Bill Text: IL SR0383 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Calls upon elected officials at local, state, and federal levels to stand with the UPS Teamsters in their efforts to collectively bargain for fair wages, safe working conditions, affordable healthcare, and the dignified retirement that they rightfully have earned while working for UPS. Calls on the federal government to respect the UPS Teamsters rights to collectively bargain, including the right to withhold their labor. Calls on elected officials at local, state, and federal levels to demonstrate their support by signing on to an open letter to rank-and-file Teamsters at UPS expressing that government has no role to play in collective bargaining between workers and their employer and therefore no elected individual or government entity should attempt to insert themselves into the collective bargaining process or participate in any attempted resolution of a new contract that is not first voted upon and ratified by rank-and-file UPS Teamsters prior to such government-related intervention.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-08-16 - Referred to Assignments [SR0383 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0383-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, United Parcel Service (UPS) is the single-largest | ||||||
| 3 | employer
of Teamster members, and the UPS contract is the | ||||||
| 4 | largest private sector
collective bargaining agreement in the | ||||||
| 5 | United States, covering more than
340,000 Teamsters; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters have helped the company make record
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| 7 | profits in excess of $13 billion; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The current collective bargaining agreement | ||||||
| 9 | between the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS is | ||||||
| 10 | set to expire on July
31, 2023; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters nationwide voted 97% in favor of
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| 12 | authorizing the UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee | ||||||
| 13 | to call a
strike in the event that a successor agreement cannot | ||||||
| 14 | be reached prior to
the contract expiration date of July 31, | ||||||
| 15 | 2023; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, UPS Teamsters have expressed overwhelming concern | ||||||
| 17 | that
the federal government would intervene in a nationwide | ||||||
| 18 | strike; therefore, be it
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| 19 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
| 20 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we call upon elected | ||||||
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| 1 | officials
at local, state, and federal levels to stand with | ||||||
| 2 | the UPS Teamsters in their
efforts to collectively bargain for | ||||||
| 3 | fair wages, safe working conditions,
affordable healthcare, | ||||||
| 4 | and the dignified retirement that they rightfully have
earned | ||||||
| 5 | while working for UPS; and be it further
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| 6 | RESOLVED, That we call on the
federal government to | ||||||
| 7 | respect the UPS Teamsters rights to collectively
bargain, | ||||||
| 8 | including the right to withhold their labor; and be it further
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| 9 | RESOLVED, That we call on elected
officials at local, | ||||||
| 10 | state, and federal levels to demonstrate their support by | ||||||
| 11 | signing on to an open letter to rank-and-file Teamsters at UPS
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| 12 | expressing that government has no role to play in collective | ||||||
| 13 | bargaining
between workers and their employer and therefore no | ||||||
| 14 | elected individual
or government entity should attempt to | ||||||
| 15 | insert themselves into the
collective bargaining process or | ||||||
| 16 | participate in any attempted resolution
of a new contract that | ||||||
| 17 | is not first voted upon and ratified by rank-and-file
UPS | ||||||
| 18 | Teamsters prior to such government-related intervention.
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