May 16, 2022
A distributor that supplies restaurants including Starbucks renewed its Illinois federal court challenge to an arbitration award requiring it to pay Teamsters-represented workers for wages missed when their hours were cut early in the pandemic, reiterating that COVID-19 was "an act of God" that nullified its obligation.
May 11, 2021
A Teamsters local asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to enforce an arbitration award that found a food distributor violated a labor contract by cutting union workers' hours during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the arbitrator reasonably found the company's actions were not in response to "an act of God."