Bonus: Teamsters Delivers the Goods

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Amber is joined by Matt Maini, a teamster and UPS worker from Local 251 in Providence, RI to discuss the challenges workers in the Teamsters union face due to COVID-19, how the union is fighting UPS for increased protections, and what you can do to support laborers during the pandemic. Here's the gofundme to support the Teamsters COVID protection fund: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/help-ups-teamsters-protect-ourselves-and-the-public-from-covid-19

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's Amber here with a very special interview segment, a coronavirus dispatch,
0:08.0	if you will.
0:10.3	You may have heard a lot about essential workers lately.
0:13.6	A lot of times people think in terms of nurses and doctors and certainly the people who work
0:20.9	at grocery stores and keep everything running.
0:23.9	However, there are also the people that bring you your packages so you can safely practice
0:29.4	social distancing.
0:31.2	Always happy to see the UPS men in good times, but in hell they're even more essential
0:37.6	than ever.
0:38.6	However, you may have noticed on the news that the conditions that they're working under
0:43.4	are absolutely ridiculous.
0:46.0	I mean, UPS has never been a particularly good employer, but right now under these conditions
0:51.8	everything has gotten much worse.
0:55.6	So here to talk about it, I have Matt Manie, a teamster at UPS worker from local 251 in
1:02.5	Providence, Rhode Island.
1:03.9	Hi Matt, thank you for joining.
1:05.7	How you doing Amber, thanks for having me.
1:10.1	So I think the biggest shift in your work has probably been a huge, huge influx of orders
1:20.5	combined with the fact that you are on the front lines more likely to be exposed to
1:26.0	corona.
1:27.6	And I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what your working conditions are
1:30.3	like.
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