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The community and Workforce Development will. Now come to
order say, we have three items on the agenda. First, the
approval of the June meeting rule, 45 report, second
resolution expressing solidarity, with the International
Brotherhood of teamsters. We also have a representative
Teamsters sit with us to speak, on the resolution and
answer questions. And finally, we have the creation of a
subcommittee.
And you.
And youth employment. Before I begin, we will establish
quorum.
All.
Alderperson Yancey.
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Alderman Coleman, I believe is on her way. I'll drink
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nine, ten. We have Coram, somebody text Chris Kelly, fero.
He asked me to text them when we started. Thank you, Eric.
Okay, we have ten members present, we have Quorum 79
committee members, that would like to be present. We have
Alderman more Alderman, Martin Holliman Burnett, we're
going to transfer you in just cuz you're hanging out other
women. Do Sandra Rodriguez, Sanchez. Thank you. Thank you
very much for being here at this time. We'll begin the
public comment period for the kind of tree is 30 minutes. I
respect for each speaker is limited to three minutes. Do we
have any public comments?
Okay, George Blakemore. Mister Blakemore, you have 3
minutes to start when you begin sir.
Are they?
I've been waiting for this the meeting and it wouldn't any
agenda, you are something else out here and then the police
chased it out to the house, I'll get you an agenda.
and,
And you start to pass them out.
Cuz all those are gymnast been up here. So y'all need to
step up your ask.
Busy dealing with Workforce, I guess the Bellamy anyway. I'm
reading is fundamental this is just a resolution
Revolution. It doesn't have any any power or any substance
or a resolution dealing with the teamsters Brotherhood
Union going over United, Parcel Service anyway.
Or.
Workforce Development.
and,
And the Union.
Again, I'm going to play the race card.
I'm
I don't care if you like it or not. These unions are
racist. Also.
The fabric in America is racist, it's in the air is
everywhere.
Raise.
Racism.
With these unions Workforce Development, each, one of them
and you see how they talkin and hugging and kissing this is
just something else here.
It is something else here and the reason you can do this is
because you have no public participation.
No public participation like a Target. He is again.
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Hey Carol, Scott conversations, they just not very
respectful. And you as the chairman sir, you as a Charming,
you must keep a good car. If I get up and do something
wrong, the police will check me. Now is your job to check
p.m. When anybody come up to speak.
He's?
East Bay.
East supposed to make sure they conduct themselves in a
professional. Wait because you represent the people and
your public servant this meeting Greek. Chicken go here
hugging and kissing each other. It's not a good look.
If?
It's not a good look. Anyway, I'm anti these Union. All of
them erases Union.
All of them.
Oggy.
Organized crime is in the union. So now fired, mr.
Blakemore.
Thank.
Thank you, sir. I want to recognize all the women's
twenties Alderman Taliaferro and also alderman ramirez-rosa
for the Quorum and Miss anybody.
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Aurora.
Alright, thank you very much.
There.
There is no speakers and the time for Public. Public, has
expired. Our first order of business is the approval that
rule 45 report from June. 12th 2023. Every member of the
committee should have received the copy in your email last
week and also, we passed out a copy at the beginning of
this meeting to have a motion to approve that report. So
moved by Alton Ellis pesado
Or should I say?
Or should I say the spider? Please respond by saying, I all
those opposed, in the opinion of the chair, the ice habits
of the second item before the committee today. Resolution
number of 2020. 3000 1267 is the resolution expressing
solidarity. With the International Brotherhood of teamsters
for fair contract. Negotiations with United, Parcel
Service, we have a substitute resolution clean up the
language for this resolution. Can I get a motion to accept
the substitutes?
Advise show.
Vice chair with the address. So moose all those in favor.
Signify by saying I seen your post in the opinion of the
chair. The eyes have it up before we begin, I want to
acknowledge a letter sent from UPS. The members of the
committee that also be included in our next rule. 45
reports again, every Committee Member receive this in their
email should have in your pocket today and they're all
right today we have a representative from the International
Brotherhood of the teamsters here to speak. On this
resolution, we will allow that individual to speak if they
are with us today.
Are we going to see if you would do? So kind by, introducing
yourself your title and I begin your testimony sir.
This work.
Just working my name is Jonathan Kaczynski. Been driving
for UPS for almost 3 years in that time. I've been very
proud to provide a service that so many people rely on and
I've been very proud to be a small part in making this city
move when covid was raging. I was proud to be delivering
the first boxes of vaccines to local hospitals and health
clinics will UPS posted banners outside our Hub. That said
Heroes work here and give out how to set essential workers.
We did not receive one cent of Hazard pay during the entire
pandemic. Ouachita going through stuck inside and
e-commerce was booming, UPS is making record profits going
into contract negotiations. It seemed obvious that we were
they would have to share some of that wealth with its
workers in the early stages of bargaining. We were able to
agree to some significant improvements. The 2-tier driver
classification to keeps many drivers including myself
underpaid and overworked will be gone.
