Sean O’Brien’s Pro-Business Unionism
Edgar Esquivel tells the story of how Sean O’Brien failed to end the Teamsters’ love affair with UPS. On July 25th, in an unprecedented turn …
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The UPS Struggle and the Tasks of Marxists in the Labor Movement
Teamsters Mobilize members and former activists in Revolutionary Marxist Students Audrey Johnson and Lenni Myers assess the current UPS tentative agreement and outline a Marxist strategy …
The Part-Time Fight for $25 at UPS and the Betrayal of TDU
With UPS and the Teamsters at the negotiating table, Edgar Esquivel takes issue with those in the US Left who have tailed the leadership of …
Letter: Strike Ready vs Socialism
In 2021 the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), at their convention, passed “Resolution #5: Building Worker Power to Win Democratic Socialism: A Labor Strategy for …
Letter: The Case for a Socialist Rank-and-File Teamsters Organization
“The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had ENOUGH” – Teamsters …
Will the Teamsters Finally End Their Love Affair with UPS? A Concise History of Teamster-UPS Relations
Edgar Esquivel details the long and tumultuous history of Teamster relations with United Parcel Service, showing a story of both class collaboration and rank-and-file resistance. …
Thousands of Rail Workers Railroaded by the Teamsters Bureaucracy!
Edgar Esquivel reports on the recent contract negotiations of Teamsters-represented U.S. railroad workers and contextualizes the current struggle within the long history of militant railroad …
Setting the Record Straight: On the Trotskyist-led 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, the Teamsters Bureaucracy & its Aftermath
Trotskyist Teamsters took a leading role in a historic labor upsurge and clashed with a corrupt leadership under Dan Tobin. Twenty-four-year Teamster Edgar Esquivel tells …