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Roughly 34,000 union members who work for United Parcel Service Inc and other logistics companies in New York will decide on Wednesday whether to accept deep pension cuts in what could be the start of a wave of benefit reductions to shore up union retirement plans.
If approved, pensions for retired teamsters from nine New York local unions will be cut 29 percent, which the plan’s trustees have said will lower the typical monthly benefit for a retiree with 30 years service to $3,550 from $5,000.
A Bay Area resident was expecting a delivery from Amazon over the holiday weekend. What he wasn’t expecting was that the UPS worker would inadvertently trap him inside his own home.
Jessie Lawrence, whose Twitter bio says he handles social media for @twitchesports, tweeted Sunday that a parcel dropped off at his apartment was wedged under the door handle so it couldn’t move. The handle has to be turned downward to open the door.
United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) and FedEx Corp (FDX.N) said they resumed flights at Houston’s main airport on Thursday afternoon and restarted some Texas operations crippled by Hurricane Harvey.
UPS (UPS.N), the world’s largest package delivery company, has restored service to more than 150 zip codes in Texas over the last 24 hours though operations remained at a standstill in storm-battered Houston and other Gulf Coast areas, UPS spokesman Matt O’Connor said. Trucks for both companies returned to deliveries on routes in Corpus Christi.
“The safety of our employees comes first and we will be resuming service as soon as it is safe to do so,” O’Connor said. “In Houston, that will come down to local areas that were impacted and how quickly water subsides.”
On August 8, 2017, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a press release announcing that its lawsuit against United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), alleging disability discrimination claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has been settled for $2 million dollars. In that suit, the EEOC alleged that UPS maintained an “inflexible leave policy” by which disabled employees were automatically discharged if they were unable to return to work after exhausting the maximum 12 months of leave provided by the policy. Thus, according to the EEOC, UPS’ policy effectively shut down the interactive process required by the ADA to determine whether additional reasonable accommodations were available to such persons.
UPS has a long history of developing and applying technological advances to improve logistics and supply chain management. The company pioneered the field of electronic sorting and tracking of packages. UPS did the same with the use of cargo aircraft and now operates the 10th largest airline in the United States. The company’s state-of-the-art Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky is possibly the world’s largest automated processing facility and is capable of sorting 416,000 packages an hour. UPS is famous for its success in collecting and analyzing data on the operation of its fleet of delivery vehicles. The result of this effort was, in part, the realization that the company could improve the speed of delivery by requiring that drivers only make right turns.