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THE DELIVERY BUSINESS SHOWS WHY UNIONS ARE STRUGGLING TO EXPAND
The Teamsters union has made little headway in organizing workers at Amazon and
FedEx despite wage and other gains it secured at UPS last year.
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the most part are small businesses that can be hard to organize.Credit...Tony
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By Peter Eavis
Peter Eavis covers the delivery services and the logistics industry.
May 27, 2024, 3:00 p.m. ET
Last year, two unions representing workers at three large automakers and UPS
negotiated new labor contracts that included big raises and other gains. Leaders
of the unions — the United Automobile Workers and the Teamsters — hoped the wins
would help them organize workers across their industry.
The U.A.W. won one vote to unionize a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee last month
and lost one this month at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama. The Teamsters
have made even less progress at UPS’s big nonunion rivals in the delivery
business, Amazon and FedEx.
Polling shows that public support for unions is the highest it has been in
decades. But labor experts said structural forces would make it hard for labor
groups to increase their membership, which is the lowest it has been as a
percentage of the total work force in decades. Unions also face stiff opposition
from many employers and conservative political leaders.
The Teamsters provide an instructive case study. Many of the workers doing
deliveries for Amazon and FedEx work for contractors, typically small and
medium-size businesses that can be hard to organize. And delivery workers
employed directly by FedEx in its Express business are governed by a labor law
that requires unions to organize all similar workers at the company nationally
at once — a tougher standard than the one that applies to organizing employees
at automakers, UPS and other employers.
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Some labor experts also said the Teamsters had not made as forceful a push as
the U.A.W. to organize nonunion workers after securing a new contract with UPS.
“You didn’t have that energy that you saw with the U.A.W.’s leaders,” said Jake
Rosenfeld, a sociologist who studies labor at Washington University in St.
Louis.
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