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Teamsters win three elections in Texas - in one day
Apr. 15, 2025 | Teamsters Local 745 recently announced three election victories in a single day, continuing their trend of successful organizing in the South. All three victories came from organizing efforts at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, the largest wine and spirits distributor in the United States. Members have voiced pride and excitement in their continued growth. (On Labor, 4/14/05) Learn more here.
Longtime Local 205 member wins decisive election in Pennsylvania
 Apr. 9, 2025 | On March 25, a rank-and-file Teamster tipped the scales of power in Pennsylvania. Since January, the commonwealth’s House of Representatives had been split 101-101 between Democrats and Republicans. That meant a special election to fill District 35’s vacant seat would determine which party holds the majority and the authority that comes with it. Learn more here.
Teamsters rally after rejecting United Airline’s unrealistic offer by 99.5%
 Apr. 4, 2025 | Following an overwhelming 99.5 percent rejection of United Airlines’ latest unrealistic proposal, United Airlines Teamsters aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) rallied outside Orlando International Airport (MCO) after a week of contract negotiations in Orlando. “United Airlines is one of the most profitable in the entire industry, yet it refuses to reward the workers. responsible for those profits with a fair contract,” said Chris Griswold, Director of the Teamsters Airline Division. “We will continue to hold United’s feet to the fire until it recognizes the indispensable role United Airlines Teamsters play in the carrier's success and the safety of the flying public.” The Teamsters Union represents over 10,000 United Airlines AMTs across the country. Learn more here.
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 Apr. 18, 2025 | CYBERSECURITY | […] According to a whistleblower, the National Labor Relations Board’s information and security may have been compromised. The recent visit from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) left security experts concerned over the refusal to have their movements in the NLRB's systems logged, a spike in unexplained outbound data traffic, a program with a name suggesting it provided backdoor entry to the NLRB's internal case management systems found on the public GitHub account of a DOGE engineer, and a threatening note left on the door of an employee who was preparing to request an investigation. The case information at the NLRB is private, sensitive, and protected by the Privacy Act of 1974. Given the red flags that DOGE's behavior raised while at the NLRB, many cybersecurity experts see cause to be alarmed. Find Law
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 Apr. 17, 2025 | OPINION | Union workers across the United States are feeling the impact of the Trump Administration's anti-worker, anti-union agenda. Campaign promises of fighting for the American worker have been dashed over the last 90 days, and workers are left worrying about their futures. Under the guise of improving government efficiency, we saw President Donald Trump and Elon Musk fire more than 50,000 federal workers, citing “poor performance” without any evidence to defend their position. Rolling back wage increases for federal contractors added to the anti-worker policies coming down from the White House. The Detroit News
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 Apr. 16, 2025 | WORKING AMERICA | President Trump and his defenders claim that his recent tariffs will usher in “a new Golden Age of American industrialization and prosperity.” As the president put it, “Tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs. They’re about protecting the soul of our country.” But there are two major flaws in this vision of a prosperous, re-industrialized America. First, US factory jobs only became synonymous with middle-class prosperity because of mass unionization. Being pro-factory is not the same thing as being pro-worker. And, second, even if these tariffs do ultimately help encourage domestic manufacturing — and that’s a very big if — structural factors like automation put a hard cap on the number of total manufacturing jobs that could return. Strengthening US manufacturing is a worthwhile goal, but factory jobs for all is a mirage. To recreate American prosperity, we need unions for all. Jacobin
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 Apr. 15, 2025 | LABOR RIGHTS | More than a dozen major unions filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block the administration of President Donald Trump from shutting down a federal agency that mediates labor disputes in the public and private sectors. The unions in a complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court said that efforts to dismantle the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service violate Congress' constitutional powers to create or dissolve federal agencies. The mediation service was created in 1947 and primarily works to broker settlements in collective bargaining disputes through mediation and arbitration. Reuters
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