The Teamsters have contacted the CEOs of six Silicon Valley-area companies – Amtrak, Apple, eBay, Genetech, Yahoo, and Zynga – to tell them that their drivers want to join a union. According to the Union, a majority of the 120 drivers that transport those companies’ employees have signed authorization cards to be represented by Teamsters…

“This is a historic day for our Teamsters,” Teamster President James Hoffa said. “After decades of hard work and millions of dollars spent, we can finally say that corrupt elements have been driven from the Teamsters and that the government oversight can come to an end.” Oddly, many of those corrupt elements were likely led…

In right-to-work states, unions are forbidden from automatically charging representation fees to workers in unionized shops. Roughly half of the states have right-to-work laws. Organized labor fears right-to-work laws because of what they call the “free rider” problem. The union in a unionized workplace is obligated to represent the entire bargaining unit. But, under right-to-work…

The 73-year old union boss of the 700-member Philadelphia Ironworkers union was found guilty of running a “shadow gang” that directed union members to engage in extortion and vandalize work sites in order to intimidate nonunion contractors and control all ironwork being performed in Philadelphia. The boss faces between 15 and 110 years in prison.…

World of Color Corp. prohibits employees from wearing any baseball caps except for caps bearing the company logo, and those caps must be worn with the bill facing forward. The Teamsters took issue with the policy and filed an unfair labor practice charge against the company saying that the policy interfered with workers’ rights under…

DCX-CHOL purchased the assets of Stuart Manufacturing. At the time of sale, DCX-CHOL acknowledged in a letter sent to the union representing the Stuart employees that DCX-CHOL was a successor to Stuart. This obligated DCX-CHOL and the union to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. A few weeks after the sale, though, employees signed a…