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UPS Central Region Proposal: There's Nothing There

August 19, 2013: On August 16, the IBT's Central Region Negotiating Committee quietly reached a deal with management to make just two minor "tweaks" to the rejected first offer. Apparently Hoffa-Hall will keep this stinky deal under wraps until their PR machine puts perfume on it. Reportedly one change is a minor tweak in the notorious Article 17 (i), which allows Teamsters to be immediately fired for all "other serious offenses." This clause does not...

UPS Cargo Plane Crashes in Alabama

Timothy Williams The New York Times 14, 2013 View the original piece A United Parcel Service cargo plane crashed during its landing approach at the Birmingham, Ala., airport on Wednesday morning, the authorities said. The accident occurred about 6 a.m., as U.P.S. Flight 1354, which was en route from Louisville, Ky., made its descent toward Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, about five miles northeast of downtown Birmingham, said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration....

UPS Astronomical Math

Marcus Wohlsen Wired June 13, 2013 View the original piece The Astronomical Math Behind UPS' New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster In a sense, all business boils down to math. But some companies have tougher equations to solve than others. At UPS, the average driver makes about 120 deliveries per day, says Jack Levis, the shipping giant's director of process management. To figure out how many different possible routes that driver could travel, just start...

From Tough Talk to Contract Concessions

  "We're not paying $90. We're notpaying $9. We're not paying 9¢.We're not paying premiumsfor health insurance for a companythat made $4.389 billion."— Ken Hall, Conference Call withUPS Shop Stewards, Feb. 2, 2013   "What we need to be doing issending a message and makingsure that our members understandthat we're not going to be talkingabout concessions, we're goingto be talking about improvements."— Ken HallSpeech on UPS ContractIBT ConventionJune 30, 2011 August 9, 2013: The UPS...

Contract Smoke & Mirrors: the Prequel

Hoffa waives Ken Hall's "surprise"neutrality agreement with UPS Freightwhile Hall celebrates in the background. August 26, 2013: This is not the first time Ken Hall has played politics with members' contracts and turned contract negotiations into a scripted performance. In the last bargaining round, Hall made a surprise announcement at the Teamster Convention that he had just reached a neutrality agreement to unionize UPS Freight. Hoffa-Hall supporters immediately said the announcement proved there shouldn't be...
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