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By May 7, federal mediator Kenneth Feinberg must decide whether to accept a plan to cut thousands of Teamsters payouts to prevent the Central States Pension Fund from going broke. The decision could set a national precedent for other multiemployer funds.

The Central States Pension Fund, jointly overseen by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and employers, is warning of insolvency by 2026 unless benefits are cut now. It has proposed to reduce pensions for about 115,500 retirees, slightly more than half of current retirees.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered FedEx Freight to recognize and bargain with Teamster locals at two terminals, siding with a National Labor Relations Board ruling to that effect.

Contract talks between the Teamsters and management negotiators for automobile transporters are due to resume this week as the parties seek to reach a tentative deal after union rank-and-file workers soundly defeated an earlier four-year proposal.

A port trucking firm in Carson, California, has been ordered to turn over nearly $7 million in back pay to 38 drivers, the latest in a series of recent wins for port drivers and the Teamsters union that has been trying to organize them.

The Teamsters and management negotiators seeking to reach a car-haul agreement will resume negotiations Nov. 17, a month after rank-and-file union members soundly rejected a tentative agreement.

The Teamsters called a strike at a FedEx Freight terminal in the Los Angeles area, but the company said disruption to customers was “effectively minimized.”

Teamsters-backed demonstrators continued to strike against XPO Logistics and Pacific 9 Transportation, two Southern California port trucking companies, as the battle to organize drayage drivers continued.