Laura Stevens and Melanie Trottman The Wall Street Journal April 24, 2014 View the original piece The national union representing United Parcel Service Inc. employees overrode three local bargaining units that had delayed approving parts of a five-year national contract with the delivery company. The unusual move, described Wednesday in an internal memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, took local union leaders by surprise. The Teamsters union said the UPS national negotiating committee "voted overwhelmingly" to declare...

Jacob Goldstein NPR April 18, 2014 View the original piece The American workforce might want to pay attention to all those brown trucks full of cardboard boxes. UPS is using technology in ways that may soon be common throughout the economy. On the surface, UPS trucks look the same as they did more than 20 years ago, when Bill Earle started driving for the company in rural Pennsylvania. But underneath the surface, Earle says, the...

Jane Slaughter Labor Notes April 11, 2014 View the original piece In the wake of a relentless grassroots labor-community solidarity campaign, UPS waved the white flag and agreed to rehire all 250 New York City drivers the company fired last month. The campaign united drivers, elected officials, and even UPS customers. UPS issued termination notices to 250 drivers in March for a 90-minute work stoppage they had carried out on February 26. Jairo Reyes, a...