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More than 60 Teamsters 856 members working for the City of Daly City overwhelmingly ratified new contracts this month that include an average of 10% in raises over two years and increases the city’s contribution to health care costs. A portion of the gains in the new agreements represent restorations of sacrifices members agreed toRead More >

This week, Teamsters 856 representatives took part in a symposium focused on legal frameworks, analyzing budgets, and contract costing in the public sector in California. The conference, held in Oakland, gave Teamsters 856 representatives a chance to exchange strategies and collaborate with other public sector reps from across the state and economist Dr. James Kimball,Read More >

The numbers tell the story: there is strength in numbers. Union workers make 27% more than their non-union counterparts. Without question, as the data shows, collective bargaining works. Not only are wages higher, but union workers are much more likely to have health benefits and a pension. This is a consequence of the right toRead More >

Americans’ support of labor unions continues to grow, jumping 5 percentage points in the last year alone to its highest approval rating since 2008, according to a recently conducted Gallup poll. Young adults, those aged 18 to 34, have the most favorable opinions of unions among all age groups surveyed – an encouraging signal forRead More >

For the first part of Marlene Gerken’s nearly 25-year career in the airline industry, she was a union member, but when her former employer, TWA, merged with American Airlines in the early nineties, she and her colleagues were left without union representation. However, that changed when US Airways, a company where employees were union, mergedRead More >