LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Teamsters union that represents U.S. workers at United Parcel Service on Thursday said it would respond to the firing of about 35 newly organized workers at the delivery company by filing unfair labor practice charges and potentially striking. The roughly three dozen affected specialist and administrative workers at UPS’s Centennial hub … Read more
A Republican senator and the president of the Teamsters union nearly got into a fistfight Tuesday in the middle of a Senate committee hearing, until Sen. Bernie Sanders stepped in and broke it up. The exchange began when Sen. Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, read a tweet that Teamsters President Sean O’Brien had posted in June. … Read more
Two of the biggest groups to oppose robotaxi expansion in California are now formally working together. Teamsters 856, which is tied to one of the longest-standing labor unions in the U.S., and Rideshare Drivers United (RDU), a group that advocates for app-based workers, said on Friday they’ll work together to push for “responsible guardrails on … Read more