Tom Spiggle The Huffington Post November 24, 2014 View the original piece This holiday season, when you pick up another box of heavy gifts left at your doorway by a delivery person, ask yourself: Should a pregnant woman lift this? The Supreme Court will be asking itself a related question in early December when it considers the biggest test of the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act in a generation. Click here to read more at The Huffington Post....

November 13, 2014: UPS is growing fast internationally and so is the middle class. How do we build union power in a global economy? UPS’s business is driven by middle-class consumers sending packages and buying products online. While UPS’s middle-class customer base is expected to grow rapidly through 2030, only a small amount of growth will come from the US. Most of the growth in the global middle class is expected in Asia, especially China,...

October 28, 2014: In a victory for women Teamsters, UPS has announced it will offer light duty to employees who have lifting or other work restrictions because of pregnancy. For years, UPS allowed pregnant women with health restrictions to work light duty. But ten years ago, management reversed course company-wide and began denying alternate work to pregnant Teamsters. Teamster women who were unable to keep working during their pregnancy had to burn their FMLA leave...