Teamsters

Patients Before Profits: 10,000 Teamsters Nurses Authorize Strike

March 20, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Health Care, Michigan, Nurses, Strikes, Teamsters, Unions

Detroit—After 16 months of contract negotiations and what workers describe as continued bad-faith tactics by Corewell Health, nearly 10,000 registered nurses (RN) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The nurses, members of Teamsters Local 2024, announced on Tuesday that nearly 90% of voting members supported the strike authorization. They hope to send a clear message to the Michigan healthcare conglomerate that they are prepared to walk off the job if a fair contract isn’t secured. The strike authorization does not mean a walkout is imminent, but it gives the union’s bargaining team the power to call one if negotiations continue to stall, the union said.

Iowa Nurses Join Teamsters In Hard-Fought Election Win

February 3, 2026 Belinda Carpenter, Labor Notes. Organize! Health Care, Nurses, Teamsters, Unions

In a hospital, there is always another patient waiting. As soon as one bed empties, another is filled. At UnityPoint in Des Moines, nurses were expected to keep that system running no matter the cost to our patients, to our licenses, or to ourselves. By 2024 our hospital systems were routinely over capacity, patient wait times were astronomical, and staffing was dangerously thin. Nurses were expected to do more with less, while executives continued to reward themselves. That pressure pushed UnityPoint nurses to do something unprecedented: organize ourselves and become Teamsters.

UNFI Warehouse Workers Say ‘No More’; Join Teamsters Local 745

January 2, 2026 Fight Back! News. Organize! Teamsters, Texas, Unions, Worker Rights

Lancaster, TX – At midnight on Friday, December 19, roughly 300 warehouse workers at United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) officially joined Teamsters Local 745, marking a major step forward in their fight for better conditions and real voice on the job. The vote reflects months of organizing and frustration, and it adds momentum to a growing wave of unionization among distribution and logistics workers. UNFI is one of the largest food distributors in the country and a key supplier for major retailers, including Amazon-owned Whole Foods.

Warehouse Workers At UNFI March On The Boss

November 23, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Teamsters, Texas, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Lancaster, TX – In a bold display of unity and shop-floor power, warehouse workers at United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) in Lancaster marched on management this past Monday, November 17, to deliver a clear message – they are forming a union, and they want it recognized now. The UNFI workers have been organizing to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 745. Workers from across the sprawling distribution center walked from the parking lot, across the floor together and confronted supervisors in their office, demanding immediate recognition of their union.

Teamsters Highlight Renewed Militancy At 50th Annual TDU Convention

November 16, 2025 Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. Organize! Democracy, Rank and File, Teamsters, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

At the 50th annual Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention, 550 Teamsters talked about building power in their workplaces, from UPS barns to school bus yards to the San Diego Zoo. They swapped tips on running for local union office and debated TDU’s strategic priorities. A major theme at the convention, held in Chicago November 7-9, was the union’s renewed militancy. Teamsters elected Sean O’Brien in 2021 to head the 1.3-million member union; the TDU-backed O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United slate ran under the slogan “new leadership and a new direction.”

TDU At Fifty: From Rank-And-File Rebels To Establishment Defenders

November 9, 2025 Dan La Botz, Counter Punch. Strategize! Rank and File, Teamsters, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Teamsters for a Democratic Union, which will be celebrating the group’s fiftieth anniversary at its convention being held in Chicago this November 7 to 9, has for decades been known as the voice of reform in the Teamsters Union. But this year there will be those inside and outside the convention hall challenging TDU’s direction and arguing that it has abandoned its ideal. At the center of the controversy is TDU’s support for Teamster president Sean O’Brien who is allied with President Donald Trump. Some Teamsters no longer see TDU as fighting for reform but rather as part of the establishment.

Indiana Teamsters Take Fight To UPS CEO Over Contract Violations

August 21, 2025 Fight Back! News. Resist! Indianapolis, Teamsters, Unions, UPS, Worker Rights

Indianapolis, IN – More than 60 members of Teamsters Local 135 rallied outside the UPS facility in Plainfield on Tuesday, August 19, as company UPS CEO Carol Tomé visited the site. The action put the company’s top executive face-to-face with UPS workers’ anger over rampant contract violations, illegal buyout schemes, and building closures that threaten job security and working conditions. “Local 135 has a simple message for Carol Tomé,” said Dustin Roach, president of Teamsters Local 135. “We're done tolerating corporate games and illegal practices.” The rally took place outside the UPS Plainfield hub, the largest in the Indianapolis metro area. Teamsters quickly raised a giant “greedy pig” inflatable, said to represent Tomé’s tenure as CEO, and carried signs reading “No way Tomé” and “UPS lies.”

Mauser Teamsters Strike Back

August 13, 2025 Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times. Resist! health, Strikes, Teamsters, Unions, Worker Rights

More than 100 Teamsters are on strike at the multinational Mauser Packaging Solutions plant in Chicago, where workers who recondition steel containers used to transport chemicals are demanding higher pay, safer working conditions, and contract language protecting immigrants. The unfair-labor-practice strike by members of Teamsters Local 705 started June 9 after the union says the company illegally surveilled workers while talking with union representatives. It comes on the heels of Mauser locking out 20 members of Teamsters Local 117 in Seattle in April and eventually closing the plant. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters extended picket lines to Los Angeles and Minnesota in June. Teamsters didn’t report to work, refusing to cross the picket line in support of workers in Chicago.

