{"id":1198887,"date":"2023-09-03T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=292279"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:46:07","slug":"why-ups-workers-were-ready-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/03\/why-ups-workers-were-ready-to-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Why UPS Workers Were Ready to Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_292283\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292283\" class=\"wp-image-292283 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-21-at-11.47.51-AM-680x521.png\" alt=\"Image of striking UPS workers.\" width=\"680\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-292283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/109799466@N06\/\">Joe Piette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Richard Hooker has worked at the United Parcel Service (UPS) for over twenty years and after long, sweltering shifts spent at the warehouse, sweat burning his eyes, his limbs feeling like they\u2019ve been filled with concrete, he would just sit in his car, unable to drive home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re physically drained, you\u2019re mentally drained from moving packages all day, non-stop,\u201d he explained, \u201cAnd you need to take a nap cause you\u2019re too scared you\u2019ll fall asleep when driving home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hooker, now a union leader for Teamsters Local 623 which represents over 5,000 workers at both facilities in Philadelphia, is part of a broader Teamsters campaign to address many of the lingering issues impacting workers at the company, from conditions inside the warehouses and trucks to pay for part-time employees and drivers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are logged in but can&#8217;t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/03\/why-ups-workers-were-ready-to-strike\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/03\/why-ups-workers-were-ready-to-strike\/\">Why UPS Workers Were Ready to Strike<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Joe Piette.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hooker has worked at the United Parcel Service (UPS) for over twenty years and after long, sweltering shifts spent at the warehouse, sweat burning his eyes, his limbs feeling like they\u2019ve been filled with concrete, he wou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,1150,230,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198964,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198887\/revisions\/1198964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}