this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Amazon warehouse worker Paul Blundell has spent the past year talking to his co-workers about how UPS Teamsters were getting organized to strike. So recently, he had big news to share: “A few days before the strike deadline, UPS caved.”

“Everybody’s jaw dropped” when they heard that night shift workers at the Philly UPS air hub will get an immediate raise to $24.75, Blundell said. “We top out around $20.90 after three years, so UPS is now starting well above that—with raises for the rest of the contract.”

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[–] 4xdegrees@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So weird how a unionized workplace has, like, better wages than a non-union one. If only there were some kind of solution

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

But now they have to wait for the certified worker to turn on a light switch so it’s totally not worth it /s

[–] demvoter@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Excellent. This is how it should work. Godspeed, Amazon workers.

Pretty much anything will have Amazon workers demanding more.