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Turning Up the Heat to Defend a Steward

May 22, 2009
May 27, 2009: When UPS management tried to get rid of an assertive Oklahoma steward, they didn’t know what they were in for. Members and local officials mobilized to put the member back to work. And a few days later the center manager was out of a job. March 30 was a wet, stormy day in Oklahoma. Doug Hisle, a package car driver out of the Lawton building, was delivering his route on a dirt...

Electronic OJS: UPS Rolls Out New Spyware

May 22, 2009
June 3, 2009: UPS is implementing new technology that allows management to monitor drivers like never before. UPS’s new spyware began with an upgrade to the DIAD software that the company calls ODSE (On Demand Services Enhancement). The software allows management to monitor drivers’ routes on a computer screen in the center. Management can call up a snapshot of the entire center or any individual or combination of routes. The company says that the technology...

Download a Sample Printout from UPS’s New Spyware

May 09, 2009
UPS is implementing new technology that allows management to monitor package car drivers like never before. Telematics combines data gathered through GPS, the DIAD board and new sensors that are being mounted on package cars. Click here to see an example of a Telematics printout that management uses to monitor drivers. Through more than 200 sensors, management can monitor when you drive with your seatbelt off or your bulkhead door open, how many times you...

Baltimore Fund Drops $100 Million

May 06, 2009
May 6, 2009: In 2008, the Baltimore Local 355 Pension Fund dropped over $100 million—but a new law will let the fund stay in the Green Zone for one more year. TDU Workshop & Cookout This Saturday Maryland Teamsters are coming together for an educational workshop on “Building Power to Win Grievances.” This workshop and cookout is your chance to meet and talk with other Local 355 members who are working to improve the union....

UPSers Sign Petition to Protect Full-Time Jobs

April 30, 2009
April 30, 2009: UPS Teamsters are petitioning the International Union to protect full-time jobs at the national grievance panel in June. Petitions are due May 15. There is still plenty of time to circulate the petition and stand up for the full-time jobs we won in the 1997 UPS strike. Management is violating Article 22.3 of our contract which requires the company to maintain 20,000 full-time combo jobs. The company is thousands of jobs short...
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