More than two-thirds of UPS’ US package volume now handled in automated facilities
These developments further expose the Teamsters’ so-called “historic” 2023 contract as a historic sellout.
Alex Findijs•
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Manhattan UPS workers sleep in cafeteria, wander streets overnight under split-shift regime
UPS has eliminated the Midnight shift at its Manhattan hub, forcing full-time workers onto split shifts with five to six unpaid hours between them—too short for many to travel home and sleep. Workers sleep in the cafeteria, wander the streets and, in some cases, remain cut off from their families, while Teamsters officials reject collective action against the restructuring.
A. Woodson, Steve Light•
UPS worker killed at Horsham, Pennsylvania hub
As of publication, neither Teamsters Local 384, the Teamsters national union, nor its Package Division have issued a public statement on the death.
Leon Gutierrez•
Teamsters and Department of Justice move to end federal oversight of union after 37 years
The winding down of the monitorship does not mark the end of corruption inside the union or even a separation between the union bureaucracy and the capitalist state. It amounts to official sanction for the corruption and bureaucratic suppression through which the apparatus polices the rank and file.
Alex Findijs•
Alex Findijs, Tom Hall•
A. Woodson, Robert Milkowski•
Leon Gutierrez•
Erik Schreiber•
Elliott Murtagh, A. Woodson•
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