News by subject: LBR

DHL Express Teamsters rallied today near the global shipping company's massive operations at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) to demand safer working conditions. CVG workers united in solidarity and shared their experiences with the...

Unifor Local 1106, representing nearly 1,400 dedicated health care workers at Grand River Hospital, is calling on hospital management and the Board of Directors to recognize and fairly compensate its frontline heroes....

A new five-year contract extension reached between the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council (MACRC) and the Mid-America Regional Bargaining Association (MARBA) includes record compensation increases for union carpenters working in the Chicagoland...

Following a legislative session where he vetoed a multitude of bills that would have improved worker's rights, occupational safety, and financial security for the middle class, the Teamsters are condemning California Gov. Gavin Newsom for making life...

Unifor members working for the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation are ready to strike as of midnight on Saturday, October 21, 2023, which would effectively shut down transit through the Seaway. This drastic decision follows the issuance of a...

The Teamsters resumed national negotiations this week with Anheuser-Busch for a new contract covering 5,000 Teamster brewery workers nationwide....

Problems with nurse staffing, recruitment, and retention plaguing both facilities What:        An informational picket by the dedicated and hardworking MNA nurses at bothSteward Holy Family Hospitals. Other attendees will include local...

Unifor will officially begin talks with Stellantis on October 18, 2023 and has set a strike deadline for October 29 at 11:59 p.m. "Our union is looking forward to this next, and final round of talks with the Detroit automakers to secure the terms...

Teamsters are taking part in a National Day of Action today in support of nearly 700 Chedraui/Smart & Final workers in Southern California. More than 50 Teamsters locals are leafleting customers at Chedraui-owned stores throughout the country to...

What:        An informational picket by the dedicated and hardworking MNA nurses at both Steward Holy Family Hospitals. Other attendees will include local supporters, community leaders, neighbors, families, and friends. When:     ...

Registered nurses who care for patients at Framingham Union Hospital will hold a banner outside Framingham City Hall on Tuesday, October 17 starting at 4 p.m. to shine a public light on their advocacy for patient safety and professional respect as...

On Friday, Detroit Medical Center (DMC) workers rallied outside of Harper University Hospital to demand a fair contract. Teamsters Local 283 represents DMC's lab assistants and customer service representatives....

Retirement home workers from OPSEU/SEFPO Local 332 will rally in Alliston on Monday, October 16 to demand a living wage from Aspira Kingsmere Retirement Living, owned by for-profit giant Sienna Senior Living, which charges residents thousands per...

Unifor members at General Motors (GM) have voted to ratify the pattern agreement by 80.5%. "I am proud of our members at General...

Material Specialists at Southwest Airlines have ratified their most recent collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters. The agreement covers more than 500 workers who provide supplies and other support services to the fleet maintenance team....

Route service representatives at Quest Diagnostics in Tucker have voted to join Teamsters Local 728. "These workers overcame an...

Amazon drivers picketed an Amazon warehouse in Riverside today as the company ships orders from its busy Prime Day promotion. The picket at the DJT6 warehouse is just the latest in a three-month strike by drivers from the company's DAX8 delivery...

Retirement home workers from OPSEU/SEFPO Local 332 will rally in Alliston on Monday, October 16 to demand a living wage from Aspira Kingsmere Retirement Living, owned by for-profit giant Sienna Senior Living, which charges residents thousands per...

October 13, 2023 Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are pleased to jointly announce that in the early hours of October 13, 2023, we reached a tentative agreement for a renewed National Agreement, bringing the nearly seven...

SEIU Healthcare, a union representing over 60,000 frontline healthcare workers in Ontario, is disappointed that as frontline healthcare workers continue to struggle?economically and with unsafe jobs?that no concrete immediate action resulted from the...

On Monday, October 16, 2023, representatives of the Union of Safety and Justice Employees will visit the Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECIP) in La Ronge, Saskatchewan - Treaty 6 Territory, Traditional Land of the Woodland Cree and Homeland of...

After a year of unproductive negotiations with Sun Country Airlines (SCA), the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) has requested that the National Mediation Board (NMB) appoint a federal mediator to oversee the bargaining process. If...

Detroit Medical Center (DMC) lab assistants and customer service representatives with Teamsters Local 283 will rally on October 13 to demand a fair contract. DMC Teamsters will be joined by elected officials, labor allies, and other Michigan...

Forest fire workers represented by OPSEU/SEFPO are calling out Graydon Smith, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, for false statements made during a closed-door news conference in Timmins that shut out frontline forest fire workers....

Today, 38 construction workers from the Philippines filed a complaint against the U.S. companies Jacobs Solutions and CH2M Hill and their subsidiaries (collectively, "Defendants") for allegedly managing construction projects that used trafficked and...

