Atlanta – Michael J. Jackson, chairman, chief executive officer, and president, AutoNation, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, named Chair.
Myron A. Gray, president, U.S. Operations, United Parcel Service, Atlanta, Georgia, named Deputy Chair.
Category: UPS News
The U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois issued the five-year contract for international commercial scheduled air cargo transportation services to 14 companies.
The executive leadership at United Parcel Service Inc. has received raises in recent years, but the company’s airline mechanics haven’t. And several large companies — AT&T, Comcast, Fifth Third Bank and others — recently gave raises to their employees in the wake of federal tax reform.
Timothy Boyle, president of Teamsters Local 2727, which represents airline mechanics, made note of those facts in a recent letter to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The union represents nearly 1,300 mechanics who work for Louisville-based UPS Airlines, about half of whom are in Kentucky.
Boyle said he wrote the letter (linked here) because he wants to sit down with McConnell and talk about when more middle class workers — such as those represented by Teamsters 2727 — will see a benefit from tax reform.
Law enforcement officials here in the Triangle and across the nation warned online shoppers to be on the lookout for “porch pirates” who were stealing packages delivered to homes.
There were no alerts, though, issued for delivery workers snatching packages before the items left the warehouse.
But police this week accused Shannon Hale, a United Parcel Service employee, of taking a package containing an Apple IPhone X from the company’s warehouse and putting it for sale on Craigslist, said Laura Hourigan, a police spokeswoman.
You see them everywhere – United Parcel Service drivers delivering packages to your house, your neighborhood, your workplace. And you wonder … When it gets this COLDDDDD – like 12 days in a row when the temperature stays below freezing – how do they cope? 9 On Your Side’s Breanna Molloy rode along with UPS driver Brent Doherty to find out.