{"id":369374,"date":"2018-07-14T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ups-workers-oppose-sellout-contract-warn-of-union-fraud-to-pass-agreement\/"},"modified":"2018-07-14T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:24:03","slug":"ups-workers-oppose-sellout-contract-warn-of-union-fraud-to-pass-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ups-workers-oppose-sellout-contract-warn-of-union-fraud-to-pass-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS workers oppose sellout contract, warn of union fraud to pass agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cNow we\u2019re all slaves, no matter what color you are\u201d<\/h4>\n

UPS workers oppose sellout contract, warn of union fraud to pass agreement<\/h2>\n

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By
\n Kayla Costa
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14 July 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n

Opposition is growing among the more than 230,000 United Postal Services (UPS) workers to the sellout contract agreement released by the Teamsters union on Tuesday. The proposed deal would create a new second-tier driver position that will be used to destroy well-paid full-time jobs, maintain the company\u2019s ability to force employees to work over 70 hours a week, and do nothing to address poverty-level wages for part-time workers who make up 70 percent of the workforce.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the union announced that it was indefinitely extending the deadline for negotiations until after the July 31 expiration of the current agreement, to give the union more time to wear down opposition.<\/p>\n

World Socialist Web Site<\/em> reporters spoke with drivers and part-time workers at a UPS depot in Madison Heights near Detroit, Michigan. Most workers had not even been informed that the union had extended the contract deadline. Many said the union was seeking to find a way to push through the sellout agreement, and that it would resort to ballot stuffing to secure a \u201cyes\u201d vote.<\/p>\n

The UPS depot in Madison Heights, Michigan<\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same as the last contract in 2013,\u201d said a worker with 10 years, five of them as a driver and five in the warehouse. \u201cIt got shoved down our throats even though we voted \u2018no.\u2019 Not one person I spoke to voted \u2018yes\u2019 on that deal, and they put it through.\u201d<\/p>\n

The worker said he had \u201cread the whole damn contract, and it is BS. If you want to create a new driver job, you need to pay them like drivers,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t pay them BS to do our job. It\u2019s aimed at taking away overtime pay. The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 \u201cNow we\u2019re all slaves, no matter what color you are\u201d UPS workers oppose sellout contract, warn of union fraud to pass agreement By Kayla Costa 14 July 2018 Opposition is growing among the more than 230,000 United Postal Services (UPS) workers to the sellout contract agreement released by the Teamsters union on Tuesday. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}