Amazon drivers picketed an Amazon warehouse in Los Angeles County today as the company ships orders from its busy Prime Day promotion. The picket at DPS2 is just the latest in a three-month strike by drivers from the company's DAX8 delivery station...

Members of Unifor Local 4212 and Local 4323 in Ontario and 4320 in Quebec working for the St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation voted 99% in favour of a strike should negotiations not result in a deal by the October 21, 2023 strike deadline....

The Teamsters, in collaboration with community groups and concerned citizens, joined forces to protest the launch of Waymo self-driving cars in Los Angeles County at the Third Street Promenade on Wednesday. The rally comes in response to mounting...

Unifor and General Motors have reached a tentative agreement following strike action at Oshawa Assembly Plant, St. Catharines Powertrain Plant and Woodstock Parts Distribution Centre....

The shortage of education professionals in English-language schools and centres is having an impact on student services, as prevention becomes difficult and staff can only intervene in the most urgent cases....

California Teamsters are endorsing Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in the race for U.S. Senate. "Adam Schiff supported us on...

The Syndicat des professionnelles et professionnels du milieu de l'Éducation de Montréal (SPPMEM-CSQ), the Syndicat des professionnelles et professionnels de l'Ouest de Québec anglophone (SPPOQA-CSQ) and the Fédération des professionnelles et...

Unifor members began strike action at General Motors at midnight. "This strike is about General Motors stubbornly refusing to meet the pattern agreement. The company knows our members will never let GM break our pattern ? not today ? not ever,"...

The Syndicat des professionnelles et professionnels du milieu de l'Éducation de Montréal (SPPMEM-CSQ), the Syndicat des professionnelles et professionnels de l'Ouest de Québec anglophone (SPPOQA-CSQ) and the Fédération des professionnelles et...

Nearly all essential medical personnel at St. Francis Medical Center will walk out at 6:30 a.m. on Monday, October 9, to join the strike lines against Prime Healthcare (which owns hospitals in fourteen states), where they will march, picket,...

Southwest Airlines Co.  announced today that its Material Specialists, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, ratified a new collective bargaining agreement.   "Our Material Specialists support the Safety and integrity of our...

Economic activity in the hospital subsector grew in September after contracting in August, the second time in the previous five months, with 35 consecutive months of growth prior to that, say the nation's hospital supply executives in the latest...

Ontario nurses say it's time Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government deliver on their promise to create a national pharmacare program. In an open letter addressed to the prime minister, the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO)...

Unifor has released its own Air Transportation Workers' Charter of Rights asserting that the actions taken by the federal government and airport authorities to solve travel chaos are not enough to solve the root of the problem? inadequate working...

Amidst an alarming rise in job vacancies, unprecedented ER closures, and thousands of patients dying waiting on surgical wait-lists, three major unions representing about 70,000 workers in Ontario's hospital sector signed a Solidarity Pact to Save...

As Airline Captains, First Officers, Line Check Pilots, Mentors and Passengers, we have witnessed a concerning and significant rise in close call aviation incidents in 2023. The safety of commercial airline travel has been...

The registered nurses at Beth Israel Lahey Anna Jaques Hospital (AJH), who are currently in contract talks with hospital management, cast an overwhelming "yes" vote (99...

World Teachers' Day is celebrated yearly on October 5. Tomorrow's celebrations, though, will be taking place against a backdrop of glaring teacher shortages. The Fédération des syndicats de l'enseignement and the Quebec Professional Association of...

The Society of United Professionals, IFPTE Local 160, and the Electrical Safety Authority have reached an agreement to renew their collective agreement. The Society-represented safety professionals voted to ratify the agreement yesterday, thereby...

SEIU Healthcare, the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions-CUPE (OCHU-CUPE), and Unifor will be holding a press conference at Queen's Park to announce a pledge of solidarity to save our hospitals from austerity pursued by the Ontario Hospital...

The Ontario Energy Association (OEA) presented the 2023 Ontario Energy Awards to celebrate and profile the accomplishments of Ontario's energy sector over the past year at the 2023 Ontario Energy Conference....

Economic activity in the services sector expanded in September for the ninth consecutive month as the Services PMI® registered 53.6 percent, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®. The sector...

World Teachers' Day is celebrated yearly on October 5. Tomorrow's celebrations, though, will be taking place against a backdrop of glaring teacher shortages. The Fédération des syndicats de l'enseignement and the Quebec Professional Association of...

First Student workers in New London have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 493. The 67 bus operators, monitors, and aides provide transportation services for the New London School District....

The following is a statement from Peter Finn, Teamsters Western Region International Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 856, in response to news that a pedestrian was found underneath a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) with...