UPS Employees Approve New Union Contract
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The 340,000 staff of UPS Inc. represented by the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters have accepted a brand new five-year labor pact with the corporate, a significant step in a monthslong and at occasions contentious spherical of negotiations that brings new advantages to rank-and-file members.
The brand new deal, which was ironed out earlier this summer time and had been accepted by union leaders, will convey pay will increase to those that drive and cargo the parcel service’s acquainted brown supply vans.
The IBT mentioned on Aug. 22 that its members voted 86.3% in favor of the brand new contract.
Atlanta-based UPS confirmed the vote and mentioned it was gratified by the help for the deal.
“Our Teamsters-represented staff have voted to overwhelmingly ratify a brand new five-year Nationwide Grasp Settlement that covers greater than 300,000 full- and part-time UPS staff within the U.S. All native supplemental agreements even have been ratified besides one, which can be finalized shortly. Voting outcomes for agreements protecting UPS staff below locals 705 and 710 are anticipated quickly,” the corporate mentioned.
Our Teamsters-represented staff have voted to overwhelmingly ratify a brand new five-year Nationwide Grasp Settlement that covers greater than 300,000 full- and part-time UPS staff within the U.S.
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— UPS Information (@UPS_News) August 22, 2023
That one supplemental settlement that is still to be labored out — out of 44 that had been negotiated — covers 174 members in Florida. The union mentioned that the nationwide grasp settlement will go into impact as quickly as this complement is renegotiated and ratified.
“Our members simply ratified probably the most profitable settlement the Teamsters have ever negotiated at UPS. This contract will enhance the lives of a whole bunch of 1000’s of staff,” Teamsters Common President Sean O’Brien mentioned.
The Teamsters mentioned the five-year settlement is valued at $30 billion in added wages and advantages for the supply drivers, package deal handlers and others coated below the contract.
UPS Inc. ranks No. 1 on the Transport Subjects Prime 100 record of the most important for-hire carriers in North America.
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