9.5 News
Volume Up, Time to Demand More Driving Jobs
UPS predicts package volume in the U.S. will grow two to three percent in 2012.
Will growing volume mean more jobs—or just more production harassment? Read the rest …
Make UPS Deliver in 2012
Hoffa and Hall have promised UPS will curb production harassment, hire more package drivers and respect members’ 9.5 rights.
It’s up to Teamster members to hold Hoffa and Hall to their pledge and to Make UPS Deliver on these commitments.
Empty Promises at UPS
Under fire for weak contract enforcement at UPS, Hoffa and Ken Hall convened a national conference call last summer to brief shop stewards and promise International Union action.
But more than six months later, Hoffa and Hall remain out of touch and missing in action. Read the rest …
Enforcing Your 9.5 Rights at UPS
Excessive overtime and 9.5 violations are out of control at UPS.
Get the facts on your 9.5 rights and how to enforce them by using the new 9.5 Rights Enforcement Form from TDU.
How Hoffa & Co. Watered Down Our 9.5 Rights
If you think the 9.5 Opt-In procedure is overly complicated and too weak, you’re right. And it’s no accident. Management set out to water down our protections from excessive OT and the Hoffa administration has gone along.
No Protection from New Technology and Production Harassment
Drivers are paying the cost for another Hoffa-Hall surrender in bargaining—this time over the language on technology and discipline.
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Passing the Buck on 9.5 Violations
Are long days, production harassment and 9.5 violations a problem? Not to Hoffa and Ken Hall.
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Five Changes to Strengthen UPS Contract Enforcement
IBT Vice President and Package Division Director Ken Hall says local officers and members are to blame for weak contract enforcement because they bring cases “with no facts.”
Here are five changes the International Union could adopt today to increase contract enforcement. Read the rest …
Dimes on the Dollar For 9.5 Violations
UPS Teamsters are increasingly getting just dimes on the dollar for 9.5 violations—when they get anything at all. The problem is epidemic and infecting areas where members historically have been able to win full penalty pay. Read the rest …
New Rules Weaken Overtime Protection at UPS
Under a contract loophole, UPS and the International Union have agreed to new restrictions that will make it harder for drivers to file grievances against excessive overtime.
Our contract is supposed to protect package car drivers from unwanted excessive overtime. But in a memo dated Dec. 18, the International Union announced that it had negotiated new guidelines that will make it tougher for members to file excessive overtime grievances.
Click here to download a copy of the memo. Read the rest …
Stopping Excessive Overtime, Saving Teamster Jobs
UPS made after-tax profits of $1.6 billion in the third quarter. Brown is still the nation’s largest transportation company and still incredibly profitable, thanks to hard-working Teamsters. But with the economy slowing down, UPS is looking to cut jobs and squeeze us even more.
After reporting a drop in volume for the third quarter, UPS’s Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn told investor analysts, “We’re working hard to right-size our network for 2009.”
That’s corporate-speak for reducing jobs. It’s happening already. UPS is cutting routes in some areas and forcing package car drivers to work unwanted excessive overtime.
Click here to let us know what’s happening with excessive overtime and 9.5 grievances where you work.
UPS Wants More Givebacks on 9.5 Language
Is the company trying to water down the new 9.5/Excessive Overtime language it just negotiated? .
The new Article 37 language has been in effect since January 1, but in most areas, UPS still has not posted the “9.5 Opt-In / Opt-Out” lists required by the new contract.
The issue is reportedly being discussed by Teamster and company officials at the highest levels. In some areas, management is refusing to grant any 9.5 grievances until the Opt-in/Opt-out issue is settled nationally. Read the rest …
Excessive Overtime: Opt-In, Opt-Out Up in the Air
UPS is being even more inconsistent than usual in its implementation of the new contract language on excessive overtime grievances.
The new contract requires the company to post a “9.5 opt-in/opt-out” list before Jan. 1 to govern 9.5 grievances through May 31. Drivers who “opt-out” of the 9.5 language will have no right to file a grievance alleging excessive overtime until June 1.
While management circulated the opt-in/opt-out list in some cities as early as Dec. 15, drivers in most areas report that UPS has still taken no action at all. Read the rest …
