International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 743 v. Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare and Pension Funds

  1. April 25, 2022

    Teamsters End Dispute Over Employer's Vaccine Requirement

    A Chicago-based Teamsters unit signaled Friday that it's ending a challenge to a pension fund's COVID-19 vaccination requirement after an arbitrator determined the policy was reasonable for the company's return to office.

  2. October 13, 2021

    Teamsters Can't Arbitrate Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine Policy

    An Illinois federal judge rejected a Teamsters local unit's request to send a pension fund's new COVID-19 vaccination policy to interest arbitration, saying the arbitration clause in the parties' union contract is too narrow to apply to the mandate.

  3. August 03, 2021

    Judge Says Teamsters Can't Halt Pension Fund's Vax Mandate

    An Illinois federal judge declined Tuesday to block a labor health fund from implementing a vaccine requirement for its employees, saying a Teamsters local that challenged the mandate did not show the workers would face irreparable harm if the policy took effect.

  4. July 26, 2021

    Teamsters Pension Fund Says Union Can't Stop Vax Mandate

    A local Teamsters chapter representing employees of the union's pension fund can't block it from rolling out a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the fund told an Illinois federal judge, opposing the union's recent attempt to temporarily halt the policy.

  5. July 20, 2021

    COVID Vax Requirement Flouts Labor Contract, Teamsters Say

    An employer's policy requiring workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to in-person work or face disciplinary procedures violates workers' collective bargaining agreements, a local Teamsters chapter said Monday in a lawsuit brought against one of the country's largest labor health care funds.