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Enforcing Your 9.5 Rights

January 23, 2013
January 23, 2013: Strengthening our 9.5 rights and protections from excessive overtime is one of the issues on the table in contract negotiations with UPS. In the meantime, peak is over and our 9.5 rights are back in effect. If you want UPS to understand that excessive overtime is a key issue, or if you just want a chance to see your family and eat dinner at a decent hour, now’s the time to get...

UPS Threatens Retiree Healthcare Hike

January 23, 2013
January 23, 2013: UPS management is flexing its muscles in bargaining. In late December they sent a notice threatening thousands of Teamster retirees in the company healthcare plan with drastic payment hikes. It was a mean-spirited Christmas letter to our UPS retirees. "I retired with an understanding of affordable health coverage, now I get a letter saying it's going up to $495," a recent retiree in San Diego, California, told us. He's distributing TDU's bulletin...

Same-Day Deliveries?

January 23, 2013
January 23, 2013: UPS has told the Negotiating Committee it wants to expand into same-day deliveries. The Postal Service is experimenting with same-day delivery of online orders in San Francisco, with a new service called Metro Post. Amazon, eBay and Wal-Mart are also testing same-day delivery. In order to deliver a package on the same day it's shipped, the Post Office will have to get the pick-up request from the company between 2:00 and 3:00...

UPSers: Protect Yourself When Filling Out MVDC

January 16, 2013
January 16, 2013: UPS management always cracks down on discipline after peak. Drivers, protect yourselves when filling out your Motor Vehicle Driver Certification Form (MVDC). UPS is having drivers fill out the annual Motor Vehicle Driver Certification Form (MVDC).  January is also the time when management starts to increase write-ups and discipline.  A Center Manager who is looking for any excuse to exploit a mistake on an MVDC to discipline and even terminate a driver...

UPS to shift focus after TNT deal rejected

January 16, 2013
Mary Jane Credeur and Aaron Kirchfeld Bloomberg News January 16, 2013 View the original piece United Parcel Service Inc. will pursue smaller European acquisitions and growth in its own business after its $6.9 billion purchase of TNT Express NV fell apart, people familiar with the matter said.   The world's biggest package-delivery company learned in a meeting Friday with the European Commission that the deal would be rejected, said the people, who asked not to...
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