannabis retailer in...

Gary Perinar, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Mid-American Carpenters Regional Council, was awarded Labor Leader of the Year by the Chicago and Western Lakes Port Council during a ceremony in Chicago on Tuesday. Perinar, who oversees 52,000...

The Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee (TNFINC) and ABF Freight System have tentatively agreed to terms for a new national contract....

A federal judge has found Canadian Pacific to be in contempt of court after the company forced train crews to work excessively long hours in violation of a court order to abide by the collective agreement and Transport Canada regulations. The...

Teamsters Local 683 members who provide transportation services in San Diego have voted by an overwhelming 95 percent to reject the latest subpar offer from Transdev. The workers have been on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike since May 16 and...

Economic activity in the hospital subsector contracted in May after 35 consecutive months of growth, say the nation's hospital supply executives in the latest Hospital ISM® Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Nancy LeMaster, MBA,...

Unifor General Motors members at Oshawa Assembly will build the next-generation of full-size internal combustion engine pickup trucks with the announcement today that GM will invest $280 million in the plant. ...

Nevada home care workers and their union announced that they won a...

Drivers and monitors at First Student in Santa Maria have voted to join Teamsters Local 986. The 58 bus workers provide student transportation for the Santa Maria-Bonita School District....

The Nevada Senate voted Monday evening to approve Assembly Bill 140, which makes Juneteenth a state holiday on June 19. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, celebrates the day in 1865 when many of the last enslaved people were emancipated. AB140...

In a historic vote last week, 220 Metroland Media Newspaper union members overwhelmingly voted YES to move forward and start the consolidation of their newspaper collective agreements. The process to achieve the Memorandum of Agreement began in early...

A Wescast Industries internal company memo obtained by Unifor says the Wingham foundry's overseas owners will not close the facility, a claim the union says is dubious....

Union Pacific Railroad reached an agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) to provide paid sick leave to the approximately 5,600 locomotive engineers employed by the railroad. Under the agreement, BLET members will...

Economic activity in the services sector expanded in May for the fifth consecutive month as the Services PMI® registered 50.3 percent, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®. The sector has...

Norfolk Southern Corporation and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers ? Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced today that they have reached an agreement with representatives for their final group...

The 902 nurses and healthcare professionals who work on the three campuses of Cambridge Health Alliance, and who are unionized with the Massachusetts Nurses Association, are speaking out against the hospital network's recent decision to lay off five...

Unifor is donating $50,000 to the Red Cross Nova Scotia and Atlantic Fires Relief fund to assist members, their families, friends and neighbours affected by the wildfires across the region....

Resolute Forest Products Inc. today announced the ratification of a four-year master labor agreement with the Unifor union covering 525 hourly employees at ten company woodlands in Quebec, following an agreement-in-principle reached on May 11.   "We...

Frontline nurses and healthcare workers at Sunrise, MountainView and Southern Hills Hospitals, all owned by HCA Healthcare, have won a major tentative agreement for a union contract that would help ensure retention, recruitment and recognition of...

York University Staff Association (YUSA) Unit 2 members will be holding a strike vote after the university proposes wage increases that would set their hourly pay below minimum wage. The workers' contract expired February 2022 and negotiations only...

Teamsters Local 533 is commending the signing of Assembly Bill 214 (AB 214) into state law by Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo. AB 214 will increase safety for transit workers by requiring transit authorities to save security footage for 10 days. It also...

Teamsters Local 683 members who provide transportation services in San Diego are calling on Transdev to return to the bargaining table to negotiate a fair contract. The workers have been on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike since May 16....

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) has launched a province-wide advertising campaign called 'Save Public Healthcare' to warn against the Ontario Conservative government's recent actions to expand private healthcare delivery....

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien on the Supreme Court's ruling today in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 174, which opens the door for corporations to sue...

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in May for the seventh consecutive month following a 28-month period of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®....

California Assembly Bill 316 (AB 316), a Teamster-supported bill that would require a trained human operator in autonomous vehicles weighing over 10,000 pounds, overwhelmingly passed the California State Assembly today with strong bipartisan support....

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien regarding the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023:...

Members of Teamsters Local 517 at Nutrablend ? the feed division of Land O'Lakes ? have voted unanimously to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement with their employer. The workers are responsible for producing animal feed....

More than 11,000 Unifor grocery store members are preparing to take on Canada's Big Three grocery giants, Loblaw, Metro and Sobeys, in upcoming contract negotiations. The front-line supermarket workers are seeking pay increases, benefit improvements...

Teamsters Local 322 members showcased their commitment to community service and camaraderie through their participation in the Legacy Initiative for Teamsters (LIFT) program. Last month, a group of dedicated Teamsters joined forces with Jacob's...

Today, the Teamsters are lauding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and members of the state legislature for enacting cannabis legalization into law....

The registered nurses of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ? Merrimack Valley, represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, will hold an informational picket on Friday, June 2 after calling in a federal mediator to help resolve negotiations in...

UMass Memorial Health, the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, has...

Wescast Industries' decision to close its foundry operations will devastate workers, families and the community of Wingham, where the facility has operated for more than a century, Unifor says....

OPSEU/SEFPO hospital professionals from Local 715 will be holding a rally on May 29 to speak out against healthcare privatization and to achieve fairness for hospital professionals. Today's rally will be one of numerous solidarity actions held across...

Allegiant  today announced that the company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), representing Allegiant dispatchers, have ratified a new contract agreement on a two-year extension to the union's initial collective bargaining...

Healthcare workers at LifeLong Medical Clinics have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike over management's attempts to silence them for trying to solve staffing and patient care problems, and to demand management bargain in good faith for solutions....

Today, Minister of Labour Seamus O'Regan Jr. wrapped-up a three-day visit in Mexico City where he engaged with Mexican officials, unions and stakeholders on labour reforms being implemented under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). He...

Following a three-day strike, bus workers at North Reading Transportation (NRT) have overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first Teamster contract. These bus workers are represented by Teamsters Local 170 and provide student transportation for...

A zoning appeal victory for the Teamsters Union has effectively stopped the expansion of autonomous (AV) carmaker Waymo following a unanimous vote by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The board agreed with the union's claim that the company had...

Feds for Medical Freedom has filed its third lawsuit this year seeking to hold government agencies and their leadership accountable for religious discrimination based on the persecution of workers with religious beliefs against vaccination for...

The following is a statement from Teamsters Freight Division Director John Murphy and Teamsters Carhaul Division Director Avral Thompson on a vote in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to approve HR 3372 and HR 2948, which raise...

Nearly 150 Z?m drivers and technicians represented by Teamsters Local 174 that provide school bus service for the Seattle School District (SSD) now sit at the precipice of a work stoppage after workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike....