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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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.
