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<blockquote data-quote="Brother Joe" data-source="post: 968514" data-attributes="member: 41239"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"><u><span style="color: black">UPS</span> FACT </u><u>PAGE</u></span></strong><p style="text-align: center"><em><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Data compiled from Department of Labor, various media stories, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Aaron Freeman, and the </span>AFL/CIO <span style="color: black">Website</span></span></span></em></p><hr /> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><u><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: #ff0000">INJURY STATISTIC'S</span></span></u></strong> </p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'">On average one <span style="color: black">UPS</span> <span style="color: black">employee</span> is killed on the job each month</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Over 60,000 <span style="color: black">UPS</span> employees are injured on the job annually</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Thousands of injuries go unreported due to threats and intimidation from <span style="color: black">UPS</span> management</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> According to the National Academy of Science: The national injury rate is 8 injuries per 100 employees, or 8:100</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> UPS’s injury rate is 15:100 employees</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Into the 90’s <span style="color: black">UPS</span> was the highest fined company by OSHA with over 1300 citations, 1/3 of those were “serious” in nature</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> In 1994 in order to avoid a contempt ruling in Federal court <span style="color: black">UPS</span> was fined $3 million for their repeated failure to comply with the Government mandated Hazardous Material Spill Program</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> According to a Cornell University study-Former <span style="color: black">UPS</span> workers missed an average of 275 workdays A PIECE due to injuries sustained at <span style="color: black">UPS</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> pays out over $1 million A DAY in worker compensation claims</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> OSHA receives more complaints from workers at <span style="color: black">UPS</span> than from any other company</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> has an occupational injury rate 3 times that of the transportation industry</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> has one of the worst HAZMAT violation records in the industry</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Young, new workers are becoming disabled for life at an alarming rate from injuries received while at <span style="color: black">UPS</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> drivers lead the industry in alcohol and substance abuse associated with stress at <span style="color: black">UPS</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> drivers rank in the top 9% of most stressed adults in the nation</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> 1.8 million worker suffer workplace injuries, 600,000 of those injuries are “ergonomic related” such as repetitive motion, and carpal tunnel syndrome</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Between 1972 and 1996 <span style="color: black">UPS</span> spent over $4.6 million for fines levied against them</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> 85% of the injuries at <span style="color: black">UPS</span> are “ergonomic” in nature</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> raised the weight limit of its packages from 50lbs to 150lbs, which injury rates increased as well</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> The average value of a <span style="color: black">UPS</span> workers life is $5,000</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In Chicago a brand new <span style="color: black">employee</span> (described as barely more than a "boy") serving his 30 day probation died of heat exhaustion while unloading a truck during one of Chicago's heat waves. He was required to meet the standard of unloading 2000 packages per hour in order to make probation. OSHA fined the company $5000.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Packages presently can weigh up to 150 pounds each. The company has refused to bargain over weight limits, reserving the right to require drivers to unload alone packages that could run 200 or more pounds. When challenged, management told the union that if the driver needed help, s/he could ask the customer to assist. Young, inexperienced workers are becoming disabled for life from injuries received at <span style="color: black">UPS</span>, often their first real job.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black">UPS</span> has consistently stonewalled union demands for appropriate safety equipment such as decent seatbelts, seats, and tires, and has refused to retire from their fleet trucks that have only single cylinder brakes.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The EEOC has filed a class action suit against <span style="color: black">UPS</span> for violating the rights of disabled workers. Workers who suffer eye injury are entitled to be transferred to other jobs, but <span style="color: black">UPS</span> has refused or failed to accommodate their disabilities.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black">UPS</span> has a rate of occupational injury that is three times that of the transportation industry.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The National Coalition on Ergonomics, an employer association has worked to prevent OSHA from adopting standards intended to cut down on repetitive motion injuries. Among the main corporate opponents of sensible repetitive motion injury regulations has been <span style="color: black">UPS</span>, which is among the leading violators of OSHA regulations.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><br /> <br /> </span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'">The average penalty for a serious violation is $709, according to "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect," a new report by the AFL-CIO.