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Teamsters Canada celebrate professional truck drivers
 Sept. 13, 2024| During the month of September, our Canadian brothers and sisters honor the dedication and hard work of members in the trucking industry. “Whether we see them on the roads or not, truck drivers touch our daily lives delivering crucial goods into every community.” A big shout out too, to all our hard-working Local 992 truck drivers: Thank you for helping to move America forward!
Enrollment open for Teamsters Voluntary Income Protection Plan
 Sept. 9, 2024| Open enrollment is happening now for the Teamsters Voluntary Income Protection Plus Plan, available to all dues-paying Teamsters in the U.S. The benefits will help provide you with additional financial protection if you can’t work due to illness, injury, or loss of DOT certification for medical reasons. Guaranteed approval! No medical questions asked! No matter your age, smoker status, or current health, you’re approved when you enroll during Open Enrollment. Visit TeamstersVIP.com to learn more.
NLRB certifies ALU’s affiliation with Teamsters at JFK8
 Aug. 30, 2024| The Amazon Labor Union has fully and officially completed its affiliation with the Teamsters Union, following a ruling on Thursday from the National Labor Relations Board rejecting outstanding objections by Amazon. ALU members at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center voted this summer by over 98% to affiliate with the Teamsters. The ruling further establishes ALU-IBT Local 1, a newly chartered local union of the Teamsters, as the representative for 5,500 Amazon warehouse workers at JFK8 on Staten Island. Learn more here.
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 Sept. 12, 2024 | STRIKES | Update: Workers go on strike after rejecting contract offer. Boeing faces a likely strike on Friday by more than 30,000 workers that could shutter its Seattle-area plane factories over demands for a bigger pay increase than the 25% over four years that union leaders agreed to. If there is no strike, the unionized workers could have to swallow a contract that most of them have said they oppose. That is because they need a supermajority to strike under rules from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), the largest aerospace union in North America which represents Boeing's U.S. West coast workers. Reuters
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 Sept. 11, 2024 | AI | Organized labor has arrived at Microsoft headquarters. A two-day AI Labor Summit between AFL-CIO leaders and Microsoft executives this week reflects the tech giant’s revamped approach to unions — which includes a pledge by the company to incorporate feedback from labor unions and their members into the development of artificial intelligence. “We’ve always said, as a labor movement, we are willing to work with companies who want to work with us,” said Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO President, speaking via phone from the event. “That invitation doesn’t often get accepted.” GeekWire
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 Sept. 9, 2024 | NEGOTIATIONS | Boeing and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) leadership reached a last-minute deal Sunday that would avert a strike and give the aircraft manufacturer space to reset as its struggles to recover from multiple setbacks. But many workers said the deal falls short of their demands, leaving the possibility of work stoppage on the table. The 11th-hour agreement — reached at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, with the news publicly released a couple of hours later — will avoid a strike if a majority of the union’s members ratify the deal… Seattle Times
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