UPS (Brown) Chicago considering PEAK TIME strike

[underpants]

This is from 2 weeks ago but I just heard about it.

UPS Freight's drivers are voting November 11th whether or not to strike.

Chicago Teamsters Consider Peak Season Strike at UPS

If UPS keeps stonewalling in upcoming bargaining, members of Chicago-area Teamsters Local 705 will take a strike vote in early November, for a possible walkout the week after Thanksgiving. That’s peak season at UPS.

Stewards greeted this morning’s announcement from Secretary-Treasurer Juan Campos, the union’s principal officer, with “lots of rounds of applause,” said bargaining team member and UPS feeder driver Dave Bernt.

There’s one bargaining session left, October 25-26, and Bernt said the union is approaching it in good faith.

“But if the company continues doing what they did in negotiations the last times we met, which was basically just stall and do nothing, that’s the direction we’re going to move,” he said. “We’ll actually try to use our leverage, unlike the IBT.”

https://truthout.org/articles/chicago-teamsters-consider-peak-season-strike-at-ups/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Oh boy,this could be major.

705 has in the past had a carve out from the National Master Freight. These folks run the Rail Pigs as all the Distribution Breaking Stations .

[underpants]

3. This appears to be partially an internal power struggle

There's something called Teamsters United which is trying to draw members away from the different parts of the Teamsters. Don't know the guy's name but he's trying to make a big splash by showing how hardcore he is.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Use to be a group out of Detroit

that first promoted this. Chi Town will have their own sub Contract,watch and see.

[Cal Carpenter]

2. As someone with a small bricks-and-mortar business

who gets most of our inventory delivered by UPS and could very likely be extremely inconvenienced by this, I FULLY SUPPORT THESE WORKERS!!!!

SOLIDARITY!!!!

(ETA I just realized this is Chicago area, probably will not effect me at all. But I posted the above with the assumption that it could and I meant it!)