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Download the Docket for the UPS National Grievance Panel

September 29, 2014
The next UPS National Grievance Panel will be held Oct. 6-9, 2014 in Sacramento. TDU is making the complete list of the cases to be heard at the panel available to concerned Teamsters. Click here to download the cases before the National Grievance Committee. Click here to download the cases before the Joint National Air Committee. 

UPS Full-Time Jobs Update

September 25, 2014
September 25, 2014: Despite growing volume, UPS has shrunk the Teamster workforce. When the recession hit in 2008, UPS went lean and mean. They reduced hiring, implemented new technology, increased harassment, and eliminated full-time jobs. Management’s goal was to boost profits by squeezing more work from fewer workers. They’ve succeeded.   Last year, UPS Teamsters delivered 1.4 million more packages every day compared to 2009. And we did it, with one thousand fewer UPS Teamsters on the payroll, according to the company’s own annual reports.   A review...

Full-Time Jobs Giveaway Hurts Our Pensions

September 25, 2014
Teamster pension funds are paying the price for full-time job elimination. September 25, 2014: More ground deliveries should mean more full-time jobs—and more participants in Teamster pension funds. But a review of pension data shows what’s happening is just the opposite. As ground volume has grown in recent years, the number of full-time jobs has fallen. The IBT-UPS Pension Fund covers 45,000 UPS Teamsters in the Central Region and South. It’s the largest Pension Fund in the country that covers only UPS full-timers—making it a good...

Alarming Trends in Package Delivery

September 24, 2014
Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes 24, 2014 View the original piece Their employer is the U.S. Postal Service, but a few unlucky Bay Area letter carriers were hired only to find out their job is actually delivering groceries for online retailer Amazon at 4 a.m. It’s an experimental program being staffed with City Carrier Assistants—the lowest tier of union letter carriers, permatemps who make $15-17 an hour. To find their way in the dark they’re issued...

Birmingham UPS shooter identified: Family member calls him ‘one of the best men I’ve ever known’

September 23, 2014
Joe Songer AL.com 23, 2014 View the original piece Birmingham, Alabama --Three people are dead -- including the gunman -- after a shooting this morning at a UPS facility in Inglenook, according to Birmingham officials. The incident happened just before 9:30 a.m. as police received multiple calls of an active shooter at 4601 Inglenook Lane, the customer service center and warehouse. "Patrol units responded quickly; they rallied and made entry,'' said Birmingham Police Chief A.C....
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