News by subject: LBR

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif., extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in Massachusetts (DCB4) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will continue...

Workers at the California Dairies, Inc. Turlock South plant represented by Teamsters Local 386 are going on strike at midnight on Saturday, July 8, 2023. The action comes after the members overwhelmingly rejected the company's last, best and final...

ABF Freight, an ArcBest company , is pleased to report the new five-year ABF National Master Freight Agreement will be implemented on July 16, 2023, following the ratification this week of the two...

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is urging the B.C. Maritime Employers Association to return to the bargaining table and negotiate a fair deal that meets the needs of the almost 7,500 port workers represented by the International Longshore...

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif., extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in Connecticut (BDL3) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will continue...

Economic activity in the hospital subsector grew in June after one month of contraction preceded by 35 consecutive months of growth, say the nation's hospital supply executives in the latest Hospital ISM® Report On Business®. The report was issued...

Teamsters Local 251 is demanding that the Town of Tiverton stop stalling contract negotiations with its members who work in the Department of Public Works (DPW). In a letter to the Tiverton Town Council, the Teamsters raise deep concerns over union...

In the wake of Meta's threat to ban Canadian news on its platforms because of the Online News Act, Unifor is calling on all provincial and municipal governments to follow the federal and Quebec governments' announcements that they will stop...

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif., extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse (EWR5) outside of New York City today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will...

Unifor calls on the BC Maritime Employers' Association to bargain in good faith and negotiate a fair settlement with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. "Unifor is very familiar with the underhanded tactics used by employers at the ports...

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) workers represented by Teamsters Local 639 have overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first contract. The 240 WSSC workers provide safe drinking water and wastewater management for several cities in...

Patient Care Advocates and Dispensary Supervisors at Bloc Dispensary, a subsidiary of Justice Cannabis Company, have voted to join Teamsters Local 618. They are the first group of cannabis workers to unionize with the Teamsters in Missouri....

The Coordinated Bargaining Group, which represents 44 Los Angeles and Orange County-area hotels negotiating with UNITE HERE, Local 11, has filed Unfair Labor Practice Charges against the Union with the National Labor Relations Board. The bargaining...

1,400 workers at Encore Boston Harbor represented by Teamsters Local 25 and UNITE HERE Local 26 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract. Local 25 represents 200 workers in the warehouse, horticulture, and floral departments, as well as...

Eighty-one workers at Growpacker have organized with Teamsters Local 1932 in San Bernardino, Calif. The company is the largest bottling facility in the California cannabis industry, as well as one its the largest providers of supply chain,...

Economic activity in the services sector expanded in June for the sixth consecutive month as the Services PMI® registered 53.9 percent, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM® Report On Business®. The sector has...

Ahead of Labor Day on September 4, Union Plus is thrilled and proud to launch our annual Labor Day celebration, Unions Power America. Both the Unions Power America Contest and Unions Power America Sweepstakes honor our country's resilient and...

Stellantis and the federal and Ontario governments have reached an agreement that will see construction of the Windsor EV battery plant resume, preserving current and future jobs in Canada's auto manufacturing sector. "We knew the high stakes. We...

Fertilizer Canada is calling on the federal government to take immediate action to end the work stoppage at the West Coast ports. Canada exports 95 per cent of the potash we produce to global markets with the majority flowing through the Port of...

Forty-eight Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) members ? comprised of nurses, health-care professionals and clerical staff from the Rapids Family Health Team in Sarnia ? are entering conciliation talks today to try to reach a respectful contract and...

Around 4 a.m., UPS walked away from the bargaining table after presenting an unacceptable offer to the Teamsters that did not address members' needs. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously rejected the package....

Today, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) expresses serious concern regarding the damaging effects strikes taking place at ports across British Columbia are having on the mining industry and the broader Canadian economy. "B.C.'s ports play an...

Front-line hospital workers from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre delivered a petition to hospital management today, calling on the hospital president to take a stand against the provincial government's plan to privatize hospital services....

Nurses, health-care professionals and other staff from the Rapids Family Health Team will be picketing and distributing pamphlets this afternoon at Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey's constituency office....

