Tag: UPS
Stewards Corner: How We Made UPS Create Full-Time Jobs in Our...
Often, winning something in your contract is only half the battle—the other half is enforcing it. It was a huge win in 2023 when our national contract campaign made UPS end its two-tier driver program. After the lower-tier drivers moved up to regular, our center in Charleston, South Carolina, had 91 full-time delivery drivers. But over time, drivers left, and eventually our center dropped down to 75. When we asked management to fill vacant jobs, they said we had adequate staffing. We filed grievances. They were denied because we had not proved we needed more staffing.
5 lessons from UPS workers’ successful bargaining
While the union did not win everything it wanted, it secured a majority of its demands in what it called “the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS.”
Five critical lessons from UPS’s union workers
The UPS Teamsters’ negotiations with the world’s largest delivery company offer the American labor movement lessons in organizing.
Nationwide UPS strike ‘imminent,’ Teamsters warn after rejecting ‘appalling’ contract offer
97 percent of UPS workers represented by the Teamsters voted to authorize a nationwide strike if a deal wasn't reached with management by July 31.
Over 90 percent of UPS Teamsters just voted to strike
It would be the largest strike the country has seen in decades.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
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Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
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