Dispatch from the Employer Offensive: Mauser Teamsters Strike Back

https://inthesetimes.com/article/mauser-teamsters-chicago-strike-union

Teamsters across the nation are striking to support Chicago factory workers’ fight for better wages, working conditions and immigration protections.

Luis Feliz Leon August 12, 2025



More than 100 Teamsters are on strike at the multinational Mauser Packaging Solutions plant in Chicago, where workers who recondition steel containers used to transport chemicals are demanding higher pay, safer working conditions, and contract language protecting immigrants.

The unfair-labor-practice strike by members of Teamsters Local 705 started June 9 after the union says the company illegally surveilled workers while talking with union representatives. It comes on the heels of Mauser locking out 20 members of Teamsters Local 117 in Seattle in April and eventually closing the plant.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters extended picket lines to Los Angeles and Minnesota in June. Teamsters didn’t report to work, refusing to cross the picket line in support of workers in Chicago.

On August 5, two months into the strike, hundreds of people, from elected officials to striking workers and their families to community organizations and labor federations like the AFL-CIO — with the ​“It’s Better in a Union” bus tour—rallied at Mauser headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.

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