350,000 Teamsters are about to take on UPS

1. Jane works part time.. 4-5 hours, receives healthcare. If you don’t like the pay, situation or condition..leave? This isn’t a difficult concept. You want full time/living wage but you’re part time? Then leave for a full time job. What is the argument here? Why wait for a union to tell you have your life will go, that is insane.

2. We needed this Boston energy

3. Ive always said UPS is the backbone of this union,it may not have been like this always but its certainly that today !!!
   Im a retired teamster of 27 yrs,and my son works for UPS and he's ready to carry the torch !!!
   I never worked for UPS but the season of 2021 i worked as a seasonal jumper and loved it,i did a golf cart run on my own then jumped for a driver the rest of the day until the last package come off the truck,this is hard work !!! this is not an easy job,these UPS workers deserve all they get !!!

4. Teamster local 355 from Baltimore here. Thanks to the Real News Network for your coverage during this contract year.

5. I would have to say that UPS will hold out almost to the end. They are testing the new leadership that is now in control of the international teamsters and comparing to what they had for years with the HOFFA REGIME. UPS for years have made out big time with the HOFFA REGIME Now he has retired and the teamsters had to vote a new slate into office. Unfortunately during the HOFFA years thousands of members lost a great deal and the company prospered from it with more then 16 years in time and not one dollar more was given in raises into the pensions for all the members. Not until the last two contracts under the HOFFA RAGIME did they finally give its members and increase to their pensions but it came with an attachment that increase would go into paying a percentage of moneys into their health care. HOFFA and the COMPANY cut a big deal behind closed doors that year UPS handed over complete control of all health care benefits over to the INTERNATIONAL UNION and for the first time the union told its members that they had to pay a percentage of moneys into their health care benefits. So for more then 16 years the members after paying that percentage of health care they walked away with a hundred dollar increase in their pension. UPS got a sweet deal they did not have to deal with that major headache anymore they wiped their hands clean of that issue.The UNION under HOFFA also got a sweet deal and that was taking full control of the members health care. The HOFFA ADMINISTRATION never informed its members that the company was handing over complete control of health care to the UNIONS not until it was a done deal every member found out after the fact it was never addressed to the members for a vote so the HOFFA RAGIME rode those coat tails to another victory and took full credit and preached to the members on how great of a deal that they got for the members. HOFFA has retired and the members had to vote a new RAGIME into office and you have the O’BRIAN ADMINISTRATION TO ALL YOU UNOIN MEMBERS do not let your new leaders end up like the HOFFA ADMINISTRATION hold them accountable keep them in check remain vigilant they are talking tough OK good but’t don’t fold once you start you have to go all the way remain in solidarity!!! The big strike of 1997 lasted two weeks and the company lost a great deal and swore that they would never forget and so just remember that you members can be your own worst enemy’s after the first week on the picket lines fellow members went to the media to be interviewed and complained that the UNION made them strike against their wishes they did not want any part of striking so just food for thought if you go you go all the way. I truly do believe that UPS is holding off to the last minute as to test this new administration I believe that the company will not repeat the mistake they made back in 1997. Remember talk is cheap if this new administration the O’BRIAN ADMINISTRATION backs their rhetoric with ACTIONS and do what they say with out equivocation then you are good to go so good LUCK to all you teamsters stay tough and I hope that you all get what you deserve!!!! GOD BLESS!!!

6. Lol if teamsters puts UPS at a Business, all those people thinking, they’re so proud to be a teamster, gonna be crying when they lose their pensions

7. Teamsters are a bunch of gangsters

8. Shut up crybabies

9. Are you going to still vote for Biden again if he makes your strike illegal? That is what happened to the Railroad. Union Joe doesn't care about the workers.

10. How whants a job thats always a fight move on to bigger and better things

11. The retirees that retired this year and last year and so forth go on the on the picket line disabled workers 4 UPS on picket line is their pensions and so forth then they're messing with I don't care because a million billion dollar company UPS decent contract

12. You are a uneducated, unskilled and your representatives are in bed with the company! Good luck! You teamsters are screwed!

13. Their leader has sold them out nany times already. The union is for the union. Not the workers . The people that broke the strike lines before got rewarded,not punished, like the union said they would. No punishment, no real strike fund. Got 60$ a week last strike. Union collected money in the name of a strike fund, only for it to be more money for the politicians they obey.

14. Maybe it would be good to rethink that with the longshoremen about to go on strike. Not a good thing to do when you’re about to get hit with a lack of packages to move

15. This is what I would like to see on my company good for ups employees

16. If the Teamsters can cripple the scumbag corporate dogs ,maybe the workers in "Right to Work " States .will wake up.

17. Pretty much everyday I have a supervisor tell me I am ass loading trailers for ups. Plus I do my best, and still get yelled at.

18. I’m a teamster Local 705 Chicago proud card carrying member and a TDU member, and a DePaul University Labor Leadership program graduate. I understand UPS is the bread and butter of the Teamsters. I am not a UPSer, and I wish the Teamsters would show other divisions of the Teamsters this much fight when contracts come up. I’m tired of hearing “look at what we got for UPS” as if any of that money trickles down to other divisions of labor. I’m also tired of hearing “well you’re not UPS so you can’t have as much as they do”. I love my Teamster brothers and sisters of UPS but there’s more then just UPS in the Teamsters. Fight for the rest of us just as much and as hard as you do for UPS. Solidarity, stop the war on workers. Local 705 Mfer.