Front-line nurses, medical lab technologists, healthcare aides, cleaners, clerical and other hospital staff from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre are rallying on Tuesday, July 4, committed to stopping Doug Ford's plan to contract out...

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

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif., extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino, Calif. (ONT5) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will...

ABF Freight System, Inc., a subsidiary of ArcBest Corporation , is pleased to report the new five-year ABF National Master...

Teamsters have overwhelmingly ratified a new national contract at ABF Freight, as well as 25 of 27 supplemental agreements. The two rejected supplements, the Southern Garage and the Western States Pickup & Delivery, reached new tentative agreement...

More than 800 resident physicians and fellows at Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium (LLUHEC) have won the right to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). This is the first unionized group of workers at...

Teamsters are celebrating the passage of Senate Bill 399 (SB399) out of the California Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment. The legislation bans mandatory attendance at "captive audience" meetings ? employer-held, closed-door gatherings where...

Parking ambassadors at the MGM National Harbor Hotel & Casino in Maryland have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 639....

Today, UPS ? under extraordinary pressure from the Teamsters to deliver a strong contract ? gave the union a revised counterproposal with significant movement on wages and other economic language. The company pleaded for the opportunity to continue...

Front-line nurses, medical lab technologists, healthcare aides, cleaners, clerical and other hospital staff from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre are rallying on Tuesday, July 4, committed to stopping Doug Ford's plan to contract out...

A group of 86 drivers at Pepsi Bottling Group LLC have voted to join Teamsters Local 988. "This is a perfect example of our union...

The ongoing efforts by...

Hydro One Inc. (Hydro One) is pleased to announce it has reached tentative settlements for two collective agreements with the Power Workers' Union (PWU) covering employees in front-line roles across the company's operations in Ontario....

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. [NYSE: SPR] ("Spirit AeroSystems"), welcomes today's ratification of a new four-year contract with members of Local Lodge 839 of the International Association of Machinists...

Transdev workers represented by Teamsters Local 542 at Copley Park Place in San Diego have voted to ratify a strong contract, ending their strike. These bus workers provide paratransit services for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS)....

Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers from Palmdale, Calif, extended their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in Newark, Calif. (OAK7/OAK5) today, to demand the e-commerce giant stop its unfair labor practices. The growing strike will...

UPS Teamsters will rally in Des Moines on Friday, June 30, as they enter the final month of national negotiations impacting more than 340,000 package delivery drivers and warehouse logistics workers across the country, including more than 4,000...

Unifor served the Detroit Three (D3) automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis notice to bargain today on behalf of 18,000 members whose collective agreements are set to expire in September 2023. "Unifor will open negotiations with the D3 at a...

Today, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Minister of Labour, and the Honourable Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport, issued the following statement regarding the collective bargaining negotiations between the British Columbia Maritime Employers...

Corrections officers at Belknap County Department of Corrections have voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 633. "Congratulations...

Some 30 members of Local 10004 of the Union of Safety and Justice Employees (USJE) demonstrated in front of the offices of their employer, C Division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to protest the withdrawal of the physical union office the...

As of 12:01 a.m. on June 28, 2023, Hydro Ottawa employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) began strike action. The collective agreement with the IBEW expired on March 31, 2023. Hydro Ottawa provided its...

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. [NYSE: SPR] ("Spirit AeroSystems"), today announced the contents of a new four-year contract proposal unanimously agreed to by the bargaining committee of the Local Lodge 839...

Windsor Salt is disappointed to report that on Monday, June 26, Unifor Local 1959, representing the Ojibway mine workers, collapsed negotiations for a new labour agreement that would have ended the approximately 132 days long strike. ...

Unifor has uncovered more contracting out of permanent, unionized jobs on the site simplyhired.ca, the fourth such discovery this year by the union. "Scott Moe needs to answer to SaskTel customers and the people of Saskatchewan: why the rush to...

The Teamsters Union categorically denies the baseless allegations made by Yellow Corporation in its frivolous lawsuit filed today....