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Teamsters celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Sept. 15, 2025 | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, observed September 15 through October 15. During this time, we honor the contributions of Hispanic Teamsters and pay tribute to the workers and labor leaders whose sacrifices have expanded rights and dignity on the job. Learn more
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 Sept. 16, 2025 | FEDERAL WORKERS | A federal judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s mass firing of probationary employees earlier this year was illegal, a victory for the labor unions and nonprofit groups that had sued the government over the terminations. “Judge Alsup’s decision makes clear that thousands of probationary workers were wrongfully fired, exposes the sham record the government relied upon, and requires the government to tell the wrongly terminated employees that O.P.M.’s reasoning for firing them was false,” Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees [AFGE], said in a statement on Saturday, using an acronym for the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources arm. The New York Times
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 Sept. 15, 2025 | MIGRANT WORKERS | The raids at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia earlier this month shone a spotlight on Hyundai’s labor practices, including exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers. …An autoworker at Hyundai’s Montgomery assembly plant, who asked to be anonymous, commented, “I know that Hyundai Montgomery uses only Korean contractors, and that’s for a reason. Why can’t the company hire local union workers to build the plant and keep workers safe?” Hyundai already has a terrible safety record and a history of evading unions, racial discrimination, and employing children at its factories and suppliers. “In South Korea, labor strife in auto plants, often violent, is as routine as the daily lunch break,” quipped one reporter. Jacobin
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 Sept. 11, 2025 | U.S. LABOR | America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money and a half-century-long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us… In These Times
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 Sept. 9, 2025 | UNION BUSTING | Amazon has fired more than 150 unionized drivers working for a third-party contractor in Queens, New York, according to the Teamsters union. Workers rallied at the company’s DBK4 facility in Queens on Monday after the company fired the drivers, who worked for Cornucopia, a delivery service provider (DSP) that Amazon contracted with to make deliveries. Amazon works with more than 3,000 DSPs around the world who deliver the company’s packages. The Teamsters said the firings were in retaliation for unionizing. The Guardian
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