19. Hope teamsters doesnt sell us out like last contract! Wheres our pandemic pay?

20. – UPS makes more profit, claims that they're on the forefront of logistics and technology, yet refuses to create permanent full time positions for inside hub operations.
    – When we went on strike in '97, noone expected to be 22.3, an air driver, or a janitor (porter). We were in our 20s, worked like machines, and expected top rate pay for fulltime sorter and loader work. Its 2023. Time for young 20 something employees who hustle those long hours and work hard, to become permanent full time inside hourly employees.
    – The superhub in hodgkins il. Uped their starting rate to 22h and 24$ an hour for night and sunrise employees.
    It was an unequal m.r.a. exclusive to hodgekins, and those with less seniority.
    Like the 22.4 was totally redundant. When all they had to do, to fill part time positions, was to create new full time ones.
    Our next agreement needs to include:
    Permanent.
    – full time loader
    – full time sorter
    Positions, in every hub around the nation.

21. Teamsters is complicit.

22. As a 22 year member of UNITED PARCEL SERVICES we need your help from the bigger Union shops!

23. Crazy how this is the only big trucking carrier in the u.s.a with a union and there the biggest one by far, sure that's just a coincidence;)

24. Hell yeah TEAMSTER strong!!

25. Do you VOTE for Democrats?!? Did you vote for Biden?

26. Man I really have no clue why you people always want more.. more.. more??? You guys can't be that blind can you???? Do you people see what the union did to the automobile industry in. Michigan??
    Unions want want want….. how much money does someone deserve to take "BOLT A"… and insert into "NUT B"….. AT what point do you want…. yourself out of a job???
    Why you people didn't see your writing on the wall…. when first your employer brought in machines to do your jobs??? DID YOU PEOPLE GET THE MESSAGE????
    Of course not!!! Your teamsters… WE WANT.. WANT.. WANT…
    Even though your jobs stayed the same?? You want more money!!
    So guess what happened next???
    Once your employer brought in as many machines as they could…
    Unions still didn't understand…. they want want want…. even though your jobs stayed the same..
    PLEASE WILL ONE OF YOU TELL ME HOW MUCH MONEY DOES YOUR JOBS DESERVE?? DO YOU GUYS THINK THAT EVERY 2,3,4, YEARS, HOW EVER LONG YOUR CONTRACT IS THAT YOU GUYS WILL GET MORE MONEY EVERY TIME YOU GUYS GET A NEW CONTRACT???? PLEASE… SOMEONE EXPLAIN YOUR THINKING ON THIS??? Does your Job never max out??
    ĹOOK everyone always wants to make more money!! EVERYONE!! I absolutely understand that… but at what point….. do you price yourself out of a job??? LITERALLY!!!
    Can I ask you people something?? When you look at Detroit that is now not even a half of a shell of what it used to be….
    HONESTLY… DO YOU GUYS (LABOR UNIONS) TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT IT IS TODAY???
    OR DO YOU GUYS KEEP ON THAT MONTRA OF… OH IT'S THE GREEDY CAR MANUFACTURERS FAULT?? BECAUSE ALL THEY WANTED WAS TO PAY YOU GUYS SLAVE LABOR WAGES???
    NOW!!!! On this video we are strong and we will strike if we don't get what we want????
    WTF??? REALLY??? STRIKE???
    PLEASE… Can someone… anyone..
    Explain your thinking behind that statement??? Strike??
    NEWSFLASH????? PLEASE TELL ME, YOU GUYS GOT THE LETTER THAT HALF THE COUNTRY WAS PUT OUT OF WORK… AS WELL AS HALF OF THE WORLD AS WELL…
    BUT HEY… YOUR JOBS ARE SAFE AND SOUND.. NO WORRIES!!! YEAH BY ALL MEANS… GO ON STRIKE!!!! BUT DON'T WORRY… YOUR PRESIDENT HAS LET IN 5.5 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THIS COUNTRY… WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD… BUT DON'T WORRY.. HE'LL SAVE ALL OF YOUR JOBS FOR YOU.. HE'S GOT YOUR BACK… STRIKE AWAY!!!
    Oh yeah… don't worry about all those SELF DRIVING TRUCKS THAT ARE ON THE FREEWAYS RIGHT NOW GOING BACK AND FORTH FROM CALIFORNIA TO AZ.
    AZ. TO CALIFORNIA???
    AS PINK FLOYD ONCE SAID??????
    HELLO..ELLO.. LO…
    IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE??
    DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN? Hugh
    ONCE AGAIN THE EMPLOYERS BRINGING IN MACHINES….
    Hhmmmm… I wonder why????
    But don't worry.. biden and the democrats totally have your backs..
    By all means…..
    strike away young Skywalker…
    Strike away….
    There are no droids in here..
    keep walking….
    RIGHT..
    THERE ARE NO DROIDS IN HERE..
    LET'S KEEP WALKING…..

    STAY SAFE ALL….

27. That upper north east corner is a crap hole filled with butt holes. Glad I never have to go the that rude area again.

28. Also, fuck management

29. These massive corporations are making billions/trillions of dollars while the workers work their fingers to the bone! The workers deserve more money because inflation (gas, utilities, rents…) is going sky high!! UPS workers damn near kill themselves while the managers are rude, threatening, and disrespectful!

30. This is great and all especially for part timers but the one thing I have not heard anything about yet is wage increases to match inflation.. RR got damn near 20% increase in pay due to inflation. This needs to be on top of the list not just the “part time” campaign. Those of us full timers do not want to be going backwards. We were paid generously for our hard work but inflation has ruined that. We need a increase that’ll match inflation period for everyone part time and full.

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