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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, United Parcel Service (UPS) is the single-largest | ||||||
| 3 | employer
of Teamster members, and the UPS contract is the | ||||||
| 4 | largest private sector
collective bargaining agreement in the | ||||||
| 5 | United States, covering more than
340,000 Teamsters; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters have helped the company make record
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| 7 | profits in excess of $13 billion; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The current collective bargaining agreement | ||||||
| 9 | between the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS is | ||||||
| 10 | set to expire on July
31, 2023; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters nationwide voted 97% in favor of
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| 12 | authorizing the UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee | ||||||
| 13 | to call a
strike in the event that a successor agreement cannot | ||||||
| 14 | be reached prior to
the contract expiration date of July 31, | ||||||
| 15 | 2023; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters have expressed overwhelming concern | ||||||
| 17 | that
the federal government would intervene in a nationwide | ||||||
| 18 | strike; therefore, be it
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| 19 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
| 20 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we call upon elected | ||||||
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| 1 | officials
at local, state, and federal levels to stand with | ||||||
| 2 | the UPS Teamsters in their
efforts to collectively bargain for | ||||||
| 3 | fair wages, safe working conditions,
affordable healthcare, | ||||||
| 4 | and the dignified retirement that they rightfully have
earned | ||||||
| 5 | while working for UPS; and be it further
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| 6 | RESOLVED, That we call on the
federal government to | ||||||
| 7 | respect the UPS Teamsters rights to collectively
bargain, | ||||||
| 8 | including the right to withhold their labor; and be it further | ||||||
| 9 | RESOLVED, That we call on elected
officials at local, | ||||||
| 10 | state, and federal levels to demonstrate their support by | ||||||
| 11 | signing on to an open letter to rank-and-file Teamsters at UPS
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| 12 | expressing that government has no role to play in collective | ||||||
| 13 | bargaining
between workers and their employer and therefore no | ||||||
| 14 | elected individual
or government entity should attempt to | ||||||
| 15 | insert themselves into the
collective bargaining process or | ||||||
| 16 | participate in any attempted resolution
of a new contract that | ||||||
| 17 | is not first voted upon and ratified by rank-and-file
UPS | ||||||
| 18 | Teamsters prior to such government-related intervention.
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