Teamsters at Watsonville Community Hospital have voted unanimously to accept the new contract offer.

This has been a long-running affair. Three years ago, the hospital was in financial trouble under previous leadership, preventing substantive increases for its employees at that time. However, things have changed as the Hospital is now under new leadership and ownership.

“We spent six months working to improve wages and benefits for our members and came out successful in our efforts.” said Teamster 853 President Steven Lua,

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Aurelio Mendoza and Ivan Gonzalez are Tony’s Fine Foods stewards who were instrumental in moving the organizing drive forward for their group. So when this group voted UNION YES, what did the company do? They tried to terminate the employment of Aurelio and Ivan on some trumped-up charges. How surprising.

Under the law, this is called retaliation, and it is illegal in the United States.

So despite the company’s best efforts to intimidate these members,

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On August 12, 2024, the six-person Mission Trail Waste Systems Clerical unit located in Santa Clara, CA unanimously ratified their successor collective bargaining agreement.

Lead negotiator and Business Representative Sergio Arranaga said, “When it comes to negotiations, having a unit that is willing to defend its importance in the workplace makes the direction very clear on where you need to be. With a motivated unit standing in solidarity, we were able to secure their worker protections and negotiate an outstanding economic and fringe benefit package that the unit accepted with an outstanding “yes” to ratify.”

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Republic Services/Allied Waste Services of Santa Clara Drivers and Mechanics, represented by Teamsters Local 350, have overwhelmingly ratified a new 5-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that delivers significant gains for the 87-member unit.

The contract, ratified by a unanimous vote on August 23, includes the largest wage percentage increase ever seen by this unit over the life of the agreement, making these members the highest-paid within Republic Services nationwide.

In addition to the substantial wage and pension increase,

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We are pleased to announce that Local 137 is continuing to grow. Business Agents Misty Tanner, Derek Hawley and Melody Giles have successfully partnered with Butte County’s Sheriff’s Department, Probation Department, Corrections and District Attorneys Department Association (BCPPOA). We welcome the new 300 potential members to our Teamster Family at Local 137. Butte County is now Teamster Strong!!

“For years, the members of the BCPPOA have struggled with exorbitant health care costs and rising inflation,” said Cody Fowler,

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Teamsters Local 431 will be resuming our general membership meetings on October 3, 2024 at 7:30pm. We would like to congratulate Joint Council 7 and the IBT for the hard  work they did in organizing the TomaTek facility in Firebaugh. Local 431 Business Agent Juzan Mejia and his mother Enedina Aguilera started this campaign three years ago and they are thrilled this mission was accomplished.

Business agent Mike Pratt just completed his first round of negotiations with Flowers Bakery that he organized earlier this year and hopes to have an agreement soon.

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Teamsters Local 2785 was very proud to take part in an important remembrance of San Francisco Labor history: the 51st anniversary of the Teamsters Coors Boycott. In 1973, Teamsters Local 888, with Allan Baird, formed a powerful alliance with the LGBTQ+ community with the help of Harvey Milk to strike and boycott Coors for their history of unfair labor practices and employment discrimination. The boycott’s success brought about significant changes and continues to inspire new generations to this day.

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