Tun daga ranar 1 ga Yuli, an zaɓi masu ƙalubalantar jagorancin Teamster bisa hukuma. Yanzu haka magoya bayansu sun fita neman kuri'u a cikin mambobin kungiyar miliyan 1.3.
Za a aika da kuri'un a ranar 6 ga Oktoba kuma a ƙidaya ranar 14 ga Nuwamba. Sakamakon zai dogara ne akan sa'o'i nawa masu aikin sa kai ke kashewa a kofofin wurin aiki-da adadin lambobin waya da adiresoshin imel da suke tarawa.
Brooke Reeves, sakatariyar asibiti kuma mai kula da 251 na yankin Rhode Island ya ce "Muddin mun fito zaben, muna da kyakkyawar dama ta yin nasara." “Mutanen Hoffa-Hall [masu rike da mukaman] ba sa fitowa don yin magana da ku. Suna aika robo-kira.
“Muna fuskantar fuska. A nan ne kuke samun kuri’ar mamba.”
Ma'aikatanta a cikin ma'aikatanta na Rhode Island suna amfani da kwanakin hutunsu don ziyartar wuraren aiki a duk faɗin New England-wani lokaci suna buga hanya da ƙarfe 3:30 na safe don isa Maine don canjin safiya. Reeves ya ce ranar da muka yi magana, "Ina da hutu gobe saboda zan kai 'yata wani wuri, amma zan kasance a UPS gobe da karfe 7:45 na safe na sa'o'i biyu kafin nan. Na ce musu, 'Kuna iya samuna da safe.'
A babban taron kungiyar da aka yi a Las Vegas, wakilan kungiyar Teamsters United sun jajirce kan tekun magoya bayan Hoffa don nada kusan cikakken zabe. ('Yan takarar yankin Yamma sun ragu kaɗan, kuma kamfen ɗin ba ya hamayya da kujerun Kanada.)
Kamfen din yana kuma neman tara dala 500,000 don aika wa duk masu jefa kuri'a. Ƙungiya kawai za su iya ba da gudummawa.
FITAR DA ZABE
Dave Bernt, wani direban ciyarwar UPS kuma wakilin Local 705 wanda ke takarar neman amana ya ce: "Fitowar masu jefa ƙuri'a abu ne mai ban tsoro a zaɓen Teamster. "Hakan ne Hoffa ke ci gaba da sake zabar shi, duk da cewa akwai rashin jin dadi da kwangilolin mu. A zabukan da suka gabata ba mu kai ga yawan wuraren da muke bukata ba.
"Mun gano, inda muke yin kamfen, mun yi kyau sosai."
Abokan hamayyar Hoffa ba su taba samun kujerar wakilai a Kudancin California Local 630 - har zuwa wannan shekarar, lokacin da Teamsters United suka dauki shida cikin tara. Hudu daga cikin shida sun goyi bayan Hoffa a karshe.
Wakilin Frank Villa, mai shekara 26 mai horarwa ya ce "An yi tashe-tashen hankula da yawa." Lokacin da nake yakin neman zabe a zabukan da suka gabata, "Zan so in tafi tare da wani, don haka idan wani abu ya faru ina da shaida," in ji shi. "Wasu mutane za su sami hali lokacin da kuke magana game da zaben Hoffa.
“Yanzu mutane sun burge kuma suna farin ciki da wani ya sanar da su cewa muna da wannan zaɓi. Suna ɗaukar littattafai don ba da su, kuma suna kirana a ce suna bukatar ƙarin.”
Ƙungiyoyi a Chicago sun kafa kwamiti don daidaita ayyukan gida. Suna fita cikin ƙungiyoyi biyu zuwa huɗu don ƙaramin wurin aiki, 10-20 don babbar cibiyar UPS.
"Muna so mu sa mutane cikin tattaunawa," in ji Bernt, "gano mene ne al'amuransu, menene suka fi jin haushi, kuma ku ɗaure shi da kamfen ɗin Teamsters United."
