Teamsters

The Teamsters and Amazon are in agreement on dealing with any walkouts as part of unionization drives.

UPS will withdraw its buyout offer for drivers in 13 states because the Teamsters contract in that region gives local unions more rights to object to management’s move.

Unionization of the workplace thought it hadgotten a boost by the Cemex standard, but it took a hit in a recent court case.

Union workers at DHL Express in the United States are demanding a contract agreement by the end of March or else they will walk off the job.

UPS is using incentives to encourage parcel drivers to leave their jobs.

A U.S. district court in Boston has rejected a Teamsters union motion to stop UPS from buying out package car drivers in an effort to reduce excess capacity.

UPS says a Teamster lawsuit seeking to stop it from offering a large buyout package to parcel drivers is without merit and should be dismissed by a district court.

Another attempt to license last mile delivery drivers in New York City is raising many questions on numerous logistics issues.

UPS is preparing a second voluntary buyout offer for parcel delivery drivers. The Teamsters union has gone to court to force UPS to withdraw the program on the grounds that it doesn’t adequately compensate drivers and undermines the union.

A strike against a West Coast LTL carrier in 2008 began a long legal battle that may be coming to an end.

A New York City bill that is seen as targeting Amazon won’t get acted upon this year.

Three Teamsters locals have have reached a new deal with Sysco in an unprecedented regional deal.

Amazon and the Teamsters faced off this fall in various venues, with a mixed outcome.

UPS could unite management, its union workforce and the cost-efficient crowd-sourced delivery model by trying a new triple-win strategy centered on the UPS Store.

The Teamsters union plans to file a grievance against UPS over the use of non-union drivers by a UPS e-commerce subsidiary, FreightWaves has learned.

UPS is speeding up deployment of air conditioned vehicles by agreeing to install systems in existing vehicles after the Teamsters union complained of slow progress purchasing new vehicles with A/C.

(Editor’s note: comments from an attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the Cemex guideline have been added). The Teamsters has been battling Amazon on several fronts for several years with mixed success, and its laser-like focus on that target can lead it to invoke the online retailer’s name whenever it can, even if […]

An energetic Teamsters rally against Amazon in New York occurs as unionization efforts are likely to get tougher.

Driver subscriptions for UPS’s buyout offer are lower than expected, forcing the company to give workers more time to make a decision.

The Teamsters union says the UPS offer to buy out delivery drivers from their contract is a slap in the face.