{"id":6295,"date":"2022-04-29T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T01:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempestmag.org\/v01_2020\/staging\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2022-05-02T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T01:39:10","slug":"the-teamsters-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/2022\/04\/the-teamsters-a-new-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teamsters: A new era?"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>ean O\u2019Brien and Fred Zuckerman\u2014respectively the newly-elected General President and General Secretary-Treasurer of the Teamsters \u2014 have raised expectations across the political spectrum.\u00a0 Throughout their campaign, and at the recent swearing-in-ceremony on March 22, coverage has focused on the possibility of greater labor militancy. Typical was CNN Business with their headline<\/a> story, \u201cThis new union boss could start the biggest strike in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The newly-elected top officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Photo<\/a> from Twitter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The primary target of this potential militancy is United Parcel Service (UPS), the largest Teamster employer in the United States. The O\u2019Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United slate won a landslide victory<\/a> over the Steve Vairma\u2019s Teamster Power slate last year largely because of their opposition to the hated 2018 national UPS contract<\/a>. Vairma was the anointed successor to long time Teamster leader Jim Hoffa, whose two decades in office witnessed stagnation and across the board concessions in booming industries, especially logistics, and most notably at UPS. The O\u2019Brien-Zuckerman leadership are expected to produce a different outcome in the upcoming 2023 contract negotiations with UPS.<\/p>\n