Contract Negotiations

Teamsters Contract At Republic Services Expiring With No Deal In Sight

October 1, 2026 Fight Back! News. Organize! Contract Negotiations, Los Angeles, Sanitation Workers, Teamsters, Worker Rights

Los Angeles, CA – On Sunday, September 20, a group of 30 rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union met at Magic Johnson Park in South LA. The Teamsters work for Republic Services and met to discuss strike preparedness for their upcoming contract expiration. On September 30, the union contracts of roughly 3000 Teamsters Local 396 sanitation employees across different companies and yards will expire. These Teamsters haul waste across a large geography of cities in LA County, Orange County and the Inland Empire.

12,000 Starbucks Workers Call For Boycott Of Law-Breaking Coffee Chain

August 27, 2026 Julia Conley, Portside. Resist! boycott, Contract Negotiations, Starbucks, Unions, Worker Rights

Starbucks workers who have joined the unionizing effort that started in Buffalo, New York in 2021 and has spread to over 700 stores across the country called on all working people to show solidarity by boycotting the coffee chain, which has refused to finalize a union contract and has been accused of hundreds of labor violations. “What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17 per hour wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections,” said Starbucks Workers United (SWU) Tuesday. “Every year, our living costs rise, but our wages don’t keep up—a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country.”

Should A Union Contract Run Eight Years?

August 12, 2026 Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. Strategize! Contract Negotiations, John Deere, Unions, United Auto Workers (UAW), Worker Rights

The agricultural machinery maker John Deere tested the mettle of the United Auto Workers this summer, probing for softness as the union heads into a leadership election this month. After fits and starts the union essentially told Deere to stick it. As promised, though, members will vote on Deere’s proposal on August 23. Deere wants to extend its six-year contract to eight years. The current pact for 10,000 workers at nine Midwestern plants expires October 31, 2027—six months before the union’s deals with the Big 3 automakers are up on May 1, 2028.

Warehouse Workers Approve Collective Bargaining Agreement With Walmart

August 6, 2026 Luis Martinez, People's World. Strategize! Canada, Contract Negotiations, Unions, Walmart, Worker Rights

Mississauga, Canada—In a historic moment for organized labor, 800 Walmart workers at a warehouse in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga voted overwhelmingly to approve their first-ever collective bargaining agreement with the retail giant. The workers are members of Unifor Local 252, and their vote marks the first time that a union contract has been reached with Walmart anywhere in North America. The contract vote, which passed with 93% approval, caps a nearly two-year organizing drive at the Walmart facility. Workers here first voted to unionize in 2024.

Employers Stall Labor Contracts for Years; A New Bill Could Change That

August 2, 2026 Keyian Vafai, Portside. Create! Congress, Contract Negotiations, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Unions, Worker Rights

When a fed-up bunch of baristas in Buffalo, New York, organized the first-ever Starbucks union in December of 2021, excitement rippled through the labor movement. Precarious fast-food workers around the country wondered if corporate goliaths like Starbucks and Chipotle, which employ hundreds of thousands of workers without a union contract, could be brought to the bargaining table. Not so fast, they learned. Although Starbucks Workers United’s numbers have grown to more than 12,000 workers at almost 700 locations across 45 states in the nearly five years since the 27 Starbucks workers at Buffalo’s Elmwood Avenue branch first unionized, not a single one of those shops has won a union contract.

Striking Oxfam Workers Stage ‘Big Head’ Action

July 17, 2026 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble.ca. Resist! Canada, Contract Negotiations, Oxfam, Unions, Worker Rights

Striking Oxfam Canada workers staged a “Big Head” protest on July 8 as their strike surpassed its fourth week. The “Big Head” action is an Oxfam speciality, according to Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 2722 president Lisa Gunn. The protest action involves making a giant sculpture of a leader’s head and using it to draw attention to and expose the misdeeds of the person depicted. “Usually it’s leaders of the G20 or the large presidents, prime ministers of the U.S., Canada, France and other big, powerful countries. It’s a way to draw attention to the demands that Oxfam asks at these things, which are all around equality, justice and gender rights,” Gunn said in an interview with rabble.ca.

Bring Member Power To The Table By Opening Up Bargaining

June 3, 2026 Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. Organize! Contract Negotiations, Rank and File, Transparency, Unions

Since electing new leadership in 2022, Teamsters Local 135 in Indiana has completely changed the way it conducts negotiations. It’s using open bargaining to revitalize the local. Under the previous leadership, a small bargaining team negotiated behind closed doors. Gag orders ensured that members would know nothing about negotiations until an agreement was presented for a vote. “It would be the business agent and a couple of stewards,” says business agent Robert Doolin, who started out in 1998 at a warehouse that supplies Kroger. “I always hated this. The company would always try to put a gag order on negotiations.”

Auto Parts Workers Say ‘No Axles, No Trucks!’

