• UNLOCKED: Teamsters Pride!: The LGBTQ+ Caucus

  • Dec 17 2023
  • Length: 34 mins
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UNLOCKED: Teamsters Pride!: The LGBTQ+ Caucus

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  • Originally published on June 29, 2023.

    Happy Pride Month! In this bonus episode, we're sharing the efforts that LGBTQ+ Teamsters are engaging in to fight for liberation at UPS, other Teamsters employers, the union itself, and beyond.

    We spoke with Andrew Rivas, a UPS package car driver and political coordinator of Teamsters Local 533 in Reno, Nevada. He is also on the board of the relatively new Teamsters LGBTQ+ caucus. Andrew told us about the initiative, what it's like to face and fight against discrimination in the workplace, and specifically what the LGBTQ+ Caucus is demanding in the UPS contract negotiations.

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    Hosted by Teddy Ostrow

    Edited by Teddy Ostrow & Ruby Walsh

    Produced by NYGP & Ruby Walsh, in partnership with In These Times & The Real News

    Music by Casey Gallagher

    Cover art by Devlin Claro Resetar

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    Show Notes

    • Teamsters LGBTQ+ Caucus website.
    • Marc Steiner, "The Anti-LGBTQ Backlash Can't Crush 50 Years of Pride," The Real News, June 27, 2023.
    • Kim Kelly, "How LGBTQ Activists Transformed the Labor Movment," Teen Vogue, June 7, 2019.
    • Ann Balay, Semi Queer: Stories Gay, Trans and Black Truckers (UNC Press: 2020).
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