{"id":7396,"date":"2026-06-09T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7396"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:02:41","slug":"teamsters-their-struggles-today","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/event\/teamsters-their-struggles-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamsters &#038; Their Struggles Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom event<\/p>\n<p>The Teamsters is one of the most powerful unions in the United States, but it is under assault by AI, union busting at Amazon and massive closures at UPS.<br \/>\nAt the same time, workers are fighting for democracy with a leadership that is aligning with the fascist Trump administration which is destroying the NLRB, OSHA and has terminated contracts for 700,000 Federal workers. How workers organize a fight to defend their jobs and fight for a democratic union will be the focus of this panel.<\/p>\n<p>With:<br \/>\n<strong>John Palmer <\/strong>&#8211; International VP Teamsters<strong><br \/>\nEric Johnson <\/strong>&#8211; IBT Local 190 UPS Line Driver<strong><br \/>\nMarianna Battiste <\/strong>&#8211; IBT Local 2010 Former Steward<strong><br \/>\nBarry Anderson <\/strong>&#8211; IBT Local 856 Steward<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8074\" src=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/730-Amazon-Workers-ICE-Out-Mass-Labor-Actionx400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/730-Amazon-Workers-ICE-Out-Mass-Labor-Actionx400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/730-Amazon-Workers-ICE-Out-Mass-Labor-Actionx400-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nSponsored by WorkWeek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Teamsters is one of the most powerful unions in the United States, but it is under assault by AI, union busting at Amazon and massive closures at UPS. How workers organize a fight to defend their jobs and fight for a democratic union will be the focus of this panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8070,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4,70],"class_list":["post-7396","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-zoom","cat_forum-reading","cat_zoom"],"ticketed":["rsvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7396\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}