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Atlanta Amazon drivers join union organizing wave with the Teamsters
 Nov. 27, 2024 | Amazon drivers at the company’s DGT8 facility in Atlanta have formed a union with the Teamsters and demanded union recognition with a “March on the Boss” held early this morning. The Atlanta drivers are building on what is a massive organizing wave within Amazon, joining hundreds of drivers from Illinois, New York, and California in forming a union with the Teamsters to take on the e-commerce giant. The drivers from DGT8 are fighting for better pay, safe working conditions, and a voice on the job. Many workers are denied basic benefits. Learn more here.
Apply now for the 2025 Teamsters Scholarship Fund
 Nov. 18, 2024 | High school seniors of the Class of 2025 who are financial dependents of a Teamsters member in good standing are encouraged to apply for the scholarship by May 1, 2025. Scholarships will be available to use towards a four-year college or university and training and vocational programs that are related to work in a Teamsters-represented industry, class, or craft. Apply here.
Nearly 10,000 Michigan nurses vote to join the Teamsters
 Nov. 18, 2024 | Nearly 10,000 registered nurses at Corewell Health in Michigan have voted to join the Teamsters union. Teamsters announced the vote Friday afternoon. A total of 9,600 nurses at nine different hospitals voted. It was one of the largest National Labor Relations Board elections in almost 20 years. “Despite Corewell waging one of the most expensive and aggressive union-busting campaigns we’ve ever seen, these nurses knew their value and were determined to become Teamsters,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien in a written statement. “Corewell nurses chose the Teamsters because they knew it was the only way to secure a strong union contract. This organizing win is exactly what we mean when we say we are building the biggest, fastest, and strongest Teamsters Union.” WILX 10
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 Nov. 27, 2024 | WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION | Amazon Teamsters marched on the boss in New York on Wednesday after a corporate union buster hired by the trillion-dollar company verbally assaulted and repeatedly used a homophobic slur against an Amazon driver as he arrived for work. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters are filing unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against Amazon over the assault, as well as formal complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). During the incident, [the corporate union buster] verbally threatened the Amazon delivery driver with physical violence at work before loudly calling the Teamster a homophobic slur multiple times as he prepared for work. The driver was able to begin making deliveries as work got underway on Tuesday but was notified by Amazon management later in the day that the e-commerce giant was suspending him pending an investigation into the attack. Teamsters, Teamsters on X
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 Nov. 26, 2024 | ORGANIZING | With a rich history stretching back to 1682, Philadelphia boasts the nation’s first library, its first hospital, its first daily newspaper, even its first zoo. Now, a tenacious group of grocery store workers wants to earn the City of Brotherly Love another accomplishment: the nation’s first unionized Whole Foods Market. On November 22, Whole Foods Workers United officially declared its intention to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 1776 and filed papers with the National Labor Relations Board. In These Times
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 Nov. 25, 2024 | WORKERS' RIGHTS | President-elect Donald Trump tapped outgoing Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) to lead the Labor Department — part of an avalanche of announcements that kept a good chunk of professional Washington glued to their work phones Friday evening. Chavez-DeRemer, who narrowly lost reelection earlier this month, is an unorthodox choice. She is one of just three House Republicans to embrace the PRO Act — the suite of union-friendly labor reforms that would completely shift the paradigm in worker-management relations if ever enacted — and she was one of eight GOP co-sponsors of a bill that would expand union rights for public-sector workers. That garnered her endorsements from several unions in Oregon, though not the state AFL-CIO. And Teamsters President Sean O’Brien championed her for the Labor role. Politico
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