Mastodawn

Very interesting article out of #jacobin
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/teamsters-ups-contract-negotiation-strike-sean-obrien-rank-and-file

I was actually with my dad on the picket line one night in '97. He was a tractor trailer driver on the third shift and he and his coworkers were all standing around a barrel with a fire in it, (where the hell do you get a barrel to light a fire in?) and made hot dogs. I remember it was burnt on the outside and half frozen in the middle.

We lucked out in that my dad had vacation that week and with autopayment, got paid.

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Inside the Teamsters’ Preparations for a UPS Strike

This summer could see 350,000 UPS workers walk off the job, the United States’ largest strike in the 21st century thus far. The Teamsters are getting ready. Here’s a look at how.