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IBT-UPS Pension Plan Keeps You in the Dark

February 26, 2010
March 8, 2010: Have you ever tried to get information from the new “IBT-UPS Pension Plan” that covers all full time UPS Teamsters in the Central and Southern Regions and the Carolinas? If not, consider yourself lucky, because it’s not easy. Members with questions for the IBT-UPS Pension Plan are meeting an information Brownout. Consider these Teamsters: A part-timer with three years of service in Columbus, Ohio Local 413 who plans to go full-time wrote...

Stop the UPS Full-Time Jobs Giveaway

February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010: Did the International cut a secret deal to let UPS eliminate thousands of full-time 22.3 jobs? In a tough economy, good full-time jobs with union benefits are at a premium. But the Hoffa administration has let UPS eliminate thousands of good full-time jobs that they are required to maintain by the contract. Article 22.3 of the national master agreement requires UPS to maintain the 20,000 full-time combo jobs won as a result...

Please Use the Potty, Not the Package Car

February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010: UPS is fighting a grievance all the way to the national panel over a supervisor who urinated in the back of a package car during a driver’s OJS. Is this sup not up to speed on UPS methods? Or does anything go if it helps hike up a driver’s SPORH? You be the judge. The first national grievance panel of the year is March 1 to 5 in Ft. Lauderdale. TDU makes...

UPS Profits Tripled in Fourth Quarter

February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010: UPS raked in $757 million in profits in the Fourth Quarter—nearly tripling its profits over the same period last year. Overall, Brown made $2.15 billion in profits in 2009. That’s after taxes. The company’s revenue is down from the Fourth Quarter last year—$12.4 billion compared to $12.7 billion. But profits are up because of “cost-cutting” according to press reports, including Teamster layoffs. Brown is squeezing higher profits out of fewer employees. “UPS has emerged from...

National Grievance Panel Docket

February 24, 2010
February 24, 2010: The first National Grievance Panel of 2010 runs March 1-5 in Ft Lauderdale. Click here to read the docket of cases that will be heard. The UPS National Grievance Committee settles national disputes and other grievances that have been deadlocked at both the local and regional levels.
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