{"id":37422,"date":"2025-01-19T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37422"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:36:48","slug":"costco-teamsters-vote-to-authorize-us-wide-strike-union-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37422","title":{"rendered":"Costco Teamsters vote to authorize US-wide strike, union says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jan 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Teamsters said on Sunday its members at U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/COST.O\"><u>(COST.O), opens new tab<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;voted in favor of a nationwide strike, as they entered a final round of talks to reach a new contract ahead of a Jan. 31 deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The union, which represents more than 18,000 workers at Costco, said 85% of its members voted to authorize a strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The vote is a direct result of the company\u2019s continued failure to bargain constructively,&#8221; the union said in a post on X, adding that the master agreement between the two parties expires on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Costco did not immediately respond to a Reuters&#8217; request for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The final week of negotiations begins on Jan. 20, the union said in another X post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/costco-teamsters-vote-authorize-us-wide-strike-union-says-2025-01-20\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Teamsters said on Sunday its members at U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale&nbsp;(COST.O), opens new tab&nbsp;voted in favor of a nationwide strike, as they entered a final round of talks to reach a new contract ahead of a Jan. 31 deadline. The union, which represents more than 18,000 workers at Costco, said 85% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[22671,1378,9316,1672],"class_list":["post-37422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-costco","tag-strike","tag-teamsters","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37424,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422\/revisions\/37424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}