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After a “two-person” committee meeting made up of representatives of all 176 IBT locals with UPS members nearly unanimously endorsed the agreement on July 31, members started voting on whether to ratify the agreement using an online voting system on August 3. Balloting closes on August 22.

✏️ How to have representatives while still keeping power in the masses. The reps agree on certain decisions, then take that back to the masses for voting and agreeing upon collectively. 🔗 View Highlight

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Not only do tiers create lower-paid categories of workers, but they have a corrosive effect on union solidarity, creating divisions between different tiers of workers.

✏️ Tactics by those in power to keep the masses in check. Create tiers and hierarchies and class differentiation that corrodes solidarity and creates division.. thereby weakening the power of a unified mass of people against the elite. 🔗 View Highlight