News by subject: LBR

Baystate Health's decision to keep open the 22-bed mental health unit at Baystate Franklin Medical Center means nurses and other healthcare workers will be able to continue providing local, high-quality care close to patients' homes and support...

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and Union Pacific Railroad today announced a historic tentative agreement that enhances the quality of life for Union Pacific's locomotive engineers and their families by making it possible...

On Wednesday, May 24, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) workers and their allies will be holding a demonstration outside the CBS Brampton Collection and Processing site to demand fair treatment, better wages, and improvements in their working conditions....

Child protection workers, social service providers, and concerned community members are holding a Community Solidarity Rally in support of workers and youth and to raise the alarm about the lack of placements and appropriate treatment for children...

On Wednesday, May 24, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) workers and their allies will be holding a demonstration outside the CBS Brampton Collection and Processing site to demand fair treatment, better wages, and improvements in their working conditions....

Flight attendants at Sun Country Airlines who are represented by Teamsters Local 120 have voted overwhelmingly to reject their latest collective bargaining agreement with the carrier....

Norfolk Southern Corporation President and CEO Alan H. Shaw and leaders of 12 Norfolk Southern labor unions sent a joint letter Tuesday underscoring their shared goal of partnering together to drive continuous improvement in rail safety at the...

Child protection workers, social service providers, and concerned community members are holding a Community Solidarity Rally in support of workers and youth and to raise the alarm about the lack of placements and appropriate treatment for children...

The Teamsters are calling on shareholders of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. to support Item Six, a proposal that calls for the adoption of a non-interference policy in worker organizing efforts to prevent union busting at the company....

Ecopetrol S.A. informs that on May 22nd, 2023, it reached an agreement with the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The new Collective Bargaining Agreement will be retroactively effective from January 1st, 2023,...

Bus workers at North Reading Transportation (NRT) have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract. The Teamsters provide student transportation for Framingham Public Schools....

For over a week, 40 Teamster Carhaulers in Baltimore have been locked out at the CSX railhead in Annapolis Junction, Md. The lockout...

With every worker participating in the ratification vote, Teamsters Local 332 members at Alro Steel have voted by a two-to-one margin to approve their most recent collective bargaining agreement. The Teamsters are responsible for processing and...

Transdev workers represented by Teamsters Local 683 who provide transportation services for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) are on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike. While workers have been on the picket line since May 16,...

Workers at Tillamook Cheese represented by Teamsters Local 58 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their latest collective bargaining agreement....

Three hundred workers at Smart & Final Distribution Center in Riverside, Calif., have voted overwhelmingly, by a 4-1 margin, to join Teamsters Local 630 in Los Angeles. The California warehouse workers are seeking consistent standards, better health...

Bruce Power Local members of the Society of United Professionals voted an overwhelming 98.6% in favour of strike action if necessary to support meaningful bargaining and to reach a fair collective agreement. The contract for the 1,200-member local,...

The WestJet Group and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the certified union representing WestJet and Swoop pilots, today announced they have reached a tentative agreement on the second collective bargaining agreement between the organizations....

Transdev workers represented by Teamsters Local 683 who provide transportation services for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) are on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike....

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) and Alstom today reached a tentative agreement affecting over 850 workers who operate Toronto's commuter trains. Union members will begin voting next week to ratify the agreement. "We are pleased to...

Pensions, wages, transition plans as autoworkers shift to producing electric vehicles, and confirmation of new investment and product lines emerged as the bargaining priorities at the Unifor Special Auto Council, as the union prepares for upcoming...

The Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) is seeking legal intervener status in a dispute between CN Rail and the City of Sarnia over the cost of critical drainage work on CN property....

As the WestJet Group prepares for labour action by WestJet and Swoop pilots, the airline has started taking down its network. This action ensures the airline can avoid abandoning aircraft in remote locations without support and enables the proactive...

Teamsters Canada, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), and the Association du camionnage du Québec (ACQ) have joined forces to call for urgent federal action to put the brakes on the growing Driver Inc crisis in the country's trucking sector....

Supervisors employed by LAZ Parking at Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport have unanimously ratified their tentative agreement. It will include them in an existing contract with drivers, cashiers, maintenance, and lot inventory workers at...

