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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3872404" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21647/labor-stories-year-janus-prison-strike-me-too-deportations-amazon-ups" target="_blank">The 8 Most Important Labor Stories of 2018</a></p><p></p><p><strong>6. Teamsters leadership flouted union democracy at United Parcel Service (UPS).</strong></p><p></p><p>But in a year when Amazon workers made huge strides, more than 240,000 UPS workers fell behind. UPS is both a provider for and a competitor to Amazon. When the latter, non-union company announced it was bumping employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, it added <a href="http://www.labornotes.org/2018/10/updated-teamster-brass-overrule-member-no-vote-ups" target="_blank">insult to injury</a> for unionized UPS workers who had just been offered a new contract containing a starting pay of $13, with no “catch-up raises” for those who had been underpaid for years.</p><p></p><p>Incredibly, thanks to a massive “vote no” <a href="http://labornotes.org/2018/08/vote-no-sentiment-escalating-ups" target="_blank">campaign</a> and a viral YouTube <a href="http://www.labornotes.org/2018/07/ups-teamsters-take-two-tier" target="_blank">video</a> called “Why the UPS 2018 Contract Sucks!” 54 percent of rank-and-file members voted in October to reject the deal. Even more incredibly, Teamster brass quickly announced that they would ratify it anyway, citing a loophole in the union’s constitution.</p><p></p><p>As Joe Allen <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/ups-contract-rejection-james-hoffa-hybrid-drivers" target="_blank">wrote in <em>Jacobin</em></a><em>, </em>Teamsters President James Hoffa’s bid to side with the bosses will have far-reaching consequences:</p><p></p><p>Hoffa’s sabotage at UPS is not only a catastrophe for UPS Teamsters — it is a gift to antiunion forces in the <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/labors-choice-after-janus" target="_blank">Janus era</a>. If a boss wanted to make up a story to defeat a fledgling union drive — with indifferent union leaders who collect members’ dues, negotiate a contract with a lower starting pay than non-union Amazon, and then flagrantly ignore those workers’ clearly and democratically stated objections to that contract — they couldn’t come up with one as good as what’s just played out between UPS and the Teamsters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3872404, member: 56035"] [URL="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21647/labor-stories-year-janus-prison-strike-me-too-deportations-amazon-ups"]The 8 Most Important Labor Stories of 2018[/URL] [B]6. Teamsters leadership flouted union democracy at United Parcel Service (UPS).[/B] But in a year when Amazon workers made huge strides, more than 240,000 UPS workers fell behind. UPS is both a provider for and a competitor to Amazon. When the latter, non-union company announced it was bumping employees’ minimum wage to $15 an hour, it added [URL='http://www.labornotes.org/2018/10/updated-teamster-brass-overrule-member-no-vote-ups']insult to injury[/URL] for unionized UPS workers who had just been offered a new contract containing a starting pay of $13, with no “catch-up raises” for those who had been underpaid for years. Incredibly, thanks to a massive “vote no” [URL='http://labornotes.org/2018/08/vote-no-sentiment-escalating-ups']campaign[/URL] and a viral YouTube [URL='http://www.labornotes.org/2018/07/ups-teamsters-take-two-tier']video[/URL] called “Why the UPS 2018 Contract Sucks!” 54 percent of rank-and-file members voted in October to reject the deal. Even more incredibly, Teamster brass quickly announced that they would ratify it anyway, citing a loophole in the union’s constitution. As Joe Allen [URL='https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/ups-contract-rejection-james-hoffa-hybrid-drivers']wrote in [I]Jacobin[/I][/URL][I], [/I]Teamsters President James Hoffa’s bid to side with the bosses will have far-reaching consequences: Hoffa’s sabotage at UPS is not only a catastrophe for UPS Teamsters — it is a gift to antiunion forces in the [URL='https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/labors-choice-after-janus']Janus era[/URL]. If a boss wanted to make up a story to defeat a fledgling union drive — with indifferent union leaders who collect members’ dues, negotiate a contract with a lower starting pay than non-union Amazon, and then flagrantly ignore those workers’ clearly and democratically stated objections to that contract — they couldn’t come up with one as good as what’s just played out between UPS and the Teamsters. [/QUOTE]
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