May 22, 2026 Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. Resist! Auto Workers, Contract Negotiations, Unions, Worker Rights

Axles are to vehicles what joints are to human bodies: the mechanism that facilitates movement. For parts worker Rosie Dodge, who has worked on a paint line for American Axle & Manufacturing for 10 years, the metaphor is embodied in the work environment. “They just do not treat us like people,” Dodge said. “We are often referred to as bodies, like they don’t even want to give us credit for having a pulse. They do what they call ‘manpower moves,’ and they say, ‘We just need bodies over here.’” United Auto Workers Local 2093 members at American Axle, a parts supplier for the Big 3 automakers, in Three Rivers, Michigan, are in gear after authorizing a strike in a 98 percent vote ahead of their May 31 contract expiration.

Starbucks Is Bargaining Backwards, Baristas Say

April 16, 2026 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Resist! Contract Negotiations, Starbucks, Starbucks Workers, Unions

Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon issues. “They're trying to move backwards on issues we've already settled instead of settling the few that we have left,” said Mina Leon, a barista in downtown Manhattan who struck for two months to get the company back to the table. “These were not small details, these were things that we had already fought for and won after months in bargaining in 2024,” said Jasmine Leli, a Buffalo, New York, barista and member of the Starbucks Workers United bargaining team.

Rural Kentucky Tenants Win Unprecedented Lease Agreement

April 16, 2026 Thomas Birmingham, In These Times. Strategize! Contract Negotiations, Kentucky, Renter Rights, Tenant Union

When yet another air conditioner in her apartment building broke down in early March, Heather Myatt braced herself and began her usual beeline for the property manager’s office. For more than a year, Myatt and her neighbors have been waging a war to secure long-overdue repairs at Maple Grove Apartments, an income-restricted building in Brandenburg, Ky. Being ignored had become routine for the tenants of Maple Grove; last summer, an elderly resident whose AC had been broken for two years, despite regular complaints to the building’s landlord, reportedly collapsed from the heat.

Letter Carriers Are Gearing Up For Another Contract Fight

March 5, 2026 Derek Dolbeare, Labor Notes. Organize! Contract Negotiations, Postal Workers, Unions, US Postal Service

Members of the Letter Carriers (NALC) have kicked off their next contract fight. Negotiations began February 25, and their current agreement expires in May. On Sunday, February 22, letter carriers held rallies across the U.S. as part of their “Fight Like Hell” campaign. By calling the national day of action, union leaders are responding to a simmering ground-up effort by members demanding a real contract campaign and more transparent bargaining. In past years members didn’t play much role, or get much information, until it was time to vote on a tentative agreement. But the success of a grassroots “vote no” movement last time made the union take notice.

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Get Their First Union Contract

February 26, 2026 Stephen Bisaha, Portside. Resist! Contract Negotiations, Tennessee, The South, UAW, Unions, Worker Rights

It's been a long road to this contract. Workers initially voted twice against joining the union before casting ballots in favor in 2024, making this VW plant one of the few to unionize in the South, and the rare one that's not a member of the "Big 3" auto companies: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. That was nearly two years ago and negotiations have dragged on since, with workers at one point granting the union the ability to call a strike if necessary. But contract talks were resolved in early February when the UAW and Volkswagen struck a tentative agreement, which the workers have now voted to approve, with 96% of them voting yes.

Forcing The Boss To Bargain—Even When They Don’t Have To

February 17, 2026 Carlos Perez and Allison Swaim, Labor Notes. Strategize! Collective bargaining, Contract Negotiations, Labor Movement, Worker Rights

North Carolina is one of six states that prohibit collective bargaining for public school staff. But unionized workers in two school districts have built enough bottom-up power to force their employers to “meet and confer,” a non-binding form of negotiation. Labor Notes’ Ellen David Friedman talked with Carlos Perez and Allison Swaim of the Durham Association of Educators, representing 5,000 teachers and classified staff. Ellen David Friedman: Durham is one of two districts in North Carolina that have achieved “meet-and-confer” status. How did you do it?

Portland Grocery Workers Score Big First Contract Win

January 23, 2026 Johanna Brenner, Labor Notes. Organize! Contract Negotiations, Grocery Workers, Oregon, Unions

Workers at the upscale grocery chain New Seasons have won a first contract, after more than three years of organizing. The contract covers 850 workers at the 10 stores in Portland, Oregon, that have joined the New Seasons Labor Union. The chain has 22 stores in Portland and Vancouver, Washington. The union won major raises. The lowest-paid members will see an immediate raise of 16.5 percent. More than 95 percent of members will make more than $20 an hour, with the median wage rising to $23.37. New hires will start at a minimum of $19, which will rise with annual cost-of-living adjustments.

Privatize USPS? Mail Carriers Have A Better Idea

December 18, 2025 Mel Buer, In These Times. Strategize! Contract Negotiations, Privatization, Unions, US Postal Workers

This week, we’re taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-long contract negotiation with the U.S. Postal Service. In our episode today, I’m sitting down with Melissa Rakestraw, member of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 825 in Chicago, IL, to discuss the state of negotiations with our nation’s letter carriers, the unprecedented rejection of the recent tentative agreement and what happens next, and what would happen if the U.S. Postal Service was privatized.

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