UPS Strike Essay

* March 1919  large union "One Big Union" was created to fight for worker's rights

In the meantime at San Francisco State College, students in the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), a coalition of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American student groups, began demanding reforms that addressed the concerns of students of color and the surrounding community. After more than a year of negotiating with the school and organizing students, they called a strike on November 6, 1968, that became the longest student strikein United States history. When it was finally settled in March 1969, many of the students' demands were met, including the establishment of a School of Ethnic Studies.

At this point UPS had become a very successful and powerful company with profits in the billions. Years prior to this there had been a pretty close division of full and part-time workers. But, that had begun to change and the part-time workers had greatly increased and were only paid 8 to 9 dollars and hour. The company of course, felt quite confident that it had some leverage in the negotiations of a new contract. They were pretty secure that the Teamster were having problems with finances because the union had to use union funds to finance the oversight of the government over the union, as well as the fact that Carey who was still union president, had led several strikes already (Leumer, 2007). UPS was ready and some of their demands were they wanted to make full-time positions part-time, vacation, holiday and personal days would be decreased and they even wanted to hire self-employed drivers for the highway which would eliminate some union jobs. Well the union and Ron Carey was also ready, they had prepared for the negotiations a year in advance. They had workers to fill out a questionnaire to find out what was important to them concerning their jobs and they overwhelmingly stated that it was the need for full-time positions. The teamsters made that issue their number one demand (Leumer,

The year 2000 saw a disastrous labor strikes in Los Angeles County. The United Transportation Union (a labor union) of The Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Southern California (MTA) went on strike that lasted for almost six weeks. A lot of people thought that the strike was unnecessary and could have been avoided. The management of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Southern

In August 1997, the 190 000 teamsters employed at UPS went on strike for 15 days before agreeing to a new five year contract. The strike cost UPS $700million

Labor unions have existed in one way or another since the birth of our country in 1776. They were created in an effort to protect the working population from abuses such as sweatshops and unsafe working conditions. From the start of our Nation there were a few unions organized unions in a scattered fashion, but many were disbanded after they had achieved their goals, such as when the printers and shoemakers briefly unionized in Philadelphia and New York City in 1778 to conduct the first recorded strike for higher wages. Three years later in 1971 the first successful strike happened, when Philadelphia carpenters campaigned for a ten-hour workday. This caused the need for skilled and unskilled laborers to skyrocket during the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War and also got the ball rolling with Labor unions. At this point in our Country, there had been nothing done yet for workers’ rights, conditions, pay, and so on. People at this time saw that they could come together and do something to make their lives better for themselves and their families. Many of these dates were important in shaping our country’s labor policies into what they are today. In 1847 New Hampshire enacts as the first state to enforce a 10-hour workday law. In 1909 the International Ladies’ Garment workers’ Union calls a strike in New York, demanding a 20-percent raise and a 52-hour workweek. Within two days, more than 20,000 workers from 500 factories walk off the job. This largely successful uprising

They were not willing to make any concessions. They wanted them to continue with the long hours as mandated by them. If the workers didn’t agree to these terms they would be fired. Employers knew that people needed jobs and were not concerned about filling vacant positions. In today’s age, if you’re working that many hours we believe that we should get paid for what we worked. They felt they same way, but because of the union they didn’t receive those rights.

Whats known today as the Teamsters 728 Union once started in the form of 450 in the lake 1930’s. My father, Alan Bethea is a member of the Brotherhood of teamsters 728 union and has been working for United Parcel Services for over 30 years. Growing up as a kid he always made sure I had an understanding of the importance of the workers union. Many, many people have fought for workers rights and wouldn’t settle for mediocre or sup par pay especially if they were out putting their lives on the line every day. Not only would they not stand for mediocre pay but they also stood for assuring workers benefited from a job wether it were food, health, or educational opportunities. If its one thing I've learned from my father is a hard work ethic.

As stated, many labor unions that were created utilized strikes to negotiate and come to a compromise between business leaders and their workers. However, it got to the point where they were being overused, and starting to turn very violent. The first time this had occurred is the Great Strike in the year of 1877. It occurred in the city of Baltimore, where workers from the Ohio Railroad company were on strike due to their pay checks being cut. However, a compromise was unable to be in a timely manner, causing the railroad system to come to a halt. This delay lasted for about a week or two, even causing the federal government to get involved as the economy and commerce was being greatly affected by this. To bring an end to this, the President,

Unions were formed for a good reason, to fight back and  get their rights they deserved. It was to make sure no one person was fighting alone. The Union was a good way for the workers to have a strong voice. Striking was the easiest way to try to make the company weak. The Great Strike of

It amazes me how the ones in charge didn't know anything about their own workers, not even how much they were getting paid. If I was in charge that would be one of the most important things to know but the owners didn't care enough to keep track. I am glad that everybody became fed up with being treated that way and started a general strike. The strike eventually led to a grievance system that was put into place but most still didn't follow

Limiting the number of hours an employee could work in a week was another topic addressed by unions. Businesses would take advantage of workers if there was no limit to how many hours a person

According to the union, UPS is proposing a reduction in health benefits for the maintenance workers and retirees.

The steel strike began on September 21, 1919, by the AFL organizer in and around Pittsburg began to be harassed by the steel companies. The AFL sought assistance from its political allies, but the harassment continued, the anti-union pressure spread to the Midwest and West, as post-war recession affected the economy.

UPS is a global package delivery business that specializes in not only managing the movement of goods, but the information and funds that moves with those goods in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS’s target market is primarily U.S. companies that ship business to business via ground delivery and whose delivery time is not