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September 7th, 2022 
Awake Goy Starting at 8:00 a.m. on September 1, workers and allies began to congregate at the steps of the Metro Queens UPS facility. The rally built on two-days of tabling, where dozens of coworkers posed for solidarity photos and encouraged coworkers to sign a petition defending “all fired activists.” Veterans of the 2014 ‘Maspeth 250’ wildcat strike, a struggle against the unjust firing of union militant Jairo Reyes, were quick to show their solidarity. So far, approximately 150 workers from the two Maspeth UPS buildings signed the petition, with plans in place to get many more signatures.
For a long time, UPS has encouraged management to harass and retaliate against worker-activists. Many who play a role in organizing among coworkers share stories of long disciplinary records that have followed them as management targets and hopes to make an example of them. In the lead-up to the 2023 contract negotiations between UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, UPS has only redoubled its efforts to intimidate and harass workers who speak up, or anyone who dares to assert their basic contractual guarantees. Douglass and Becker were fired on wholly illegitimate, bad faith grounds. Becker was accused of stopping for two minutes for an iced tea during a heat wave, while Douglass faces an array of flimsy accusations.
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