Posted on 07/19/2023 1:02:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More than two dozen Senate Democrats Wednesday sent a letter to leaders at UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters pledging not to intervene in the event of a strike.
“We are hopeful that both sides can negotiate in good faith and reach a consensus agreement that addresses basic human needs and allows workers to do their jobs safely and with dignity,” 28 Democrats said in the letter.
“However, in the event a fair and equitable collective bargaining agreement cannot be reached, we commit to respect our constituents’ statutory and constitutional rights to withhold their labor and initiate and participate in a strike,” they said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They will let the big guy handle it
Abandon your duties of your office? Nice. 350 million people can’t stay unaffected. Schmucks.
I am waiting for the power company pole monkeys to demand AIR CONDITIONING on the poles.
Are you pissed they’ve stayed out of the Hollywood strike too? Why should they get involved in a private company? So much for small business conservatives. That certainly went out the door the last six years.
If FedEx and UPS merged, would they be FedUp?
Interstate commerce and Transportation is one of the few duties enumerated in the constitution. Nothing about sideshow, traveling shows, or motion pictures entertainment, however.
I apologize for getting all constitutional on you when your hopes were so high on the gotcha game! And yes I do it too.
LOL!
We’ll stay out of it, e.g. Go for it and don’t forget the campaign contributions.
We’re good. Debating is fun. Sorry I got nasty.
We have the USPS and other overnight express companies to take up the slack. I’d rather the congress keep to the budget negotiations that need to happen by October.
If Democrats are “pledging” to stay out of it, that means they are already up to their neck in it with pro-union communist mandates, anti-business socialist monetary policies, and of course...BRIBES.
Agreed. And nobody here ever upsets me. They always are thinking and not just reacting.
You nailed it ... their lips were moving.
“We have the USPS and other overnight express companies to take up the slack. I’d rather the congress keep to the budget negotiations that need to happen by October.”
LMAO! If you think USPS can handle the “slack” from a UPS strike....you’re delusional. USPS has been inundated with Amazon since it came onboard. They can barely handle that...especially when USPS can’t keep anyone employed because of their own sh!t wages. Especially for new hires. Funny stuff.
A tentative agreement between UPS and its unionized workforce was hailed as “historic” this week, with Teamsters leadership boasting that they “changed the game.”
President Biden congratulated contract negotiators and shipping customers everywhere, breathing a sigh of relief that a massive strike would likely be averted. The agreement boosts starting pay for part-timers to $21 an hour, raises the top rate for-time drivers to $49, eliminates a hated “two-tier” wage system that paid some drivers less than others for identical work and includes heat protections and air conditioning for new trucks.
But the deal must still be ratified by UPS’ 340,000 unionized workers, most of whom are part-time, and some of whom say it wouldn’t fix decades of falling pay in a physically exhausting job. Those workers are calling for a “no” vote on the agreement, raising the possibility that ratification will fail.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-teamsters-contract-unions-agreement-part-time-pay-debate/
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