Major layoffs at UPS Swan Island Hub in Portland Oregon

[TheMilitantTeamster]

https://www.ilwu.org/history/the-ilwu-story/

[TheMilitantTeamster]

The ILWU union made these guarantees to industry in exchange for an unprecedented series of benefits for the workers, designed to protect them against the negative impact of machines on their daily work and job security. The agreement provided that:

• The current workforce would not be laid off. If the unhindered introduction of new machinery and methods of work resulted in the loss of work opportunity so that the work force had to be reduced, it would shrink from the top, with an innovative voluntary early retirement program instead of layoffs. If employers later needed to cut the workforce further, they could invoke a compulsory retirement provision with a higher pension benefit.
• Increased profits would be shared with the workers in the form of increased wages and benefits.
• Machines and labor-saving devices would be introduced wherever possible to lighten the burden of hard and hazardous work.

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[TheMilitantTeamster]

[Thisischange?]

Have you not heard? It's the greatest contract ever. what a screw job.

[David Brad Bishop]

It's not just the greatest. It's historic.

[TheMilitantTeamster]

Have you not heard? It's the greatest contract ever. what a screw job.

[Faust]

Where did you steal the name "militant" from?

[OT+]

[DanaCos]

They walked people out Saturday. The PHL hub is also without a Day Hub. Peak season was very bleak. The building is quiet at night. I ask drivers from other buildings and it's the same. Probably the worst I've ever seen it.

[TheMilitantTeamster]

Where did you steal the name "militant" from?

[Faust]

Good for you.

O'Brien hates militant Teamsters.

[TheMilitantTeamster]

[OT+]

Its been happening for about a month and a half in different parts of the country.

[percap2high]

The ILWU union made these guarantees to industry in exchange for an unprecedented series of benefits for the workers, designed to protect them against the negative impact of machines on their daily work and job security. The agreement provided that:

• The current workforce would not be laid off. If the unhindered introduction of new machinery and methods of work resulted in the loss of work opportunity so that the work force had to be reduced, it would shrink from the top, with an innovative voluntary early retirement program instead of layoffs. If employers later needed to cut the workforce further, they could invoke a compulsory retirement provision with a higher pension benefit.
• Increased profits would be shared with the workers in the form of increased wages and benefits.
• Machines and labor-saving devices would be introduced wherever possible to lighten the burden of hard and hazardous work.

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This is something we are sorely missing, a set of principles to protect teamster jobs and make sure members benefit from improved efficiancy etc. Right now automation is taking teamster jobs in material handling and we don't have meaningful model language to deal with it. The ILWU stuff may not fit exactly, but it does make for a good place to start.

[Mr. Teamster]

UPS is going to automate the shit out of their business. After the price tag on this contract did you expect anything else?

[TheMilitantTeamster]

UPS is going to automate the shit out of their business. After the price tag on this contract did you expect anything else?