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Make UPS Deliver Full-Time Jobs

November 14, 2008: Mary Seumaala went on strike in 1997 to win a full-time job at UPS. Now UPS has taken her full-time job away. It’s time to make UPS deliver for thousands of Teamsters who are being denied full-time jobs in violation of the contract. Until recently, Mary Seumaala was working full-time at Boeing Field in Seattle. Today, this 18-year Teamster is working four hours or less a day. With her son in the...

How to Document Full-Time Job Elimination

November 28, 2008: Under the contract UPS had to give the International a list of the 20,000 Article 22.3 jobs the company claims it will maintain. Our local union got a copy of that list from the IBT Package Division. My Steward Alternate and I found 11 jobs on the list that exist only on paper. That list includes workers that have moved to package car or feeder jobs. That list even includes workers that...

Stopping Excessive Overtime, Saving Teamster Jobs

November 14, 2008: Enforcing our 9.5 protections against excessive overtime can save Teamster jobs in a recession. UPS made after-tax profits of $1.6 billion in the third quarter. Brown is still the nation’s largest transportation company and still incredibly profitable, thanks to hard-working Teamsters. But with the economy slowing down, UPS is looking to cut jobs and squeeze us even more. After reporting a drop in volume for the third quarter, UPS’s Chief Financial Officer...

New Contract Delivers Time Off In Chicago

November 14, 2008: In its new contract with UPS, Chicago Local 705 won an additional optional day. Teamsters with more than 30 years also won an additional vacation week. After giving some drivers the extra optional day, management tried to claim it had made an error and that drivers wouldn’t get the additional day until 2009. Local 705 stood firm and the company backed down. Thousands of UPS Teamsters in Chicago are now enjoying extra...

UPS Volume and Our Right to Full-Time Jobs

November 14, 2008: UPS profits remain incredibly high—$1.6 billion in the third quarter—but volume is down. Ground package volume is down just 2.8 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Next Day Air volume in the third quarter fell by 9.8 percent. Management is using the drop in Next Day Air volume as an excuse for eliminating Article 22.3 full-time jobs. Many of the positions that have been eliminated involve the air operation. But...
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