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Striking port workers get support from Teamsters, UAW, and other unions
 Oct. 1, 2024| The roughly 45,000 longshoremen on strike across more than a dozen major U.S. ports are getting kudos and the rare sympathy strike from fellow labor unions. The ILA, in a statement Tuesday, blasted the “greedy” employers unwilling to meet its demands. “These companies... they don’t give a f—k about us,” ILA President Harold Daggett told members Tuesday in a video published by the union. “Well, we’re gonna show them they’re gonna have to give a f—k about us. Because nothing’s gonna move without us.” “The U.S. government should stay the f—k out of this fight and allow union workers to withhold their labor for the wages and benefits they have earned,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement Monday.
Sale of Yellow Corp.’s remaining properties moving forward
 Sept. 30, 2024| The sale of bankrupt Yellow Corp.’s remaining properties is moving forward, a Wednesday filing in a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware showed. The estate will accept nonbinding indications of interest for its remaining 112 terminals beginning Tuesday and running through Oct. 18. Proceeds from the sales will be used to repay Yellow’s unsecured creditors, which have claims totaling in the billions. Yellow faces claims from former employees who say they weren’t given proper notice ahead of mass layoffs last summer as well as an environmental claim from the Department of Justice. FreightWaves
Teamsters Joint Councils 55 and 62 endorse Harris-Walz ticket
 Sept. 26, 2024| Teamsters Joint Councils representing more than 22,000 Teamsters in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia and the vicinity join Teamster local unions and joint councils across the country with this week's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as our next President and Vice President of the United States. In a joint statement, JC 55 President Rudolph Gardner and Joint Council 62 Sean Cedenio said in part, “Our members and communities deserve an administration that will prioritize the needs of working people and not put profits over people. ... Your vote will make all the difference in this election cycle, so plan to vote and vote for our collective values this fall.”
Teamster polling for presidential endorsement available for review
 Sept. 24, 2024| All rank-and-file Teamsters poll data on the U.S. Presidential endorsement, including methodology, is available at Teamster.org for all participating local unions and Joint Council affiliates. Poll results are organized by U.S. state and affiliate. Via the Teamster FB page: "By several metrics, union outreach helped drive the most transparent and sustained engagement in the political process by Teamsters in decades."
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 Oct. 3, 2024 | STRIKES | The International Longshoremen’s Association agreed on Thursday to suspend a strike that closed down major ports on the East and Gulf Coasts. The move followed an improved wage offer from port employers. Employers, represented by the United States Maritime Alliance, have offered to increase wages by 62 percent over the course of a new six-year contract, according to a person familiar with negotiations who did not want to be identified because the talks were continuing. That increase is lower than what the union had initially asked for, but much higher than the alliance’s earlier offer. In a statement, the union said that it had reached “a tentative agreement on wages” and that its 45,000 members would go back to work, with the current contract extended until Jan. 15. The New York Times
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 Oct. 1, 2024 | HEALTH & SAFETY | Maryland’s newly published and adopted heat standard, which goes into effect Monday, requires all workers to have access to water, shade and rest breaks when temperatures exceed 80 degrees — joining just a handful of other states that have standards protecting workers from extreme heat. Maryland’s heat standard, which is nearly four years in the making, could have saved someone like Ronald Silver II, a Baltimore sanitation worker whose on-the-job death was first reported by WYPR. He died of hyperthermia, or heat exhaustion, as confirmed by the Maryland Office of the Medical Examiner. There is no federal heat standard, although the Biden administration proposed one earlier this year. It could still be months before it is passed — and a new presidential administration could derail it altogether. The Baltimore Banner
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 Sept. 30, 2024 | ECONOMY | Trucking companies and freight rail operators are scrambling to move billions in trade that has been arriving at the 14 ports where the largest longshoremen's union in North America is planning to strike after midnight Monday if a new contract is not reached with ports management. For the week ended last Friday, nearly $14 billion in trade arrived at these ports, including New York/New Jersey, Baltimore, Norfolk, Virginia, Savannah, Georgia, Miami, New Orleans and Houston, with $2.7 billion in trade arriving on Friday alone. The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) said in a statement on Monday that its wage demands were still not being met and blamed ports management for a strike that will start at 12:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 1. NBC Related: President Biden won’t interfere: “It’s collective bargaining. I don’t believe in Taft-Hartly.” Port strike would be first since 1977.
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