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UPS begins talks this week with the Teamsters Union on the largest collective bargaining agreement in the US, with the union calling the parcel-delivery giant for improvements in part-timers and drivers’ compensation.
The outbreak of the campus strikes in New Jersey and Illinois threatens to break through the isolation imposed by the AFT bureaucracy and its local enforcers on the strike by U-M grad student instructors. This makes all the more sinister the promotion by the GEO leadership at U-M, dominated by the DSA, of the phony “reform” wing of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy headed by newly installed UAW president Shawn Fain.
Another poultry plant in Glen Allen, Virginia, has also been slated for closure as part of the company’s restructuring operations, in response to a record drop in profits over the past six months.
Labor leader Chris Smalls, president of Amazon Labor Union, speaks during the Labor Notes conference, in Chicago, Illinois. Smalls organized an Amazon…
And the only ones their legislation might spare are the unions representing cops and firefighters.