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District Council # 36
219 W. Manchester Blvd., Suite # 5
Inglewood, California 90301-4660
Chris.graeber@dc36.org
(626) 216-2791
July 19, 2024
Brian A Castillo
UPS Director of Labor Relations
South Cal District
UPS
Los Angeles, CA. 90015
I am writing to inform you that the bargaining unit ratified the tentative agreement for the 2024- 2029 MOU.
Thank you for your time and effort in this matter. Please feel free to call me at (626) 216-2791 if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Christopher Graeber
Field Representative
cc: Ana Hanson, Business Representative
UPS workers OK 5-year contract, capping contentious talks that threatened deliveries
UPS workers OK 5-year contract, capping contentious talks that threatened deliveries
The union representing 340,000 UPS workers said Tuesday that its members voted to approve the tentative contract agreement reached last month, putting a final seal on contentious labor negotiations that threatened to disrupt package deliveries for millions of businesses and households nationwide.
The Teamsters said in a statement that 86% of the votes cast were in favor of ratifying the contract. They also said it was passed by the highest vote for a contract in the history of the Teamsters at UPS.
The union also said more than 40 supplemental agreements were also ratified, except for one that covers roughly 170 members in Florida. The national master agreement will go into effect as soon as that supplement is renegotiated and ratified, it said.
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“Our members just ratified the most lucrative agreement the Teamsters have ever negotiated at UPS,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement. “This contract will improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers.”
He said the contract set a new standard for pay and benefits.
July 25, 2023
“This is the template for how workers should be paid and protected nationwide, and nonunion companies like Amazon better pay attention,” he said, giving a nod to the union’s growing ambitions to take on the online commerce behemoth.
Voting on the new five-year contract began Aug. 3 and concluded Tuesday.
After negotiations broke down in early July, Atlanta-based UPS reached a tentative contract agreement with the Teamsters just days before an Aug. 1 deadline.
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The company had said it expected bargaining to restart if members rejected the deal, but that could have also opened the door to a strike.
Under the tentative agreement, full- and part-time union workers will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more in total by the end of the five-year contract. Starting hourly pay for part-time employees also got bumped up to $21, but some worke
July 25, 2023
UPS says that by the end of the new contract, the average UPS full-time driver will make about $170,000 annually in pay and benefits. It’s not clear how much of that figure is pay versus benefits.
As part of the deal, the delivery company also agreed to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a full holiday, end forced overtime on drivers’ days off and stop using driver-facing cameras in cabs, among a host of other issues. It eliminated a two-tier wage system for drivers and reached tentative deals on safety issues, including equipping more trucks with air conditioning.
Union members, angered by a contract they say union leadership forced on them five years ago, argued that they have shouldered the burden as the pandemic increased delivery demand and UPS saw 140% profit growth. Unionized workers said they wanted to fix what they saw as a bad contract.
The Teamsters’ leadership was upended two years ago with the election of O’Brien, a vocal critic of union President James Hoffa — son of the famed Teamsters firebrand — who signed off on the previous contract.
The 24 million packages UPS ships daily amount to about a quarter of all U.S. parcel volume, according to the global shipping and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. UPS says that’s equivalent to about 6% of the nation’s gross domestic product.
July 5, 2023
This isn’t the first showdown the union has had with the delivery company. During the last breakdown in labor talks a quarter of a century ago, 185,000 UPS workers walked out for 15 days, crippling the company’s ability to function.
A walkout this time would have had much further-reaching implications, with millions of Americans now accustomed to online shopping and speedy delivery. The consulting firm Anderson Economic Group estimated a 10-day UPS strike could have cost the U.S. economy more than $7 billion and triggered “significant and lasting harm” to the business and workers.
When the union and UPS were at a stalemate in July, large and small businesses worked to create contingency plans in the event of a strike.
Labor experts say they see the showdown as a demonstration of labor power at a time of low U.S. union membership. This summer, Hollywood actors and screenwriters have been picketing over pay issues. The United Auto Workers union is considering a potential strike.
“Together we reached a win-win-win agreement on the issues that are important to Teamsters leadership, our employees and to UPS and our customers,” UPS Chief Executive Carol Tomé said when the tentative deal was announced.
Industry groups, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, labor leaders and President Biden also applauded the deal.
UPS and Teamsters reach agreement, averting Aug. 1 strike
UPS and Teamsters reach agreement, averting Aug. 1 strike
Union members will now vote on whether to ratify the deal, which includes new heat safety protections and raises for all workers
Union members will now vote on whether to ratify the deal, which includes new heat safety protections and raises for all workers
UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters both claimed victory Tuesday on a tentative five-year contract deal that would avert a potentially devastating nationwide strike, offering raises for all UPS employees and installation of air-conditioning units in new delivery vans. But reaction among union employees was decidedly mixed ahead of an Aug. 3 vote.
Under the tentative agreement, all UPS union employees would receive a $2.75-an-hour raise this year and a $7.50-an-hour pay increase over the next five years. Pay for UPS’s part-time workers, who make up about half of the workforce, would start at $21 an hour, a notable boost from the current $16.20-per-hour starting wage though less than the $25 an hour that a vocal reform group composed of Teamsters members had demanded.
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