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‘Referred to as inmates by managers’: DHL workers push to unionize US hub

Former manager says company managers referred to themselves as ‘wardens’ as they sought to frustrate unionization effort

The Guardian - US

Teamsters boss boasts about taking on ‘schoolyard bully’ Republican at fiery Senate hearing

Sean O’Brien and Sen Markwayne Mullin squared off at a Senate HELP committee hearing

The Independent UK

‘Shut your mouth’: Republican senator and Teamsters leader in fiery clash

Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, argues with union’s Sean O’Brien as Bernie Sanders seeks order in Senate hearing

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SCOTUS hears argument in case challenging scope of NLRB authority

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

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UPS reports $11.55 billion profit for 2022 as it continues to hike rates

UPS reported an $11.55 billion profit for 2022 and reached $100.34 billion in revenue for the year, as it continues to hike shipping rates.

Tribune News Service

As Teamsters push better deal, UPS touts pay, career development

As it faces criticism from the Teamsters union ahead of what are expected to be tough labor contract talks this year, UPS issued a jobs report Wednesday touting its wages and ways workers can build a career within the company.

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Feds to provide $36 billion to ensure Teamsters pensions through 2051

The federal government will allocate $36 billion to shore up the Central States Pension Fund, a cash-strapped retirement fund that primarily benefits members of the Teamsters union, President Joe Biden announced Thursday.

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Warnock, Walker rally voters with events a day before Georgia's runoff election

ATLANTA — U.S. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker are taking new steps to energize their supporters on the eve of the Georgia Senate runoff for the last election battle of 2022.

Tribune News Service

Mike Davis' odyssey to "City of Quartz"

How driving delivery trucks and tour buses led the late Mike Davis to write his landmark work of L.A. history

Salon

Former Teamsters boss John Coli Sr. sentenced to 19 months in federal prison in extortion case

CHICAGO — Former Teamsters union boss John Coli Sr. once basked in a reputation as a tough-nosed, nationally known organized labor figure, rubbing elbows with the state’s political and business elite, running up $15,000 tabs at Chicago steakhouses, and cruising around the Mediterranean on other people’s yachts.

Chicago Tribune

Ex-Teamsters' boss gets 19 months in Chicago extortion case

A once-powerful labor leader in Chicago has been sentenced to 19 months in federal prison for extorting $325,000 in cash payments from the head of a film studio in the city

The Independent UK

Former Teamsters boss John Coli gets 19 months in prison for illegal payments from Cinespace Studios

The feds enlisted Coli as a cooperator in 2019, just as a set of aggressive investigations into old-school, Chicago-style corruption turned public. He was seen as particularly significant given his ties to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, former Chicago Mayors Richard M. Daley and…

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Teamsters boss John Coli asks judge for home confinement, probation

Coli admitted in 2019 he’d taken $325,000 in cash payments from Cinespace Chicago Film Studios between 2014 and 2017. Worried at one point the money would stop, Coli told Cinespace president Alex Pissios, “I will f---ing have a picket line up here, and everything will stop.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds ask judge to sentence ex-Teamster boss John Coli to 19 months in prison

John Coli once bragged, “You can cut my fingers off, I wouldn’t talk.” Two years later, Coli pleaded guilty and formally agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

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The Independent UK

Why thousands of UPS workers could launch one of the largest strikes in American history

350,000 union workers are pushing for stronger workplace protections and wages. If the shipping giant rejects them, they will be ‘hitting the pavement’

The Guardian - US

‘We’re ready to strike’: UPS workers and Teamsters prepare for contract fight

Employees are pushing for better overtime protections, improved pay for part-time employees and heat protections

Benzinga

Cannabis Workers Unionization Train Is Speeding Up As Ascend Dispensary In Boston Joins Teamsters

Workers at Ascend Wellness Holdings (OTCQX: AAWH) in Boston voted overwhelmingly this week to join Teamsters Local 25, becoming the first cannabis dispensary in New England to organize with the union.

The Guardian - US

UPS drivers push for air conditioning as temperatures soar: ‘People are dropping weekly’

Drivers report grueling toll of making hundreds of stops a day in sweltering conditions, as UPS makes record profits

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UPS drivers are sharing the insane temperatures they work in every day, showing trucks with 100+ degree readings

“UPS CEOs would never accept working in 120 or 130-degree offices. Drivers shouldn’t have to either.”

The Guardian - US

UPS drivers record temperatures above 100F in trucks without air conditioning

Drivers post pictures of thermometers reaching 116F, 117F and 121F inside vehicles without air conditioning

The Guardian - US

Booming US cannabis industry seen as fertile ground for union expansion

‘Our phones are ringing off the hook,’ say organizers as workers seek to win good pay and conditions in newly legalized sector

The Independent UK

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FBI say no sign of Jimmy Hoffa’s body under New Jersey bridge

Union boss disappeared in 1975 after meeting with mob enforcers in suburban Detroit

The Independent UK

Events in disappearance of former Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa

The FBI announcement that it found no evidence of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa during a search of land under a New Jersey bridge is the latest development in a search that began when he disappeared in 1975

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FBI: No sign of Jimmy Hoffa under New Jersey bridge

The FBI says it found no evidence of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa during a search of land under a New Jersey bridge

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