Meet Sherlock. He's about 1½ years old and weighs 70 pounds. This guy spent two hours bouncing all over the four-acre dog park, and still wanted to play once we got home....
Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements....
Sigh. It’s an immediate 2.75 bump in pay with a 7.50 over the 5 year contract. That adds up to over 10.
I make full rate right now. 41 per hour. That puts me over 51 per hour at the end. All will full benefits and pension. I don’t know who you’re talking to, but they ain’t no driver and they don’t know what they are talking about.
Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:
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<span style="color:#323232;">Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">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.
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