Or.
Or so.
Forced overtime on schedule days off will be gone UPS, even
agreed to begin, purchasing trucks with air conditioning.
Something we expected that we would could only win through
a strike from the outside. It looks like things are pretty
Rosy for UPS drivers. So why is the largest strike in
decades? Looking more more likely
Because driver.
Because drivers aren't everyone who works for UPS. In fact,
between 65 and 70. Per-cent of UPS is work. Force is part
time. This includes the people to load our trucks unload.
Our trucks load Semi Trailers in the middle of night and
sort through mounds of packages for hours. On end. Our
part-timers work in dangerous conditions were productivity
has prioritised over health and safety are inside. Workers
are paid nothing like what they're worth. Our time. Pay is
so low that the company regularly has to Institute market
rate adjustments to temporarily raise wages, so they can
actually retain or attract workers at their whims. They can
also lower, or even eliminate, these temporary increases
all together in a most precarious workers, can't
consistently know what their paychecks will look like in
two or three weeks.
U p.
You pee.
UPS. They could divide the union, putting the drivers
against the inside workers. Drivers are the face of the
company. The person who comes to mind when you hear the
UPS, the word UPS is probably the driver who delivers to
your neighborhood with the people, doing the Unseen and
thankless work inside the building cannot be left behind.
At the bark.
At the bargaining table and in the media UPS is trying to
tell us that we they can't afford to make things better to
trying to build a narrative that we're in a recession and
that we're lucky to have jobs at all. They're telling us
that our customers are Running Scared, afraid of a
potential strike will mean for their businesses. The
problem with that is a UPS is a publicly traded company and
their earnings reports and other Financial activity are
public record.
and,
In the first quarter of 2023.
In the first quarter of 2023 UPS made 2.5 billion dollars
in Revenue. I mean in pure profit after paying me and
340000 other Teamsters putting gas in the truck UPS made
2.5 billion dollars in three months. This doesn't sound
like a company that needs to nickel-and-dime. The people
doing the work just on contract UPS, will not only benefit
the thousands of people in Chicagoland, who work for the
company, will raise standards across the entire Logistics
industry if we can secure better wages and safer work
environment, we will be sending a message, the workers
deserve to share in the profits they generate and that we
deserve dignity while we do it.
I,
I appreciate.
I appreciate the opportunity to speak and I hope the
council will take this opportunity to show the city could a
Stylin. Thank you very much, mr. Krasinski, we appreciate
your fight.
When?
Wonderful, we will now have comments or questions on the
matter for stuff is the matters of presenting sponsor
Alderman, Carlos Ramirez.
but then,
But thank you so much. Share Rodriguez, Chicago to
Uniontown, and we have a long history of supporting
organized labor when they go out on the picket line for
justice in the workplace. And for a fair contract with Fair
wages and I'm really proud to bring forward this resolution
with your support. And of course, the support of the
Democratic Socialist caucus here in the Chicago city
council, with all of us signing on as co-sponsors or
possibly working with the teamsters and with Democratic
socialists of America, to organize, solidarity and support
of his workers. If this strike happens, it will be the
largest single employer strike in the history of this
country. 340,000 Teamsters going out on strike and they
don't want to go out on strike, right? When workers go on
strike, they face the brunt, right? That's money. They're
losing out on it. Makes it difficult and harder for them to
put food on the table. The workers are going on strike.
That means that something is deeply wrong with management
and there's something deeply wrong with this Corporation as
Arbor.
They're here.
They're here has Les.
They're here has laid out. This Corporation May 2.5 billion
dollars in a very short period of time and there's no
reason why they can't support these workers because there
is no success at UPS. Without these workers who work in
very difficult conditions. Every single day, I'm talking
about record heat in the cabs of their trucks score
conditions that no one should have to work in. And so what
they're fighting for is basic Justice,
and I hope that we
And I hope that we as a community.
And I hope that we as a committee we as a council can
support this resolution to show where our city council
stands. We stand with the teamsters, we stand with labor
and these workers deserve our support. Should they have to
go on strike?
Become an alderman, sposato.
Thank you, Karen Rodriguez. I don't know what those are you
here, know about me, but I know most people know before I
was like all their man. I was a fireman before I was a
fireman. I was at UPS, man. And Jonathan, you only got
three years. I had 12 years of driving, 60 years with the
company, so let me tell you, that was one tough job. I
never realized how tough it was till I left. I did make a
decent amount of money, but they started this two-tier pay
system and I started, they are in
Chevy.
7.
78 days and I started driving and 82 and then like an 80
for something. He started a two-tier pay system. So in
1978, I was making 15 bucks an hour back then, which was
pretty good. Pretty good living. I even I was only
part-time but that's why I always consider my tile at my
college was ups. And then, when I graduated, I went out to
be a driver 41 years ago, 42, almost forty-two years ago, I
started driving and a 30 years ago. I retired. I like to
say retired and I didn't quit. They were tired to go on to
bigger and better thing. But, I mean, it was, it was one
heck of
Job. And I know I,
Job and I know our esteemed, my friend over there, mister
blakemar things are racist, but they nobody, I mean, it
can't get employees. And Jonathan will tell you that don't
take any warm bodies in a black white, hispanic, I mean,
male female, you name it. They cannot get people to work
anymore. It's in, right? I mean that's what all my friends
tell me. Most of my friends are in the 62632r you know,
68275 ranged from from there. So they just can't get
people. But this would be devastating to the country. I
stand in solidarity with my brothers and sisters at UPS.
Unfortunately I didn't get the opportunity to sign on to
this resolution. I was working on one of my own for work
tomorrow or Wednesday but no big deal. I'm sure it'll be
circulating it on on Council day but yes I stand with you
Jonathan and Pasquale. I see Pasquale over there and like I
say a little known fact that some people that know about me
16 years.
My life.
my life at,
My life at UPS made a damn good living but I worked hard. I
mean, there was no such thing as a 40 hour work week. When
you work at UPS, I mean you don't go out with a 8 hours
worth of work on your truck. You bought with 10 hours worth
of work and you better have it finished and you better day
do time studies and you better have it done within a
reasonable amount of time so on and so forth. Tough place
to work for. I understand what you guys are going through
and I'm guessing Jonathan, you're not you're not really up
to go to take you five years ago to post a owl now
it take if
It'll take you five years ago at the full-scale now. Is it
still that way or you're looking for here to get up to full
scale? So I'm not sure what. Gail is. But tough place to
work devastating for the workers devastating for the
country. So hopefully it got resolved but I to stand with
you and sorry Pasquale. I couldn't come out to the rally on
last Friday but that far at that time of the day for a guy
with my challenges and it was a little tops out. I just
want to say that and now you all know one another yet,
another fact about me, you sure not a social worker all the
Rascals, please. Yes. Thank thank you very much German. I
also would like to be associated with the resolution. I
asked you was virtually Council 70% as a co-sponsor want to
make sure I'm added it.
Anger.
Anger and disgust me that when we think about post covid,
some of the the roles that were necessary and truly
essential. During that time were the folks around here,
delivering packages when everyone else is stuck at home,
right? Try to make sure we're safe during a pandemic, these
folks are out there, delivering products, delivering,
important resources to folks and I don't think it's
recognizing up. And so it's further more infuriating. When
you have a company of UPS saying, well, we're not making
enough. When clearly more things were being delivered
during all that time they were earnings that were coming in
to not have that go down to the actual labor is infuriating
an invite of what
I would like to write a.
I would like the Writers Guild going to the same types of
pressures when we talked about like the producers, right?
That they create the don't create any of the content.
If you are the labor that is responsible for the delivery
of products. If you're the labor responsible for the work,
you should be seeing some of those. But especially when
most of the jobs that are not belabor, could be the ones
giving an AI statue handle because none of those guys are
willing to actually pick up any of the boxes and put them
in the truck. All they do is look at numbers, 20 people,
and if you tell me who deserves a pay cut, its those folks,
not the ones out there, sweat it out day in and day out. So
I'm want to make sure that I'm in solidarity, sign on to
the resolution and like any Union, you don't want to go out
on strike. You want to figure out a resolution, you are
forced to go to strike because the boss is, don't know how
to negotiate. So my hope is that you all figure out an
agreement but if you don't will be out there on the streets
with you, so thank you very much. Thank you. All the, all
the person who all things are just definitely want to
observe also is that first of all, the rights of workers
are important section of all working conditions are
important and then
Edible.
What about the?
YouTube all the way in which an economy is move-in UPS is
so relevant. Now, as brick-and-mortar to beginning to
downsize and digital currency is becoming more relevant,
especially online, shopping UPS needs to get a right. And
then you also have to consider the fact that along with
mail mail, carrier safety.
Neighborhood UPS.
Neighborhood UPS, trucks by private security guards because
of the fear of being robbed. And we seen it time and time
again especially in neighborhoods where they are high
crime, drivers are free to drop off packages and so
definitely the dignity and the compensation, as well as the
work environment. So important to ascend, in solidarity,
along with my colleagues, and all the person Curtis
Thank.
