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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3630464" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>workers should own and control their own labour. not rent themselves as employees and take orders.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/17/upsc-j17.html" target="_blank">Wall Street celebrates Teamsters deal with UPS</a></p><p></p><p>Rank-and-file workers have nothing but scorn for the Teamsters’ efforts to claim the deal contains “tremendous gains.”</p><p></p><p>Chris, a UPS driver in New York City with 31 years at the company, told the World Socialist Web Site’s <em>UPS Workers Newsletter</em>, “The company is proceeding like the contract has already passed. The Teamsters have sold out the membership with this deal and the deadline extension is just another move to make sure a work stoppage doesn't occur. <strong>The bottom line is [Teamsters President James] Hoffa and the Teamsters are UPS’ tools to help with their corporate agenda. Everyone has seen the union sellout and have zero faith in the system.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>“I have been working for more than three decades and it’s like night and day from when I began to the current situation.</strong> The contracts have ‘gray language’ that the company has exploited in arbitration regarding seniority, excessive overtime and subcontractors along with salary concessions. I have lost almost $2,000 a month from my pension and we are all staying longer now to survive.”</p><p></p><p>...David, a part-time worker in Oakland, told the WSWS <em>UPS Workers Newsletter</em> that he would vote “no” because the deal sold out both older and new workers. Having worked as a driver for ten years,<strong> he said the new deal is on the road to destroy basic rights for younger workers. “In ten more years, there will be no more health care, no more pension.”</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3630464, member: 56035"] workers should own and control their own labour. not rent themselves as employees and take orders. [URL='https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/17/upsc-j17.html']Wall Street celebrates Teamsters deal with UPS[/URL] Rank-and-file workers have nothing but scorn for the Teamsters’ efforts to claim the deal contains “tremendous gains.” Chris, a UPS driver in New York City with 31 years at the company, told the World Socialist Web Site’s [I]UPS Workers Newsletter[/I], “The company is proceeding like the contract has already passed. The Teamsters have sold out the membership with this deal and the deadline extension is just another move to make sure a work stoppage doesn't occur. [B]The bottom line is [Teamsters President James] Hoffa and the Teamsters are UPS’ tools to help with their corporate agenda. Everyone has seen the union sellout and have zero faith in the system. “I have been working for more than three decades and it’s like night and day from when I began to the current situation.[/B] The contracts have ‘gray language’ that the company has exploited in arbitration regarding seniority, excessive overtime and subcontractors along with salary concessions. I have lost almost $2,000 a month from my pension and we are all staying longer now to survive.” ...David, a part-time worker in Oakland, told the WSWS [I]UPS Workers Newsletter[/I] that he would vote “no” because the deal sold out both older and new workers. Having worked as a driver for ten years,[B] he said the new deal is on the road to destroy basic rights for younger workers. “In ten more years, there will be no more health care, no more pension.”[/B] [/QUOTE]
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