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Republic Services Teamsters Launch Strike in Boston
July 1, 2025 | This morning, 450 Republic Services workers represented by Teamsters Local 25 were forced on strike by the waste giant, inevitably disrupting waste collections for hundreds of thousands of residents throughout the Boston area. Primary picket lines could extend nationwide and result in a work stoppage for over 3,500 Teamsters. Republic Teamsters are demanding a contract with improved wages, better benefits, and stronger labor protections. The multibillion-dollar waste corporation has refused to give workers a fair deal, pushing them to the picket line. Learn more here. Screenshot via CBS News Boston video
Tankhaul Teamsters launch nationwide Airgas strike
 June 23, 2025 | Teamsters at Airgas are on strike in response to the company’s unfair labor practices and refusal to negotiate fair contracts. “This company talks a big game about safety and respect. But when it comes down to it, they won’t even sit across the table and negotiate a real contract,” said Sawhn Diaz, an Airgas Teamster and Local 701 steward. The tankhaul workers, represented by Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland and Local 701 in New Brunswick, N.J., have extended picket lines to eight locations across Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The Teamsters represent hundreds of Airgas workers across the country and are prepared to extend picket lines to even more locations if necessary. Learn more here.
Dangerous heat dome to impact us this week
 June 23, 2025 | An extreme heat warning covers the whole area on Monday and Tuesday. It runs from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. both days. Temperatures are expected to reach the upper 90s to low 100s both afternoons. When high humidity — dew points near and above 70 — is factored in, it will feel more like 105 to 115. Heat illness can be deadly. What to know about Baltimore’s Code Red Extreme Heat Alert. Remember if you work outside: Water. Rest. Shade. WASHINGTON POST GRAPHIC
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 July 2, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | The Wagner Act — or, more formally, the National Labor Relations Act — was the product of Depression-era concern about the social and economic effects of industrial unrest manifest in citywide general strikes, factory takeovers, and many violent confrontations between workers trying to form unions and the police or private security forces defending the interests of anti-union employers. The architects of the Wagner Act were New Deal Democrats. They knew that a new national labor policy was needed to promote collective bargaining as a peaceful alternative to such unregulated labor-management conflict. [Now, 90] years after President Franklin Roosevelt signed the NLRA into law on July 5, 1935, this statutory encouragement of collective bargaining is under assault and showing its age. In These Times
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 July 1, 2025 | STRIKES | Greg Boulware, president of District Council 33 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called for an immediate and indefinite work stoppage of the more than 9,000 municipal employees he represents after contract negotiations with Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration fell apart late Monday night. Boulware’s decision kicks off the first major strike of city workers since the DC 33 “trash strike” in 1986, and this year’s iteration may have much in common with that year’s three-week shutdown, which saw garbage piling up at city-designated drop-off centers in the summer heat. Boulware’s move dramatically increases the stakes of the already-tense negotiations between Parker’s team and DC 33, the lowest-paid of Philly’s four major municipal unions… Philadelphia Inquirer
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 June 30, 2025 | IMMIGRATION | Mario Guevara, a Hispanic journalist who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, was arrested on 14 June while he was reporting on the ‘No King’ protests in Atlanta. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its US affiliates, the National Writers Union (NWU), The NewsGuild-CWA and The Authors Guild, have condemned this attack and intimidation against Guevara. The incident is a clear violation of press freedom. International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
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 June 29, 2025 | HEALTH & SAFETY | Trump’s budget for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 would cut job safety inspections nationally by almost 10,000, or one-third, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) says. Baldwin unveiled the figure at a Senate Labor Committee confirmation hearing for David Keeling to be Trump’s OSHA administrator. Keeling is a current top safety and health officer for FedEx, which is non-union, and a prior health and safety specialist, working his way from the bottom up, at UPS. …. “Reduced inspections means more injuries, more unsafe environments, more (workers) losing hours and more families dealing with a work injury. Mr. Keeling is being nominated to be at the helm of OSHA as this happens.” Labor Tribune
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