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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 years ago

Risk of major disruption as UPS strike looms in US

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Risk of major disruption as UPS strike looms in US

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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 years ago
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"I'd like to strike just to teach them a lesson," says long-time UPS worker Antonio Rosario.
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  • RichardBonham@kbin.social
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    I like how the interviewee remarked on his concerns for the younger union members.

    I imagine the Teamsters are too large and too savvy to go for a new contract that creates a two-tier system of new members with a crappier package than senior members. They should know that would be a death spiral for union membership.

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    So, Biden and Congress are going to step in again and break this strike like they did with train workers, right? They’re both logistics unions that will (apparently) cripple supply chains if they go on strike.

    If they say there’s no legal mechanism for that: they have a template and it already passed constitutional tests - the same teeth the Railroad Labor Act has can just as easily be applied to UPS/FedEx/DHL via a new law.

    If Biden and Congress aren’t consistent with their logic on this it just proves how deep in the railroad baron pockets they really are.

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      Except that the Biden Administration kept working with the railroad unions for months after the strike to pressure the railroad companies to give them sick leave, resulting in the railroad companies caving and giving the unions everything they wanted this spring. Union leaders are on record saying they couldn’t have gotten it done without the Administration’s help.

      But progress doesn’t sell as well in the papers as doom and despair, so almost no one knows about it.

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    USPS looking at this to finally be profitable!

    … Unless you actually work there cuz that’ll suck

    Edit: It’s a joke guys

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    Good for them… Degenerates in charge don’t understand anything less than hurt profits, so let’s hurt their profits.

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    Good

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