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Winter storm Blair delays package and mail deliveries
 Jan. 16, 2024 | Sean M. O’Brien, General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman, Teamsters Warehouse Division Director Tom Erickson, and hundreds of Costco Teamsters, including Local 570 members from Maryland, rallied and engaged in a practice picket in Long Island, N.Y., as the final week of bargaining with the wholesale giant approaches. “We are going to win the strongest collective bargaining agreement in the history of Costco,” O’Brien said. “Our members deserve nothing less. …” Learn more here.
Winter storm Blair delays package and mail deliveries
 Jan. 7, 2024 | FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service are warning customers of potential delivery delays across the central and eastern U.S. due to Winter Storm Blair. As of Monday, FedEx’s ground delivery services were either suspended or had limited service in more than 6,200 ZIP codes. The carrier’s express services had no service in over 3,300 ZIP codes. Impacted states include Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and West Virginia. Supply Chain Dive (UPS lists impacted Maryland zip codes here.) PHOTO/DEBBIE SHAW
Workers are fighting back and joining our union in record numbers
 Jan. 2, 2024 | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has grown by an astounding 75,000 new members under Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman, a direct result of key investments in strategic organizing. See where the 75,000 new Teamsters are, visualized here.
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 Jan. 16, 2025 | AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY | [...] Rail and water are some of the top modes of transportation used to move coal, natural gas, fuel oils, and crude petroleum, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Railways are also the primary transporter of metallic ores that contain copper, gold, and iron used to construct buildings and make modern technology, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Unions representing supply chain workers fear the incoming Trump administration’s focus on cutting spending and federal staff will mean hasty technological updates, causing unnecessary job losses that jeopardize the safety of the public that rely on these facilities, as well the nation’s cybersecurity as a whole. …Unions representing transportation workers across the country have already started to push back against moves to incorporate automation technology at the local government level with some success. Bloomberg Law
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 Jan. 14, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | President Biden promised to be the most pro-union, pro-worker President in history. One way he sought to achieve this goal was through his appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. For a little over three years, from September 2021 until December 16, 2024, Biden’s appointees formed a majority on the NLRB. Despite the talk about the Republicans becoming the workers’ party, labor relations have been so polarized in this country that it feels like each Administration’s appointees are just running on a treadmill, undoing the actions of the previous Administration. That was certainly the case for Biden’s appointees, as they spent much time and energy simply undoing the anti-worker actions of the first Trump NLRB. On Labor
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 Jan. 14, 2025 | SOLIDARITY | Teamsters Local 399, the union that represents workers in the entertainment industry, came to the aid of a local fire station as the Los Angeles fires continued to burn through the city. Station 19 in Brentwood had been without electricity and hot water for several days, according to KCAL news. “They have been having to navigate their strategy and responding to these fires using flashlights and such, but about an hour and a half ago … Teamsters 399 showed up and made a big delivery,” KCAL’s Laurie Perez reported Sunday. Hollywood Reporter
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