</span></span></p> <hr /> </li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: #ff0000">Political influence vs. safety statistics: </span></span></span></u></p> </li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Ergonomic injuries account for all serious workplace injuries and cost society approximately $50 billion each year</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Ergonomic injuries affect women the most who make up less than 50% of the workforce, but account for 1/3 of the total workplace injuries</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> facility in Lenexa Kansas was fined $140,000 by OSHA for deplorable working conditions that were resulting in an injury rate of almost 20:100 employees, thus began UPS’s venture into the ergonomic arena battling OSHA, and the public interest</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> sued OSHA in Federal court over the “Lenexa Kansas citation”, and the Federal judge ruled that since no “ergonomic” standard existed for workers all citations were dropped, and OSHA began working on ergonomic standards</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Head of OSHA during President Bush (’92), <strong><u>Dorothy Strunk,</u></strong> drafted language protecting American workers from ergonomic injuries, and begun to fight and force companies to incorporate these provisions to protect American workers from further ergonomic injuries</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> realized the monetary cost to their business would cost their shareholders $3 billion, they headed the 300 company members of the National Association of Manufacturers Coalition on Ergonomics to battle OSHA, and the “ergonomic issue”</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> 40 <span style="color: black">UPS</span> drivers sued <span style="color: black">UPS</span> in Federal court for ergonomic injuries from the design flawed computer clipboard</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> joins ranks with US Congressman (R) Peter Hoekstra, with a former U.S Attorney named <strong><u>Joseph DiGenova</u></strong> who drafted the ergonomic defeating language in their successful attempt to destroy the Ergonomics Bill</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> 1995, UPS’s PAC held 55 “meet and greet” sessions with members of Congress, spending about $450 per member, and then direct contributions of $4,550-just under the legal $5,000 limit</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> 16 out of 17 members on the House Appropriations Subcommittee looking at these rules who attended UPS’s “meet and greet” event voted for <span style="color: black">UPS</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> (R) U.S Congressman Ballenger oversaw OSHA-drafted a bill to reduce OSHA’s power and remove any enforcement ability</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> donated $24,000 to Ballenger</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> (R) U.S Congressman Bonilla-drafted appropriations rider to prevent OSHA from collecting data from employees on ergonomic injuries</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> donated $14,250 to Bonilla</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> sued OSHA again in Federal court to prevent OSHA from collecting further ergonomic injury data, which 85% of <span style="color: black">UPS</span> workplace injuries are ergonomic in nature</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> From 1991 to 1996 <span style="color: black">UPS</span> contributed over $7.6 million to members of Congress</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> 1993-94 UPS’s PAC was the largest contributor to congressional candidates-$2.65 million</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> 1995-96 <span style="color: black">UPS</span> gave over $575,000 to supporters of “Ballenger Bill”</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> handed out more than $3 million for the 2000 elections with 73% going to Republicans</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Teamster General President James P. Hoffa joins <span style="color: black">UPS</span> in refusing to address skyrocketing injury rates (refer to news article enclosed)</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Teamster General President James P. Hoffa appoints OSHA killer hired gun, <strong><u>Joseph DiGenova</u></strong>, to the IRB overseeing union corruption, which the position is paid for by members dues money to the tune of $100,000 a year plus a union retirement</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> was found to have illegally contributed to James P. Hoffa’s election campaign in 1996</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa was a former labor attorney representing <span style="color: black">UPS</span> and ATA member, Yellow Freight against <span style="color: black">UPS</span> employees</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> hired Eugene Scalia, son of U.S Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as a lobbyist to defeat ergonomics</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> attempted to endow a chair at the University of Washington and fill it with their bought M.D, and hired consultant, Stanley Bigos, who testified against the ergonomics standard in the House\</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> and their Coalition is lobbying for the for the application of “cost benefit analysis” or worker death to cost to profit ratio</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> claimed publicly that the national ergonomic standard would cost its shareholders $3 billion</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> was the top contributor in the 2000 US Presidential Election- transportation sector: <span style="color: black">UPS</span> $3,135,569</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Ergonomic injuries affect mainly lower wage scale workers, which is comprised mostly of minority and female workers</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> was the #1 political contributor while being a member of the NAMCE, the 300 company coalition headed by <span style="color: black">UPS</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> hires former OSHA head, <strong><u>DOROTHY STRUNK</u></strong>, as a consultant to attack and defeat the very language she drafted to protect workers from ergonomic injuries. She’s paid over $60,000 as a <span style="color: black">UPS</span> lobbyist (see documents enclosed)</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> President Bush (’00) returns the favor to <span style="color: black">UPS</span> and defeats the ergonomic bill affecting millions of American workers</span> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">“Not a day goes by without a major fraud being reported in the mainstream media, with $100 million frauds coming around once a month or so. Corporate fraud costs the nation hundreds of billions. Compare that to street crime and burglary, which, according to the FBI, costs the nation $3.8 billion a year.” </span></span><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">SOURCE~ Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor.