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Senator Bernie Sanders and senator Elizabeth Warren at the debate last night tackling topics like Climate Change, tariffs and trade. You outcompete them and put chief manufacturing officer in place to make sure we rebuild the manufacturing base, we have to fill the factories, we have to fill them with workers that are making batteries, charging stations, making sure making solar panels. Senator warrens plan basically that she would put out we would not be able to trade with the United Kingdom. W...

On an average day, US corporation United Parcel Service (UPS) moves the equivalent of 6% of US and 2% of global GDP! A strike by its heavily unionised US workforce – 330,000 International Brotherhood of Teamsters members out of half a million workers – would have been an event of global significance.

On an average day, US corporation United Parcel Service (UPS) moves the equivalent of 6% of US and 2% of global GDP! A strike by its heavily unionised US workforce – 330,000 International Brotherhood of Teamsters members out of half a million workers – would have been an event of global significance.

UPS workers in Chicago and New York spoke to the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> over the weekend about the national tentative agreement, as well as the low pay and poor working conditions they face daily. 

But the working class needs much more. And these moments when workers have huge strategic power in a tight labor market are fleeting.

The Nation Magazine

Friday saw a bit of a tremor run through the package delivery system we all take for granted. The question turned from “What can Brown do for you?” to “What are they going to do for...

Photo: UPS workers hold a rally in New York City to demand a fair contract, attended by PSL members and other community supporters. Liberation photo I

Deven Mantz graduated from Minot High School in western North Dakota with his class of 2009 and worked home construction in the first few years of the Great Recession.

The union has about 1.3 million members and controls a panoply of blue collar workers.