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Joe Allen
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Author: The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS.
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Fear and Loathing at Big Brown
By Joe Allen
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December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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How Residents In Chicago And LA Are Building Multiracial Solidarity Against ICE
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety-net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’
Richard Hooker Jr is running to replace Trump ally Sean O’Brien as president of the Teamsters International union
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November 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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TDU Supporting Racist Fascist SOB Who Is Backing Trump's Fascist Dictatorship
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October 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Fighting the Far Right on Campus: An small victory from San Diego in 1992 by Joe Allen
The death of Charlie Kirk has made me think about the growth of the right-wing presence on U.S. campuses during the last three decades. The…
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September 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The Teamsters’ Non-Strike at UPS
Like many people, I woke up early last Tuesday morning to find an excited post in my Facebook news feed from the Teamsters: “At 11th Hour, UPS Bows to
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August 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Many thanks to Rick Smith for my first interview on my new book Teamsterland. My interview starts about 29 minutes in. It was recorded the night that Teamsters balked again at striking UPS.

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The Rick Smith Show
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August 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Socialists and the Rank and File Strategy: A Resource Guide by Joe Allen joeallen-60224.medium.com/socialists-a...
Socialists and the Rank and File Strategy: A Resource Guide by Joe Allen
“The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself.” — Marx & Engels.
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August 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Teamsterland: Reports on America's Most Iconic Union: Reports | Joe Allen
The world's most iconic union?When Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of Britain's largest union, Unite the Union, spoke to the delegates of the 2016 Teamster convention, he decl
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August 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Fascists on the CPD: Why Is It So Hard to Fire Proud Boy Cops in Chicago? - CounterPunch.org share.google/1HMPRGmw5ud4...
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August 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The Passing of a Teamster Rebel: Remembering Bennie Jackson
Recently, I learned that my old union representative Bennie Jackson passed away seven months ago. He was a lifelong union militant at United Parcel
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July 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Yesterday in Chicago.
June 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Teamsters’ Sean O’Brien
Doing MAGA’s dirty work in the labor movement
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May 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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An Injury to One is an Injury to All: Italy's General Strike - REBEL
In a defiant response to worsening labour conditions and Italy’s role in…
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May 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This coming Saturday in Chicago.

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Tesla Takedown Chicago
Bring a sign, bring some friends, be a part of how DOGE ends! Tesla profits are down 71%, let's keep it up! Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do i...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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May Days
Joe Allen recounts the experience of the Chicago Haymarket Square walking tour and monument to the May 1, 1886 workers' uprising.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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“We can move where supply chains move,” Ms. Tomé said.

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UPS to Cut 20,000 Jobs and Slash Amazon Deliveries to Trim Costs
The move comes as President Trump’s tariffs are reducing shipping volumes and is in addition to 12,000 job cuts last year.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Tesla Takedown Chicago
Bring a sign, bring some friends, be a part of how DOGE ends! Tesla profits are down 71%, let's keep it up! Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do i...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Hey all, The ebook version of The Package King is selling for $5.99.
The Package King
An engaging look behind the curtain of one of America's most important companies.
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April 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM