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  • IBT Sec-Treasurer Ken Hall: It's Time for UPS to Stop Supporting ALEC
    Posted On: Jul 182, 2015

    From IBT Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall:

    You have probably heard of ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council). ALEC is an organization bankrolled by corporate money, including UPS and FedEx. ALEC writes model legislation that attacks middle class working families and then works with legislators to get their anti-worker, anti-union legislation passed.

    ALEC supports right-to-work-for-less laws, legislation that weakens safety standards on the road, and laws that make it easier to misclassify employees as independent contractors. FedEx already misclassifies thousands of drivers, making it very difficult for them to organize a union. In addition, FedEx doesn’t have to pay for health insurance, unemployment taxes, or workers compensation taxes for people misclassified as “independent contractors”. ALEC also has a bad track record on environmental and trade issues.

    Because ALEC is so controversial, more than one hundred companies have broken ties with ALEC. Among those who have left the group are: Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Proctor and Gamble, General Motors, McDonalds and Walmart.

    Unfortunately, UPS has refused to stop contributing to ALEC. UPS has given the group tens of thousands of dollars and has even sponsored ALEC conferences. It is time for UPS to stop supporting ALEC. The organization works against UPS’s interests and works even harder against the interests of Teamsters.

    Attached you will find a copy of a flyer. Please post the flyer on your union bulletin boards at UPS and UPS Freight facilities and distribute it to your members. We will be sending out a report-back form so that we can keep track of our activities. Please fill out the form and email or fax it back to us.

    Thank you so much for your support. It is important to all Teamsters that we do whatever we can to stop ALEC from trampling on workers’ rights. 


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