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With the end of voting next Tuesday, the Teamsters bureaucracy is engaged in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure the passage of the sellout contract for 340,000 workers at UPS, combining a public relations blitz on social media with intimidation tactics against rank-and-file opponents.
Striking film and television workers, many who have been on the picket lines for weeks, joined UPS workers at the rally.
Teamsters head Sean O’Brien admitted that the union would keep workers on the job past the August 1 deadline in the event of a last-minute deal, violating their own pledge to strike UPS by the end of the month.
Portending a sellout contract on its official Twitter account, the Teamsters inion has promoted over two dozen politicians, mostly Democrats, who blocked railroad workers from striking last year.