Warehouse Newswire
August 1, 2008: Local 814 Teamsters at Sotheby’s Auction House work for a company that makes mega-profits selling priceless art to the super rich.
June 20, 2008: Last November, Ralphs grocery announced plans to open an automated center in Paramount, Calif. by 2010.
May 1, 2008: Teamster employers are implementing new technology in a big way—making us change the way we work and creating new challenges for our union.
May 1, 2008: Last year it looked like Teamster members on the Brooklyn waterfront would lose their jobs.
March 27, 2008: Warehouse Teamsters in Washington state are fighting union-busting tactics at AmerisourceBergen—a major pharmaceutical supplier to Teamster Health & Welfare funds.
January 10, 2008: Forty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he was organizing support for striking sanitation workers.
December 19, 2007: Teamsters Local 805 is fighting to win a voice for warehouse workers at FreshDirect, but the company is threatening workers who want to join the union.
December 18, 2007: Just days before Christmas, the food-delivery service FreshDirect has threatened the jobs of hundreds of workers in its Queens, New York warehouse.
June 4, 2007: The New Jersey Supreme Court May 31 authorized two former employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc to proceed with a statewide class action on behalf of approximately 72,000 workers
May 9, 2007: Local 89 Teamsters at Kroger’s Kentucky Distribution Center have new agreements that protect Teamster standards after a quickie two-day strike.