Big titleJul 18, 2023
The transportation giant UPS began training non-union employees to replace unionized workers after the Teamsters truckers’ union voted to allow a strike due to impasse in contract negotiations. Unless there is a breakthrough, some 340,000 workers at UPS they could start picketing as early as August 1. Over the weekend, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a Teamsters truckers’ union rally with other New York lawmakers, pledging to support what could become the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez“What we are about to do requires the solidarity of everyone, of the whole city, of the whole country, of all the politicians, of all the unions, of all the workers, because the fight you are leading here is the beginning of the dignity of all the workers of this country. All workers in this country.
Click here to watch our interview with legendary historian of the Mexican Revolution, labor leader and professor John Womack Jr., on building worker power and solidarity.
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