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UPS to Pay $53,000 for Hazardous Waste Violations

ups-lenexa.jpgUnited Parcel Service has agreed to pay a $53,931 civil penalty to EPA Region 7 to settle a series of alleged violations of federal laws regarding the management of hazardous wastes at its freight facility in Lenexa, Kan.

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UPS CEO Compensation—$6.24 Million

ups_scott_davis.jpgScott 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 ...

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Management Pay Freeze Over in 2010

ups.jpgUPS announced that it will end its freeze on salary increases for management.

UPS spokesperson Norman Black told the Wall Street Journal that management employees can get salary increases this year because of signs that the economy is improving.  But the Wall Street Journal reports that managers will have to “achieve various performance benchmarks” to get them.

Performance benchmarks?  Could this mean even more production harassment and speedup for working Teamsters?  It's time for the International Union to do something about protecting Teamster members.

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IBT-UPS Pension Plan Keeps You in the Dark

ups_boxes.jpgHave you ever tried to get information from the new “IBT-UPS Pension Plan” that covers all full time UPS Teamsters in the Central and Southern Regions and the Carolinas? 

If not, consider yourself lucky, because it’s not easy.
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Stop the UPS Full-Time Jobs Giveaway

ups_insider_worker.jpgDid the International cut a secret deal to let UPS eliminate thousands of full-time 22.3 jobs?

In a tough economy, good full-time jobs with union benefits are at a premium. But the Hoffa administration has let UPS eliminate thousands of good full-time jobs that they are required to maintain by the contract. Read the rest ...

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Please Use the Potty, Not the Package Car

urinal1.jpg 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

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UPS Profits Tripled in Fourth Quarter

ups.jpgUPS raked in $757 million in profits in the Fourth Quarter—nearly tripling its profits over the same period last year.  Overall, Brown made $2.15 billion in profits in 2009. That’s after taxes.
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National Grievance Panel Docket

ups_driver_0.jpgThe first National Grievance Panel of 2010 runs March 1-5 in Ft Lauderdale. 

Click here to read the docket of cases that will be heard.

The UPS National Grievance Committee settles national disputes and other grievances that have been deadlocked at both the local and regional levels.


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UPS May Lay Off 300 Pilots

ups_plane-thumb.jpgThe press is reporting that UPS may lay off 300 pilots or more unless it can get other concessions from the pilots’ union. 

UPS made $2.15 billion last year and recently announced profits of $757 million for the fourth quarter alone.  But management continues to announce layoffs and to squeeze more production out of fewer workforce as part of what CEO Scott Davis calls being “leaner and more focused.” Read the rest ...

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UPS Triples Profits in the Fourth Quarter

ups.jpgUPS raked in $757 million in profits in the Fourth Quarter—nearly tripling its profits over the same period last year.  Overall, Brown made $2.15 billion in profits in 2009.  That’s after taxes.  

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