Member Profiles
Merritt Billington has worked at UPS for about 25 years; a career he started when he was 18 years old. He delivers packages in the city of Gilroy for UPS and serves as the Local 853’s chief shop steward at the Morgan Hill Center in San Jose. He makes 150-190 deliveries each day — a workload that’s up by about 25% since COVID started.
For most of his career at UPS, Billington was an active member with Local 287.
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Peter Finn, President
As Teamsters we aren’t afraid of a fight, and as the election approaches, now is the time to make our voices heard in our fight against Big Tech. Greedy corporations want to replace working people with robots and Big Tech is pouring billions of dollars into a plan to outsource good middle-class jobs to machines run by artificial intelligence (AI). Their goal is simple, but disturbing. Big Tech wants to build AI machines to eliminate jobs so big business can outsource our jobs to robots—all with the self-serving goal of lowering labor costs to increase their already-excessive corporate profits.
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