UPS workers are prepping for one of the biggest strikes in American history. We hit a Teamsters practice picket with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and hundreds of workers, who told us why 340,000 of them are ready to strike. The biggest demand? “We need to get paid.” We've been covering UPS Teamsters ahead of their looming strike deadline later this summer. If UPS fails to reach a fair deal with workers, over 300,000 workers could walk out on the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history. #ups #teamsters #strike #aoc ----- More Perfect Union is a new nonprofit media org with a mission to empower working people. Learn more here: http://perfectunion.us/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectunion/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorePerfUnion
  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    AOC is one of the most pragmatic politicians in the last 30 years.

    It’s amazing that everything that Republicans tried to portray her as have actually ended up coming back to them in the form of MTG.

  • Kev@beehaw.orgEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    AOC is going to be president one day, isn’t she? I truly admire her.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Probably not. She is a good politician, but I don’t think she can overcome a lot of negativity that comes from her position.

      She is much more likely going to be Speaker of the House.

      • hastati@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Apparently America only elects milk toast centrists or right wing lunatics. Genuinely progressive politicians are completely out of the question.

    • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well yes and no, since we have USPS (for now). I sell quite a bit online and the prices for anything below a certain size and weight are below UPS and FEDEX prices. With the caveat that the the backend hauling for USPS is generally contacted out to various companies including XPO and UPS.

      Anything above the size and weight of a package will get shipped freight through any manner of independent carriers that take jobs from a dispatcher.

      • circularfish@beehaw.orgMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the contribution. You are of course correct that there are (some) alternatives. I was mainly addressing the implication that unions are ‘bad’ because they are market distorting. Economies of scale mean the market for consumer package delivery tends toward oligopoly and is already distorted on the employer side.

    • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well yes and no, since we have USPS (for now). I sell quite a bit online and the prices for anything below a certain size and weight are below UPS and FEDEX prices. With the caveat that the the backend hauling for USPS is generally contacted out to various companies including XPO and UPS.

      Anything above the size and weight of a package will get shipped freight through any manner of independent carriers that take jobs from a dispatcher.

    • Eisenhowever@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Actually bolstering the protesters resolve by not getting only getting her support but by bringing her followers on board? I dont get why this is a question lol

      • sadreality@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        So taking PR credits for strikers doing all the work and taking all the risk…

        Also I don’t think “her followers” need to her to support the right thing.

        Clown politician worship has to stop.

        • Compass Inspector@invariant-marxism.redEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Pretty sure she voted to block the rail strike then lied and said the RWU “asked her” to block it. So If I were an UPS worker I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw her