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Logistics’ Two Fronts – Jacobin

Amazon and UPS are behemoths. Socialists can shake the foundations of the US economy by agitating and organizing at both.

The modern economy revolves around the sprawling logistics industry. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than the current situation at Amazon and UPS. If Amazon makes good on its recent pledge, it will add another 100,000 workers to its US workforce by 2018, making it one of the country’s largest — and one of the largest nonunion — employers.

The US labor movement faces several existential threats right now, but Amazon’s is a special kind. The company’s breakneck expansion has revolutionized the logistics industry. Its impact is most deeply felt at United Parcel Service (UPS), the country’s largest private-sector, unionized employer, with nearly 250,000 of its workers represented by the Teamsters.

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Disney, UPS employees win ruling against Teamsters – Orlando Sentinel

Eight Walt Disney World and United Parcel Service employees have won a National Labor Relations Board case against a local Teamsters union that they said obstructed their attempts to drop their memberships.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which represented four Disney workers, announced the ruling Monday. Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas issued the ruling last week.

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UPS will add more than 1,000 jobs at new Arlington distribution center – Dallas News

A new United Parcel Service shipping center in Arlington is expected to add more than 1,000 jobs to the booming North Texas market.

The package shipping company has leased 1 million square feet of distribution space in a new building in south Arlington.

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UPS addresses fraudulent emails – WTNH

The United Parcel Service is addressing fraudulent emails after they received numerous reports on Friday.

UPS says fraudulent emails can adopt many different forms and are unauthorized actions of third parties not associated with UPS. The email messages can be referred to as phishing or spoofing and are becoming more common. The emails may appear legitimate by incorporating company brands, colors or other legal disclaimers.

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Former UPS employee claims disability benefits were wrongfully terminated, seeks reinstatement – Northern California Record

A Riverside County resident formerly employed by United Parcel Service alleges her disability benefits were wrongfully terminated after 10 years.

Shelly Clark filed a complaint on March 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and United Parcel Service Flexible Benefits Plan citing the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.