Teamsters bureaucracy does nothing as UPS announces hundreds of additional layoffs
As UPS continues mass layoffs, Teamsters bureaucrats promote Trump’s newly confirmed right-wing Labor Secretary, former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRememer.
Joshua Rodriguez•
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Swan Island UPS hub set to close July 1 as industry-wide closures and layoffs continue
This follows the discontinuation of the day sort shift in mid-April of last year when over 300 UPS part-timers were laid off by the company, citing a decline in package volume as the main excuse.
Joshua Rodriguez•
Teamsters confirm closure of UPS Swan Island hub in Portland as part of nationwide automation drive
This is the latest hub to be closed since the passage of the new Teamsters contract in 2023, which union officials falsely described as a "historic" victory.
Tom Hall, Alden Woodsen•
UPS to close down Portland facility next summer, as workers condemn mass layoffs enabled by Teamsters union
Current and recently retired UPS workers in California recently spoke to WSWS reporters on the ongoing layoffs and the refusal of the union to fight for workers.
Jacob Crosse, Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez•
Alex Findijs, Joshua Rodriguez•
Alden Woodson•
Jerry White•
Alex Findijs•
Alex Findijs•
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Teamsters bureaucracy does nothing as UPS announces hundreds of additional layoffs
As UPS continues mass layoffs, Teamsters bureaucrats promote Trump’s newly confirmed right-wing Labor Secretary, former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRememer.
•Joshua Rodriguez
Swan Island UPS hub set to close July 1 as industry-wide closures and layoffs continue
This follows the discontinuation of the day sort shift in mid-April of last year when over 300 UPS part-timers were laid off by the company, citing a decline in package volume as the main excuse.
•Joshua Rodriguez
Teamsters confirm closure of UPS Swan Island hub in Portland as part of nationwide automation drive
This is the latest hub to be closed since the passage of the new Teamsters contract in 2023, which union officials falsely described as a "historic" victory.
•Tom Hall, Alden Woodsen
UPS to close down Portland facility next summer, as workers condemn mass layoffs enabled by Teamsters union
Current and recently retired UPS workers in California recently spoke to WSWS reporters on the ongoing layoffs and the refusal of the union to fight for workers.
•Jacob Crosse, Kimie Saito, Joshua Rodriguez
UPS closing facilities in Oklahoma City and Vernon, California, laying off hundreds
UPS announced the closure of three facilities in November, laying off more than 1,000 workers as part of its plans to automate its operations.
•Alex Findijs, Joshua Rodriguez
UPS workers sleeping in parking lots between split shifts after job cuts at New York hub
Under the “Network of the Future” plan, at least 200 facilities across the United States will be closed or automated. Approximately 80 percent of inside jobs are at risk of being automated out of existence.
•Alden Woodson
Trump says pick for US labor secretary will work toward “historic cooperation between business and labor”
Chavez-DeRemer combines right-wing politics with support for the institutional and financial interests of the labor bureaucracy.
•Jerry White
UPS announces plans to close Commerce City, Colorado facility as Teamsters head meets with top Republicans
The closure will layoff 404 workers starting in January and renovations are slated to take at least a year to complete
•Alex Findijs
UPS pushing forward with automation and facility closures, threatening thousands more jobs
UPS announced that it has closed 45 operations and reduced daily capacity by 1 million parcels as it shifted operations to automated facilities.
•Alex Findijs
What’s behind the Teamsters’ decision not to endorse in the presidential election
While the union presents itself as staying neutral, the decision is a de facto endorsement of Trump. A real fight against fascism requires an independent movement of the working class against both parties and the pro-corporate bureaucracy.
•Tom Hall
Management safety violations preceded crash of UPS driver who suffered heat stroke behind the wheel, co-worker says
The non-fatal crash followed the deaths of two other UPS workers in the Dallas, Fort Worth area, including driver Luis Grimaldo on August 6.
•Omri Wolfe
One UPS driver dies and another barely survives after heat emergencies in Texas
UPS has confirmed that 37-year-old Luis Grimaldo, a Bell County delivery driver, died August 6 of what his coworkers are saying was a heat-related illness while working his route.
•Jane Wise
Teamsters president at the Republican National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism
Sean O’Brien’s speech called for “bipartisanship” based on nationalism, militarism and the integration of the unions with management and the capitalist state—but he made clear his particular sympathy for Trump and the extreme right.
•Tom Hall
Amid record temperatures, UPS delivery drivers still without air conditioning
While the Teamsters hailed last year’s sellout contract on the grounds that it provides for AC in new vehicles, the company has predictably skirted this by refusing to buy new trucks.
•Joshua Rodriguez
UPS to close facilities in Portland and Baltimore, threatening thousands of jobs
The warehouses are to be retooled as automated facilities as part of the “Network of the Future,” made possible by the sellout Teamsters contract.
•Tom Hall
Teamsters union president to speak at Republican National Convention, in another sign of growing alliance with extreme right
O’Brien will be speaking at a meeting that will be, for all intents and purposes, a fascist rally put on by one of the two main political parties.
•Tom Hall
“This is intolerable”: US workers face scorching temperatures without protection during heat dome
With more than 100 million Americans currently affected by high temperatures, working conditions are becoming dangerous across the country.
•our reporters
Amazon Labor Union announces merger with Teamsters union
With the merger, Amazon workers will now be directly confronting a Teamsters apparatus that is helping enforce mass automation and layoffs, including at one of Amazon's main competitors, UPS.
•Elliott Murtagh, Philip Guelpa, Tom Hall
Dallas UPS worker dies after falling into trash compactor as company fatalities mount
Juan Chavez, 68, was reported dead at the scene at a UPS facility in Dallas on May 16.
•Alex Findijs
UPS workers say: The working class must oppose the attack on students’ right to protest!
Students have taken a courageous stand. But we, the working class, have to be the base of the fight against war.
•The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee