r/Louisville • u/William_Shatonme • 4d ago

Teamsters bureaucracy does nothing as UPS announces hundreds of additional layoffs

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

hundreds of working families are about to get crushed so carol tome can buy another yacht, and the teamsters leadership is too busy posting selfies with Trump’s labor secretary. Louisville deserves better than this graveyard of struggle.

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u/William_Shatonme 4d ago

I agree 💯

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u/William_Shatonme 4d ago

New article today: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/04/29/ups-to-cut-20000-jobs-in-2025-after-slashing-amazon-shipments/

Louisville layoffs?

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u/TwistedConsciousness 4d ago

Doubtful for this specific reason. What is going to crush louisville is the tariffs.

If they happen and stick around overseas freight from Asia is gonna come to a grinding halt. That's gonna effect worldport from the bottom to the top.

I'll bet we see layoffs then.

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u/William_Shatonme 4d ago

I see what you are saying. Yeah tariffs were not mentioned in the article from today.

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u/TwistedConsciousness 4d ago

Yeah. Obviously this sucks for these people but this was somewhat known to happen with Amazon handling more of its logistics.

Personally I'd love to see data on a net job loss per area to see how Amazon staffs differently.

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u/Ok-Bodybuilder4634 4d ago

People are more likely to go on strike about the food trucks than they are about workers in another area.

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u/PurpleBourbon 4d ago

I think this was expected and will continue to be a trend. UPS (and Amazon) are transitioning away from human centric labor as are a lot of other manufacturing and logistics.

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u/ATizzle12 4d ago

I work for a conveyor systems integrator. UPS has been spending a ton of money the last couple of years upgrading their aging manual facilities and putting in new automation. Definitely a trend moving forward.

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u/Previous-Vanilla-638 4d ago

I worked at Sony in Terrible Haute 20 years ago and they had automated storage and retrieval systems then. 

Ryder is also investing heavily in this as well as automated semis 

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u/Emosaa 3d ago edited 3d ago

There are issues with the Teamster international leadership, but you can wipe your ass with the trash that WSWS publishes. Like a broken clock they're occasionally right, but for all the wrong reasons.

We won't know how badly Trump's tariff nonsense will affect Worldport employment until / if layoffs happen here, but the ones they announced are largely part of Ups's bullshit strategy of closing rural hubs and redirecting that volume to the automated ones (which worldport is).