Republic Services Teamsters Launch Strike in Boston
July 1, 2025  | Update 07/09: Republic Services is refusing to resume negotiations. Teamsters extend picket lines to major West Coast cities. Details here. This morning, 450 Republic Services workers represented by Teamsters Local 25 were forced on strike by the waste giant, inevitably disrupting waste collections for hundreds of thousands of residents throughout the Boston area. Primary picket lines could extend nationwide and result in a work stoppage for over 3,500 Teamsters. Republic Teamsters are demanding a contract with improved wages, better benefits, and stronger labor protections. The multibillion-dollar waste corporation has refused to give workers a fair deal, pushing them to the picket line. Learn more here. Screenshot via CBS News Boston video

UPS violates Teamsters National Contract with plan for buyouts
July 3, 2025  |  United Parcel Service (UPS) is expected to unveil an illegal plan later this month to buyout full-time employees represented by the Teamsters, a corporate scheme that will directly violate the union’s national contract protecting 340,000 delivery workers. The multibillion-dollar company’s Driver Voluntary Severance Plan (DVSP), which UPS has not yet publicly disclosed, would offer cash to drivers to initiate early retirement or quit their job. The DVSP, likely to be announced to workers in the coming weeks, would leave most drivers without quality health insurance if they retire under the program and… Learn more here. Pictured: Teamsters practice picket during the 2023 campaign for the current national contract with UPS. AP PHOTO/JOHN RAOUX

O'Brien: ‘Tell UPS your good union job is not for sale.’
July 8, 2025  |  UPS is trying to buy your job. Managers and their underlings are going to come into your barns and ask you to sign up for this “voluntary severance plan.” We need to be protecting our jobs, and we need everybody, again, to reject this scam. Watch the video to learn how we're going to do it – as one, unified force. 

Teamsters go to war against Republic Services
July 9, 2025  |  The union is aggressively expanding a nationwide strike for fair contracts at Republic Services, one of the nation’s largest and wealthiest waste management companies. More than 2,000 Teamsters are currently on strike or actively honoring picket lines in major cities across the country with more strike extensions expected in the coming hours and days. “Republic Services has been threatening a war with American workers for years — and now, they’ve got one,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. Teamsters PHOTO/The Vacaville Reporter

Teamsters at Genesis Logistics 'ready to fight'
July 21, 2025  |  More than 200 Teamsters at Genesis Logistics in Stafford, VA held a practice picket last week to demand a fair first contract that provides wages, affordable health care, safe working conditions, an respect on the job. Local 322 members are prepared to strike if Genesis management continues to delay. The drivers, who deliver to 7-Eleven stores across the Mid-Atlantic, voted to join Teamsters Local 322 earlier this year. Learn more. 

Chemicals released on striking Teamsters at Airgas
July 21, 2025  | Update on 07/30 adds Hawaii: The nationwide strike against Airgas has been expanded. The strike, led by Airgas Teamsters in Cleveland and New Jersey, now includes extended picket lines in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Last week, Airgas released unidentified chemical agents on striking Teamsters at multiple locations nationwide. The incidents, which occurred at facilities in both Illinois and New Jersey, were potentially deliberate and coordinated attacks meant to intimidate, threaten, and harm workers exercising their federally protected rights. “One incident might be an accident, but two, in different states, is hard to believe,” said Juan Campos, Director of the Teamsters Tankhaul Division and Teamsters International Vice President At-Large. “This company endangered the lives of our members, and it looks deliberate,” said Ron Lake, President of Teamsters Local 701. Learn more here.