A strike authorization vote is to be announced Friday.
Izzy Hernandez has been driving for UPS for four years in a hot truck. He says they don’t have air conditioners, but they do have heaters and fans… which Hernandez says blows hot air.
Their contract expires in six weeks on July 31st and though the air conditioning issue has been resolved, which Hernandez is happy about, there are other issues on the table. To give their negotiating team another tool, union members have been voting on giving their negotiators a strike authorization.
Voting started last Thursday. The tally on that vote is expected sometime on Friday. This is the first negotiation since the pandemic and the union feels they should be rewarded for their hard work during that time. "They were working... forced to work 6 days a week. They were forced to work long hours. They were forced to come in and work when they were sick and when there was a danger to them and their families out there. And, so from the union side and the members side they feel they need to be rewarded for that," said Richard Pacheco with Teamsters Local 396.
Pacheco says there are the usual issues at the table like pay, health benefits, pension and working conditions, but it’s the profit sharing they want more of."For the kind of work they are doing and the work they are performing for this company and the profits this company has made we feel that they are not being compensated appropriately," Pacheco added."I think it will work out. I don’t think... I think they just got to keep talking about where they’re going to land.
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