I’m glad your are happy at the Parcel. And I hope to God it’s a different place than when I was there.

But UPS still avoids taxes through its shell corporation, OPL, in Bermuda. UPSPAC continues to support right-wing politicians and policy that have put us in the mess we are in now. UPS was after all, advertising on the Bill O’Rielly Show.

I was part-time supervisor at one point in my carreer, just like you. After going fulltime and getting to know what goes on behind closed doors I came away with a very different perspective. I don’t think the company is as changed as you think. I still talk with the drivers and managers, they tell me a different story.

We find common ground in our mutual appreciation of the good influence of the Teamsters on UPS. Let’s pass The Employee Free Choice Act and organize FedEx and the rest of America’s workplace.

mike kohr
mkohr@dishmail.net

p.s. save EVERY piece of paper UPS gives you and take notes. I did and it cost UPS millions.

FedEx, on the other hand, still classifies its drivers as private contractors in order to get out of paying health insurance, disability, retirement, or any other benefits. They claim almost no actual employees. UPS is the polar opposite. I have every benefit anyone ever thought of, and I’m only part-time management.

…based in Bermuda, Overseas Partners Limited (OPL), whose sole purpose is avoidance of United States income taxes. The IRS won the largest back taxes judgment in history against them in the late 1990’s. The Bush administration dropped the case during the appeals process.

They are not good guys. I was in management there for 12 years. They are not fans of organized labor. They are not your friends and certainly not your ally. Decertify the Teamsters and watch how fast they skin you alive.

They are not fans of Democrats either. I was repeatedly informed by upper management that Democrats were a pale shade of the Communist Party. Their lobbying organization, UPSPAC, one of K Street’s biggest, gives overwhelmingly to Republicans. When I left UPS in 1992 I turned in testimony and documents that detailed their tactics of forcing supervisors and management into donating to UPSPAC. The Federal Elections Commission filed a charge against UPS, in which, after a four year legal battle UPS agreed to pay a fine and to never engage in this behavior again (never get caught again).

I turned over to the EEOC internal company documents that resulted in a sealed judgment against UPS for age discrimination.

I turned over to attorney David Mark of Seattle, Washington, documents that proved UPS was aware of tactics that resulted in employees being forced to work through their unpaid lunch hour. The documents proved that UPS was aware of these facts and were actually tracking the number of affected employees on a national level, in spite of years of legal testimony to the contrary. The case resulted in a multi million dollar judgment aginst the corporate entity.

UPS, may be an authoritarian dinosaur in the business world, but they are extremely astute in avoiding bad press. In fact press clipping are gathered at a national and world wide level and studied with an intent as to how to influence positive press coverage. Example: one of the biggest contributors to National Public Radio is the Annie E. Casey Fund, This fund is named after the daughter of UPS’s founder Jim Casey.

mike kohr
mkohr@dishmail.net

Hopefully, the bigger message will get out that o’Reilly is just an entertainer whose shtick is the bullying intolerance of corporate interest combined with a deep seated loathing of humanity.

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