Amazon Worker: “If UPS Wages Go Up, Amazon Should Do the Same”
UPS Teamsters used a strike threat to win big wage increases in their tentative agreement. Amazon workers are looking at the pay gains as proof they can do the same.
Supporters of Amazon workers attempting to win a second union election at the LDJ5 Amazon Sort Center join a rally in support of the union on April 24, 2022, in Staten Island, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images)
Amazon warehouse worker Paul Blundell has spent the past year talking to his coworkers about how UPS Teamsters were getting organized to strike. So recently, he had big news to share: “A few days before the strike deadline, UPS caved.”
“Everybody’s jaw dropped” when they heard that night-shift workers at the Philly UPS air hub will get an immediate raise to $24.75, Blundell said. “We top out around $20.90 after three years, so UPS is now starting well above that — with raises for the rest of the contract.”
UPS part-timers also have low-deductible health insurance coverage with no premiums, and pensions.
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