Category: IBT

Retail Roundup: Impending Strikes, A CEO Shuffle, And DEI Updates

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Jan 29, 2025 | IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, News, NLRB, Retail, Sean O'Brien, Trending, UFCW, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Unions

Fresh off the holiday season, the retail sector can’t catch a break in this roundup full of labor updates.

Labor Relations Issues 2025: Trump, RTO Mandates, DEI Rollbacks, and Tech

Posted by Michael VanDervort | Jan 25, 2025 | AFL-CIO, CWA, EEOC, Federal, Harold Daggett, Healthcare, IBT, ILA, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, Logistics, Manufacturing, News, NLRB, Politics, Sean O'Brien, Transportation, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unions, White-Collar

The workplace isn’t just evolving—it’s being rewritten in real time.

Strange Bedfellows: The ‘Why?’ Of Josh Hawley’s Pro-Labor Framework

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Jan 16, 2025 | Federal, IBT, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Legal, News, Sean O'Brien, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Unions

If you were wondering whether the Teamsters were sitting out that drama, Sean O’Brien has other shenanigans at work, as organized labor repositions itself for a new era of labor policy.

New Year, Old Tricks: Big Labor’s Exaggerated And Illusory Strikes

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Jan 6, 2025 | Bargaining/Negotiations, IBT, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Logistics, News, SBWU, Service Industry, Starbucks, Strikes, Transportation, Union Organizing, Unionized Company, Unions

Welcome to 2025. Over the holidays, the SEIU-affiliated Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and the Teamsters-affiliated Amazon Labor Union (ALU) claim to have waged “historic” five-day strikes, but was that really the case?