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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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 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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 June 25, 2025 | CONTRACTS | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Tuesday issued a formal request for information to UPS on its current delivery of air-conditioned vehicles to drivers, outstanding grievances on overtime violations by the company, and the status of full-time job offers to tens of thousands of part-time workers. Nearly 340,000 Teamsters ratified an historic five-year agreement with UPS in August 2023, guaranteeing the delivery of at least 28,000 package cars and vans with air conditioning and the fulfillment of 22,500 permanent full-time jobs — key contract provisions that UPS may already be failing to live up to. “We are halfway into our union’s national contract and the Teamsters are gravely concerned that UPS is not living up to its end of the deal,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. Teamsters Union
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 June 25, 2025 | LABOR HISTORY | If you’ve ever watched a union campaign get crushed by employer intimidation, wondered why you see so few strikes, or been frustrated that unions don’t demand more on climate or racial justice, you’re seeing the effects of a US law passed 78 years ago. On June 23, 1947, the United States Congress overrode a presidential veto to enact the Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the Taft-Hartley Act. Pushed through by a coalition of conservative Southern Democrats and Republicans during a wave of postwar strikes and growing public support for unions, the law gave employers new legal weapons and undercut some of organized labor’s most powerful tactics. Nearly eight decades later, most of its provisions are still in place. Center for Economic Policy and Research
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