{"id":380341,"date":"2018-10-10T00:24:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ups-workers-opposition-grows-to-teamsters-defiance-of-contract-vote\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T23:24:16","slug":"ups-workers-opposition-grows-to-teamsters-defiance-of-contract-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ups-workers-opposition-grows-to-teamsters-defiance-of-contract-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS workers\u2019 opposition grows to Teamsters\u2019 defiance of contract vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UPS workers\u2019 opposition grows to Teamsters\u2019 defiance of contract vote<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>9 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Anger is growing among tens of thousands of United Parcel Service (UPS) workers across the United States to the Teamsters union\u2019s decision to impose its sellout contract in defiance of last Friday\u2019s \u201cno\u201d vote by workers.<\/p>\n<p>A clear majority of workers, over 54 percent, voted \u201cno\u201d on the contract. The Teamsters is utilizing an obscure and nakedly antidemocratic clause in its constitution that permits it to impose the contract if fewer than half the workers participate in the vote, unless a two-thirds majority votes \u201cno.\u201d The Teamsters claims that 44 percent of workers participated.<\/p>\n<p>Among workers there is widespread support for a fight. In the Teamsters union, UPS management, and the entire ruling class there is immense nervousness over the possibility of a rebellion by workers, under conditions of a growing mood of struggle among workers across the US and internationally. The corporate media has largely maintained silence on the Teamsters\u2019 repudiation of the vote, with the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> and other major publications failing to even mention it.<\/p>\n<p>There is deep distrust and skepticism among workers about the officially reported figures for both the vote and the turnout. This was the first UPS contract in which the Teamsters utilized an electronic voting system requiring workers to vote on their computer or phone using a code sent to them by mail. Many workers report that they never received their ballot code.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/11b1dd5b-6ed9-490d-9172-6fbc069c9daN\/image.png?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/11b1dd5b-6ed9-490d-9172-6fbc069c9daN\/image.png?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Delivery trucks at the UPS facility in Madison Heights<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Tim, an air-driver in Michigan, told us yesterday, \u201cI don\u2019t trust the electronic thing or them mailing it. Why can\u2019t we just hold a meeting at each hub and vote&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/09\/upsw-o09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UPS workers\u2019 opposition grows to Teamsters\u2019 defiance of contract vote By our reporters 9 October 2018 Anger is growing among tens of thousands of United Parcel Service (UPS) workers across the United States to the Teamsters union\u2019s decision to impose its sellout contract in defiance of last Friday\u2019s \u201cno\u201d vote by workers. A clear [&hellip;]<\/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-380341","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\/380341","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=380341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}