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Information Brownout Continues for UPS Teamsters

September 19, 2008
September 19, 2008: The International Union has a new website design. But the same old information Brownout has continued for UPS Teamsters. The Package Division has not published a single piece of news about UPS on the website since Dec. 19, 2007—the day the UPS contract was officially ratified. The company is cheating members out of thousands of full-time Article 22.3 jobs and trying to worm out of restrictions on excessive overtime restrictions. UPS started...

UPS Wants Loopholes on Excessive OT Grievances

September 19, 2008
September 30, 2008: Teamsters in several areas report that management is claiming that “high mileage” and “high density” routes are exempt from Article 37 language. Management is even saying that drivers on those routes cannot file 9.5 grievances. In some areas, the company has also argued that they will only pay excessive overtime grievances on 11 percent of their routes because statistically only 11 percent of its routes go over 9.5. While the company is...

No Reciprocity With New UPS Pension Fund

September 19, 2008
September 19, 2008: The new UPS Pension Fund covering 44,000 Teamsters in the Central States not only offers the lowest benefits; it also has no reciprocal agreements with Teamster pension plans around the country. That means that UPSers in the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest who have substantial years worked under other pension plans will face stiff pension reductions when they retire. Most (though not all) Teamster pension funds have reciprocal agreements. For example: a Teamster...

Central States Pension Fund Loses $3 Billion

August 21, 2008
August 21, 2008: The Central States Pension Fund lost $3.1 billion in assets during the first six months of this year—half the $6.1 billion UPS paid to leave the fund in December. In the first half of 2008, the fund lost $2.2 billion on their investments, or eight percent of their assets. At the same time, they suffered a $287 million loss of income, compared to the first half of last year, because UPS is...

No Reciprocity With New UPS Pension Fund

August 19, 2008
August 19, 2008: The new UPS Pension Fund covering 44,000 Teamsters in the Central States not only offers the lowest benefits. It also has no reciprocal agreements with Teamster pension plans around the country. That means that UPSers in the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest who have substantial years worked under other pension plans will face stiff pension reductions when they retire. Most (though not all) Teamster pension funds have reciprocal agreements. For example: a Teamster...
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