Agreed. Do you think it would help the cause if we all ordered as many as we can of the smallest cheapest things that we can get UPS delivered? Put the pressure on by flooding them with orders they can’t meet if there’s a strike?
But how many consumers are listening? 1% maybe? If that 1% boycotts they don’t notice a thing. If that 1% orders 500 times the shit they usually do, they will notice.
By all means an interesting idea but the issue is ups corporate is going to do a few things with this hypothetical. In the short term they get more money (which could A) go to the strike fund or B) is going to be hard for a enough people to matter to get together and give even if temporary)
Then corpos are going to see this increase in demand and see 2 things, something to propagand on and have an inflated number of “lost revenue”. It’s also possible they’ll see this as the public doesn’t care about the strike or workers rights
And even if you get refunded the money because they can’t deliver then you have to go through UPS “support” or through your cc company. Both are not guaranteed to work and you could just end up giving them money for nothing or for a extra slow package you didn’t need.
If you have the funds to do this then donate it to the strike fund you’ll be doing a lot better for price to action.
If you have the funds to do this then donate it to the strike fund you’ll be doing a lot better for price to action.
I agree with this.
UPS is doing this because they know teamsters only have about 2-3 weeks worth of funds to pay striking workers. Giving UPS more business makes absolutely no sense. Give it the the union if you want to help them. But bare in mind that teamster leaders, like the UPS leadership are the kind of people that own multiple houses as well. Once you’ve paid the union dues, they could give less of a shit about you. This is from someone that knows lots of people who work for UPS.
Agreed. Do you think it would help the cause if we all ordered as many as we can of the smallest cheapest things that we can get UPS delivered? Put the pressure on by flooding them with orders they can’t meet if there’s a strike?
No, the best thing to do is listen to teamsters leadership and if they ask for a boycott stop using them until the deal goes through.
But how many consumers are listening? 1% maybe? If that 1% boycotts they don’t notice a thing. If that 1% orders 500 times the shit they usually do, they will notice.
By all means an interesting idea but the issue is ups corporate is going to do a few things with this hypothetical. In the short term they get more money (which could A) go to the strike fund or B) is going to be hard for a enough people to matter to get together and give even if temporary)
Then corpos are going to see this increase in demand and see 2 things, something to propagand on and have an inflated number of “lost revenue”. It’s also possible they’ll see this as the public doesn’t care about the strike or workers rights
And even if you get refunded the money because they can’t deliver then you have to go through UPS “support” or through your cc company. Both are not guaranteed to work and you could just end up giving them money for nothing or for a extra slow package you didn’t need.
If you have the funds to do this then donate it to the strike fund you’ll be doing a lot better for price to action.
I agree with this.
UPS is doing this because they know teamsters only have about 2-3 weeks worth of funds to pay striking workers. Giving UPS more business makes absolutely no sense. Give it the the union if you want to help them. But bare in mind that teamster leaders, like the UPS leadership are the kind of people that own multiple houses as well. Once you’ve paid the union dues, they could give less of a shit about you. This is from someone that knows lots of people who work for UPS.
The whole point though is that you hound them for these deliveries while the strike is occuring.