Category: Shop Papers
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What the National Postal Forum Means for Postal Workers
The issue of privatization has been a major talking point for years within the postal service. Privatization is the process of selling parts of the public service, operated for the public good, to private interests which seek to maximize profit. When the postal service is discussed in these terms, this motivation to operate in the…
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Amazon has Monopolistic Ambitions and We the Workers Should be Benefiting from Their Ever-growing Profit!
The logistics industry is built on two things: speed of delivery and cheapness of labor. In this century no company has pushed both farther than Amazon, and the price has been paid by its workers. Nowhere is this clearer in the recent case of a 46-year-old tote runner at Amazon’s PDX9 warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon,…
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May Day Survey and Subjective Difficulties of Labor Organizing
New Day polls UPSers and explains subjective issues in the labor movement.
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International Workers’ Day Edition – NDUSPS
On May 1, workers around the world celebrate “May Day,” a holiday honoring the struggles past and present through which the working class has fought not only for better wages, shorter hours, and safer conditions, but ultimately for collective power over society itself. As workers in America, it is our responsibility to understand our place…
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Some Thoughts on Tipping
Tipping seems to be an increasingly controversial topic. Simultaneously, more and more places are asking for tips, while the general population is much more attuned to labor struggles and the fight for a living wage. There must then, of course, be a class-conscious perspective on how to handle tips in the labor struggle. To begin,…
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UPS’ Monopoly and Fascism
The declining position of UPS in the market and the fascistization of the Teamsters