The union representing UPS pilots says they will not cross picket lines if Teamsters drivers and package sorters walk off the job when the current contract expires Aug. 1, resulting in the immediate shutdown of the express logistics company’s global air operations.
UPS (NYSE: UPS) has 3,300 pilots who are represented by the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), a separate union from the Teamsters.
“If the Teamsters are on strike, we will honor that strike and we will not fly,” IPA spokesman Brian Gaudet told FreightWaves.
UPS pilots are allowed under their collective bargaining agreement to honor primary picket lines and did that for 16 days during the Teamsters’ strike in 1997.
Big markup in union wages could hurt parcel carrier’s competitiveness, analysts warn
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If you can't run a courier service and make a profit without slave conditions, then maybe courier services should just be a public good unconcerned with profit
If you can't run a courier service and make a profit without slave conditions, then maybe courier services should just be a public good unconcerned with profit
The issue is that they can do that, but they won't make the most profit doing that; which means that investors will seek to abandon the company. The issue is of course systemic, and intrinsic to Capitalism as a mode of production.
I wondered if they were going to make national guardsmen drive the trains during the rail strike. But nah, I forgot that they can just declare strikes illegal.
It's looking like we're incrementally getting closer to a general strike
The recent strikes have unironically given me the tiniest smidgeon of hopium.
yeah. I whooped out loud when I heard SAG joined the writers guild strike. Solidarity Forever!!
sounds pretty dire, maybe management should just concede, oh, but that would make them a laughing stock at the adrenachrome parties, so they'll just stack another jenga block on top of the contradictions
so they'll just stack another jenga block on top of the contradictions
Listen, there's nothing indicating that the tower will ever stop growing or become unstable. We can just keep pulling blocks from the tower and stacking them and I assume it will grow infinitely.
Can't they just wait for Joe to be elected again smh
The surest sign dems are controlled opposition at best is how much of a slam dunk it would be against Trump or DeSantis if the democrats sided with the strikers and actually carried out pro-labor shit.
"Bu-but the mean old Republicans will point at this and say we're trying to shut down the economy!"
Then use the same gigantic liberal media apparatus you use to boost Biden and the Dem establishment and smear progressives towards spinning the story differently, you fucking imbeciles!
Of course then they'll just claim they're following "what the voters want" like spineless tailists and it goes on and on.
This isn't directed towards the Dems as a whole (as the leadership and media class know damn well who they serve) but more their on-the-ground supporters.
Even if it isn't what the dems want, why not do it anyways? CHUDs have been getting nothing but victories for years even when not in power, so why not do the right thing, even if it is unpopular (and the right thing always IS unpopular!)
are allowed under their collective bargaining agreement to honor primary picket lines
under this supreme court i don't think this will be true for long
Poor manager shows up for his first day "With the strike, we're gonna need you to pick up some of the worker's duties. You've flown in a 747 before right? You're gonna be doing that, but by yourself."
My mom asked why they’d go on strike “just to get air conditioning”
she‘s a fucking teacher too, if anything she should respect unions more than most peopleShe also went in to propose a delivery alternative that was just a reinvented costco lmao