Today, Flair Airlines, Canada's everyday low-fare airline, announced it has added extra flights between Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton beginning the holiday weekend. The airline hopes to help Canadians impacted by the WestJet pilots' strike embark...

Teamsters Canada, the largest union in Canada's trucking sector, along with trucking industry representatives and employers, will hold a press conference on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, to declare a crisis in Canada's trucking sector. This comes as Driver...

The WestJet Group today has issued a lockout notice to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the union that represents WestJet and Swoop pilots, in response to their strike notification. A work stoppage could occur as early as Friday, May 19, 2023,...

Lawmakers will hold a hearing at the State House on Tuesday, May 16 on legislation that would strengthen the penalties for assaulting a healthcare worker ? part of a comprehensive effort by nurses and healthcare professionals to address an epidemic...

Teamsters Canada, the largest union in Canada's trucking sector, along with trucking industry representatives and employers, will hold a press conference on Tuesday, May 15, 2023, to declare a crisis in Canada's trucking sector. This comes as Driver...

Workers at Blue Bird Corporation's Fort Valley, Ga., facility today voted to join the United Steelworkers union (USW), seeking a voice on the job so they can address urgent concerns including workplace health and safety, work-life balance and fair...

A reminder that the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its annual national food drive this Saturday, May 13. NALC's food drive, first held in 1993, helps feed millions of Americans....

Teamsters Local 777 members working at five different dispensaries owned by Verilife, a subsidiary of PharmaCann, have overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first collective bargaining agreements. The collective bargaining agreements combined will...

Thousands of healthcare workers at five HCA facilities in California have voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike to demand their employer stop the threats and intimidation, and bargain in good faith with them over short-staffing,...

Today, Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien announced that Airline Division International Representative Bob Fisher has been appointed Teamsters Airline Division Deputy Director. "Bob Fisher is motivated and unwavering in his dedication to our...

Teamsters Local 2010 members in the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Skilled Trades Unit reached their first-ever tentative agreement with the University of California (UC) this week, after two years of negotiations and dozens of worksite...

Today, the Government of Canada announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 104 for the Police Operations Support (PO) group. Upon ratification, it would apply to approximately 1,050...

The association representing UQAM's education students, ADEESE, and the union representing UQAM'S student employees, SÉTUE, denounce the CSQ's interference in their attempt to unionize school service centers interns. Through their interference,...

Southwest Airlines Pilots Association's (SWAPA) strike authorization vote has closed after just a week and half with 98% participation and 99% of pilots voting to authorize a strike. This historic vote from the pilot union was scheduled to run...

The Teamsters are endorsing the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which today got a hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. The bipartisan legislation will protect workers and improve public safety by...

The Teamsters are endorsing Destiny LeVere Bolling for the Virginia House of Delegates' 80th District. Bolling is currently the Virginia AFL-CIO Communications Director and also chairs the Virginia Conference NAACP's Labor and Industry Committee....

Amazon drivers and dispatchers picketed the company's Palmdale, Calif., delivery station this morning, protesting the company's low wages and total disregard for worker safety....

The NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots (NJASAP) hosted the largest informational picket in NetJets history this past Saturday outside the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders' Meeting in Omaha; NJASAP represents the 3,000-plus pilots who...

Workers in the custodial and plant services department at Richmond Public Schools have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 322....

Wage increases and benefits enhancements are highlights of a new collective agreement ratified today by members of Unifor Local 4304 working at Grand River Transit. "Unifor members in the transit sector have done a terrific job of serving the public....

Jan Simpson, the first Black woman to lead a National Union in Canada, has been re-elected to an historic second term as National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). This gives her a decisive mandate to take the Union forward as...

As nurses across the country celebrate National Nursing Week, members of the by the Ontario Nurses' Association are submitting thousands of signatures on a petition to the Ford government calling for better staffing, better wages and better care in...

Teamsters Local 145 members are demanding Mayor Mark Lauretti follow the law and honor their contract, after a state board awarded the Shelton municipal workers an agreement on March 29. The ruling grants workers better pay and working conditions....

The U.S. economy will continue to softly expand for the rest...

Toronto area OPSEU/SEFPO members will be at the Ontario Science Centre on Saturday, May 6th for an information picket and rally to #SaveTheScienceCentre. OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick will be onsite and available to speak to the media on behalf of...