</span></span></strong> </p> <hr /> </li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><u><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #ff0000">UPS’s SOCIAL AND BUSINESS PRACTICES</span></span></span></u></strong></p> </li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Annual turnover rate at <span style="color: black">UPS</span> is 400%</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> UPS’s association with National Welfare to Work campaign has hired more than 50,000 welfare recipients since the program began in 1997. Very few of those people remained by years end respectively.</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> receives incentives for hiring these people into “poverty” jobs</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Average weekly salary of the “welfare to work” employees was $104 after taxes per week. ($8.00 hr X 3.0 hour guarantee X 5 days – 25% with holdings and - $25 in union dues)</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Work place abuse, unsafe working conditions, and no hope for a FULL TIME job cited as reasons for leaving <span style="color: black">UPS</span></span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> is routinely sued by the EEOC and various other Civil and Human rights agencies for violations, and discrimination</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> RAINBOW PUSH Coalition is well known for attacking companies who violated minority’s civil rights, but it seems that <span style="color: black">UPS</span> is a trading partner on their Board, and now has nothing to worry about from RAINBOW PUSH</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> UPS’s main public relations firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is the volunteer firm for the UN Global Compact. The Compact is hoped to be a PR coup for “companies with tarnished public images to show to show their support for democracy and human rights” without <strong>ACTUALLY</strong> having to change their “<u>practices</u>”</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> is being sued in two separate class actions from previous customers who were over charged for insurance, which stems from UPS’s $1.8 billion tax evasion suit</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> <span style="color: black">UPS</span> was sued in two separate suits involving wage fraud regarding meal issues of drivers in New Jersey and Washington state, which have cost <span style="color: black">UPS</span> employees an estimated $3 billion</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Monopolistic practices: <span style="color: black">UPS</span> is routinely suing foreign governments for “unfair, and monopolistic practices”, while expanding exponentially around the world, and at the same time keeping foreign companies out of the American market</span></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><br /> <span style="font-family: 'ACaslon Regular'"> Workers at <span style="color: black">UPS</span> who report unsafe working conditions, unsafe and illegal equipment, payroll fraud, and corruption are harassed and discharged often without help from the Hoffa controlled Teamsters union clearly in violation of Federal law</span> <hr /> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"><em><strong><u><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ff0000">CLICK HERE</span></span></u></strong></em><span style="color: #0000ff"> <strong>to visit Medical Fact page and for copy of medical study</strong></span> <u><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><em><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></em></span></strong> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>to return to main page</strong></span></u> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brother Joe, post: 968514, member: 41239"] [B][SIZE=7][U][COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] FACT [/U][U]PAGE[/U][/SIZE][/B][CENTER][I][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Data compiled from Department of Labor, various media stories, [FONT=Times New Roman]Aaron Freeman, and the [/FONT]AFL/CIO [COLOR=black]Website[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/I][/CENTER] [HR][/HR] [CENTER][B][U][SIZE=7][COLOR=#ff0000]INJURY STATISTIC'S[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B] [/CENTER] [LIST] [*][CENTER][SIZE=3][FONT=ACaslon Regular]On average one [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]employee[/COLOR] is killed on the job each month[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] Over 60,000 [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] employees are injured on the job annually[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] Thousands of injuries go unreported due to threats and intimidation from [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] management[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] According to the National Academy of Science: The national injury rate is 8 injuries per 100 employees, or 8:100[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] UPS’s injury rate is 15:100 employees[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] Into the 90’s [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] was the highest fined company by OSHA with over 1300 citations, 1/3 of those were “serious” in nature[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] In 1994 in order to avoid a contempt ruling in Federal court [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] was fined $3 million for their repeated failure to comply with the Government mandated Hazardous Material Spill Program[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] According to a Cornell University study-Former [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] workers missed an average of 275 workdays A PIECE due to injuries sustained at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] pays out over $1 million A DAY in worker compensation claims[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] OSHA receives more complaints from workers at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] than from any other company[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] has an occupational injury rate 3 times that of the transportation industry[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] has one of the worst HAZMAT violation records in the industry[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] Young, new workers are becoming disabled for life at an alarming rate from injuries received while at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] drivers lead the industry in alcohol and substance abuse associated with stress at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] drivers rank in the top 9% of most stressed adults in the nation[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] 1.8 million worker suffer workplace injuries, 600,000 of those injuries are “ergonomic related” such as repetitive motion, and carpal tunnel syndrome[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] Between 1972 and 1996 [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] spent over $4.6 million for fines levied against them[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] 85% of the injuries at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] are “ergonomic” in nature[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] raised the weight limit of its packages from 50lbs to 150lbs, which injury rates increased as well[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3] The average value of a [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] workers life is $5,000[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]In Chicago a brand new [COLOR=black]employee[/COLOR] (described as barely more than a "boy") serving his 30 day probation died of heat exhaustion while unloading a truck during one of Chicago's heat waves. He was required to meet the standard of unloading 2000 packages per hour in order to make probation. OSHA fined the company $5000.