Posted on 07/17/2023 7:20:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told union members over the weekend that the White House has been asked not to intervene if United Parcel Service (UPS) workers strike, saying the administration should only be concerned with corporate greed.
“We’ve been very clear with the White House,” O’Brien said on a UPS Teamsters members update webinar on Sunday when asked about the chances of the White House forcing a contract.
“We told the White House — and I used this analogy throughout our negotiations, throughout our rallies and practice pickets that we have taken a strong position with the White House that, you know, my neighborhood where I grew up in Boston, if two people had a disagreement and you had nothing to do with it, you just kept walking. And we echoed that to the White House on numerous occasions and we don’t need anybody getting involved in this fight,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
We stopped using UPS entirely in our business. The service was bad, and getting worse.
Perhaps:
Kindly send & pickup your UPS packages at UPS store franchisees.
From American history:
“The first signs of trouble came in 1942, when Avery insisted that he would not accede to a deal with the union representing workers at Montgomery Ward’s central Chicago warehouse (devised by the National War Labor Board, or NWLB, a federal agency for mediating labor disputes) unless personally ordered to comply by the president. When Roosevelt did so, Avery yielded, albeit under protest. One year later, however, labor negotiations faltered again. This time, Avery refused to renew the contract, obey NWLB orders or recognize the Chicago warehouse union.
“Under Section 7 the War Labor Disputes Act of 1943 (the Smith-Connally Act), the NWLB had jurisdiction only over disputes that might ‘lead to substantial interference with the war effort.’ Montgomery Ward’s lawyers took the position that its primary areas of business were not related to the war effort and, as such, the NWLB lacked jurisdiction over it.”
“President Franklin Roosevelt ordered his secretary of commerce to seize Montgomery Ward’s Chicago-based corporate headquarters. Two days later, soldiers carried the company’s scowling CEO from the building, sparking political outcry.”
Dead fish?
It is fitting that the Teamsters now go to Joe Biden for a favor, since he went to them many years ago for a favor.
Perhaps:
Dear Store Franchisees:
Please pickup your loaded UPS truck at our local facility in the morning, unload its contents into your store, and return it after you close your store.
From my history as a 34 year Teamster. ALL Teamster leadership are corrupt dem political hacks. In 34 years I never saw a single one who wasn’t.
From Wikipedia:
On August 28, 1907, James E. Casey founded the American Messenger Company with Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, capitalized with $100 in debt. Most deliveries at this time were made on foot and bicycles were used for longer trips.
The American Messenger Company focused primarily on package delivery to retail stores with special delivery mail delivered for its largest client the U.S. Post Office. In 1913, the company acquired a Model T Ford as its first delivery vehicle. Casey and Ryan merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe, and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. Consolidated delivery was also introduced, combining packages addressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle. In 1916, Charlie Soderstrom joined Merchants Parcel Delivery bringing in more vehicles for the growing delivery business. In 1919, the company expanded for the first time outside of Seattle to Oakland, California, and changed its name to United Parcel Service. The name change to United Parcel Service was to remind the company that expansion operations were still United under the same organization and Parcel identified the type of business offered as part of its Service. Common carrier service was acquired in 1922 from a company in Los Angeles, California. UPS became one of the only companies in the United States to offer common carrier service. At first common carrier was only limited to a small area around Los Angeles but by 1927 expanded to areas up to 125 miles outside the city. In 1924, a conveyor belt system was debuted for the handling of packages for UPS operations.
In 1930, a consolidated service began in New York City, and soon after in other major cities in the East and the Midwest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service
In 2001, UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc., Inc., a franchised network of packing and shipping retail centers across the United States and Canada. In 2003, the company rebranded the Mail Boxes, Etc. network as The UPS Store.
CEO Carol Tomé reported that Amazon paid UPS $11.3 billion in shipping in 2020, accounting for 13.3% of the company’s revenue.
UPS Woldport is the company’s worldwide hub, located at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Due to the UPS worldwide hub being located at this airport, the Louisville International Airport is the fourth-busiest cargo airport in the world, and the second busiest in the United States.
In term of capacity and how busy the worldwide hub is, it consist of:
290 aircraft;
more than 20,000 employees who support the airline;
115 packages per second or 416,000 packages flowing through facilities every hour;
and 5.2 million square feet of building space (about 90 football fields) that house equipment and operations.
For the fiscal year 2022, UPS reported earnings of US$11.55 billion, with an annual revenue of US$100.34 billion, an increase of 3% over the previous fiscal cycle. UPS ranked No. 34 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
The Teamsters need not worry. Joe Biden likes trains, budding young ladies, and unions.
saying the administration should only be concerned with corporate greed.
Do not let this article die. Repeat it often in your conversations........................
That’s a very informative article and a misuse of government power.
FDR was a thug and a tool of Big Labour.
Just like Biden.
“Don’t speak with UPS if you’re the receiver. Speak with the shipper. It’s what UPS wants you to do anyway”
https://www.reddit.com/r/UPS/comments/up2uhl/why_does_ups_has_the_absolute_worst_customer/
After UPS screwed me 3 times last year I no longer use them. Lost packages and charging me extra to hold an order at their facility for pick up.
Stopped using UPS years ago, they are not as user friendly as other services. This strike could be the death of UPS. Amazon will adjust its deliveries and use other services or route more stuff through the USPS. Once major corporation’s switch to another user, unless the services is really bad, they will not re-calibrate and go back to the old service. Too much of a hassle switching back and forth, especially if the strike goes longer than a week or two.
I thought the same thing - it will kill UPS. And the union's response makes me suspect they are fine with that, as long as they get to TAKE OVER the corpse that remains, kinda like GM in 2009. They could do it, after all, because they have Obama 2.0 in the White House.
Ironically, it’s the opposite here, with FedEx having been degrading incrementally to be a total joke of-late.
Great service from UPS.
Sounds like they have management issues. Probably by region as well. 300k employees...can’t imagine why. /s
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