Thank you, Sam. And I like my colleague over there before
becoming all the man. I was at Easton, man. So I also stand
for
I want to be added to the resolution. Guys, have a tough
job out there, especially again, with the robberies and
things like that going on. So we standing strong. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank you Alderman, Alderman. Burnett you
very much, mr. Chairman, so I was not a Teamster, but my
father was the teamster for over 20 years. For the
actually, the City Department of Streets & Sanitation. And
my wife was a Teamster representative, who represented the
Teamster's. Union in Washington DC on many occasions when
she worked over at the Sheriff's Office, many moons ago,
but it seems we have always found to change this to be
fair.
To.
To Holiday.
To all of them members and fight for justice and and their
rights and advocating for them to have their fair share of
everything. We support this resolution 100%. You know, UPS
is constantly growing that matter fact, I just went to an
event for UPS where they were giving out scholarships to
folks who go to college and they were telling us how well
that their company is doing just like all of the other
delivery services throughout our country, especially since
covet, they've done very well and they all have been
expanding and is not as good post of corporate folks to do
well is good for the Working Class People to do well. Also,
I support this resolution 100%, thank you. Thank you all
the men.
I just want to say I support this resolution as a former
Teamster. I am proud and proud of the work you do and the
work you will continue to do. So thank you.
In that vein and being the son of a Teamster for 25 years
who drove trucks, you know, thank you for being here. Can I
get a motion to recommend approval item to on the agenda
passing this resolution alderperson?
I'll
Olive.
All Miss pasado respond by saying I and he posed in the
opinion of the share the eyes, have it graduations and good
luck to you sir. We're with you with the fight. Okay. But
that I do pass at the next city council, this Wednesday
July 19th, the third item before I committed today is a
resolution to establish the subcommittee on youth
employment. Everyone should receive the copy last week of
this resolution also in your hands. This has been much talk
about on the mayoral campaign, another near push this is
one of his focal points and we have
Forgive me. Do we have any? So we're bringing this forward.
Do we have any questions on the item?
I was.
I would just like to say that I'm think it's really great
that we as a council and that this Administration are
focusing on youth employment and making sure that there are
year-round opportunities. One Summer Chicago has done a
great job of providing youth with opportunities but I know
we as a city can do even more in some cited that as a
committee on a Workforce Development that we are going to
shine a light on youth employment. And I'm so,
Great.
Grateful to all.
Grateful to alderwoman, Jesse Fuentes who has a long track
record of working in her community to help develop you. I'm
glad that she's going to take on this task and you know
hopefully good things will come out of this subcommittee
for the workers Jessie. Alden Vasquez.
Thank.
Becky.
Becky was also want to add to those comments. I think it is
a very good thing for a city that not only do. We talk
about the value of having you can find me, but that there
is intentionality of having a subcommittee and the space to
have those conversations that you're moving forward. I
definitely think that, moving me one summer, and making it
one whole year to buy things, not just for the book store
employee, but just try City in general. So, I'm really
looking forward to the work that's being done in.
Similarly, feel great about the fact that it's being shared
by other person puente's. I feel very confident in your
ability to work, and I look forward to everything. Y'all
are going to do, thank you for what you doing for the city
and look forward to seeing the results of the subcommittee.
Thank you, Sharon and seeing them for their hands. I was
take that as a motion to pass and we will let you speak
after. If that's what that's okay. It's been motion by
Alderman Vasquez. All the all the rest has to pass all
those in favor of passing this resolution.
Something you respond, by saying, I all those opposed say,
nay in the opinion of the chair, the eyes have it.
Congratulations all to him. And I'm excited about being
your nice chair. Would you like to make a statement about
this committee and about your expectations? Her, we love to
hear from you. I don't know how many of my colleagues know
my story but born and raised in Humboldt Park on Kedzie in
between Beech and her right across street from the park,
the park with my front yard for most of my life and both,
my parents suffered from substance abuse in my father's
been overwhelming majority of my life in prison. If it
weren't for an individual that believed in me and gave me a
job and wrapped around you. I wouldn't be here with you all
today. So I'm proof-of-concept the only invest in our young
people. When we wrapped around them, when we give them a
Workforce opportunity. If that makes the difference or
thinking about addressing public safety, concerns and
violence, and gun violence in the city of Chicago,
The.
Then we have to be prepared to give young people what they
need and that is that we need to invest in them. They need
jobs that they need livable wages. They need the
opportunity to help sustain their families and be agents of
change in their Community. As I'm looking forward to the
work that we're going to do in the subcommittee. Other more
importantly, I'm just the Chicago kid trying to make a
difference for every other Chicago Kid,
Are.
all right, give it a
All right, give it up for the Chicago Cubs.
So, so excited to start with you. I will report this vote
as a recommendation to pass at the next city. Council
meeting this Wednesday, July 19th with there. Being no
further business before the committee may have a motion to
adjourn.
By.
Vice-chair Gutierrez move to adjourn the hearing no
objections to order. The meeting of the committee of
Workforce Development is now adjourned.