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
Teamsters aren’t afraid of a fight. With the AI revolution upon us, now is the time for workers to make our voices heard against Big Tech and greedy corporations that want to replace us with robots.
In the Teamsters Union, we do not oppose new technology that enhances work, makes work safer, or creates new jobs in the supply chain. But we are prepared to fight with full force against corruptible employers that want to use new technology,
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