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May 3, 1886
Four striking workers are killed, at least 200 wounded, when police attack a demonstration on Chicago’s south side at the McCormick Harvesting Machine plant. The Haymarket Massacre would take place the following day. 
~Labor Tribune
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Updated: May. 03 (20:04)

Notice of Hearing
Teamsters Local 997
US Union Members See Record Pay Raises, Outpacing Nonunion Workers
Teamsters Local 355
Union Night at Soldier Field
District Council 4
US Union Members See Record Pay Raises, Outpacing Nonunion Workers
Teamsters Local 992
Jeff Cooper Becomes New President of Joint Council 94
Teamsters Local 89
UPS Shop Steward Training
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   Local and National Union News

Teamsters, members of Congress take on Amazon safety crisis

May 3, 2024 | Teamsters leaders and Amazon workers joined with Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Tina Smith (D-MN) today to announce the introduction of The Warehouse Worker Protection Act in the U.S. Senate that would hold Amazon accountable for its dangerous safety practices and abusive production quotas. A bipartisan House version of the bill will also be introduced in the coming weeks. Learn more.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May 1, 2024 | During this month, the Teamsters reaffirm our commitment to prioritizing mental health as we continue the fight to improve our members’ health care and wellbeing. We are dedicated to helping create a society that recognizes the importance of mental health, reduces stigma, and provides accessible, compassionate, and evidence-based support and resources for everyone.

Reminder: Contract enforcement training webinar

Apr. 26, 2024 | Don't forget to register for this Sunday's UPS Teamsters national contract enforcement training webinar. Join the Teamsters Package Division and the Teamsters Training and Grants Department on Sunday, April 28, to learn about new restrictions on SurePost and combatting feeder subcontracting. All UPS locals, business agents, and rank-and-file UPS Teamsters are encouraged to participate in this virtual training. Let’s protect Teamsters' jobs! Register now here.

Biden Administration issues final ruling on silica dust exposure

Apr. 24, 2024 | On Tuesday, April 16, the Labor Department finally issued rules regarding worker exposure to silica dust. The exposure limit has now been lowered, and metal and nonmetal mine operators must put in place medical surveillance programs. Silica dust is linked to many respiratory illnesses, some of which are terminal. These include silicosis, lung cancer, black lung disease, and more. Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su said the health hazards have been known for decades. Learn more here.

Teamsters Local 992 endorses Lesley Lopez

Apr. 19, 2024 | “Lesley is a Democratic representative who is currently serving her second term in the Maryland General Assembly. She is running for election to represent Maryland’s Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives to fight for the rights of every working family. After observing Lesley’s commitment to public service, I am confident she is the ideal candidate for the 6th Congressional District.” Read the rest of the endorsement here, and please join Secretary-Treasurer Tom Krause in supporting Lesley Lopez.

Older news items are posted at 992 News.
  Elsewhere in the News

US Union Members See Record Pay Raises, Outpacing Nonunion Workers

May 3, 2024 | WAGES | Unionized workers in the US saw record raises, while nonunion workers’ pay barely beat inflation over the past 12 months, the latest government data show. Wages of private sector union workers rose 6.3% in the year ended in March, the largest increase in data back to 2001, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics employment cost figures released Tuesday. Meanwhile, nonunion workers in the private sector saw a 4.1% bump in their salaries over the past 12 months, not much higher than inflation. Bloomberg News

May Day is A Rust Belt Holiday

May 1, 2024 | LABOR HISTORY | (Click image to enlarge) When forty-thousand workers marched down Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in 1886, their platform was the slogan “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what you will,” coincidentally the same as the number of strikers who would be killed in the coming melee, half of them shot in Haymarket Square and the other half executed following a sham trial. The first of May, which long had resonance as a celebration of spring in many of the countries of origin for immigrant labor, had been idealistically set two years before by vote of the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions as the date by which an eight-hour work day would be standardized. Protests for that May 1st, followed by a general strike, were organized throughout the northeast and the Midwest; in Chicago, the former occurred peacefully, until at the conclusion of what would be the day’s first shift, the police fired into a group of fighting workers and scabs, murdering two of the former… BELT Magazine

A Great Week for American Workers

Apr. 29, 2024 | U.S. LABOR | Over the past 50 years, you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of weeks that have actually been great for American workers. It was just under half a century ago that California gave collective-bargaining rights to farmworkers for the first time since they’d been excluded from coverage under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In 2018,  teachers in Republican states like West Virginia and Kentucky went on strike to successfully compel their states to increase school funding and decrease class sizes, and 2019, a handful of Senate Democrats, chiefly Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, succeeded in amending a rewrite of NAFTA that actually gave workers a modicum of power. In 2023, the new rank-and-file-elected regimes at the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers won historically good contracts at United Parcel Service and the Big Three automakers. Then, the seven days between Friday, April 19, and Thursday, April 25, saw a succession of worker victories that was almost breathtaking in its scope... Recap at The American Prospect

Week Ending 04/26/2024

  • Iowa Teamsters defeat union-busting bill
  • Teamsters mourn death of UPS driver killed in crash
  • 7 in 10 workers worldwide exposed to extreme heat risks
  • Federal regulators just passed 2 worker-friendly rules
  • 7 in 10 workers worldwide exposed to extreme heat risks
  • Boston Teamsters jump into rideshare drivers’ rights fight
  • On Workers’ Memorial Day, AFL-CIO’s Schuler says workers pay the ‘ultimate price’
 
 
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