:lets-fucking-go:
They are planning to not stick to the NLRB process that lets Amazon run expensive union busting campaigns.
You know how people talk about the mafia running the teamsters like it was a bad thing.
Nah, I want my bargaining team to threaten my boss with cement shoes.
Nah, I want my bargaining team to threaten my boss with cement shoes.
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Ayy, we're a gonna take a 10% of youra profits eh? And if youse not give them workers a raise we gonna takea your ballsa
With the Amazon Project, the Teamsters are taking a different approach that doesn't rely on the traditional National Labor Relations Board election process that allows employers to run sophisticated anti-union campaigns and involves the task of running elections warehouse by warehouse.
Instead the Teamsters plan to focus on a series of pressure campaigns involving work stoppages, petitions, and other collective action to push Amazon to recognize a union and bargain over working conditions. This tactic mirrors how the Teamsters organized its first members, horse drivers, grave haulers, and beer wagon drivers, who did not have union rights in the early twentieth century, using shop floor strikes, city-wide strikes, and other mass collective action in the streets.
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Teamsters are the obvious natural fit, and they have the size and experience to make it happen.
Teamsters get a bad rap for Hoffa, but God damn of they aren't good at solidarity. If you're throwing a picket or trying to organize, always reach out to the teamsters. It's them and IBEW that still have brawlers that can't wait to punch scabs and cops.
Aren't ILWU still somewhat radical? I remember :brace-cowboy: implying it at one point, which is why he pushed to organize Anchor Steam with them
Yeah, they do slowdowns over nearly nothing, and have shut down the port over the Iraq war and BLM. They're the closest thing the US has to a French union.
It's awesome to see real unionising strategies being used in the US instead of the neutered bureaucratic elections you usually see.
They aren't perfect, but I've never met a teamster I didn't enjoy hanging with. Probably the most militant union asides from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Ah, Teamsters. The best and worst union in America. This is incredibly based, but if it ends up anything like how UPS is unionized, then most of the in-house dock workers will still get thrown under the bus for the sake of the drivers.
Sadly the in house workers often don't realize the extent of their union protection.
I can't really blame them, honestly. Folks I knew got $10 an hour, no pension, one 15 minute break per shift, and they had to work on the dock for a full 13 months before health benefits kicked in. And that was with teamster unionization.
Ughhhh. Unions are as much a recuperating force as a liberating one in the US.
I heard their new contract kicked it up to like $14-15 an hour, pension, full medical-dental-eye coverage, and cut the wait to like 9-ish months. dunno about breaks though.
If that's the case it's a big improvement. Still sucks they don't get health coverage from day one though.
The health insurance plan is something you'd pay $10,000-20,000 (single/family) for if it was a comparable marketplace plan (the benefits seem comparable to a Gold-tier plan) -- if you're married, that's almost equivalent to the entire yearly pay of a part-time position (I think, might be off by a bit since this is my boyfriend's job, not mine). I don't know how much premiums you have to pay for Amazon's insurance plan, but I feel pretty damn sure UPS workers are coming out ahead, since I don't think many other places are giving out health insurance plans worth that much, with no premiums, for a part-time non-specialist job.
Amazon single insurance is free blue cross blue shield idk family premiums.
Lets gooooooooo.
If amazon doesn’t like it, the teamsters can simply not deliver shit to their distribution centers. Pimp move.
This is too bad. It’s like letting El Chapo’s cartel run the police :(
I don't get it. Ep chapo seem to be a little on the lib side, and as podcasters are surely not prepared to run an institution, but surely they'll at least reform and defined it...
Holy shit this is huge. My friend works at amazon and hearing them talk about it is so awful. o7 teamsters
