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Temps Are Soaring, But Injuries Are Dropping. Teamsters Are The Reason Why
08/23/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 23, 2026 | HEALTH & SAFETY | (Click image to enlarge.) In summer 2025, Cameron Bowman, a United Parcel Service (UPS) package car driver from Teamsters Local 767, began feeling lightheaded and fatigued while working in temperatures above 100 degrees. Inside his package car, the heat was even more intense. |
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Week Ending 08/22/2026
08/23/26 - Teamsters Local 355 • The NLRB’s lawless Starbucks decision • UPS Teamsters: Check your vacation checks • Teens on the front lines of the labor movement • Does mental illness count as illness? Well, ... • It’s time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else • UPS is walking away from Amazon. Is that a smart move. |
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UPS Heat Safety Protections
08/23/26 - Teamsters Local 776 In 2023, Teamsters negotiated the historic UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement, protecting 340,000 rank-and-file members. For the first time, this contract with UPS included explicit heat-safety protections and requirements for air conditioning to be installed in delivery vehicles. “The 2023 contract completely overhauled heat protections. |
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Labor Day Fishing Derby
08/21/26 - Teamsters Local 776 Are you staying home for the Labor Day Weekend? If so, and you’re looking for some local activities to enjoy, here’s one to consider: In cooperation with the City of York, the York Adams County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, is sponsoring a fishing Derby on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2026, at Kiwanis Lake in York, Pa. Kiwanis Lake is located at 500 Parkway Blvd, York, PA 17404. |
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Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Appointments Available
08/20/26 - Teamsters Local 492 Teamster Local 492 will have a representative from the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan from Northwest Administrators in our office this month. This is your opportunity to meet face-to-face and review your pension value and where you stand on any PEER requirements, if applicable. |
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Quality Foods Strike
08/20/26 - Teamsters Local 776 Truck drivers represented by Teamsters Local 500 went on strike at Q-Trucking (Quaker Valley Foods) in Northeast Philadelphia. The strike at Quaker Valley Foods, 2701 Red Lion Road, began in early August 2026 and remains active, with approximately 70 workers maintaining an around-the-clock picket line at the Northeast Philadelphia warehouse. |
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10,000 Nurses at Michigan’s Largest Health Care System Ratify Teamsters Contract
08/20/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 20, 2026 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING | (View entire image.) Registered nurses at Corewell Health East, represented by Teamsters Local 2024, have voted to ratify their first union contract after more than 13 months of negotiations, delivering a historic victory for nurses and patients across Michigan’s largest health care system. |
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Labor Day 2026
08/20/26 - Teamsters Local 317 Labor Day Parade this year will be at the The Great New York State Fair Expo Center on September 7th, 2026 with the Greater Syracuse Labor Council, the parade starts at 11AM. Please note that tickets this year will be digital! You will be asked to enter the amount of tickets and then prompted to enter your “External Subscription ID” YOU MUST CALL 315-471-4164 ext 110 to get your ticket number to enter into the prompt. The same goes for the parking pass. For your ADMISSION ticket please visit: https://www.etix.com/.../labor-day-general-admission-pass... For your PARKING ticket please visit: https://www.etix.com/.../labor-day-parking-one-day-pass... Once completed you may choose to have your digital tickets sent SMS or to your email. Looking forward to seeing all our Brothers and Sisters who can attend, and wear your Union colors ! |
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Paywatch: CEO-Workers Pay Gap Hits Record
08/19/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 19, 2026 | WAGES | The gap between median CEO pay and median U.S. worker pay grew to a record 312-1 last year, the AFL-CIO’s annual Paywatch study shows. But add in the $158 billion Tesla paid its CEO, Elon Musk, and that ratio becomes 17-1/4 times as large, at 5,387-1. Think that figure is huge. |
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Why States Are the Key to the Modern Labor Movement
08/18/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 18, 2026 | THE FUTURE OF LABOR | Unions have a history of coming together when workers need them most. During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, labor unions sprang up in response to the harsh conditions of the Industrial Revolution. In the 1930s, a massive surge in union organizing helped the country find its way out of the Great Depression. |
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Teamsters Review WALL-E (Two Decades Later)
08/17/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 17, 2026 | ECONOMY | If you’ve seen WALL-E, Pixar’s Oscar-winning film from 2008, you remember the premise: an abandoned Earth buried in trash, a single mega-corporation running life from a spaceship above, and fat/lazy/unemployed humans drifting on autopilot while robots do all the work. It was supposed to be an exaggerated allegory. |
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Week Ending 08/15/2026
08/17/26 - Teamsters Local 355 |
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Defensive Driving Courses 2026/2027
08/17/26 - Teamsters Local 317 Teamsters Local 317 will be offering four, six-hour defensive driving courses. The courses will be on: SEPTEMBER 12, 2026, NOVEMBER 14, 2026, JANUARY 16, 2027, MARCH 13, 2027. All class times are from 8AM-2:30PM and are held at the Union Hall Office located at 149 Northern Concourse, Suite 100, Syracuse New York 13212. |
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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS 2026 second half
08/14/26 - Teamsters Local 385 |
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2026 Teamcare Family Health Fair Event
08/13/26 - Teamsters Local 41 . |
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Should a Union Contact Run Eight Years?
08/13/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 13, 2026 | DELIVERY INDUSTRY | […] Deere wants to extend its six-year contract to eight years. The current pact for 10,000 workers at nine Midwestern plants expires on October 31, 2027—six months before the union’s deals with the Big 3 automakers expire on May 1, 2028. In 2021, Deere workers struck for 34 days, gaining national press. |
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2026 LABOR FEST
08/12/26 - Teamsters Local 200 |
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Labor Unions, Trucking Groups Clash Over Proposed NYC Last-Minute Delivery Rules
08/11/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 11, 2026 | DELIVERY INDUSTRY | The Delivery Protection Act requires companies operating last-mile distribution facilities to obtain city licenses, establish minimum safety and training standards, and directly hire their delivery workforces. |
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Where Have All the Working-Class Heroes Gone?
08/10/26 - Teamsters Local 355 Aug. 10, 2026 | FILM INDUSTRY | The action movie: it’s a staple of Hollywood’s success. Some of the most enduring and well-known movies in history fall within the action and adventure genre — franchises like “The Terminator,” “Die Hard,” and “Mad Max. |
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Week Ending 08/08/2026
08/10/26 - Teamsters Local 355 • ‘A reminder of why we have unions’ • How we made UPS create Teamster FT jobs • Why the U.S. |
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Teamsters VIP+ Plan
08/10/26 - Teamsters Local 71 Teamsters VIP+ Plan VOLUNTARY INCOME PROTECTION PLUS (VIP+) PLAN Discover enrollment options for financial protection. |
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Officers and Staff
08/10/26 - Teamsters Local 71 Teamsters Local Union 71 Officers and Staff |
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Truck Driving Championship
08/08/26 - Teamsters Local 776 The Pennsylvania Truck Driving Championship (TDC) was held earlier this summer. It is the premier showcase of safety, skill, and professionalism in the Commonwealth's trucking industry. |
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Oregon's TP Freight Lines Suspends Operations
08/06/26 - Teamsters Local 162 T.P. FREIGHT LINES SUSPENDS OPERATIONS |
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Economic Patriotism Tour
08/06/26 - Teamsters Local 776 As part of a 5-day Economic Patriotism Tour across Pennsylvania, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was welcomed by Local 776 President Spencer Dearth at the Teamsters Local 776 Union Hall in York, PA. Rep. Khanna began the event by outlining his vision for Economic Patriotism, which he described as a New Deal for our time. |
