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Plane Buzzes CEO with Message from UPS Teamsters

December 07, 2009
December 7, 2009: The Hoffa administration may be silent while the company walks all over the contract. But some locals are making themselves heard. Anticipating a visit by CEO Scott Davis, New Jersey Local 177 booked a plane to circle the Edison hub with a banner: “UPS Stop Mistreating Your Employees.” Outside the hub, Local 177 officers distributed leaflets in the parking lot with the same message. Local 177 members are fed up with UPS’s...

It’s Official. Hoffa Won’t Take Action To Protect Full-Time Jobs.

December 07, 2009
December 7, 2009: Seventeen locals brought cases to the last national grievance panel charging UPS with violating Article 22.3 of the contract which requires UPS to maintain a minimum of 20,000 full-time combo jobs. These are the full-time jobs we won by striking the company in 1997. Not a single one of these grievances was heard at the national grievance panel. It’s well documented that UPS has eliminated thousands of these positions by laying off...

International Strikes Out on Excessive Overtime Grievances

December 07, 2009
December 7, 2009: Sixty-five 9.5 violation cases were brought to the last national grievance panel. Outside of Oakland Local 70, the panel ruled in favor of working Teamsters on a 9.5 issue in just one case. In 16 cases coming out of Local 70—the company was ordered to comply with 9.5 language. These cases involved instances where UPS was settling 9.5 violations but never fixing the underlying problem of the affected drivers’ load.

UPS Freight Teamsters Need More from the IBT

December 07, 2009
December 26, 2009: UPS Freight drivers and dockworkers had high hopes when they signed on with the Teamsters. Now, a couple years later, they’re looking at what needs to be improved. UPS Freight Teamsters got a national contract, and some grievances have been won. But in key areas like subcontracting and written work rules, grievances have been filed but little progress has been made. The company is having its way, something that UPS is good...

UPS Freight Teamsters Need More from the IBT

December 04, 2009
December 4, 2009: UPS Freight drivers and dockworkers had high hopes when they signed on with the Teamsters. Now, a couple years later, they’re looking at what needs to be improved. UPS Freight Teamsters got a national contract, and some grievances have been won. But in key areas like subcontracting and written work rules, grievances have been filed but little progress has been made. The company is having its way, something that the UPS corporation...
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UPS Freight Sell-out Rejected by Members

October 05, 2018

UPS Freight Teamsters have rejected the pitiful contract negotiated by the Hoffa administration by a vote of 4,255 to 2,601. More than 62% of UPS Freight Teamsters Voted No. 

UPSers Vote No & Reject Contract

October 05, 2018

The ballots are counted and UPSers have spoken loud and clear by Voting No to reject a bad contract. The International Union announced they will return to the bargaining table with UPS.

It's up to UPSers to make sure that the negotiations are serious, and not for show. UPSers want the givebacks that caused us to Vote No to be taken off the table.

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