Going Brown
On June 14, a UPS driver shot three coworkers, then himself. UPS has to answer for its role in pushing its workers to violence.
On June 14, Jimmy Lam, a UPS package car driver in San Francisco, walked into work and shot and killed three coworkers, then himself.
This is the second mass shooting in less than three years at UPS. Joe Tesney, a driver for the company for twenty-one years, shot and killed two supervisors and himself in Inglenook, Alabama, on September 23, 2014.
Lam’s life was plagued by many problems — he had child visitation conflicts with the mother of his child and a previous arrest for a DUI. But most importantly, it was his workplace that made his life unbearable.
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