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#Teamsters

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 6, 1905: The Teamsters launched a sympathy strike with clothing cutters in Chicago. The strike started on December 15, 1904, at Montgomery Ward. The company locked out the workers and tried to starve them. The strike quickly spread to other unions. By April 6, 1905, there were 5,000 clothing workers on the picket lines. The teamsters added another 10,000 of their own. The bosses tried to ram through armed wagons full of scabs. The strikers fought back. Things grew increasingly violent. By the time the strike ended in May, twenty-one people were dead, mostly workers.

"The Teamsters' strike in Chicago." May 1, 1905. New-York Tribune (New York, NY), Image 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#teamsters
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant Workers

from #WorldOutlook
March 12, 2025

"The following is a statement by the #AmazonLaborUnion – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (#ALU-IBT) Local 1 defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The #ALU represents #Amazon workers at the company’s giant JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

The #ALU statement sets a good example of how the labor movement needs to treat immigrant workers: as fellow workers, as brothers and sisters.

This question has become urgent as the Trump administration has escalated raids, arrests, and deportations of immigrants under the guise of expelling “foreign criminals” from the United States. "

world-outlook.com/2025/03/12/a

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#Teamsters #news

World-Outlook · Amazon Labor Union Defends Immigrant WorkersThis is a statement by the Amazon Labor Union – International Brotherhood of Teamsters (ALU-IBT Local 1) defending immigrant workers from government and employer attacks. The ALU represents Amazon workers at the company's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
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@jeffjarvis Elon Musk is a born-rich silver spoon Nazi who’s never done a real day’s work in his life. It’s repulsive that he’s doing this.

The way US labor got kneecapped since the Cold War is seriously going to fuck us, because the only decent tool here is a general strike 🫥

also: fuck that vile worm Sean O’Brien. Some rank & file #teamsters should teach that scab a lesson.

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Peter Riley

February 2025 Skirmish labornotes.org/2025/02/first-s

Essential Workers For Democracy
ew4d.org/blog/solidarity-pledge

UFCW Local 7 vs KS
ufcw7.org/l7press/king-soopers

Colorado
grocerydive.com/news/kroger-al

#frombelow #groceryworkers #labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #Unions #strikes #Teamsters
#UFCW vs #Kroger #Albertsons #KingSoopers

Labor Notes · First Skirmish: Ten Thousand Grocery Workers Strike KrogerTen thousand members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 are on strike all across Colorado. They work for King Soopers grocery stores, owned by Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the U.S. When their contracts expired January 16, they voted by 96 percent to authorize a two-week-long unfair labor practice strike, including high-traffic Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day weekends. Even with scabs staffing the stores, these holiday weekends should give the boss a headache.
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Peter Riley

More strategy than “Choke Points” (Feb 2025) labornotes.org/blogs/2025/02/v

Teamsters Strike (Jan 2025)
labornotes.org/2025/01/amazon-

Sortation Centers (Dec 2024) labornotes.org/blogs/2024/12/a

Primer on Distribution (2024)
ontheseams.substack.com/p/a-br

Labor Notes · Viewpoint: There’s More to Amazon Organizing Strategy Than Choke PointsAs a longtime Amazon warehouse worker and union activist, I was glad to see Professor Ben Fong’s strategic analysis calling on the union movement to focus Amazon organizing on the Sortation Centers. But while I agree that the SCs are clear choke points in Amazon’s system, this sort of choke point analysis is only one component of an effective organizing strategy. When you look at the bigger picture, I think the argument for focusing on the SCs runs into trouble.
#LaborMovement#organize#Amazon
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Flipboard Culture Desk

A threatened strike at Costco was averted on Saturday after the company and negotiators for the Teamsters union came to a tentative agreement. Full terms have not been made public, but beyond wages and benefits, the union had demands around seniority pay, paid family leave, bereavement policies, sick time, and safeguards against surveillance.

flip.it/mxXw6X

CNN · Costco and Teamsters reach a tentative deal to avert a strikeBy Chris Isidore
#Costco#Retail#Teamsters
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Boxcars

Greetings Tooters:

The shiny object that has mesmerized me today is the #Costco #Teamsters #strike on 1Feb.

This event has been briefly reported on the East coast and more intrepidly reported on the West coast. But this is a two coaster event.

I spoke to one of the middle level retail priests near the great gate and he explained that Costco is good, and all things Costco does is good.

"Surely there will be a strike, near a port that serves many stores, and the trucks will tarry", I replied.

But he was unswayed, saying he had parttime work now, but it was maxed out part time, and his 401K is like a purring cat resting near a roaring hearth.

As it turns out, busy Costco retail temples require several truckloads a day to serve the masses. High priests of Costco, still professing their love of all hungry humanity, especially the hungry ones they pay, haven't given raises to drivers for three years and do not want to discuss the matter further, especially after enjoying banner years 2023 and 2024 and raising membership fees the end of 2024.

Drivers convened a union two months ago to engage the temple on the matter of cost of living increase and fulltime benefits. But the chants filled empty halls.

So I'm wondering what will happen. Do the Costco high priests continue to scoff? Does inventory fall? Do the lower priests prick up their ears? Does humanity get hungrier? Will fulltime be blessed again? Will the East coast notice?

Either way it will be a harbinger of things to come.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

‘Fighting Goliath’: #Amazon workers to hold #union election at #NorthCarolina warehouse

From #TheGuardian #Guardian
Thu 23 Jan 2025 07.00 EST

"The election to represent 4,300 workers at the 700,000 sq foot warehouse in the suburbs of Raleigh is scheduled to be held from 10 to 15 February."

"The union has been organizing since early 2022 at the warehouse, pushing for better pay, improved paid time off, better scheduling, improved accommodations for workers with injuries or disabilities, and respect on the job."

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · ‘Fighting Goliath’: Amazon workers to hold union election at North Carolina warehouseBy Michael Sainato
#WorkersRights#Workers#Unions
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