Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative agreement.
It depends entirely on the people. When my union was at the negotiating table my employer refused to discuss work from home protections. They just straight up would not say a single word on the matter. The union just took that lying down, and refused to press the issue (we tried! Sorry!). So when my CIO cancelled WfH with 30 mins left in the day on a Friday before a major US holiday, I wrote my steward to tell him I was pissed. The steward stopped responding to me after one message.
I love unions, but if you have a shitty union it’s worse for you overall.