“We have Modified the Recreation”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract

Deal Leads to Larger Wages, Extra Jobs, Equal Pay, A/C, MLK Day, Half-Time Rewards

(WASHINGTON) – Immediately, the Teamsters reached essentially the most historic tentative settlement for staff within the historical past of UPS, defending and rewarding greater than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly profitable contract raises wages for all staff, creates extra full-time jobs, and contains dozens of office protections and enhancements. The usTeamsters Nationwide Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative settlement.

“Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed every little thing to get this nation by way of a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting income. Teamster labor strikes America. The union went into this combat dedicated to profitable for our members. We demanded the most effective contract within the historical past of UPS, and we received it,” stated Teamsters Normal President Sean M. O’Brien. “UPS has put $30 billion in new cash on the desk as a direct results of these negotiations. We’ve modified the sport, battling it out day and night time to ensure our members received an settlement that pays sturdy wages, rewards their labor, and doesn’t require a single concession. This contract units a brand new customary within the labor motion and raises the bar for all staff.”

“UPS got here dangerously near placing itself on strike, however we stored agency on our calls for. In my greater than 40 years in Louisville representing members at Worldport — the biggest UPS hub within the nation — I’ve by no means seen a nationwide contract that ranges the enjoying area for staff so dramatically as this one. The settlement places more cash in our members’ pockets and establishes a full vary of recent protections for them on the job,” stated Teamsters Normal Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. “We stayed centered on our members and fought like hell to get every little thing that full-time and part-time UPS Teamsters deserve.”

“Rank-and-file members served on the committee for the primary time, so we received to point out up day-after-day to assist our fellow Teamsters and share their tales,” stated Brandy Harris, a part-time UPS Teamster with Native 174 in Seattle and a member of the Teamsters Nationwide Negotiating Committee. “Our exhausting work has paid off — from these members and leaders negotiating for extra on the desk to my sisters and brothers constructing a reputable strike menace across the nation. Our union was organized and we have been relentless. We’ve hit each objective that UPS Teamster members needed and requested for with this settlement. It’s a ‘sure’ vote for essentially the most historic contract we’ve ever had.”

Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters Nationwide Grasp Settlement embrace:

• Historic wage will increase. Current full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 extra per hour in 2023, and $7.50 extra per hour over the size of the contract.

• Current part-timers can be raised as much as a minimum of $21 per hour instantly, and part-time seniority staff incomes extra beneath a market charge adjustment would nonetheless obtain all new common wage will increase.

• Normal wage will increase for part-time staff can be double the quantity obtained within the earlier UPS Teamsters contract — and current part-time staff will obtain a 48 % common whole wage enhance over the subsequent 5 years.

• Wage will increase for full-timers will hold UPS Teamsters the very best paid supply drivers within the nation, enhancing their common high charge to $49 per hour.

• Present UPS Teamsters working part-time would obtain longevity wage will increase of as much as $1.50 per hour on high of recent hourly raises, compounding their earnings.

• New part-time hires at UPS would begin at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.

• All UPS Teamster drivers categorised as 22.4s can be reclassified instantly to Common Package deal Automotive Drivers and positioned into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.

• Security and well being protections, together with automobile air-con and cargo air flow. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all bigger supply autos, sprinter vans, and bundle vehicles bought after Jan. 1, 2024. All vehicles get two followers and air induction vents within the cargo compartments.

• All UPS Teamsters would obtain Martin Luther King Day as a full vacation for the primary time.

• No extra pressured extra time on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would hold one in all two workweek schedules and couldn’t be pressured into extra time on scheduled off-days.

• UPS Teamster part-timers could have precedence to carry out all seasonal assist work utilizing their very own autos with a locked-in eight-hour assure. For the primary time, seasonal work can be contained to 5 weeks solely from November-December.

• The creation of seven,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the achievement of twenty-two,500 open positions, establishing extra alternatives by way of the lifetime of the settlement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.

• Greater than 60 whole modifications and enhancements to the Nationwide Grasp Settlement — greater than every other time in Teamsters historical past — and 0 concessions from the rank-and-file.

On July 31, representatives of the 176 UPS Teamster locals within the U.S. and Puerto Rico will meet to overview and advocate the tentative settlement. All UPS rank-and-file members will obtain an inventory of enhancements within the contract. Locals will conduct member conferences and Teamsters could have a number of weeks to vote on the supply electronically. Member voting begins August 3 and concludes August 22.

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