The 340,000 Teamsters union members at United Parcel Service have spent the past year preparing to strike when their contract expires Aug.1, but they probably won’t need to employ the strike weapon this go-around. “We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” Teamsters President…
The only Teamsters affiliate to vote against recommending the proposed UPS deal was one of the biggest, Local 89 in Louisville. The move comes just before rank-and-file Teamsters are set
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This is a serious warning to workers that, despite militant rhetoric designed to lull them to sleep, the union bureaucracy and Washington are cooking up a sequel to last year's pro-company rail contract at UPS.
At all of the various sessions and workshops, the trade unions were presented as leading the growing wage militancy of the working class. In fact, the opposite is the case.