UPS driverswill earn an average of $170,000in annual pay and benefits by the end of the five-year contract agreement, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said in an earnings call earlier this month. The vote was the highest share in favor of a contract in the history of the Teamsters at UPS, the un...
Higher six-figure pay for UPS drivers By the end of the new contract, full-time UPS delivery drivers will make an average of $49 per hour, which works out to nearly $102,000 per year, assuming a 40-hour workweek, 52 weeks a year. Those employees are guaranteed an eight-hour workday...
Breaking news update:Teamsters win new UPS contract.When we wrote this article yesterday, the state of negotiations were unclear and a strike seemed to loom on the horizon. Now, that is not the case. Even so, the interdependencies between the various unions and companies are important to explo...
“Most UPS drivers are attacked by dogs,” one former New Orleans-based UPS driver told Mental Floss in 2015. “What you do is jump on the hood of the nearest vehicle and don’t move. There were some drivers that sat on the hood of a car for an hour or more.” Of course, UPS ...
UPS workers feel they have played a part in the transformation of how Americans shop since the last contract was ratified in 2018, while helping to make UPS a much more valuable company. Annual profits at UPS in the past two years are close to thr...
The union had pushed for a deal to be made by July 5, which didn’t materialize because of time needed to ratify a new contract. 工会曾经力推在7月5日前达成协议,但由于需要时间来批准新合同,这一目标未能实现。 On the July 5 deadline, Teamsters said UPS “walked away from the bargaining ...
During the United Parcel Service strike of 1997, the company's only nationwide strike in its history, which lasted 16 days, Teamster President Ron Carey negotiated a new contract for workers.[84] In July 2023, before their contract was set to expire, a strike was threatened over union deman...
The old two-tier system for drivers was gone; there were provisions for air-conditioning in new vehicles, paid rest on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, better ventilation in warehouses, and seven thousand five hundred new full-time jobs. The contract will not take effect unless a majority ...
As part of a tentative five-year contract agreement with the Teamsters union approved last month that included a bump up in pay and other benefits for part-time and full time workers, seasonal package drivers will start with hourly pay of $23, while package handlers will get $21 for t...
A potential UPS workers strike was averted on July 25. UPS and theTeamsters union, which represents UPS workers, both announced they had reached a tentative 5-year contract. “UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of these negotiations,” said Teamsters' Gen...