Current Events > UPS Strike Over. Teamsters Won.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Score one for the Unions.

https://teamster.org/2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/

Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:

• Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023. Over the length of the contract, wage increases will total $7.50 per hour.
• Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
• General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
• Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
• Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
• New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
• All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
• Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
• All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
• No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
• UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
• The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
• More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement more than any other time in Teamsters history and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.

There's some 261 migrant here who says he'd rather die than work a union job. lmao

https://youtu.be/2tOkcbI5dvI

hockeybub89 posted...

There's some 261 migrant here who says he'd rather die than work a union job. lmao

My first non fast food job was union.

As a cashier I was getting paid 5-6 above minimum, it was nice.

Unions win again baybee

huge

hockeybub89 posted...

There's some 261 migrant here who says he'd rather die than work a union job. lmao

In high school I worked with a not-particularly-bright kid. While shooting the shit with him I asked him what he wanted to do after graduating. He said he wanted to be a welder. I'm like oh that's a good union job. He then in complete seriousness told me "No, I want a Confederate job."

That seems like a solid win, good on them. As an aside, being able to treat part time workers and full time workers differently needs to be made illegal on a federal level.

Compsognathus posted...

In high school I worked with a not-particularly-bright kid. While shooting the shit with him I asked him what he wanted to do after graduating. He said he wanted to be a welder. I'm like oh that's a good union job. He then in complete seriousness told me "No, I want a Confederate job."

LOL

But anyway, awesome for the workers. Our regular UPS guy at work was stoked.

Idiotic capitalist pigs unknowingly increasing Union power because of their selfishness.

Damn Im about to go work at UPS

Awesome! Glad they got what they wanted.

• Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.

This isn't what they were going for and still kinda sucks. But at least they got a lot of other stuff.

See, we've come a long way from having to seize a town and battle the Pinkertons for daring to strike for better wages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

From one unionized employee to another, this makes me happy. My union also won big on our latest contract, but not as well as these guys. Well done, Teamsters!

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

* Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.

This isn't what they were going for and still kinda sucks. But at least they got a lot of other stuff.

Yeah, they probably were fighting for retrofitting that stuff on existing vehicles, right? Sucks they still have to deal with that on one of the hottest summers we've had in a while.

This was a handshake deal for a tentative agreement so until it is signed, the strike will begin on Saturday. Everyone there is pleased but it aint over.

And the A/C point was probably just for negotiating purposes. The drivers literally have to shut off the engine and take the keys once the get to the stop so theres no way thats feasible.
* This point was specifically in regards to vehicles that would be coming into service in approximately 10 to 12 years.

Theyd be way better off with those air scoops the old trucks used to have. Or fans.

I am curious as to how much do UPS shipping prices go up and how that may impact business

My dad didn't enjoy being in the teamster's union when he was at UPS but he had a bad experience due to getting very little benefit from the move to unionization. He managed to opt out after awhile but it took a lot of work (and I think he had to exploit a loophole to do it, someone else he worked with also wanted out and they couldn't take advantage of the same exception so they were stuck).

His experience made me leery of large unions and the way they operate but it hasn't turned me down from the idea entirely (Sega of America's grassroots unionization efforts still brings me hope unions that abide by the notion unions were originally created for can still work).

BakonBitz posted...

Yeah, they probably were fighting for retrofitting that stuff on existing vehicles, right?

I believe so.

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

I believe so.

No.

Future vehicles that would come into service in about ten to twelve years.

I hope the win trickles across the entire national workforce sectors.

I'm glad they got majority of what they wanted and people are getting the money they deserve. The A/c sucks because none of the thousands of shitty truck currently on the road will get them so UPS can literally just stop getting trucks in 2024 to avoid the cost of buying trucks with a/c

Working UPS is brutal during the summertime, I use to just circle the truck with the doors open just to get air in. You're literally in sweat all day, the back of the truck is fuming hot, and the trucks are usually full to the top, good luck trying to organize anything in the heat.

This was a pic I took, this is a light day, the times you have tires, fucking doors and grills in there... Look at the truck across from me, can't even see the front it's full.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/7/AAHWvMAAEsiV.jpg