Union officers representing UPS Teamsters will meet with company officials for the first national grievance panel of the year, March 5-9.
TDU makes the docket available to help UPS Teamsters track contract enforcement issues.
The docket is massive—94 pages and approximately 600 cases. Read the rest …
Every UPS Teamster is covered by at least two contracts: the national UPS agreement and their regional supplement. Some Teamsters are even covered by a third agreement: a local rider.
Members have the right to a separate vote on their supplement, as well as a vote on the national contract. TDU fought to win this right; it was put into the IBT Constitution in 1991. Read the rest …
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 …
Three years after the company’s elimination of 22.3 jobs was exposed, the International Union still doesn’t know how many 22.3 jobs UPS owes Teamster members.
Before Hoffa and Hall negotiate a new contract, shouldn’t they enforce the old one? Read the rest …
UPS executives report the company hauled in more than $4.3 billion in profits after taxes in 2011. Management predicts higher volume and higher profits in 2012. Read the rest …
Feeder drivers at UPS are often frustrated by company policy on the use of the snubber or plunger on the pintle-hook assemblies that secure the dolly on doubles units. The air-activated plunger is a safety devise that limits play in the hook on the rear of the front trailer. This device prevents the 1″ to 2″ slack that would otherwise allow movement at the dolly connection. Read the rest …
Hearings on subcontracting at UPS Freight are delayed again—till April 25. That’s according to a memo from Ken Hall released. Read the rest …
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.
Jokes about bubble gum and bailing wire, band-aids and duct tape are commonly used to describe shoddy workmanship or slapstick repair in every workplace.
But who would ever think UPS, a multinational corporation, would actually employ such remedies? That’s just what happened on Oct. 5, when a broken fuel tank strap on a ‘94 Mack truck was replaced with a single rubber bungee cord.
The economy made be down but UPS’s profits continue to go up.
Company execs announced that UPS made $1.04 Billion in profits in the third quarter. Brown’s profits increased by 5 percent compared to the third quarter last year and by 89 percent over its third quarter profits in 2009.
UPS Teamsters joined union members at Verizon in a rally and march against Corporate Greed in New York City on Friday, Oct. 21.
UPS Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn bragged to investors that UPS Teamsters will continue to get “below-inflation increases in wages” under the concessionary contract negotiated by Hoffa and Hall in 2008.
The decisions from the UPS National Grievance Panel are now available from TDU. So is the new schedule of golf resort meetings set by Hoffa and Hall.
The Hoffa administration has looked the other way while UPS has accelerated its SurePost program—a new service that allows UPS to deliver some residential shipments through the post office instead of package car Teamsters.
UPS wants early contract negotiations.
