Bonus Episode: Resisting the UPS Patriarchy
UPS is a patriarchal corporation – on the corporate and labor side. Whether it's sexual harassment or pregnancy discrimination, women at UPS confront particular workplace issues because of their gender. We spoke with Michelle Espinoza, a feeder driver out of Teamsters Local 135 in Indianapolis, about the gender discrimination she's battled at the company and the work she's doing to help other Teamster women.
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Hosted by Teddy Ostrow
Edited by Teddy Ostrow & Ruby Walsh
Produced by NYGP & Ruby Walsh, in partnership with In These Times & The Real News
Music by Casey Gallagher
Cover art by Devlin Claro Resetar
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Show Notes
See Joe Allen's Teamsters election reading list from 2021 for a number of sources, including some below.
Joe Allen, "Sent Packing," Jacobin, December 19, 2018.
Stephen Franklin, "Sandy Pope: The Woman Who Would Rule the Teamsters," In These Times, October 13, 2010.
Leah F. Vosko and David Scott Witwer, "'Not a Man's Union': Women Teamsters in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s," Journal of Women's History, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Autumn 2001).
Joe Allen, "An UPSurge at the Package King," SocialistWorker.org, October 8, 2014.
Cal Winslow, "Fighting Dictatorship at United Parcel: Interview with Anne Mackie", Workers’ Power newspaper, November 21, 1975.
