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Jason Vazquez is a staff attorney at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2023. His writing on this blog reflects his personal views and should not be attributed to the IBT.
Region 10 of the NLRB set a date for the rerun union election it ordered at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. The election, which will be conducted entirely by mail, is scheduled to begin on February 4, and votes will be tallied on March 28. In the wake of the announcement, the union expressed “deep[ ] concern[s]” that Amazon would accelerate its “objectionable behavior” to suppress union support in the facility. It also denounced the Board for declining to impose “a number of remedies” the union proposed which, in its view, “could have made the process fairer for workers.”
A UFCW local representing nearly 25,000 workers in Colorado and Wyoming rejected King Sooper’s “last, best, and final offer” on Tuesday. The move threatens to tee up a three-week strike involving nearly ten thousand employees across dozens of locations in the state. The temperature between the parties is high; the local brought a lawsuit in federal court last month alleging that King Sooper’s improperly subcontracted unit work, to which the company responded with an unfair labor practice charge accusing the union of refusing to bargain in good faith.
In political news, President Biden delivered a powerful speech on Tuesday exhorting the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and pass legislation to protect voting rights. Invoking dire rhetoric, Biden framed the current moment as a “defining” one and warned of the “grave” threat to “our democracy.” He described the Senate as “a shell of its former self” and expressed support for changing the institution’s rules in “whichever way they need to be changed.” If “state legislatures can pass anti-voting laws with simple majorities,” the President asseverated, then “the United States Senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority.”
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July 17
Senator J.D. Vance joins Donald Trump’s campaign, targeting pro-labor voters, Project 2025 includes gutting the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and Seattle Boeing workers prepare for a strike vote.
July 16
Teamsters president speaks at RNC; Starbucks decertification campaign fails; Biden taps new PBGC leader
July 15
Workday bias suit moves forward; DOL proposes new LMRDA rule; Bronx Defenders to go on ULP strike
July 14
Teamsters president to speak at RNC; youth work permit requirement rollbacks; eulogies to Jane McAlevey.
July 12
Dollar Tree and OSHA settle; union leaders split over Biden support; new report on low wages.
July 11
President Biden meets with union leadership and a New York law firm announces new applicant screening policy regarding student protest activity.