Minneapolis Teamsters Fight For Safety In Summer Heat

July 6, 2025 Sorcha Lona, Fight Back! News. Organize! Education, Extreme weather, Minnesota, Teamsters, Unions, UPS, Worker Rights and Jobs

Minneapolis – Local 638 Teamsters tabled at the northeast Minneapolis UPS hub on Thursday, July 3. They distributed flyers on heat safety and union contract enforcement. Drivers coming in, and warehouse workers leaving for the day, stopped to learn about their rights, grab some lemonade, and share experiences as temperatures reached the 90-plus range in Minneapolis. Inside the warehouse and inside package cars, temperatures are regularly five to ten degrees higher for workers. As the result of a months-long contract campaign and credible strike threat in 2023, UPS workers won strong contract language. This requires UPS to install 2500 new water fountains, 18,000 new warehouse fans, and 28,000 new or replacement delivery vehicles equipped with air conditioning over the life of the five-year contract.

Over 100 Mauser Teamsters Enter Fourth Week On Strike In Chicago

July 4, 2025 Eliza Schultz, Fight Back! News. Resist! Chicago, Illinois, Strikes, Teamsters, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Chicago, IL – On Wednesday July 2, around 100 striking workers joined the picket line outside Mauser Packaging Solutions Steel Drum Reconditioning plant in Chicago. The facility has sat closed, with the operation halted and the gates locked, for almost a month as a result of the strike called by Teamsters Local 705 due to unfair labor practices committed by Mauser during the negotiations for a new contract. “We are on an Unfair Labor Practice strike against Industrial Container Services (aka Mauser Packaging Solutions) after the company illegally surveilled union members. Members are also fighting for a contract that includes respectable wages, benefits, immigration protection and workplace stability language,” according to a public statement by the union.

How Rank-And-File Democracy Transformed The Teamsters And UAW

March 3, 2025 Michael J. Goldberg, Power At Work. Strategize! Democracy, History, Labor Movement, Rank and File, Teamsters, UAW, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

It’s well known in labor circles that the 2020’s opened with a tremendous resurgence of rank-and-file activism in the workplace. Beginning with 2021’s “Striketober” and sparked initially by the hardships of the pandemic and emboldened by the labor shortages that followed, that upsurge targeted union and nonunion workplaces alike. Among the collective bargaining breakthroughs in already unionized workplaces, two of the most important involved the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and the United Auto Workers (UAW). In 2023, the IBT won a historic contract with its largest employer, UPS, without having to follow through on its threat to strike.

How The Teamsters Tested Amazon

February 7, 2025 Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times. Organize! Amazon, Labor Movement, New York City (NYC), Strikes, Teamsters, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

New York City — At 6 a.m., a few days before Christmas, in the postindustrial neighborhood of Maspeth, 47 workers kick off a nationwide Teamsters strike against Amazon. Maspeth, a corner of Queens that two centuries ago boasted lumberyards, linoleum manufacturers and rope factories, is still a bastion of union pride. “The people are working-class and they respect the unions and belong to them, especially the uniform ones, like the firemen, cops and sanitation workers,” said a retired construction worker at a local pub in 2020’s The Queens Nobody Knows. But today, the uniforms increasingly seen around Maspeth sport Amazon’s signature “smiley swoosh” icon.

Amazon Extracts Profit From The Suffering Of Its Workers

January 9, 2025 People's Dispatch. Resist! Amazon, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Pickets, Strikes, Teamsters, Unions, United States, Worker Rights and Jobs

The week before Christmas, Amazon workers at facilities across the US, organized by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, took on the world’s most profitable third party logistics corporation by walking off the job by the hundreds. Although this pre-holiday strike represented a minority of the Amazon workforce, it represented the largest strike against Amazon in US history. Amazon’s profits keep breaking records, even within the context of a logistics industry that as a whole is experiencing a difficult freight market due to an oversupply of truck capacity.

Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power

December 25, 2024 Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times. Resist! Amazon, Strikes, Teamsters, Unions

Amazon workers picketed their employer over the weekend through blisteringly frigid weather and, in New York, a flooded sidewalk as part of an escalating series of strikes by a minority of workers across the logistics behemoth’s supply chain. These strikes, waged from coast to coast at nine warehouses across Amazon’s supply chain, are part of a nationwide movement to consolidate organizing at the logistics giant in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). In 2022, the Teamsters launched a division to support organizing at Amazon. The union now represents 5,500 workers at the hulking JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island

Marathon Oil Teamsters Strike

September 22, 2024 Keith Brower Brown and Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. Resist! Detroit, Michigan, Oil and Gas, Strikes, Teamsters, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

For the first time in 30 years, Teamsters at the Marathon oil refinery in Detroit are on strike. Close to 300 workers walked out September 4. Welders, firefighters, and heavy equipment operators in the union are demanding a raise that keeps up with cost of living, along with better hours. Above all, refinery Teamsters are trying to win a guarantee against outsourcing and to strengthen their union for the future. Although Michigan repealed its "right-to-work" law in 2022, Marathon managers are refusing a clause that requires every worker covered by the contract to pay their share, and they have aggressively expanded subcontracting with non-union labor.

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