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Packages presently can weigh up to 150 pounds each. The company has refused to bargain over weight limits, reserving the right to require drivers to unload alone packages that could run 200 or more pounds. When challenged, management told the union that if the driver needed help, s/he could ask the customer to assist. Young, inexperienced workers are becoming disabled for life from injuries received at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR], often their first real job.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] has consistently stonewalled union demands for appropriate safety equipment such as decent seatbelts, seats, and tires, and has refused to retire from their fleet trucks that have only single cylinder brakes.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The EEOC has filed a class action suit against [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] for violating the rights of disabled workers. Workers who suffer eye injury are entitled to be transferred to other jobs, but [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] has refused or failed to accommodate their disabilities.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] has a rate of occupational injury that is three times that of the transportation industry.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The National Coalition on Ergonomics, an employer association has worked to prevent OSHA from adopting standards intended to cut down on repetitive motion injuries. Among the main corporate opponents of sensible repetitive motion injury regulations has been [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR], which is among the leading violators of OSHA regulations.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=ACaslon Regular]The average penalty for a serious violation is $709, according to "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect," a new report by the AFL-CIO.[/FONT][/FONT][/CENTER] [HR][/HR] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][CENTER][U][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=7][COLOR=#ff0000]Political influence vs. safety statistics: [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/CENTER] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Ergonomic injuries account for all serious workplace injuries and cost society approximately $50 billion each year[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Ergonomic injuries affect women the most who make up less than 50% of the workforce, but account for 1/3 of the total workplace injuries[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] facility in Lenexa Kansas was fined $140,000 by OSHA for deplorable working conditions that were resulting in an injury rate of almost 20:100 employees, thus began UPS’s venture into the ergonomic arena battling OSHA, and the public interest[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] sued OSHA in Federal court over the “Lenexa Kansas citation”, and the Federal judge ruled that since no “ergonomic” standard existed for workers all citations were dropped, and OSHA began working on ergonomic standards[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Head of OSHA during President Bush (’92), [B][U]Dorothy Strunk,[/U][/B] drafted language protecting American workers from ergonomic injuries, and begun to fight and force companies to incorporate these provisions to protect American workers from further ergonomic injuries[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] realized the monetary cost to their business would cost their shareholders $3 billion, they headed the 300 company members of the National Association of Manufacturers Coalition on Ergonomics to battle OSHA, and the “ergonomic issue”[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] 40 [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] drivers sued [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] in Federal court for ergonomic injuries from the design flawed computer clipboard[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] joins ranks with US Congressman (R) Peter Hoekstra, with a former U.S Attorney named [B][U]Joseph DiGenova[/U][/B] who drafted the ergonomic defeating language in their successful attempt to destroy the Ergonomics Bill[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] 1995, UPS’s PAC held 55 “meet and greet” sessions with members of Congress, spending about $450 per member, and then direct contributions of $4,550-just under the legal $5,000 limit[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] 16 out of 17 members on the House Appropriations Subcommittee looking at these rules who attended UPS’s “meet and greet” event voted for [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] (R) U.S Congressman Ballenger oversaw OSHA-drafted a bill to reduce OSHA’s power and remove any enforcement ability[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] donated $24,000 to Ballenger[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] (R) U.S Congressman Bonilla-drafted appropriations rider to prevent OSHA from collecting data from employees on ergonomic injuries[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] donated $14,250 to Bonilla[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] sued OSHA again in Federal court to prevent OSHA from collecting further ergonomic injury data, which 85% of [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] workplace injuries are ergonomic in nature[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] From 1991 to 1996 [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] contributed over $7.6 million to members of Congress[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] 1993-94 UPS’s PAC was the largest contributor to congressional candidates-$2.65 million[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] 1995-96 [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] gave over $575,000 to supporters of “Ballenger Bill”[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] handed out more than $3 million for the 2000 elections with 73% going to