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Casey Invited The Teamsters To Organize At UPS
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<blockquote data-quote="Insincerity" data-source="post: 1211562" data-attributes="member: 28910"><p>I found this within a larger article and maybe it provides "an" insight if no real truth or insight. I am not sure.<em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>As early as 1916, Jim Casey, the founder of UPS, approached the Teamsters about representing his workforce when it was still a bicycle messenger service based in Seattle. Niemann recognized that Seattle was “a haven for left-wing politics” where activists called “for the emancipation of the working class from the ‘slave bondage of capitalism.’” Niemann believes Casey’s willingness to allow his workforce to be represented by the conservative Teamsters came out of his “family” approach to business. <span style="color: #FF0000">But isn’t the obvious answer that Casey hoped to preempt his workforce from joining more radical unions or unions with more militant leaderships?</span> In the 1930s, Casey cut a deal with West Coast Teamster leader Dave Beck to represent UPS drivers and warehouse workers. Beck was a firm believer in “business unionism” and hostile to rank-and-file control of the unions. “Unions are big business,” Beck once declared. “Why should truck drivers and bottle washers be allowed to make big decisions affecting union policy? Would any corporation allow it?” Casey would have agreed.</em></p><p><a href="http://isreview.org/issues/58/rev-ups.shtml" target="_blank">International Socialist Review</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Insincerity, post: 1211562, member: 28910"] I found this within a larger article and maybe it provides "an" insight if no real truth or insight. I am not sure.[I] As early as 1916, Jim Casey, the founder of UPS, approached the Teamsters about representing his workforce when it was still a bicycle messenger service based in Seattle. Niemann recognized that Seattle was “a haven for left-wing politics” where activists called “for the emancipation of the working class from the ‘slave bondage of capitalism.’” Niemann believes Casey’s willingness to allow his workforce to be represented by the conservative Teamsters came out of his “family” approach to business. [COLOR=#FF0000]But isn’t the obvious answer that Casey hoped to preempt his workforce from joining more radical unions or unions with more militant leaderships?[/COLOR] In the 1930s, Casey cut a deal with West Coast Teamster leader Dave Beck to represent UPS drivers and warehouse workers. Beck was a firm believer in “business unionism” and hostile to rank-and-file control of the unions. “Unions are big business,” Beck once declared. “Why should truck drivers and bottle washers be allowed to make big decisions affecting union policy? Would any corporation allow it?” Casey would have agreed.[/I] [URL="http://isreview.org/issues/58/rev-ups.shtml"]International Socialist Review[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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