Fight layoffs and protect our jobs by enforcing the contract.
Don’t be a runner.
Running your route teaches management they can up your stop counts. Working at a sustainable pace reduces layoffs.
Use 8-hour requests.
Instead of burning your route to get home at a reasonable hour, use an 8-hour request.
You only have to give three calendar days notice, down from five days under the old contract. The penalty for a violation is now two hours at double time. Some supplements have additional protections. Check with your steward and use them.
Get on the 9.5 list and file grievances.
9.5 grievances are a powerful tool to make UPS pay for excessive overtime violations and to fight layoffs, too.
Reducing excessive overtime means UPS needs to put more drivers to work. If your 9.5 rights are violated four times in a calendar year then UPS must hold an elevated compliance meeting with the union to adjust your route. Continued 9.5 violations after that are eligible for quadruple time penalties.
Don’t work off the clock.
Don’t work before your start time or load your own truck. That work belongs to Teamster preloaders.
Don’t sort your packages or adjust your load during your lunch. Make UPS pay you for every second you work.
File supervisors working grievances.
Management has no excuse for supervisors working while a single Teamster is laid off. Supervisors are not “helping” you when they do bargaining unit work.
They’re eliminating jobs and taking money out of the pockets of members. Supervisors should not be doing our work under any circumstances and especially not when members are laid off. Stop supervisors working and make UPS pay for violations.
Air drivers should stick to air.
Air drivers should deliver air packages only. Ground packages should only be delivered by package drivers. If you are given a ground package to deliver, document it in your DIAD and file a grievance and demand to be paid by the RPCD rate.
Go when you gotta go.
Find a bathroom when you have to go even if you have to go off-route. This right is protected by OSHA and federal law. Use it, don’t abuse it. Find the nearest bathroom.