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UPS Still ‘In Love With Hoffa’
UPS management is so confident of their cozy relationship with IBT President James Hoffa that they are crowing about it to industry executives.
UPS CEO Scott Davis told a gathering of CEOs and financial analysts on June 1 that, “The relationship with the Teamsters is better than it’s ever been before.” (Stanford C. Bernstein 27th Strategic Decisions Conference, 06/01/2011).
Brownout On UPS Issues at the Teamster Convention
With all of the violations happening at UPS, you would think our union’s biggest contract would have been a hot topic at the recent Teamster Convention.
Part-Time Poverty Wages
By Tim Hill, UPS Feeder Driver, Local 690, Spokane
The minimum wage in Washington State is now $8.67 an hour according to Washington State Labor and Industries. That is 17 cents more than the starting rate for part-timers in the UPS contract.
Inflation Jumps
UPS Teamsters to get 12c Cost of Living Raise
Because inflation over the past year has jumped to 4.2%, the highest rate in several years, UPS Teamsters will get an extra 12c per hour raise on August 1.
Fed UP at UPS
UPS is coming under fire for unfair production standards and the company’s blame-the-worker approach to safety. Some Teamsters are taking action.
Local 804 members rallied at UPS in Melville, Long Island this week to protest the company’s illegal firing of two stewards in retaliation for action taken by Local 804 to protect the safety of drivers and the public. Read the rest …
Tornado Strikes Near UPS Hub
UPS loves logistics. But does it care about its workforce?
An EF-4 tornado touched down dangerously close to the Earth City UPS hub in Missouri on April 22. UPS Teamsters in the Midwest have been drilled to seek shelter in the inner office during a tornado. But when the real test came, safety took a back seat for UPS management. Read the rest …
UPS CEO Gets $10.7 Million Paycheck
UPS CEO Scott Davis made $10.7 million last year, a 72 percent hike over his total compensation for 2009.
Davis’s pay has quadrupled since 2007. Over the same period, the Hoffa administration has given Davis record givebacks at the bargaining table. Read the rest …
NY Teamsters Blow the Whistle on UPS
With the help of an inflatable rat, Local 804 members are blowing the whistle on UPS management. Read the rest …
UPS Leaves ‘Brown’ for New Love
Package-delivery giant United Parcel Service Inc. is launching a global ad campaign to promote its expanding logistics business to small and medium-sized businesses that want to sell their wares globally.
Socking It to UPS
A package car driver has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing the company of violating labor law by requiring drivers who wear shorts to buy socks with the UPS logo from the company.
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UPS Profits Up 33 Percent
UPS executives announced that the company hauled in $533 million in profits after taxes in the first quarter of 2010. Brown’s profits are up by 33 percent or $132 million compared to the first quarter last year.
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UPS Boot Camp for New Drivers
The Wall Street Journal reports on a UPS training facility, “Integrad,” where drivers get hooked into a contraption that simulates walking on ice and learn to “bond with their keys.”
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Senate Maintains FedEx Loophole
The Senate passed the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill yesterday, but excluded a provision that would make it easier for FedEx workers to unionize.
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UPS CEO Compensation—$6.24 Million
Scott Davis, the chairman and chief executive officer of UPS, was paid a whopping $6.24 million last year.
The figure is actually slightly down from the $6.28 million Davis bagged in 2008. But don’t feel too bad for Brown’s CEO. Davis’s pay more than doubled in 2008, going from $2.6 million to $6.28 million, a 141 percent increase! (This is the same year UPS Teamsters got a 35 cent raise.) Read the rest …
Please Use the Potty, Not the Package Car
UPS is fighting a grievance all the way to the national panel over a supervisor who urinated in the back of a package car during a driver’s OJS.
Is this sup not up to speed on UPS methods? Or does anything go if it helps hike up a driver’s SPORH? You be the judge.
The first national grievance panel of the year is March 1 to 5 in Ft. Lauderdale.
TDU makes the docket and minutes of national grievance panels available at www.tdu.org/upsnatlpanel Read the rest …
