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Amazon drivers and dispatchers voted unanimously to ratify their first union contract today, securing immediate safety protections and pay increases at the notoriously anti-worker company. The Teamster contract is the first union agreement covering...

Following successful lobbying and organizing efforts, the Teamsters are celebrating the defeat of an attempt by anti-union ideologues to remove the history of labor unions from the curriculum of Virginia Public Schools....

Norfolk Southern Corporation and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers ? Transportation Division (SMART-TD) announced Friday that they have reached a ground-breaking, system-wide tentative agreement. The...

With a contract expiring July 1 for nearly 50 public sector workers in Dubuque County, Teamsters Local 120 has spent the last several weeks negotiating a new deal for members. In a blow to these essential workers, the Dubuque County Board of...

Hundreds of Hospital Professionals represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) held rallies across Ontario on Thursday, April 27 to speak out against Bill 60, the Ford government's healthcare privatization bill....

The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) is responding to three recent arbitration decisions stemming from the overturn of Bill 124 by expressing frustration, noting that the resulting wage adjustments are not nearly enough to retain and recruit...

Bill C-228, a private members' bill that gives pension plan members super-priority during plan windups and bankruptcy proceedings received royal assent. "This change has been many years in the making. I'm glad to see lawmakers in both chambers say...

Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada are ramping up the pressure on the government by adding a picket location in the Fraser Valley. Negotiations between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and Treasury Board have ground to a halt. The...

Today, Jan Simpson, President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), called upon the federal government to stop the stonewalling and get back to the bargaining table. It must present a new offer that meets the needs of the workers...

The Florida House of Representatives voted yesterday to pass SB 256, which increases union transparency and changes how union dues are collected for public employees.  Workers for Opportunity has spearheaded this collaborative effort with teachers,...

Windsor Salt Ltd. has confirmed with Windsor Police that at approximately midnight last night, three masked individuals armed with baseball bats unlawfully entered the Company's Ojibway mine facility. The armed trespassers brutally ambushed one of...

Hospital Professionals represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) will be holding rallies on Thursday, April 27 to speak out against the threat that Bill 60 poses to the regulation of their professions and the safe...

Hospital Professionals represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) will be holding rallies on Thursday, April 27 to speak out against the threat that Bill 60 poses to the regulation of their professions and the safe...

The United Steelworkers union (USW) today filed unfair labor practice charges against Blue Bird Corporation, alleging the bus manufacturer's management broke the law in trying to dissuade workers from forming a union....

Please find below a statement from the President of the Treasury Board: Two days ago, I issued an open letter on our efforts to negotiate agreements that are fair and reasonable. We have been working around the clock, as you know, to land a deal...

Members of Unifor Local 4304 could go on strike Monday, May 1 if a new contract cannot be negotiated before midnight on April 30, 2023. "Transit operators were on the front lines of the pandemic and maintenance staff made sure the busses were...

Today, Teamsters Local 777 announced that they have reached tentative agreements for workers at five different dispensaries owned by Verilife, a subsidiary of PharmaCann, in Chicagoland. The collective bargaining agreements combined will cover more...

The following is a statement from Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien and Teamsters Motion Picture Division Director Lindsay Dougherty regarding negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and...

The union organizing campaign at the Amazon facility in Nisku is heating up again, with Teamsters Local Union 362 at the forefront. There will be an organizing rally and BBQ in front of the Amazon facility on Wednesday to drum up support. Members of...

Héroux-Devtek Inc. ("Héroux-Devtek" or the "Corporation"), a leading international manufacturer of aerospace products and the world's third-largest landing gear manufacturer, announced today that the unionized employees of its Longueuil, Québec,...

Without immediate action to retain and recruit more registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals in Ontario, the permanent closure of the emergency department (ER) at the Minden site of Haliburton Highlands Health Services is a preview of...

The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers proudly endorses President Joe Biden's run for reelection to a second presidential term. The endorsement comes as President Biden continues to hold true to...

Southwest Airlines Co.  and the Transport Workers Union Local 550 (TWU 550) today announced that they reached a Tentative Agreement for the airline's Meteorology Employees. "This agreement rewards our Meteorologists for their expertise and many...

Workers in the fixed collections units at the American Red Cross facilities in Greensboro and Winston-Salem have voted to join Teamsters Local 391. This is the fifth organizing victory at a Red Cross facility in North Carolina in the last 60 days....

