UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee hosts meeting to organize opposition to mass layoffs
During the lively discussion, UPS workers denounced the Teamsters for working with the company to impose massive layoffs.
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During the lively discussion, UPS workers denounced the Teamsters for working with the company to impose massive layoffs.
A rank-and-file rebellion against not just management, but also against the union bureaucracy, is the only thing that can stop this. As long as the Teamsters sellout artists remain in charge, UPS will succeed in its drive to cut jobs. But if we break out of their control, and develop new, alternative structures, that will change the balance of power in our favor.
The unprecedented plan laid out last month to close 200 facilities is the next stage in an offensive against jobs at UPS and requires an urgent response.
This exchange is a highly revealing expression of the bureaucracy's contempt for the workers they claim to represent. They defend not the rights of workers but the so-called “right” of management to do whatever it wants.
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