PLYMPTON, Mass. — Hundreds of Teamsters members in Massachusetts who work for a major distribution company that supplies food to restaurants, hospitals, and other businesses have gone on strike.
More than 300 workers at Local 653, including truck drivers, walked off the job at Sysco Boston over the weekend. On Monday morning, workers were seen picketing at Sysco headquarters at 99 Spring Street in Plympton.
The decision to strike came after management offered a “last, best, final” offer that would strip their essential workers of high-quality union health insurance and deny Local 653 members their union pension, according to Teamsters.
IT’S AN ALL-OUT WORKER REVOLT AT SYSCO! BOSTON WALKS OUT ON STRIKE!!!! Just now, at 12:01 a.m. ET, more than 300...
Posted by Teamsters on Friday, September 30, 2022
“We are currently striking Sysco over unfair labor practice charges and economics, pension, wages, health care, the whole bit,” Trevor Ashley, a 20-year driver at Sysco Boston and member of Local 653, said in a statement. “We’ve been called essential workers for the longest time and now it’s just empty words. We are working under grueling conditions. Some of us are working 14, 15, 16 hours a day, six days a week. We deserve more, and we aren’t going to stop until we get it.”
Tom Erickson, Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division, added, “Workers around the country are rising up at Sysco to demand what they deserve. The Teamsters are done letting this company take advantage of its workers. Our members are essential, united, and fighting back. This is only the beginning.”
Hundreds of workers have also gone on strike at Sysco Syracuse and Sysco Arizona.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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