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Teamsters Strike Billionaire Catsimatidis
Since April 19th, essential workers at United Metro Energy have been on strike. These workers provide gasoline, diesel, and heating oil to New York. Throughout the pandemic they continued to work...
Regulate Self Driving Cars
As technology changes, autonomous vehicles are becoming more prevalent. Tesla has a self-driving car, Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are all testing them, and Amazon has spent years talking about using drones...
Upcoming Teamsters Election Will Decide Amazon Organizing
In November one of the largest unions in the country, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, will be voting on a new International President. For the first time since 1998, James Hoffa will not...
Teamsters Notch Largest Ever Win Against CEO Pay
CEO pay has been ballooning in recent years as worker pay has stayed stagnant, leading to an increasing wage gap between the bosses and employees. Fed up with the high price of CEO’s pay, the...
Teamsters: Reunite Families
One of the largest unions in the Nation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has announced that they will be supporting an immigration bill to reunite families. The bill, known as the...
Which Unions Won or Lost in 2020
2020 was a tough year for workers. Work moved out of the office and into people’s homes, there was record unemployment especially in the travel industry, and some workers were put on the...
Workers Organize at Private Schools, Shred-it and Newspapers
When workers have a voice at work, they are able to better fight for their rights. That is what workers at the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse believe and why Amazon is fighting so hard to stop...
Deputy Labor Secretary Fought Slave Labor
During the process to select a new Labor Secretary, President Biden was given a plethora of good choices, including former union Presidents, organizers for the AFL-CIO, and people who had run state...
Organizing Wins from Hawaii to Iowa
Workers across the country organized throughout the pandemic and through the holidays to give themselves a voice at work. From healthcare workers to Teamsters to government contractors they are all...
Biden First 100 Days: Help Unions
With Joe Biden now becoming the President of the United States, unions are stepping up their effort to ensure that Biden is the most pro-union President in history. Some of these are things that...