Make UPS Pay for Supervisors working

TDU has produced a new packet with all the helpful guidelines and forms UPS members need to make UPS pay for sups working.

Download the Complete 5-page Guide to Making UPS Pay for Sups Working

Working at UPS is exhausting and the company always wants it done yesterday. It can be tempting to look at supervisors working as a necessary evil, even a helping hand.

But supervisors aren’t helping us when they do bargaining unit work. They’re taking money out of our wallets. Whenever a supervisor works, a Teamster loses the opportunity to get extra hours, and extra money in their paycheck.

Management always has an excuse for supervisors working, like blaming attendance.

But the contract clearly puts the burden on the company to “maintain a sufficient workforce to staff its operations” with Teamsters and not to “send any employee home and then have such employee’s work performed by a supervisor.” (Article 3, Section 7).

The contract only works if we make it work.

TDU members have won tens of thousands of dollars by filing Supervisors Working grievances. You can get double-time pay for supervisors working violations too.

Use the TDU Guide and get UPS to pay for supervisors working.

Contract Enforcement Tips

Sups Working Grievance Checklist (2-pages)

Sups Working Report Form

Download the Complete 5-page Guide to Making UPS Pay for Sups Working

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