Amazon has fired a worker who led a protest demanding health and safety protections against COVID-19. UPS Teamsters are uniting to support the whistleblower and demand his reinstatement. 

UPS Teamsters in Richmond are getting gloves and hand sanitizer thanks to quick thinking by Local 322 members and decisive action by their local union.

More than 700 UPS Teamsters joined a national conference call on meeting the challenge of the COVID-19 crisis.

While millions of Americans are quarantined in their homes, UPS workers are on the job and in the public every day making sure hospitals and the homebound are getting critical supplies.

We’re proud to be serving our communities and we know the country is depending on us. But if we are going to be a part of the solution to this crisis we need to be protected. As essential workers we are at much higher risk of contracting the Coronavirus and UPS failing to protect us is a failure to protect the public.

UPS makes billions in profits. They can track a package anywhere around the globe, but they won’t track down the sanitizer, masks and gloves that UPS workers need to keep ourselves and our families safe. Many of us use company bathrooms that don’t even have soap or hand sanitizer. This has to stop!

UPS workers are organizing to protect ourselves from COVID-19 and we need your help!

UPS Teamsters United is an independent grassroots network of UPS workers. We don’t get a penny of funding from UPS or the union.

We’re raising donations to fund grassroots campaigns to make UPS management:

• provide PPE like sanitizer, gloves and masks that will save the lives of workers and the public

• tell employees if we’ve been exposed to COVID-19 in our workplace

• maintain our healthcare benefits if we are laid off because of the economic crisis

Our grassroots movement growing. We’re informing and uniting tens of thousands of UPS workers, getting our stories into the media, and getting results. We’ve already forced the company to provide paid leave to workers who get COVID-19. But there’s so much more to do. Your donation today can help save lives and protect workers and our communities.

All donations will be managed by TRF, a nonprofit 501c3, and the fiscal sponsor of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and the UPS Teamsters United campaign.

A new report from the New York Times exposes the gap between management’s spin and the reality UPSers are facing at work. 

UPS Teamsters are proud to be stepping up for our customers and our communities during this crisis. We need management to step up too. UPSers are speaking out and demanding the company protect workers and the public from COVID-19.

TeamCare has issued a detailed bulletin and Q&A with information about COVID-19, including what to do if you feel sick, testing, and eligibility for short-term disability benefits.

Delivery Teamsters are on the front lines of essential workers, and facing real dangers.  The Wall Street Journal talked with Columbus UPS steward Nick Perry and with Louisville Local 89 President Fred Zuckerman about the issues Teamsters face. 

by Paul Ziobro, March 19, The Wall St. Journal

UPS Freight will pay up to ten days of paid leave to Teamsters who are diagnosed with COVID-19, living with someone with COVID-19, or have been quarantined by a government agency, medical professional or by the company.