By a vote of 161-1, Teamsters local unions representing 340,000 full- and part-time workers at UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) voted Monday to endorse the tentative five-year agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25 and recommend its passage by the full membership.
Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates failed to show up to a meeting in Washington, D.C., to review the tentative agreement, the Teamsters said.
The agreement now moves to the rank-and-file, which will have the chance to vote on ratification from Aug. 3-22.
The gains achieved during negotiations, which occurred regionally and nationally since January, are larger and more lucrative than any previous Teamsters contract at UPS, the Teamsters have said.
The tentative agreement, which the Teamsters said is valued at $30 billion, establishes sizable wage increases for all workers for the life of the contract, installation of air conditioning in new vehicles, the end of a controversial two-tier wage system, catch-up raises for part-timers, Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday for the first time, and new language to prevent forced overtime on days off.
Scott
How can we endorse something we have even voted for yet?
Kevin Ackkison
Ups , where do you begin, back surgery, knee surgery, shoulder issues and brain damage due to a fall that caused seizures. This is my ups story and to say we are over paid! If you have twenty plus years with this company you will have injuries like I have mentioned and some are permanent injuries. If you haven’t done the job you have no say in the matter.
John Flynn
If the company was run efficiently and didn’t promote brand new employees to supervisor positions and management, maybe the cost wouldn’t have to be passed on. I came to ups 6 years ago at 45 years old. A degree in operations management and 11 years working in the wholesale distribution field. I was amazed at how antiquated ups’ systems were and the lack of knowledgeable leadership. With the hiring of the current CEO things did not get any better. Hope the company makes it another 15 years so I can retire and not look back.
Richard M Rehmer
The simple matter of fair wages that UPS will have to pay will come in the form of increased costs to customers who use UPS. Now back to fair wages. In whose eyes are they fair? Well, it is the union’s eyes, not the rest of America. What UPS has to pay their employees is so far above the national standard it isn’t funny. But those high wages and benefits come at a price, your union dues. Your freedom because once you are in a union upper union management calls the shots. Been on both sides. Once was a member of the Teamsters Union because I was forced to join because of the job. Then as an owner of a business, I had to negotiate with the union. When John L. Lewis first created the Unions, it was a monumentally great thing; people we being taken advantage of by the business. But Unions today are far too political and too powerful, Period. They can literally destroy a business; ask the people at Yellow Freight. Unions do not care about what is happening with our economy, only the bottom line of their pocketbook. I have watched unions literally destroying this country with there out of touch negotiations, and as long as they vote Democrat, the government cheers them on. It is going to be fun to see just how much of the market share UPS loses when they pass the increases on to the people that depend on them to move their products.
Dennis Stout
Nice but what about 22,000 others that don’t have that even after the company said they would
Jason R
Regardless of the contract that is signed, I’m wishing well for all members of the teamsters. Working at UPS isn’t a cakewalk by any means, it does not matter whether thatch in the warehouse, as a package car driver, pilot, trucker, or any other member of the teams that help move small box parcels across the world. I hope that the quality of life once enjoyed by unionized laborers returns soon, these people deserve fair wages for doing the work that most of us don’t want to do, aren’t capable of doing, or otherwise could not be completed without backbreaking hard work. Good luck IBT.
Bryan Ruby local 690
It’s not understood why the part-time pay increase was $3 an hour less than what teamsters president Sean O’Brien was telling the press and our rank and file. It was said that we are asking for what is fair, however that is not what happened. It will be interesting to see what the members vote. Fortunately it’s not the unions locals that ratify the contract. It’s us, the members who know what is fair and just and this is not it Mr O’Brien! Let’s try harder for the contract that was supposed to be something that we were not going to back down from. #fair days work, for fair days pay.
Martin Labut
UPS management retaliation and workplace violence has been institutionalized. UPS Airline Management retaliated against Veterans, pilots with substance abuse issues & pilot(s) assisting in an OSHA investigation. UPS submitted false statements obtained from troubled pilots in order to weaponize a fitness duty exam. #End UPS Management Retaliation