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UPS Women Sue for $250 Million, Alleging Systemic Job Bias – Bloomberg Law

United Parcel Service Inc. forces women to work under a double standard and holds them back with an “old boy’s club” culture in which they are paid less for equal work, denied the benefits of earned seniority, and run into a “dead end” when they try to advance, a proposed class lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco charges.

Women who are regarded as too feminine and those “who avail themselves of the company’s paid time off or flexible work schedule policy” to work part-time to care for family “are particularly vulnerable,” the suit says.

The suit seeks at least $250 million for female employees across the U.S. who have been or will be subjected to the systemic bias based on gender, age, and/or disability at any time after Nov. 9, 2017.

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UPS Foundation teams up with nonprofit to bring STEM opportunities to teens in U.S. – WLKY

Packing up a box soon to be shipped out has become second nature for employees at UPS. However, many employees were a little extra excited when packing on Monday.

The package was full of individual parts that when put together create a robot. The box is one of many being shipped out to nearly 450 underserved middle and high school students in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia area.

“Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, these four things are very important for our future,” said Eddie Cissell with the UPS Foundation.

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Jury Awards $42 Million to Rapid City Woman Injured at Work – US News

A Pennington County jury has awarded $42 million to a Rapid City woman after she was denied medical benefits from her previous employer and the employer’s insurance company.

United Parcel Service and Liberty Mutual were ordered to pay Fern Johnson $41 million in punitive damages and $1 million in compensatory damages in a verdict reached Friday.

Johnson took a worker’s compensation claim to court following an injury on the job while working for UPS in 1996. A laparoscopy determined Johnson had a hernia and she underwent surgery. She stopped working for UPS in 1997 due to groin and back pain.

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UPS Is Winning The Delivery Wars With Its Unionized Workers – Jalopnik

UPS has managed to keep a steady workforce through the pandemic.

The United Parcel Service is taking a win in delivery services this year. It’s raking in higher profits and maintaining a stable workforce through the pandemic with the help of its unionized workers. Meanwhile, rival Federal Express is seeing a labor shortage eat profits, racking up $450 million in extra costs.

FedEx and UPS have different approaches to last-mile package deliveries. UPS drivers are usually unionized employees while FedEx Ground drivers are generally nonunion independent contractors. The UPS model provides the truck, maintenance, and benefits packages while the FedEx model puts that on the contractor, which operates as their own business. As Bloomberg reports, FedEx’s model allowed it to expand quickly following UPS’ 1997 15-day union strike. But that same model is hurting it now.

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Five ways to win the holidays – UPS

Experts say shop early, ship early

With global supply chain congestion grabbing headlines, consumers are fretting about potential out-of-stock items and delays, just as holiday shopping kicks into high gear.

What’s behind it: Pandemic disruptions in production and a boom in demand for products have caused bottlenecks upstream in the supply chain. And a backlog of containers in the largest shipping ports like Long Beach and Los Angeles in California, means inventory will remain limited well into the new year.

The good news: UPS has a proven track record delivering the holidays for customers around the world for decades and is ready as soon as packages enter its system. In 2020, the company had the industry’s highest on-time delivery performance every week from October 1 through December 26.

And in preparation for this holiday season, UPS has added more seasonal workers, increased network capacity and sped up package processing and delivery, resulting in a 95.2% on-time delivery rate according to ShipMatrix.