{"id":324315,"date":"2026-06-30T06:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324315\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:05:27","slug":"penske-teamsters-in-florida-and-missouri-authorize-a-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324315\/","title":{"rendered":"Penske Teamsters in Florida and Missouri Authorize a Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260629-Penske-Strike_v1-1264x1580.png\"   alt=\"20260629-Penske-Strike_v1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tAs Regional Master Contract Deadline Looms, Teamsters Prepare for Labor Stoppage<\/p>\n<p class=\"single__press--item\">Press Contact: Maura Drumm\u00a0Phone: (215) 510-3735\u00a0Email: MDrumm@teamster.org<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(WASHINGTON) \u2013 Ahead of a June 30 contract expiration, Penske workers represented by Teamsters Locals 79, 512, 541, 618, and 769 have taken an overwhelming strike authorization. The nearly 250 Penske Teamsters are covered by the Southcentral and Southeastern Regional Master Agreements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPenske is a multibillion-dollar corporation that can more than afford to offer Teamsters a fair contract,\u201d said Rocco Calo, Director of the Teamsters Industrial Trades Division. \u201cPenske is trying to place the costs and burdens of their mismanagement onto the backs of Teamsters by denying them fair wage increases, proposing pension freezes, and rejecting a fair attendance system they already have in place.\u00a0Teamsters won\u2019t stand for it, and this strike authorization should make that abundantly clear to Penske leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to making insulting proposals, Penske has engaged in illegal, regressive bargaining with the most recent example happening today when they significantly changed the health care proposal that both parties had already tentatively agreed to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fact the company already agreed to our current health care and then shows up this morning and proposes drastic changes to it is a complete slap in the face,\u201d said Mike Schanuth, a Penske Teamster from Local 541 and member of the bargaining committee. \u201cIt\u2019s long past due for our employer to get serious. The clock is ticking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negotiations\u00a0are scheduled to\u00a0continue through June 30. If an agreement is not reached, Teamsters at Penske will be forced to strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/teamster.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teamster.org<\/a> for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and \u201clike\u201d us on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teamsters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com\/teamsters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Regional Master Contract Deadline Looms, Teamsters Prepare for Labor Stoppage Press Contact: Maura Drumm\u00a0Phone: (215) 510-3735\u00a0Email: MDrumm@teamster.org&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,81888,134182,41638],"class_list":["post-324315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-penske","tag-rocco-calo","tag-teamsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}