Republicans[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Teamster General President James P. Hoffa joins [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] in refusing to address skyrocketing injury rates (refer to news article enclosed)[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Teamster General President James P. Hoffa appoints OSHA killer hired gun, [B][U]Joseph DiGenova[/U][/B], to the IRB overseeing union corruption, which the position is paid for by members dues money to the tune of $100,000 a year plus a union retirement[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] was found to have illegally contributed to James P. Hoffa’s election campaign in 1996[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa was a former labor attorney representing [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] and ATA member, Yellow Freight against [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] employees[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] hired Eugene Scalia, son of U.S Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as a lobbyist to defeat ergonomics[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] attempted to endow a chair at the University of Washington and fill it with their bought M.D, and hired consultant, Stanley Bigos, who testified against the ergonomics standard in the House\[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] and their Coalition is lobbying for the for the application of “cost benefit analysis” or worker death to cost to profit ratio[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] claimed publicly that the national ergonomic standard would cost its shareholders $3 billion[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] was the top contributor in the 2000 US Presidential Election- transportation sector: [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] $3,135,569[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Ergonomic injuries affect mainly lower wage scale workers, which is comprised mostly of minority and female workers[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] was the #1 political contributor while being a member of the NAMCE, the 300 company coalition headed by [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] hires former OSHA head, [B][U]DOROTHY STRUNK[/U][/B], as a consultant to attack and defeat the very language she drafted to protect workers from ergonomic injuries. She’s paid over $60,000 as a [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] lobbyist (see documents enclosed)[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] President Bush (’00) returns the favor to [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] and defeats the ergonomic bill affecting millions of American workers[/FONT] [B][SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]“Not a day goes by without a major fraud being reported in the mainstream media, with $100 million frauds coming around once a month or so. Corporate fraud costs the nation hundreds of billions. Compare that to street crime and burglary, which, according to the FBI, costs the nation $3.8 billion a year.” [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=1][FONT=Times New Roman]SOURCE~ Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor.[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [/CENTER] [HR][/HR] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][CENTER][B][U][FONT=ACaslon Regular][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000]UPS’s SOCIAL AND BUSINESS PRACTICES[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/B][/CENTER] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Annual turnover rate at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] is 400%[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] UPS’s association with National Welfare to Work campaign has hired more than 50,000 welfare recipients since the program began in 1997. Very few of those people remained by years end respectively.[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] receives incentives for hiring these people into “poverty” jobs[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Average weekly salary of the “welfare to work” employees was $104 after taxes per week. ($8.00 hr X 3.0 hour guarantee X 5 days – 25% with holdings and - $25 in union dues)[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Work place abuse, unsafe working conditions, and no hope for a FULL TIME job cited as reasons for leaving [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] is routinely sued by the EEOC and various other Civil and Human rights agencies for violations, and discrimination[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] RAINBOW PUSH Coalition is well known for attacking companies who violated minority’s civil rights, but it seems that [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] is a trading partner on their Board, and now has nothing to worry about from RAINBOW PUSH[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] UPS’s main public relations firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is the volunteer firm for the UN Global Compact. The Compact is hoped to be a PR coup for “companies with tarnished public images to show to show their support for democracy and human rights” without [B]ACTUALLY[/B] having to change their “[U]practices[/U]”[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] is being sued in two separate class actions from previous customers who were over charged for insurance, which stems from UPS’s $1.8 billion tax evasion suit[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] was sued in two separate suits involving wage fraud regarding meal issues of drivers in New Jersey and Washington state, which have cost [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] employees an estimated $3 billion[/FONT][/CENTER] [*][CENTER][FONT=ACaslon Regular] Monopolistic practices: [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] is routinely suing foreign governments for “unfair, and monopolistic practices”, while expanding exponentially around the world, and at the same time keeping foreign companies out of the American market[/FONT][/CENTER] [*] [FONT=ACaslon Regular] Workers at [COLOR=black]UPS[/COLOR] who report unsafe working conditions, unsafe and illegal equipment, payroll fraud, and corruption are harassed and discharged often without help from the Hoffa controlled Teamsters union clearly in violation of Federal law[/FONT] [HR][/HR] [/LIST] [CENTER][I][B][U][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ff0000]CLICK HERE[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B][/I][COLOR=#0000ff] [B]to visit Medical Fact page and for copy of medical study[/B][/COLOR] [U][B][COLOR=#ff0000][I][B]CLICK HERE[/B][/I][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]to return to main page[/B][/COLOR][/U] [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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