“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract

Re:“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Cont... by ImaCake on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:01PM (#36870223)

If that’s true then UPS management is not very smart. Thanks to changing demographics there is now a permanent worker shortage which has allowed these strikes to succeed. You can’t threaten to fire people when they know they can get hired by the next company. The workers will just call your bluff.

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Re:“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Cont... by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:23PM (#36870484)

I worked with UPS's top management in an outside consulting role unrelated to labor issues around the time of their first contract negotiations after the strike of the 90s. Avoiding another strike was their number one priority even if they had to put out a strong public face of something different. Workers have fared well each time the contract has come up and I believe the 90s strike had far more impact on the company's management culture than most, even the union, realizes. The folks I worked with seemed to believe another strike would be perhaps not fatal but damaging enough to put the company on a path towards death. It was to be avoided at all costs.

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Re:“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Cont... by vGPU on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:06AM (#36873339)

Nobody really notices that the garbage on TV is a rerun and not a new season of my 600lb life.

They notice really quick when their Amazon packages get delayed.

If a worker strike caused Amazon delays by 2-3 days people would be storming UPS headquarters.

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