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Chicago Teamsters Fight for Retirees

January 30, 2009
January 30, 2009: Chicago Local 705 UPS retirees are mad as hell, and they’re doing something about it. They’re mad because UPS management suddenly raised their monthly health and welfare contribution from $50 to $157.58 for a single retiree and $315.17 for a retiree and spouse. Today Local 705 and two retirees filed a class action suit in federal court against UPS, and reportedly they are considering other actions as well. (A copy of the...

Texas Full-Time Jobs Massacre

January 27, 2009
January 29, 2008: UPS management is moving to eliminate every Article 22.3 job at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport—the single largest cut since UPS started slashing full-time jobs last year. In all, the company is planning to eliminate 120 Article 22.3 positions at DFW. “I was on the picket line every day in 1997 holding a sign that said 'Part Time America Won't Work.' I never dreamed the company would try to force me back to...

Local 174 Surrenders $1 Million in Back Pay to Save 22.3 Jobs

January 27, 2009
January 29, 2009: Our union’s failure to enforce the Article 22.3 full-time jobs provision of the contract has forced Seattle Local 174 members to make a devil’s choice: your money or your jobs. When UPS laid off dozens of Article 22.3 Teamsters, Local 174 filed a grievance and promised to win back the jobs. Now local officials have cut a deal that would give back a separate grievance victory worth $1 million or more. In...

New Rules Weaken Overtime Protection at UPS

January 10, 2009
January 10, 2009: Under a contract loophole, UPS and the International Union have agreed to new restrictions that will make it harder for drivers to file grievances against excessive overtime. Our contract is supposed to protect package car drivers from unwanted excessive overtime. But in a memo dated Dec. 18, the International Union announced that it had negotiated new guidelines that will make it tougher for members to file excessive overtime grievances. Click here to...

DFW Night Sort to Close; More Full-Time Jobs Threatened

January 10, 2009
January 10, 2009: UPS will shut down the night sort operations at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) in February—a move that could eliminate 70 or more full-time Article 22.3 jobs. The midnight sort at the Columbia, S.C., air hub will be shut down around the same time. UPS previously eliminated more than 30 Article 22.3 jobs in Seattle at Boeing Field. The contract requires UPS to maintain a minimum of 20,000 Article 22.3 full-time jobs nationwide...
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