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Kentucky Battery Plant Workers Launch Union Drive with UAW

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November 21, 2024

A majority of the 1,000 auto workers at the car battery park BlueOval in Glendale, Kentucky, have signed union cards to join the United Auto Workers.

The battery park, a joint venture between Ford and South Korea’s SK On, is expected to ramp up hiring to 5,000 hourly workers by 2030. It has twin battery plants. But the second one is on hold due to low demand for electric vehicles. At the first plant, workers are testing battery module packs from facilities in Georgia, as the plant prepares to become fully operational next year.

A National Movement to Organize Amazon Takes Off

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Several workers in green high-viz vests chant and hold signs, one woman in front speaks into a megaphone.
October 04, 2024

The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain.

A group of 100 warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San Francisco, marched on company managers October 2 demanding voluntary recognition rather than filing for a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election.

Will Auto Workers Strike to Hold Stellantis to Its Promises?

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Two photos. Left photo shows a worker holding up a printed UAW sign "Keep the promise" and a handmade sign "Delay is the enemy of progress." Right photo shows hundreds of workers sitting on folding chairs in a union hall, many wearing red T-shirts or holding printed signs. Most but not all are white men.
September 17, 2024

Contracts come and contracts go, but the bosses keep on scheming forever. So workers’ resistance must be permanent. In August, 17 union locals representing tens of thousands of workers charged the automaker Stellantis with failing to honor its agreements by reneging on investment promises, including the celebrated reopening of the Belvidere assembly plant in Illinois.

New York Amazon Delivery Drivers Join the Teamsters in Surge of Momentum

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Workers, some in blue vests, march outside along an Amazon building. Some are holding their phones aloft, recording. Many are Black. They look like they are striding confidently and chanting.
September 16, 2024

Hundreds of Amazon drivers at a delivery station in Queens, New York, marched on their bosses today to announce they are joining the Teamsters. They are demanding the logistics giant recognize their union and negotiate a contract.

“To march today and walk in there with everyone behind us, all of us standing together as a union, it was so amazing,” said Latrice Shadae Johnson, who earns $20 an hour delivering packages for Amazon, where she has worked as a driver since last November.

Un Trabajador De Supermercado Y Miembro De Los Teamsters Recupera Su Empleo, Y Se Prepara Para Organizarse Para Obtener Más

Luis Feliz Leon
En una habitación soleada, un hombre con una camiseta polo negra y jeans está de pie a la izquierda, hablando por un micrófono, mientras unas 30 personas sentadas en sillas a la derecha escuchan. La mayoría o todos parecen latinos.

Traducido por Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Dieciséis meses después de su despido ilegal, Juan Vargas entró a trabajar en junio entre vítores y palmadas en la espalda de sus compañeros de trabajo en la empresa Anthony Marano, una importante distribuidora de productos agrícolas en el área de Chicago. Obtuvo el pago completo de su salario retroactivo.

Grocery Teamster Gets Job Back, Prepares to Organize for More

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In a bright sunny room, a man in a black polo shirt and jeans stands on the left, speaking into mic, while about 30 people seated in chairs on the right listen. Most or all appear Latino/a.

Sixteen months after his illegal firing, Juan Vargas walked into work in June to cheers and pats on the back from his co-workers at the Anthony Marano Company, a major produce distributor in the Chicago area. He won full back pay.

“They fired me because they wanted to intimidate the other workers,” said Vargas in Spanish. “But with my reinstatement, we have won two against the company,” meaning his job and a better contract won through organizing.

Will Immigrant Workers Win Britain’s First Amazon Union?

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A large crowd of workers in a dark auditorium listen to a worker onstage. The speaker's back is to us and she wears a head scarf or hijab. Some in the audience are smiling, some look focused, and two in the front row are animatedly discussing something. The workers are racially diverse, including many who could be of South Asian or East African descent, as the article describes.
July 15, 2024

July 18, 2024 Update: The union lost but came heartbreakingly close: 49.5 percent yes votes, just 28 votes short of winning recognition.

Three thousand warehouse workers are poised to become the first recognized Amazon union in Britain.

Workers at fulfillment center BHX4 in Coventry, central England, cast votes July 8-13 for the GMB union to negotiate over pay, hours, and working conditions with the Amazon bosses. The results are expected July 17.

Illinois Amazon Drivers Strike, Demand Union Contract

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A young, racially diverse group of workers in "Amazon Strike" T-shirts huddles in a parking lot together, cheering. Some raise fists in the air. Behind them a Teamsters Local 705 truck is visible.
June 27, 2024

Amazon drivers at the DIL7 delivery station in Skokie, Illinois, struck June 26 over the company’s violations of federal labor laws.

A hundred drivers have organized with Teamsters Local 705 and are demanding that Amazon recognize and bargain with their union, after presenting cards signed by a majority of the workforce.

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