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. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative agreement.
Highest paid in the country cause they have a union. And they have an extra vacation day now. But “unions don’t work”
Well, in Ohio, the nutters have spouted off that our vote in a week will allow random people to take your children away and reassign their gender without your permission
Point? People are fucking idiots and all it takes is a message saying something is bad from an asshole on TV and these people believe it.
The headline makes it sound like a win, but the actual UPS drivers are NOT happy with the raises secured. They still get to vote on whether or not they accept these terms.
ETA: Others have since chimed in, direct sources correcting these numbers. I’m glad to read that the deal is much better than it looked like at first. Thanks for the correction and apologies for misunderstanding. Sounds like $10+ over 5 years. New hires will be at $21, but senior drivers have and retain loyalty raises.
It’s just $2.75 up front, then $1.88 per year over 5 years. So $7.50 total after 5 years- people needed more immediately, and wanted at least $10 total over time. This only brings them to $21 per hour— Still very low for commercial driving and the work they do. To add to the frustration, there will be no reward for employee loyalty, with all drivers receiving the same $21, regardless of seniority- even new hires.I’m in active UPS group chats- people are feeling like the negotiators fell very short, frustration is high, and the plan is to vote No on this new contract. They vote Aug 3-21.
