UPS and the "Package King" - Socialist Worker
United Parcel Service is one of the most recognized brands in the world of corporations. But the company's image has been meticulously created. Once you pierce the brown wall of propaganda, what's behind isn't pretty--as union workers, mainly members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at the company's 1,900 U.S. facilities know well.
In this first article in an occasional series on the history of United Parcel Service and workers' resistance to Big Brown, Joe Allen examines the company's founder James E. Casey--the so-called "Package King"--whose personality and polices still shape UPS to this very day.
United Parcel Service is one of the most recognized brands in the world of corporations. But the company's image has been meticulously created. Once you pierce the brown wall of propaganda, what's behind isn't pretty--as union workers, mainly members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at the company's 1,900 U.S. facilities know well.
In this first article in an occasional series on the history of United Parcel Service and workers' resistance to Big Brown, Joe Allen examines the company's founder James E. Casey--the so-called "Package King"--whose personality and polices still shape UPS to this very day.