Teamsters Local 667 members at Republic Services voted unanimously on April 22 to ratify a new contract that will provide workers with wage increases of up to 28 percent an hour over the life of the five-year agreement. The 88 drivers went on strike...

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....

The union organizing campaign at the Amazon facility in Nisku is heating up again, with Teamsters Local Union 362 at the forefront. There will be an organizing rally and BBQ in front of the Amazon facility on Wednesday to drum up support. Members of...

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

Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada are ramping up the pressure on the government by adding two picket locations in Metro Vancouver. VancouverWhere: 3333 New Brighton Rd. Vancouver - Viterra Cascadia TerminalWhen: April 24, beginning...

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 505 (ILWU Local 505) is pleased to announce the construction of a new Union Hall in downtown Prince Rupert, thanks to the support and partnership of the B.C. Maritime Employers Association...

Registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals in many locations across the province are out in their communities today, asking the public to support them and join in their fight for better care....

The Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference (TCRC) and Canadian National (CN) have successfully reached a tentative agreement. The agreement must now be voted on by approximately 6,000 locomotive engineers, conductors, and yard workers employed by the...

One hundred school bus drivers of Autobus Campeau affiliated with Local 106 of the Teamsters Union have voted in favour of a strike, which could begin on May 1, 2023. These drivers provide school transportation for the Draveurs School Services...

Registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals in multiple cities across Ontario will be out on Sunday to ask the public for support in calling on hospital CEOs to settle a better contract with 60,000 public hospital nurses and health-care...

Government investment in the clean economy, including electric vehicle production, is necessary to secure good paying jobs and a prosperous future for Canada's auto sector says Unifor....

When: Thursday, April 20 at 12:15 pm Where: Outside Main Legislative, Queen's Park, Toronto What: Hundreds of frontline hospital professionals and allies gather at the Ontario legislature to show their anger at the Ford government's policies that are...

Teamsters at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have secured their very first contract following a two week-long strike and 10 months of negotiations. Workers unanimously voted to ratify the contract....

Teamsters Local 777 members at three Rise dispensaries (a subsidiary of Green Thumb Industries, or GTI) in Chicagoland walked off the job today at 4:20 p.m. CT to begin an open-ended unfair labor practice (ULP) strike....

Teamsters Canada, the country's largest transportation union and largest union in the federally regulated private sector, today expressed its support and solidarity with striking members of the federal public service and their union, the Public...

Another 253 school bus drivers represented by Teamsters Local Union 106 have voted to authorize strike action in a move that may disrupt school bus service in the coming days. Among them, 56 drivers work on the South Shore of Montreal, while 197...

Over the last few months, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has made every reasonable effort to avoid a labour disruption affecting important services that Canadians rely on, especially during tax season. However, despite some ongoing movement at the...

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is concerned about the impact of a strike started by over 150,000 federal public service workers today, including Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers. A strike by the CRA's unionized workers, in...

Workers at three Rise dispensaries (a subsidiary of Green Thumb Industries) in the Chicagoland area are engaging in an open-ended unfair labor practice (ULP) strike tomorrow, April 19, at 4:20pm. It is the first time in the history of Illinois ? and...

Last April, more than 200 physician coroners across Ontario participated in a union certification vote. After a year of lengthy legal delays, the ballot boxes were opened, and the results are in: Ontario coroners voted 96 per cent in favour of...

The Teamsters National Negotiating Committee, including rank-and-file members and representatives of all supplemental negotiating committees, met with UPS in Washington, D.C., on April 17. ...

Norfolk Southern Corporation announced Monday that it has partnered with leaders of another labor union to provide additional craft employees the ability to take up to seven days of paid sick leave per year. In total, ten of Norfolk Southern's...

On April 2, 2023, the Government of Canada and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) started two weeks of mediated negotiations for the EB (Education and Library), PA (Program and Administrative), SV (Operational Services) and TC (Technical...

Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien, UPS Teamsters, and local leaders from throughout Southern California rallied at Teamsters Local 952 in Orange, Calif., on April 15, as the union gears up for negotiations on a new contract protecting more...

The United Steelworkers union (USW) today called for testing and cleaning in paper mills across the industry after a blastomycosis outbreak killed one worker and sickened more than 90 others at a facility in Escanaba, Mich....

Workers at the Portillo's Food Services in Addison voted today to be represented by the Ironworkers Union. This vote marks the first location of nearly 80 nation-wide to unionize. Workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board...