August 11, 2010: A package car driver has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing the company of violating labor law by requiring drivers who wear shorts to buy socks with the UPS logo from the company. Unfortunately, when it comes to socks, our contract rights stink. The problem goes back to the 1993 contract negotiations. The company was absolutely dug in to not agree to shorts. Our union won the argument...

August 11, 2010: “It’s been a long, hot summer at UPS. The loads are so heavy it looks like peak some days. We still have members laid off, but management keeps cutting routes and piling it on. Package drivers are out past eight o’clock. It’s not right.” Todd Hartsell, Local 90 Des Moines, Iowa “The company and union repeat over and over: ‘Be glad you’re employed’.” David Dethrow, Local 688, St. Louis “All is not...

August 11, 2010: Hoffa and Hall surrender one of the biggest gains of the 1997 strike. Teamster members united to win labor’s biggest victory in decades in the 1997 UPS Strike. But Hoffa and Hall have surrendered one of the biggest gains of that strike: full-time combo jobs. Uniting under the slogan Part-Time America Won’t Work, members demanded that the company create good-paying full-time jobs by combining low-wage part-time jobs. We won and UPS was...