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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, United Parcel Service (UPS) is the single-largest
3employer of Teamster members, and the UPS contract is the
4largest private sector collective bargaining agreement in the
5United States, covering more than 340,000 Teamsters; and
 
6    WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters have helped the company make record
7profits in excess of $13 billion; and
 
8    WHEREAS, The current collective bargaining agreement
9between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS is
10set to expire on July 31, 2023; and
 
11    WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters nationwide voted 97% in favor of
12authorizing the UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee
13to call a strike in the event that a successor agreement cannot
14be reached prior to the contract expiration date of July 31,
152023; and
 
16    WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters have expressed overwhelming concern
17that the federal government would intervene in a nationwide
18strike; therefore, be it
 
19    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
20ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we call upon elected

 

 

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1officials at local, state, and federal levels to stand with
2the UPS Teamsters in their efforts to collectively bargain for
3fair wages, safe working conditions, affordable healthcare,
4and the dignified retirement that they rightfully have earned
5while working for UPS; and be it further
 
6    RESOLVED, That we call on the federal government to
7respect the UPS Teamsters rights to collectively bargain,
8including the right to withhold their labor; and be it further
 
9    RESOLVED, That we call on elected officials at local,
10state, and federal levels to demonstrate their support by
11signing on to an open letter to rank-and-file Teamsters at UPS
12expressing that government has no role to play in collective
13bargaining between workers and their employer and therefore no
14elected individual or government entity should attempt to
15insert themselves into the collective bargaining process or
16participate in any attempted resolution of a new contract that
17is not first voted upon and ratified by rank-and-file UPS
18Teamsters prior to such government-related intervention.