July 9, 2008: Check the label on your UPS uniform. Odds are it's manufactured outside the USA. And you can bet it comes from a nonunion manufacturer. The National Master Freight Agreement requires that all uniforms "shall be made in the United States by union vendors if possible." DHL meets this standard. Why doesn't the UPS contract? Many UPS Teamsters used to wear uniforms produced in the U.S. by Riverside. Some still do. But increasingly,...

June 20, 2008: UPS recently sent a mailing to Teamster members to try to get us to donate to UPSPAC, the political arm of the corporation. Before you give any of your hard-earned cash, you should know that UPSPAC will use that money to undermine your pension security, health and safety rights, and other worker protections. Here are just a few lowlights from UPS’s recent political action priorities. Attacking Our Pensions UPS was one of...

June 20, 2008: All UPS Teamsters will be missing something this summer: a cost of living raise of 15¢ per hour. Gasoline and food prices are skyrocketing. Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W), went up 4.5 percent from May 2007 to May 2008. This is the period used in Article 33 of our contract. When that index goes over three percent, we are supposed to get a cost of living adjustment (COLA)....