GUDUWAR FUSHI
Babu karancin batutuwan da za a tattauna. Ƙungiyar ta kasa tsarawa a cikin dukkanin manyan masana'antunta-ba da damar kamfanonin da ba su da haɗin kai su yadu, matsayi na mambobi su ragu, kuma ka'idoji sun ragu.
Direbobin dakon kaya sun fuskanci ragin albashinsu da kashi 15 cikin dari, sannan kuma an rage musu albashi. "Babu wanda ya yi farin ciki da hakan," in ji Jerry Yarbrough, na Local 667 a Memphis, wanda ke takarar mataimakin shugaban kasa.
Carhaulers faɗuwar ƙarshe sun jefa ƙuri'ar amincewa da kwangilar da ke cike da kashi 87 cikin ɗari. Masu ritaya a Asusun Fansho na Jihohi ta Tsakiya sun gudanar da kamfen na yau da kullun don toshe tsattsauran ragi ga fanshonsu - yanke Hoffa ya taimaka wajen kawowa.
"Mun sami mafi munin kwangilolin kayan abinci da aka taɓa samu," in ji Villa. Kuma a kan aikin, "Gudanarwa yana haɓaka bugun kira na samarwa."
A wani kantin sayar da kayan abinci, ya yi amfani da jakin pallet saukar da hanyoyin da aka jera kafa shida mai tsayi tare da kiwo da nama, yana loda oda da hannu da aka zaɓa. Ya ce: "An yi duk abin da aka yi injiniya," in ji shi, "lokacin tafiya, lokacin da kuka cire jack ɗinku kuma ku ɗauki wannan harka, duk abin da aka ƙayyade lokacin motsin jikin ku.
"Kuna iya tunanin yadda kamfanin zai iya hanzarta wannan. Kuma babu wani bayani da zai taimaka wa membobin yaƙar waɗannan ƙa'idodin samarwa marasa ma'ana. Babu wakilcin da zai kai shi ga korafe-korafe ya ci nasara.”
UPS MESS
A UPS, babbar ƙungiyar ciniki ta ƙasa, tagulla ta ƙungiyar ta tilastawa ta hanyar kwangilar ƙasa mai ɗaukar nauyi a cikin 2013-bayan membobin sun yi ta kada kuri'a akai-akai. Shugaban na gida na 89 Fred Zuckerman, dan takarar kungiyar Teamsters United, ya kasance jagora a yunkurin kada kuri'a.
A wasu mazauna yankin, UPSers sun ba da rahoton wakilan ƙungiyar su ba su ma nuna don taimakawa ma'aikata su fuskanci matsaloli da yawa - tilastawa karin lokaci, zafi mai haɗari, sa ido na lantarki, cin zarafi daga masu kulawa, da yaduwar ƙarancin albashi, ayyuka na lokaci-lokaci a wani aiki. kamfanin da ke samun biliyoyin riba.
"Kyawawan duk ayyukan cikin gida a UPS ana yin su ta hanyar ma'aikatan wucin gadi waɗanda ke farawa a $ 10 a sa'a," in ji Bernt. "A Chicago da Seattle, mafi ƙarancin albashi ya zarce kwangilar UPS, wanda kawai magana ce mai kunya game da Teamsters."
Yarbrough yana mai da hankali kan leaf ɗin sa a ƙofar UPS. "Akwai mutane da yawa a wurin, amma ƙaramin kashi da ke jefa ƙuri'a," in ji shi. "An doke su sosai."
An ji labarin cin zarafin kwangila da yawa-masu aikin lokaci-lokaci suna samun sauyi na sa'o'i ɗaya ko biyu kacal (kwangilar ta ba da tabbacin uku), masu sa ido suna yin aikin raka'a, direbobin isar da saƙon tilasta yin aiki. "Sun gaji ne kawai," in ji shi. “Suna gudu duk yini, kuma yanzu ya yi zafi. Suna son a aiwatar da kwantiraginsu kawai.”
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